The Wellspring of Delight

Tucker says...

Do you like to play in the water? I love to! When I go on my walks, there is this fountain that I get to play in that is really exciting. The water comes up out of holes in the ground and I run and run and try to catch it. The bad thing about catching it is that the water can go up my nose real hard, so I mostly just chase the water and don't seriously try to catch it. At home I try and get my Dad to turn on the garden hose and let me play with the water as aften as possible. That is LOTS of fun. He sprays the water and I try to bite at it and chase the spray around the yard till I'm completely soaked and out of breath. When he stops I bark at him till he does some more! One thing though. I went to the beach a couple of weeks ago and that water I did NOT like. A big wave came and tried to knock me over and it made me scared so I only played in the sand by the edge of the water.Michelle says...

Tucker's love of playing with the garden hose was an accident. One day he was being obnoxious and barking about something so my husband gave him a squirt with the water spray hoping it would startle him into being quiet. Wouldn't you know it, Tucker thought that was great fun. Now he goes outside and sits next to the hose and moans to himself and looks at us hopefully till we give in and let him play in the spray. I've never seen him run so hard and so fast as when he is chasing the end of the water spray. Luckily his coat is the kind that doesn't hold dirt much and that dries fast. This is not the case with his little friend Sadie the Maltese! She and Tucker had a grand time playing in the water a couple of weekends ago... after which I had to give Sadie a bath... I couldn't return her home the way she was! And speaking of baths, why is that Tucker loves to play in the water but does his best to leap out of the laundry tub when I'm bathing him? When he was tiny he was fascinated by the water running from the faucet and barely realized he was getting a bath. Now he struggles and looks pathetic and generally makes it more difficult than it needs to be...I guess it's that shampoo part of it.