You Talkin' To Me?

January 15, 2009
Sandy Creek Park, GA

As I happened to be off today, I took Tessa out to Sandy Creek Park for a long afternoon outing which included running over the fields, off-leash runs, play and training on the fenced baseball field, a walk through the woods (run for her) and a romp on the beach. This was the first day where she was not keen to get in the lake - she dipped her paw in the water and decided that it was entirely too cold even for her taste (the outside temperatures were in the 30s). Instead, she simply went nuts on the beach and displayed a lot of...Attitude, the kind with a capital A. Tessa is going to be seven months in a week, and I think the dreadful adolescence is starting to rear its ugly head. Overall, she is coming together nicely, slowly leaving puppyhood behind, learning how to restrain herself a little, starting to make a lot of "right choices" in regards to what to chew on and how to play nice. But there are moments when she is neither the cute little pup I once knew nor the good girl I know she is, but a prelude of what is to come. Soon.