A Dog and a Dish Party

On Sunday, we celebrated having one year with Stirling! We can't believe how our lives have changed by having her. In order to celebrate, we decided to have over her dog park friends. The owners brought a dish, either savory or sweet (some brought both!) and their dog(s).

It was chaos. Mass chaos: 10 dogs will do that. We had:

• Stirling
• Luna, a Visula puppy
  
• Angus (unexpected guest, but still welcome), Norwich terrier
  
• Dali, mini poodle
  
• Tucker, mutt
  
• Gatsby, spaniel
  
• Bartleby, extra-long basset hound
  
• Chloe, King Charles spaniel
  
• Sadie, yellow lab
  
• Biscuit (her bestie!), golden retriever
  

We had lots of treats to eat and drink, both for two-legged and four-legged types, and plenty of toys that were thrown, tugged, torn, and tossed. Everyone had a great time and was really impressed with the party-- particularly that we were brave enough to host 10 canines. Nothing was damaged or destroyed. Everyone behaved themselves! Well, it wasn't as innocent as I am describing. Angus "the humper" took a fancy to Bartleby once Dali rebuffed his advances.


Stirling had a lot of fun and completely collapsed in happy exhaustion after the last puppy guest last. We decided that we are either really brave or really stupid: we made tentative plans to host another one when the weather gets warmer!