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Smitty's 12th Birthday

For Smitty's 12th birthday, he picked out a birthday biscuit at Petco and got to get nose to nose with a Ferret at the store.

We also visited Salem Deepwood Estates and Smitty went swimming in the frigid water of Pringle Creek.

We went for a short hike at Pringle Creek park and then headed home.

11 years old (65 years old in human years!)

We visited Keizer's newest park for Smitty's 11th birthday, Earth Day, which also includes an off-leash, 5 acre, fenced dog park with separate pens for both small and large dogs.
Smitty hobnobbed with Buddy, a Lhasa Apso owned by Yvonne, another visitor to the park. It was early morning so we were the only ones in the small dog pen, but they had a great time fetching frizbees and tennis balls while they were there.
Later we went to the park near home and Smitty played briefly with a white Staffordshire terrier about twice his size named Pinky. Smitty seemed a bit cautious around Pinky so we wandered off so he could play with Bucky, a Schnauzer about the same age and size as him.
He got to play with his best friend at the park, a Schnauzer mix named Rusty, but his blind sister got in the way and was startled, abruptly ending the fun.
He spent the afternoon in the hammock while I relaxed in the lounge chair on the back patio and we played ball for a little while.
In times past, Smitty would dash across fields and play for hours, run along the fence at the dog park, taunting the big dogs in the next pen, but he is content now with a more sedate pace, watching the world go by and playing briefly with some of his friends.

Smitty's Tenth Birthday

Smitty and Miley got to shop both at Petsmart and Petco today for Smitty's birthday, much to their delight. They both raced down the aisles, eager to get a whiff from every isle in the store.
At Petsmart I bought them Bunny toys and at Petco Smitty got a new raincoat and they both got Hedgehog toys.
Dogs wanted to sniff and greet them and store clerks and patrons wanted to say hello and give them treats and they were allowed to spend as much time as they wanted, up and down the aisles, sniffing and inspecting treats.
It was a good day for both of them and they even got to have the windows down in the car on the way home to stick their nose out into the breeze. (Miley's finally learned to show some restraint and not lunge over the door, dangling out into traffic held only by her seat belt!!)
I caught a picture of Smitty in the backseat on the way home, with what looked like a doggy smile to me!