yesterday, i got together with ruth and her dog athena, a hungarian vizsla. russell and athena had a playdate at the dog park near ruth's house. russell is a small dog, as evidenced by the photo. that is only half of athena. they had a fun time at the dog park running around and playing around with the other dogs. russell was definitely one of the smallest dogs, but he played really well with all the big dogs, until this one short-legged dachshund-looking jerk dog kept biting at russell as russell tried to play with him. the other dog was pretty aggressive - though scrappy russell held his own. we promptly removed russell from the play area and took him for a walk. since we was insanely dirty, i dropped him off at petsmart for a bath. he came back all clean and no longer stinky. love it.
i've been taking him around my neighborhood for walks. it is amazing how total strangers will just come up and introduce themselves to you when you have a dog. seriously, i think i've met more people in the neighborhood in the last few days than i have in all the years i lived here. here he is sitting on a rock near my parents' garage. right behind is his potty lawn.
russell is a face-biter/face-licker. when you play with him, he likes to jump up at your face. my brother andy likes to play around with russell. earlier this evening, he was playing with russell and getting him all riled up, knowing that russell likes to go for the face. sure enough, he suddenly jumped up and bit andy on the nose, making a small puncture - circled to the left. i felt like it was an "i told you so" moment; andy was not so amused.
with all the activity, this is what russell looks like around 9pm. pretty darn cute. more pictures can be found
here. the only thing that is not cute is when he farts in his sleep, which he does a lot. then he is back to stinky russell.
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