I want to showcase all the dogs I walk, so over the next many months, I will give each of them their space on my blog.
Pippin is Joy expressed. When I pick her up from her house, she is makes these adorable eeeehhh sounds as she races down the stairs to my truck. She sits up front with Madeline and Lucille often. On the way to the park, she is shaking in the seat and eeeehhhhing the whole way. She knows somewhere there is a ball in my truck. I love to joke with her and make funny sounds back at her. Then she will lean over and give me a solid puckered kiss right on my lips. We are buddies on our way to an adventure.
Once out of the truck, she looks at me and waits with her big eyes wide open, asking “where is it, I know you have one!” Depending on the dog pack that day, I will bring a ball out or not. If the group has big intense excitable energy, I have to fore go the ball- I don’t want a fight breaking out over it. But usually, Miss Pippin has her dream realized.
Pippin will fetch over and over and over again and the entire time, her tail never stops wagging. She is a “high drive” dog. This means she is a working dog. She could be finding drugs along the mexican border, finding people lost in avalanches or even detecting when a seizure will hit someone. She has that insatiable need to do, work, and play.
Pippin makes me laugh a lot. She looks like a cartoon character- big head, big eyes, big smile and big personality. She is so full of life that she gives me inspiration to smile and find joy in whatever is happening. Pippin has one rule: Love Life.