I was invited to join a group on Flicker called Daily Dog Challenge. Where you are given an "assignment" for a daily photo of your dog and I have to say it is a lot of fun. Todays assignment was an action shot. I've seen some beautiful photos of dogs running and having a grand time (see Bunny at Tales and Tails and Zoe at Dogs Rock! and many others) but this is where I get, shall I say, paranoid. I don't know how it happened, but I seem to be turning into one of those over-protective "mothers" that I always made fun of. I can come up with any number of reasons throughout the day, why they can't go for a run in the back yard. I know some of them are reasonable - like they just ate or they are going to eat soon - but when the list starts to grow to:
Too many leaves
Too wet
Too cold
Need their nails cut first
Have to find a bumper to put around the well cap
Maybe we should put foam around the deck supports
Have to check for twigs
and so on;
Of course, these are all things that could be taken care of in short order, until I come up with something else to worry about. I think I need to lighten up and let them do what they love.
I think some of it comes from Beckett having a limp every so often, but he really loves to run and here is proof that I used to be a much more fun "Mom".
