Merry Christmas, everyone. FOHA opened during Christmas and since it's a 3-day-off weekend for me I decided to walk the dogs both Saturday and Sunday. There were a lot of volunteers on Christmas Eve and many dogs had been walked when my friend and I got there. So we walked only 2 dogs that day and I walked 3 more on Sunday.

On Saturday my friend and I started walking dogs separately. And since all my favorite ones had been walked I had to pick a new one and I got this sweet fluffy girl, Ally. Her run was in the back of the line so I had never noticed her before. I wasn't sure she was new. Ally was a sniffer and super easy to walk though she liked going through branches and bushes off the trails quite a lot. Then the leaves, grass, dry seed, you named it, would get stuck in her lovely fur. Then I had to comb them all out before putting her back into the run. It seemed she loved to be pampered. A couple times she was mistaken about my jogging that it was a race and started "galloping". Luckily she wasn't a great runner, ha ha. I liked her so much that I walked her again on Sunday.

Then we walked Riker and Troi, a brother and a sister. They needed to be walked together. Walking a pair of dogs required some good coordination between the dogs, the dogs and you or you and another volunteers otherwise the leashes could get tangled up or everyone could walk into each others pretty easily. Just like us! Riker was completely light brown while Troi was brown with black on the top of her head and back. Riker was muscular, independent and a born leader. He led us wherever he wanted to be. Sweet Troi was slender compared to her brother. She always waited for him to take a lead. She was also a sniffer but she usually put her nose up high in the air. They were great pair to be walked or put in the play area together (because they would actually play!). Unfortunately I didn't have a chance to take a photo of them.

I had a chance walked Alice on Sunday. She was always good but today she often stared at other dogs passing by. And surprisingly we passed a lot of them today. I basically had to distract her by blocking her view with my legs. Most of the time she obeyed and kept moving. And as always she gave me her Boxer smile every time I looked at her . I hope I get a good shot of her smile soon. You will love it.

Dear Molly was still a puller but when we were on the second trail she was so well behaved and just jogging along my side. But don't let her see other doggies she would get very argumentative (barking nonstop basically). I think she also liked hugging people. Her paw prints were all over my shirt and she managed to lick my face again. (Got one from Alice earlier too!) I am glad someone took her old collar out. She scratched her neck a lot last week but just a couple times today. Though another volunteer and I were wondering if she had allergy since her eyes looked a little bit watery and droopy. But she still looked happy as you can see here.