A single car in the lower Nobel Canyon Parking lot when we arrived - just as I had hoped for. The dogs had a blast playing in the Snow. No biking here for a while I guess...

















A perfect winter morning.

One of the best TR's ever- seriously. Pictures like that make me miss my dogs so much...
Pretty tough to beat happy dogs romping in the wild. Thanks for sharing this C.

Your just like your dogs

^^^ Just like in any longterm relation you pick up some of your partner's habits...

Cute doggies!

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The dog with the light face looks like it's out of its mind with happiness in the second and third pics.

I just finished reading Inside of a Dog, which I wholeheartedly recommend to all the dog owners on the board. It was written by a woman who got her Ph.D. in (of all things) dog cognition from UCSD. She writes with the mind of a scientist and the heart of a dog lover. It'll change the way you think about dogs and make you love them even more, if that's possible.

She writes about the absolute joy that dogs get from playing with each other -- that joy is certainly evident in your pictures.

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^^^Thanks! Just ordered that book. Also, following links I came across this article describing a border collie that has learned over 1000 different nouns for things to retrieve

I can't wait until I get a dog of my own. I volunteered at the county shelter during college just so I could play with a bunch of different dogs. How much do you guys figure your dogs cost annually?

Our house has puppy fever right now, It's tough not go out and get one.

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That's a good question.

I'd guess I spend 700.00-800.00 a year on my Ridgeback.

But occasionally it's much more. He broke a canine tooth a couple years ago.
That was about $5k for a root cannal and a crown.

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holy wooly mammoth! They look like they had a blast!

Lovely pics !!

Nothing more relaxing than watching your dogs play , mine are 10 and 8 years old so the playing time is getting shorter.

How much they cost me a year ? Like with kids you do whatever it takes.
If you are planning on gettin a dog(s) realize it's for life and not just for Christmas .

holy f'ckshit! you took your dog to the dentist and spent 5K?
that's just nuckin futs!
i would have stole my dad's dentures and LiquidNail'ed them to my dog's mouth before I spent 5K on a dog's tooth.....

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He is about a month away from his annual buzz cut ...

I used to think like that - well, sort of
When my dog had swallowed a half tennis ball wrapped around a stick last year, I did not think twice about delaying the new bike purchase to pay for surgery.