We took Tira to the beach and let her run wild for the first time. She was running as fast as she could go chasing birds, sniffing things, and just looking around. When I’d call or blow my dog whistle she’d respond and trot in our general direction before returning to us. We were almost done for the day when she saw a bird that she really wanted to catch. She ran after it and kept going and going until she was a long ways away from us. I called, blew the whistle, and tried to get her attention but she was in the zone. Tira may have been over 1/4 mile away when she ran into a couple walking. Luckily, the bird changed direction or flew away and Tira started coming back. All the while I was running after her. When I finally caught her, I hooked her back up to her lead and we played a while longer before going home.
Not sure I’ll do that again but it was fun. A couple of photos of Tira’s beach run are in her photo album.
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