This past weekend was the local Boy Scout winter Klondike campout (our theme was Blue Hawaii). There were probably a hundred scouts, plus leaders. As always, I took several dogs along. There’s nothing better than a bunch of boy scouts for socializing a dog. I think the boys and the dogs are on about the same maturity level, they both will play with each other for hours on end, plus there are lots of boys always swarming around to acclimate the dogs to crowds of people.

We had a great time. After the official Klondike sled race, where the boys pull their sled over a course (our patrol took first!), I hooked up my two best sled dogs and we re-ran the course and smoked our previous time. The boys and the dogs loved it.

It was a great experience for the dogs and the boys. The only misadventure we had was with Blade, the young black lab in the above photo. Blade peed on some kid’s sleeping bag. Luckily, he was from another troop. It made me think of the window decal that was popular awhile back with Calvin peeing on some brand of car. I guess Blade was just telling him what he thought of our sled competition. Luckily it was in the morning, after the kid slept in the bag. Sorry, Kid.

 

I took the Boy Scouts camping this weekend and took Sophie with us. She was a big hit! Boy scouts are the best for socializing a puppy.  They are old enough to know to be gentle, big enough the puppy doesn’t hurt them, and never get tired of rolling around with them. (It’s probably because they are about the same development level, eh?) 

Sophie got 24 hours of hard core socialization and loved every minutes of it. Plus, camping with a puppy is great because you can relax since you don’t have to worry about them pottying in the house. Not to mention the fact that after the boys wore her out, she was sweet to snuggle up with in a sleeping bag.

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What more can I say, like peanutbutter and jelly, kids and puppies just go together. They are good for each other. Here, Sarah and Daisy were exploring together.