Break on through

On my most recent trip to the meadow with Fin, Eric looked like he really wanted to go, but something was holding him back. I opened the gate at the top of our pasture and managed to get him through it despite his reluctance to go so near the wooden fence. Once he was in the pasture, he took off like a gazelle (a very short gazelle, maybe a gazelline)! He ran all the way down the hill, but again, I had to open a gate to get him out of the pasture. And again, he took off when he hit the open spaces of the meadow. He and Fin romped through the woods, but yet again, I had to open gates to get him back up the hill through the pasture. When he was a puppy, someone must have beaten him with fence boards, or maybe after they bathed him, they hung him out to dry on a fence like ours. In any case, we can now take him on our meadow "walks" (with dogs, there's not much walking!) so he can experience the full range of Far Arden doggy experience.