Mabel the Playful

Mabel coming when called, after an impressive sit-stay

In the last week, Mabel has been feeling better than ever evidently--she has been so playful! She's been affectionate from the beginning, and she's even been silly and mildly playful from the beginning, but not like she is now. Every day now, when she gets into the yard, all she wants to do is play bow, run with me, and bounce around--and "bounce" really is the perfect word. She looks like a giant oddly shaped rabbit darting around the yard. And apparently, she has some nocturnal tendencies too because no matter how active her day has been, for the last several nights, when we've let her out for that one last chance to relieve herself before bed, she's been just a giant ball of ecstatically happy, noisy (Ah-ROOOH!) energy. Forget end-of-the-day exhaustion; she's at her most energetic! She calms down quickly and easily as soon as I get her inside and to her bed, but the surge of excitement that comes out of her every night is something to behold.