Celebrating Spring

Today I took Marshall to work (crated in the car). For our lunch-time outing, we walked to Fall Rivers Park. Along the way we stopped at the hot dog vendor. Marshall sat patiently while my lunch was prepared. Then we sat on the garden steps at the park. Marshall help his "plotz" pretty well. He had to be corrected a few times to lay back down. But again a lingering lunch hour for a little dog is a long time to hold still. But he did great! He watched the scenery instead of the hotdog. On the way back to the office, we stopped in an art boutique that had a sign "paws welcome" so I took advantage of the invitation--to take a dog into a store with lots of breakable items. The people wanted to pet him, but we told them no. The resident dog barked a hello, as well as one of the workers after learning that Marshall could not be petted or given treats by strangers. Of course all the "barks" were merely friendly hellos.