it's not quite hump day but...

Red's been expanding his social circle by making visits to the Laurel Canyon dog park. Tex, Piper, Oscar are some of his new friends' names. And the ones we don't know too well yet, we've gotten into the habit of just making up names for them. There's Roly-Poly, Skunk, Deer, & a lot of Uncle Skip look-a-likes. He took a particular liking to a fluffy dog on Sunday. After trying the old fashioned approach, Red tried (unsuccessfully) to mount her from behind. He even took a little nip at the ol' gal to assert his dominance but was one-upped as she turned around and growled at him like the bitch that she was. And although this may all sound quite disgusting, it was rather cute seeing the little guy break out of his shell.



An old picture, but imagine what kind of creature we would have ended up with if the above successfully ... er ... "conquered" the below: