As all of you may know, Bailey is my first dog. I never had pets growing up, and actually grew up as a cat person more of a dog person. I never expected to meet so much people just by owning a dog. At the park, at the store, and even online. It's so amazing. We've met so many great dog people, that I feel that those who do not own dogs are missing out on so much! There's so much support and camaraderie and even cool-ness in the dog-owning world.
Anywhoo! so lets catch up on the bailey's recent adventures. This past Friday, I had a day off of work, so we spent a good deal of time outdoors at the park, window shopping at pet stores, and even squeezed in an hour to have the doctor examine my cough that ive had for 3 weeks now.. well only for her to tell me in 10 minutes that it was allergies and that... she could prescribe me nasal medicine and get me along my way. it was a bit rushed.... Anywhoo, the weather has been lovely here on the west coast, so were trying to soak it up even though daylight savings time is leaving us dark before 6 in the evening..... So back to friday. Since I had the day off, and my cousins' grandparents were out of town, Bailey and I went to pick up our youngest cousin from school. Let me tell ya.. bring a corgi to a school full of elementary kids on a friday afternoon.. expect chaos. Bailey didn't mind a bit, but everyone wanted to pet him and what was supposed to be an in-and-out sorta deal went more like a "Can I pet him" x 20 sorta deal. :) hahaha but I'm not mad. Bailey makes a great corgi ambassador, and well, we gotta raise the corgi-owning community young, right?
Later on friday night, i ended up taking the cousins ice skating. If you'd saw me with them, you;d think im their mom. I take them out a lot, and well, I have to thank Bailey for that too - having Bailey has increased our cousinly bond since we have 1 major thing in common - our love for Bailey. :) Well! We decide to take Bailey with us! The skate rink is actually outdoors, right near the piers of San Francisco. It wasn't cold out, and, parking was free if you skated at the rink (mind you this is downtown SF), and well, since the Giants won the World Series (side thought - why "World" series??), friday was declared (at least by the rink) as Orange Friday (the team colors are orange and black), and well, if you showed up at the rink with Giants gear on - FREE admission!! :) Thus, the gear we have on in our pictures! Bailey hung out with Anna (middle cousin), who is deathly afraid to ice skate but jumped at the opportunity to watch Bailey while the rest of us skated. She did a great job, and I packed goodie bags to keep them entertained. Bailey did bark a few times, but, I think he enjoyed being out with us. Take a look at these pictures:
Here is bailey on the elevator coming up from the parking garage. I can't remember if this is his first time on the elevator or not. But, he was very anxious to get off!
Before we headed over to ice skating, we took a scenic walk along the piers and got some good photos. This on is Bailey and his entourage in front of the Bay Bridge in the background. It's the most heavily-used bridge in our area, but the Golden Gate is more well-known.
me skating.... ahhh i loved it.
So! Ice skating was a blast. :) i love it.
Today was another exciting day. Bailey and I headed to another beach on the nothern end of the city, Crissy Beach (AGAIN! YES WE LOVE THAT PLACE), and Bailey went bonkers when i let him off the leash. he played for a good two hours before we headed to the meetup. Check out some pictures we got there, and coincidentally, there's the Golden Gate in the background. What can I say... maybe Bailey wants to be an engineer when he grows up (because he likes to be near bridges??) hahaha....
Bailey has an objective every time we are at the beach. It's "GET AS DIRTY AS POSSIBLE!!". He does a great job at it. Here's his face. Can you tell - he is so dirty he can barely open his right eye. Yepp thats my boy.
When Bailey and I don't have company, i rely on my self timer to take pictures. This one turned out good. Nice sunny day, bailey and i together on a nice bench in the sun. :) we love this spot. love love love it!
Next stop: Monthly corgi meetup. We were a bit wary about whether or not our group was strong enough to hold up... being that there are a couple of meetup groups around us, and, well, to our surprise, im glad its still going strong. We had a solid group of corgis there today: Nicholas, Mona, Dakota, Ringo, Madden, Waffles, Cow and of course, Bailey. There were also some corgi wannabes - a couple of aussies (Yuma and Jordie), and a corgi mix Shamus. It was a super fun day at the park. Lots of chasing and barking, as to be expected with corgis:
There's waffles fluffy white butt, and cow avoiding the camera and madden the darker tri. Nicholas is still on a lead since he doesn't listen to his momma that well. and shamus is sniffing nick's butt cause he is not neutered yet.
There's the gang again, except Dakota's now in the picture on the far left. chase chase chase
We stayed at the meetup for almost 2 hours, and during the last 15 minutes - two huge english sheepdogs arrived. Bailey seemed fine at first, but within 10 minutes, he stood at the entrance at the park/path (mind you its not fenced!), and looked scared.. but at first i thought he was tired and wanted to leave. He kept scanning the area and was not panting and just staring. I called him over, and he didn't listen but instead started trotting the other way. Let's just say Bailey almost ended up in the middle of a two way street, but thank goodness there was a lady leaving the park and got close enough to him and grabbed his collar. He was 10 feet from the road. Poor guy, he was scared and wanted to run off and hide. I didn't run after him because I knew he would sprint off if i did (NEVER CHASE A DOG)... but once i got him leashed and we were walking back to the car, he seemed to be his jolly self again. He just wanted to leave the park. When we got home he had a good nap, had a bone i bought for him, and he's still napping right now (well except when i pulled out a bag of sweet potato chips and he came running).. haha. But yes, hes home safe and sound and back to normal, but that was a scare!
I had also bought a can of the new Wellness canned stews for Bailey's dinner - which he loved by the way, he kept licking his bowl like more would appear. I forgot to bring it to our thanksgiving bash, so I ended up feeding it to him the next day. Of course, he didn't seemt o mind. Anywhoo, It's their turkey stew, and I just topped it over half of his regular kibble. 
Moving on.... About a week prior, I went in for allergy testing to see what exactly it was that I was allergic too. They poked my on my arm eight times to test several antigens... dogs, cats, pollens, molds, and dust mites. Plus they had a positive and negative control to ensure they were reading the reactions correctly. While I sat in the waiting room watching a video on how to encase my mattress to avoid dust mites.... I didn't see much grow on my arm in the next 20 minutes. So, after that they measured my bumps and said I wasn't officially allergic to anything. Oh geez. That just isn't right. I get allergies all the time. So while I was waiting to see the doctor, the nurse said ohh whats #5 (they labeled all the pokes 1-10 on my arm), and she wanted to measure that bump again because it was just a tad bigger than the others (even though it was still too minimal to be called an allergy). And guess what #5 was. Dogs. HAHAHAHAHAHA Oh i could've just dropped on hte floor laughing. My allergist didn't seem to think it was such a big thought since she was probably thinking "its just a dog". She later advised me to bathe him once a week and to.... KEEEP HIM OUT OF THE BEDROOM. oh geez like i am going to do that. At that point, i knew she didn't have a dog because who in their right mind with a dog in the family would say that!!!! Well, Bailey isn't being kept out of the bedroom, but I will keep him off of my bed (that won't be too much of a problem becuase he's normally not allowed anyways). So. long story short it appears that if im allergic to anything, its dogs. hahahahahaha funny! she prescribed some nasal spray for my symptoms and off I went. There are no dogs at work and I sneeze all day sometimes, and theres no dogs in my closet and when I'm cleaning it out I tend to get allergy attacks. and heck even before i got a dog i would have allergy attacks from vacuuming (back in the day when they didint have hepa filters)... soo..... even though she says the test is VERY accurate... I uhhhh want a re-test!
