Pool Fun With The Pups

Django getting used to the pool

How are your pups surviving this heat and humidity?

We actually got ours a kiddie pool, Hello Kitty to be exact. I know, I know, getting a dog a Hello Kitty pool isn't exactly the brightest idea, but it was a particularly hot day and we were roaming around the neighborhood in search of something the could cool off in while the kids were in the bog pool. We arrived at Walgreens and it was either this or a Spiderman pool which my daughters did not like for our little girls.

Admittedly, most of the time, the dogs prefer to snooze in the A/C, but this was a fun day for all involved. Check out the video of Hayley doing her first summer laps:

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