Joy and I walked to her favourite big field today and met up with LOADS of dogs she knows and loves to play with. Altogether we ended up with four Labs, two Viszlers, a Pointer something cross, three Lurchers, two pugs and three Jack Russells, one of which was just thirteen weeks old! Fifteen dogs in all, all racing and chasing round under the watchful eyes of their hoomans and having a wonderful time, no bullying behaviour, just having fun in the sun and the river. We hoomans were deep in conversation about dogs eating spring grass and pooing (that's when you know you're amongst proper dog people) when two women riding horses appeared. Aagh! They pulled up at the edge of the field and there was much peeping of whistles and urgent calling of dogs. It is hard to believe I know, but in what must have been less than a minute every single one of these fifteen excited dogs was on lead and sitting! The horses passed by calmly, the dogs sat calmly, the riders thanked us all and asked if it was a dog training class! When we said that it wasn't, they replied 'Well, they're very well behaved'. After they'd gone the dogs got lots of fuss and were let off to play some more. We were all amazed! We kept asking how that had happened and would it ever happen again! Most of us I think felt it was a sheer fluke. We were all very proud of our dogs though!