The Great Dane Social Register of AZ.

Since Zoie has become the social butterfly, I find myself meeting a lot of new people, both at our local park as well as online. At our park there is Leslie, Bella's owner. Leslie doesn't wear a wedding ring and is extra friendly to both me and Zoie. Bella is a Chocolate Lab and is a submissive female. Whenever she sees Zoie, she comes up wagging her tail and immediately flips over onto her back. I just wish Leslie would follow her example.

This morning, bright and early a lady friend called me to see if Zoie and I wanted to go for a walk in the desert. We did! I quickly showered and drove over while Zoie felt she was ready to go sans the shower. We arrived and my friend lured me inside with coffee. After a few sips of heavenly brew, we readied the K-9 patrol to get into the Expedition. With a a flying leap, Bob was successful on his first attempt while Zoie needed a little assistance. After lifting Zoie into the car, bumping my head to where I believe I saw the North Star, I climbed into the driver's seat while Zoie whined her complaints about being forced to ride in the car again, not her favorite pastime. The desert is pretty close to Marsha's house, maybe 5 minutes or less. Parking, we let the dogs out and we were off. Marsha warned me that people aren't too friendly to unleashed dogs around there, but they are both so well behaved, I didn't see it as a problem. The four legged crew took off and were having a ball and it was only an elderly couple that seemed a little intimidated by the loose duo, but since the dogs completely ignored them it was fine. Most people grow big grins on their faces when they see a Standard White Poodle and a Mantle Great Dane as couple. When Zoie and Bob see another dog, they approach and sniff the other dog's nose and go about their business. It seems to be K-9 etiquette. As we walked along, we chatted and Zoie and Bob were happy as "two loose dogs in a desert". Suddenly, without warning, we approached a couple of women walking a dog on leash and our 2 approached the friendly female Golden Retriever, who immediately flipped over on her back to admit submission to the two larger dogs. That's when the "old bitch" lost control and screamed, this is all your fault! With that she jerked her leash and pulled the leash over the Golden's head and totally freaked!!! Now picture this. A woman in her 60's is bent over with her over sized ass shooting up towards the moon, wearing Kulots and a sun brim visor thing, with over sized sun glasses and an attitude, yelling at us, "if you'll just leave...."? Marsha obeyed the command, while I turned and told her in plain English that she ought to rethink her outfit! Exasperation is the only word that comes to mind, as she stared on, as we exited the scene.

I just got a call from Dawn, that I met last night online when I noticed that she owns a pet shop here in Scottsdale and was pretty attractive. We IMed for awhile and then when that got old, I gave her my phone number and it took about 3 1/2 seconds before my phone rang. Now catch this. She not only owns a pet shop, but is owned by a female Great Dane named Zowi! What were the chances? We were on the phone for a full 4 hours last night and we're meeting in about 30 minutes for a Great Dane play date, for she and I. We'll bring the dogs too.