Went to Thingstaette with the dogs.

Hubbys Battalion had the first steeple chase. One reason to do that was to show the new people how to get around by public transportation and teach them something about the local history. I didn’t use the train because I wanted to bring the dogs. So I met them at the bus station half way up the “mountain”. Since we went hiking and both of them are well behaved why shouldn’t I bring them? I would have definitely felt bad to go on a hike and leave them at home.

In front of the Thingstaette.

Inside the Thingstaette. And yep those are the stairs we’ve been walking up.

It was awesome and I loved being out there. I know I am not as fit as all the Soldiers but I made it all the way up there and when we had to go up the stairs I wasn’t doing bad at all. However, the dogs were doing great. They wanted to explore the place so bad, I know they would have loved to be off the leash and just go on adventures, exploring the place, sniffing and checking out the place.

Resting at the monestary.

The dogs had a lot of fun. Especially Zenzy wanted to be in the middle of everything. She is curious and nosy, wants to inspect and see it all and just loooooves the attention. Like yesterday for example. I took her out to do some obedience training and some of the neighbor kids were out there to. They immediately wanted to pet her and she just loved the attention. She laid flat in the grass and enjoyed being petted by the girl.

Both of them did really good and I am so proud of them that I can actually take them to events like that.

The view from the top of the tower.

It is an ongoing argument with a lot of people. Apparently many many people assume that a small dog is better for an apartment! You know, it doesn’t matter what kind of dog you have. Running around in an apartment isn’t enough because they all need exercise!

So many people think that a big house and a yard is necessary to keep a dog happy. To me it’s nothing but a big cage and they still don’t get the exercise they need. Every dog needs to be exercised and to me it doesn’t matter what breed it is.

Some blame me because I have two big dogs in an apartment that is over a 100 square metre and they think that just because I don’t have a yard or a house my dogs couldn’t be happy.

Heck, I probably have the happiest dogs (not saying that other dogs are not happy) on this frickin post. I bike ride with them, go to the dog park, into the surrounding hills, drive to the Koenigsstuhl, Neckar Ufer and sometimes even to places where I have to drive half an hour or even longer to make them happy.
It doesn’t matter if they are in a big or small apartment, in a house or in a house with a backyard or even kept in a “Zwinger”. It’s important that your dog gets enough love & exercise and doesn’t spend 24/7 in his “cage”.

If you’ve never had a dog before, just make sure that you don’t get a high energy dog. They literally need a job and if you don’t have the time to give them what they need than go for another breed that fits your lifestyle better than an Australian Shepherd, for example. Even I wouldn’t want an Australian Shepherd because they have twice the energy than mine have.

So as long as your dogs are trained and exercised you’ve got happy dogs and I guarantee you that mine are so much happier than those little toy dogs that are carried around in a purse and have to o pee and poop into a litter box.

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