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SoCal Meetup!

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I saw an old thread for this but nothing seemed to come of it. So my SoCal friends, let's meet up!

I know it's not warm, so the beach may be out of the question, but anyone want to try a snow day at Big Bear sometime around the beginning of the year? Say, the weekend of January 5?

Eventually it'd be cool to get a weekly/monthly thing going but for now let's start with that ;)
 
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Wow what a fun afternoon! Rusty and Kerrie had a blast today. They were tired and slept the whole way home haha.

Rusty did awesome, and Kerrie Ann did pretty good too...until she started going after birds lol. Other than that, I had a great time and it was awesome to meet some folks from the forums too.

Oh...Max and Bear are sweet dogs and handsome pups! Good times indeed, and I can't wait for our next event. I do hope we meet at the beach again. It's awesome for the dogs that's for sure
 
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SoCal Meet-up in Huntington Beach

Today we had a meet-up at the dog beach located in Huntington Beach, CA. It was an incredibly beautiful day--about 75 degrees and sunny. The beach is huge. There were a lot of dogs, but it did not seem crowded. It was a lot of fun. We were there with Max; Brave (Jen) was there with Bear; Melfice was there with Rusty and his Brittany, Kerrie. Everyone got along great.

We missed Dana who could not make at due to back problems. Hope to see her with Gibbs and Ziva next time. :)

Max and Bear had fun together--Bear ran into the ocean further to get the ball after he spent some time with Max. Bear looked great and showed not signs of having surgery. Here are a few pictures. I will post a short video of Max and Bear in the video section.
 

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We had such a fun time!! Bear did GREAT!!!

Bear just knew where we were headed about 15 minutes before we got to the beach, and while we were waiting to park, he was shaking the whole car with his excitement.

When we finally got to the beach, he TOOK off like a bat out of the underworld. I was SURE I would lose him. But after running about 1/2 a mile he turned around and came lumbering back to me. He was a social butterfly! And made some new friends. We were running around for almost three hours and no limp in sight!

Max was such a great influence on Bear. Bear was such a little chicken in the water. But when Max came, so focused on the chuck-it, and just DOVE into the water after that ball, Bear was all gung-ho! By the end of the three hours, Bear was RETRIEVING BALLS ALL ON HIS OWN! His first EVER water retrievals!!!

Check out our pictures. Bear had so much fun! He conked out as soon as he got in the car. We both slept all the way home.

Beach Ocean Sand Sea Shore


Beach Sand Coast Shore Dog walking


Dog Vertebrate Canidae Dog breed Mammal


Canidae Dog Sea Water Ocean


Dog Canidae Carnivore Dog breed Sporting Group


Dog Canidae Dog breed Sporting Group Sand


Tent Sporting Group



He's chasing me! It's our favorite game!
Beach Sea Ocean Dog walking Shore
 
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When can we do the next one? And do we want to try to do a private get-together at that water park in Temecula?

I hope we can get something on the books before 3/15 because I have surgery on 3/19 and will be out of commission for about a month.

Whose free when? :)
 
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Hello Im new to the group. I have 2 goldens Jones and Mindy just over 3 years old and we live about 5 miles from Huntington Beach Dog Beach. Somewhere I saw mention of the San Diego Golden meetup group and just wanted to add that there is also an Orange County Golden meetup group of which I am a member... I also wanted to mention on Sept 6th 2014 from 10-4pm Doggie Pool-ooza in Ontario, ca. one day only the open it up for dogs.
 
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