First 1 am howl

Tuesday March 21
The freegle is finding his voice, literally. he has taken to scrambling, scratching and finally barking at 6 on a sunday mornung and that was okay - i went in and got into the bed and he went into his and we went on to sleep until 8 - but last night it started at 1 am. He was so excited when I walked into the room he wriggled and waggled and whimpered but i tried to keep my mad face on and got into bed and he went into his and after about ten minutes i got up and left and he didn't make any noise until 6 am this morming. Yesterday wendy called me at the Grotto and said I had to come home he was howling, she said, and so i did.

at the park i ran into masaki and her owner corinne and we snuck into the childs area so they could play. masaki is a big beautiful part collie part retriever looking dog and can catch frisbees in the air and though baxter growled at her when he was sniffing her toy this time everything was peaceful except he wouldn't romp wtih her he was instead fascinated with the dogs on the other side of the fence and corinne remarked this was probably the way it was in the lab and i said yes, probably. then masaki came by once again to get him to play and nipped him on the heels and i thought uh oh, but instead he began to chase her, all in good fun and they tore around for awhile. Baxter had never run like this, playing with one dog, not even at the dogpark, which was just running and sniffing, while this was really playing a game of tag and he looked like a puppy, so happy and gallumphing.

Shannon of BFP said there would be someone to take over fostering when we're done and wendy suddenly had a hissy fit, saying we couldn't do that to him, shunt him from house to house and I got cold feet and shannon assured me that this foster guy adored his beagles, having one of his own from the project too. But was it the right dog? Is he going to be locked up all day? what about his bad habits, would he be yelled at. But the guy called me and it was clear he was pretty great and we set up a playdate for the end of the week.