One of the things I really love about Pretoria is the abundance of hiking opportunity within a reasonable distance. There’s a few places right in the city I feel safe enough to go alone, and a few of them are even doggy friendly!
Anytime I have taken Jay, until today, we haven’t gone more than about 5k. When I’m running in my neighborhood he tends to slow down quite a bit by then and need encouragement to keep going, so when I run longer than 5k I’ll usually drop him back at the house halfway. He does have short little legs, so I don’t fault him.
But today I decided we’d try a longer hike, because he seems to enjoy hiking SO much (and so do I), and it was a cool, overcast morning. After about 8k he noticeably slowed and by 10k I was having to encourage him to keep moving. When we got home, he fell asleep and hasn’t moved much all day.
He doesn’t generally like water all that much, but today he just plopped right down in the river. He’s a very good boy.
Let us begin 