.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....Like a lot of new dog owners, Adriana Magarin recently got a puppy to help brighten up pandemic life. “You can only read so many books, you can only listen to so many podcasts,” she said.
Six-month-olds Nakai, top, a shepherd husky, and Blu, a Siberian malamute, play at the North Domingo Baca Dog Park recently. It’s normal for puppies to wrestle. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
Buddy, her husky, is “a troublemaker, but he gets me up in the morning and gets me outside.”
But Buddy’s first trip to a dog park in Houston, where Magarin lives, was more than she bargained for. He was “doing great” hanging out with other dogs – until he followed them to a pond and fell in. He got out fine, she said, laughing, though he “looked like a little rat.”