Mr. Moon Explores the World

[MellonFriend]

Mr. Moon and I have been having a few adventures recently.  We've done a few walks at some local greenways, but yesterday, since it was his birthday the day before we went on his first true hike. It was four miles total and he did pretty good.  It was uphill on the way in and he had to stop quite a few times to rest, especially on the last bit which was quite a push to get to the summit.  The way back was a whole other story.  He was going darn near too fast for me on the way down.  At the beginning of the hike, I tried to put a dog pack on him that I bought for a dog a while ago, but I couldn't get the fit right.  This pack has removeable bags so I just had the saddle on him, but it kept slipping to one side.  I'm not sure if I had it too loose, too tight, or what, but I'm going to have to figure out how to manage that.  The biggest thing Mr. Moon learned from this trip is that bridges are not scary.  When we first encountered a narrow footbridge he needed to be greatly encouraged to get on it, but by the end of the trip he wanted to go across the bridges multiple times for fun.    I am shocked by how much this little guy pees!  He had to stop like every ten minutes for a potty break, and that's on top of the whole minute of peeing he did when he first got out of the car.  It's crazy.  And then he doesn't want to drink the whole time were away from home.  I have a travel water bottle/dish combo for on the trail, but he won't drink out of that, and at the car I had a gallon with a bucket he's familiar with, but still he doesn't want to drink.  Is this normal?  I mean even when he got home, he didn't run to the water bucket.  So what's with that?

Here we are at the summit of the hike.  There was a big rock face there that he seemed to enjoy climbing on, showing his mountain goat ancestry.