Tic, Tac, Toe in the Park

During our park outing, we also played puppy tic tac toe.

We were divided into two teams: here is the yellow team (plus one chocolate!).

Here is team black!

Essie and Brian sat out tic tac toe.  But you can tell she really wants to play.

Brian loves him some Essie!  Here he is captured giving her a big bear hug, which she loves. 

You might think it is a tic, tac, toe, but it is actually two blacks and a chocolate.

Hershey played for the yellows, so the above photo was not a win for the black team.  Sigh.

In the end we kept coming up with a draw.

Do you see it?  Every dog on a square?  It's a draw!

Pretty impressive, everyone on a down stay, everyone so close together!  Go North Pinellas puppies!

Liberty and Lightning, just chilling.  Of course, Karen and Steve are chilling too.

Denny, the old golden pro, was a ringer. 

Coastie looked for Stephanie and Denny looked for Sylvia.

Each dog looking for his raiser.

In the end though, it was a fun game.  I put together a little video of the game itself.  You'll have to click off the ads.

Puppy Tic Tac Toe

Have I got a good video for you!  A complete game of puppy tic tac toe.  It's at the bottom of the post, so if you just want to go there and see it, then by all means.  I'll wait.

Are  you finished? Great!  We had our meeting out at Largo Central Park which is filled with puppy distractions and fun things to do.

Nancy and puppy Orchid sitting at her side.

We were originally going to stay near the children's playground, but the spot ended up being reserved for a birthday party, so we ended up moving to another spot a bit further away.  We had just about everyone in attendance.

Kerry and puppy Bobby, a chocolate lab, Stephanie, Roger and puppy Gail, a puppy raiser I don't know and Keegan and puppy Laurel.

Sue and puppy Katy

Stephanie, Michele and puppy Gail and Michele's husband Roger

Lois and puppy Babe and Nancy and puppy Orchid.  The puppies are practicing down stays.

Karry and puppy Bobby.  Bobby is on a down stay.

Young Mr. Woodman and their ambassador dog.

Cheryl and Jam before he got banished from the circle.

Brian and puppy Essie.  Despite the stern look, Essie remained firmly in the circle, the whole time.

Dianna and puppy Cherry practicing a down stay while being in the middle and serving as a distraction.  Cherry goes in for training next week.

From here on out, the photos are by Michele and her husband Roger Reese. From the obedience exercses we moved on to the train distraction.

Here is the group waiting for the train.

Carolyn is explaining the rules of tic, tac, toe to us.

Karen, Sue and Nancy are listening intently.

Carolyn and Sunny demonstrate on the tic tac toe chalked in board.

More demonstration by Carolyn.

Puppy Bobby and Karry go first.

Keegan and Sunny follow.

More and more puppies are added to the board.

Yellows win!

Here is the video of the complete game: