I've lost my Exercise Buddy

I’ve lost my walking/exercise bud.

My beagle Buddy.

Remember when the pooch hurt his neck and we were having to carry him all over the house?

Well, since then he doesn’t do well on our big 2 or 3mile power walks.
He cries when we get home as he goes up the stairs.

The past couple of months I felt he would get better and be up for the walks he always use to love, but he has not.

I’m sad.

For the past 6-years Buddy has walked and hiked many miles with me.

 My partner in crime.

My best friend.

He always made me proud.

Swimming through streams, hiking up mountains, climbing rocks.

 In the past year I stopped taking him on big hiking trips because it is hard to find hotels that take dogs. Not to mention that he made the hikes harder especially when it was wet.

He would nearly pull me down the mountain!

Around town we would power walk the 'Booty Loop' stopping at the canine water bowls in front of houses.

Now it’s no more.

Buddy will still get ‘strolls’ around the neighborhood but no more ‘real’ exercise.

Now it’s just me and my IPOD.

Oh wells.

TGIF peeps!