Another Hot Miserable Day

Yup, today the temperature is in the high 90s, and it feels like a sauna out there. I'm going to bring my Chesapeake Bay Retriever puppy, named Nelson, to a gathering of Montgomery County mucky mucks tonight in Rockville. It's a social activity called a "Yappy Hour." Bring your dogs to a Spanish restaurant. The flyer said "well behaved dogs on a leash." OK, a well behaved dog in a restaurant? Well, we'll see how Nelson does. He's a typical Chessie; hard headed, strong, gentle, good with people and other dogs...He's also a 70 pound, 9 month old puppy. I wonder what sort of chastisment I'll get from the Montgomery County meritocratic Mandarins about the fact that he's not neutered yet. I'm sure I'll be labeled a bad person, since this soiree is to benefit the Montgomery County Humane Society. Sorry, but he's got good papers. He's got good genes, and he is going to father a couple of Chessie litters before I have him neutered.