It did take a few moments of sitting and waiting to get over the excitement of a new visitor with such temptation to play; but we did get his harness on after a couple of tries. And once we did he was ready to go.
He has a puppy like enthusiasm and sort of skip in his step despite his size. His pace was variable; mostly reasonable with loose leads, occasionally it was even slowed to a gentle plod, but not for long and there would also be an exited bounce forward every so often.
During one of these excited bounces forward on a slight downhill my pace broke into a brief jog/run, but I quickly realised that if Rexx thought we were running he was going to be much faster than me so I let him know we would just walk and he was happy to take instruction and remain at my pace.
We crossed a bridge with stiles and he was happy to duck under the first and jump over the second. We also passed some dogs at a distance and Rexx was perfectly calm and controlled. He enjoyed plenty of sniffs and was easy to direct to my preferred route.
Rexx is a lovely boy, ready to make everyone smile and to keenly accept an offer of an all over body rub.
I know I’ll be tempted to take this handsome boy for a walk again soon.
