Puppy Gymboree

So tonight I took Emily to a puppy play group run by SF Puppy Prep, a puppy training school run by a couple of SPCA trainers. In a big room with spongy vinyl flooring, about two dozen puppies and their associated humans, plus a bunch of trainers, milled around drinking wine and watching their not-offspring frolic. Dogs have fascinating play, from the invitational behavior (bows and waving) to the alternating submission and attack play. Lots of biting, lots of chasing, lots of flipping around, occasionally interrupted to pee or greet a passing human.

If Emily were Younger Girl, we would have come home with a whole page of phone numbers and names, the better to arrange playdates.