Great ideas Stumpy. I will definately look into signing up to do something with my dogs. I don't know why I didn't think of that to begin with. I mean, already you have something in common with the people there right? And I know I am usually pretty talkative when I am talking to other 'dog people'.

I'm also going to look into that meetup.com in the near future as well. (as soon as I have a decent amount of time in front of the computer to look into it)