When we got to the beach yesterday, my wife didn't think he would perk up or do any running. But I knew what made him tick and sure enough, a few tosses of a rock down the beach and it was just as if there was nothing wrong with him.
In the second picture, that is a rapidly happy swinging of his tail, and in the third picture, they are both barking at the rock, which they would do until I picked it up and threw it again. I would take them sometimes to a local dog park and throw a rock down by the end of the fence and they'd sit there over 20 minutes, barking at the rock, they were that vigilant. All the other dog owners would laugh hysterically at them. Neither one of them would chase a ball or a stick, only rocks. In the thousands of miles we hiked together, I must have hurled hundreds of rocks down fire roads, and they never tired of chasing them, especially Magoo.
I'm glad I didn't upload these pictures when we got home yesterday, I would have never been able to put him down last night.