Shady is a 5 year old,very spoilt Tervueren,who has to live with a pack of dogs known collectively as the 'badogs'!
They're not really bad,its just compared to Shady,any dog looks naughty.
A few weeks ago,2 or 3? I had an unexpected Sunday of,as I decided not to go to a show I had booked.
You know what I did??
I sat in the garden.......for 5 hours...5 hours!!!!!
This wouldn't be unusual if you had a lovely garden,complete with lovely garden funiture...but in my little garden,with just my deck chair from the van it wouldn't normally seem so appealing!
But I loved it.I played with the dogs,I had 3 cups of coffee,I played with the dogs some more,I took photos,and I had both my breakfast and lunch out there :)
It was JUST what I needed!!
Mookie ..... cup cleaner extraordinair!
Snoozie Floozie.
'Yeah I'm trying to sleep here,stop taking photos!'
Foof was getting her Bug on (getting her lip caught) in between naps!
O M G I have a toy!!
If you knew Shady...you'd know what this expression is...he's laughing at me!
Yes....it did take 4 hours,but look...they are both asleep...and I caught it on camera :)
Makes me laugh when people look at me like I'm crazy when I say Mookie has Collie in her...aside from her behaviour,her look side on really reminds me of some ol' farm dog :) She's going so grey,which has earnt her the nickname 'Granny' :)
Dogs faces always look to me to display contentment during a good scratch!
Sleeping with her tennis ball.
'Keep trying bitch...you're not gonna get a photo of me sleeping!'
So not alot of blogging going on!But life is good,if very busy.My job and life is a real case of feast or famine,its so linked in to school holidays,with those periods being busiest,and of course busier in the warmer months too,when more people get there dogs groomed. At the same time my grooming goes mad,so the agility show season kicks off. I'm doing flyball once a week,trying desperatly to keep agility to twice a week,once with Dan,once at Becky's,then Regiment training twice a week,plus work,plus the Newfies and Lilly to walk,plus mine to walk,plus keeping the flat running etc etc...at least I'm never bored! :)
The crew and me at the Spring at Shuttleworth agility show,which I forgot to enter ooops! It was Becky and Sixx's first 'proper' show (KC),and they did brilliantly!!
First sunbathing session of the year,they are just outside my grooming room,I'm very lucky that I get to take my dogs to work with me :)
Foof enjpying the view up the hills :)
Beautiful Lilly :)
How cute is snoozie Lilly?As she is deaf,she had no idea I was there,and was dreaming busily away,legs twitching and eyes flicking.I tapped the sofa gently to wake her,and as she slowly opened her eyes and realised a person was there,she pinned her little ears down,and was SO happy to see me :)
Tutu tops for boys :)
No B you can't choose the channel!
'There was 3 in the bed and the little one said.....'
My girls and me had a great time last Sunday at The Easter Celebration agility show.
Mookie had a clear for all 3 of her runs....what a good girl,she placed 4th,5th and 16th in her 3 classes,all of the classes had around 200 dogs in.
She is not as fit as she should/could be,so we could def have shaved a half a second of her times,and one of the jumping classes she was only .8 of a second behind the winner....this will be the year she gets out of grade 3 :)
She is so damned enjoyable to have at shows,she's non reactive...after having Shady behaving like a loonie around agility,I knew I would never let a dog of mine behave like that again!
Mookie is back with me full time for now again,we're back to training,and I want to get her superfit for this show season....her impending super fitness..combined with the new Ketchker turns we've been doing should shave off that little bt of time we need to move up. :)
Foof was incredible,no sign of the manic unfocussed little beast which I had a couple of months ago.
She ran 3 times,twice was lovely except for the weaves,but the other class she won...in style! Little canon ball that she is,she truely smashed that run....and I'd almost not run it,I was so cold by that point I was going to go home and miss that class.But we went in as the last dog to compete,and went straight into the lead!! :) Clever Piggy!!
I feel sorry for whoever was in the lead,to get right to the end thinking you were the winner,hear the call go out for 5 mins till they're closing the class...then to get beaten...and by a Pig!! hahaha
The first vid,is Dan running Foof in the jumping class.Its a crap video,cos I was trying to watch and film.
Second vid is Mookie in her jumping class which she got 5th in.Dan (my trainer) won it with his Collie Ditto.
We've had it off and on for 2 days!! Incredible,and on a Bank Holiday weekend too.
I'm off to a show tommorow,but here's some pics,to show what we've been up to this weekend.
We stop near the kennels before work for the dogs to have a quick stretch of their legs before they have to wait for me in the van till lunchtime.You can see the girls ahead of me on the footpath/mudbath!
Don't mess with The Mama!
Shadder is such a good confident boy around other dogs,and was used MANY times as the stooge non reactive dog at the old training school I helped at.the 3 GSD's would go mental at him at the fence,and he would just stand there wagging his tail until they got bored going crazy,and actually sniffed and didn't react badly to him at all.Shady knows how to handle all dogs :)
Crap photo,but the one which comes closest to showing off her beautiful eyes,they are like jewels against the white coat!
Daughter Ruby.
Excuse the caravan in the background...someone is living in there whilst their new house is being built.
Shiney Happy Person!
At lunch whilst I tidied the van out a bit to look for my Beautiful Beasties photography book...(which I LOVE) Shady dove into the van and stole 'The Foot'.....which is like catnip to Foofie.....or Foofnip bwahahaha.At training the other day,she would not leave The Foot to play with another toy...which is the first time in her life she's ever not switched from one toy to another with no issue....she is obsessed with The Foot.Dan (my trainer) said he'd never seen her be so opinionated about toys lol.
I love The Foot too :)
Keeping an eye out for the wicked little sister!
Foof got told off for trying to kill her brother to gain possession of The Foot,here she is after being told not to....'Must not look at brother or Foot or I will have to steal it from him!' lol
'No seriously Shady...give me the damn Foot back!'
I had to stop this tugging after getting a few photos...I feared for The Foot's well being...and knew that World War 3 would erupt if I left it to escalate!
But I took my camera out with me anyway. The dogs got to mix with 3 of my customers yesterday,Buddy a Cocker,Dixie,the wonderful 'Mini Labradoodle',and Bella a Spanish Water Dog.
Bella is an interesting girl,sold to first time,and not dog savvy owners,she most certainly is not the perfect match for them. She is very nervous of strangers,barks and yaps and growls at them all the time.Her owners bought her to me from a very young age,which was extremly fortunate for both Bella and me!She is lovely to groom though,as she came so reguarly.Yesterday she was very matted,and the owner reported that she thought there was something wronf with her foot..Once I had clipped her off,I found her stopper pad had a big chunk missing out of it! Dixie is SO much fun,I have to say,I have yet to groom a Doodle or Poo dog which wasn't a nice,fun dog....something to be said for Disney dogs!
Shady meets Buddy,a very hairy Cocker!
'Ain't nobody taking my toy!'
Best dog tag ever.......Sponge Bob!!! :)
'Now he's sniffing my face isn't he?'
Waggy doodle.
Is this dog not begging to be made into a cartoon?!
My beautiful little Piggy :)
Love this little Doodle!
'Play with me??'
'Come on lady....let's PLAY!!!'
'Say wha??'
Mookie is back with me again,I miss her too much to leave her with Pete all the time,but I do feel sorry For Bug,he loves having her around.
