Hannah's First Points

Hannah has scored her first points in the show ring. All those weeks of me showing her how it was done, calling on all my experience, the rigorous training, and it all paid off. She did forget the bit about keeping calm and aloof in the ring when she wagged her tail off at the judge, but my woofs of encouragement settled her for the triangle, and she performed like an expert. The pic shows her just coming up to the first turn, head up, tail out and stepping high, looking proud as a Toller. It looks like we will have two of us champions, as long as she listens to me!

Tailem Bend

We are off on the road again. We spent all day doing things like packing the van and loading the Nissan, then just when we thought we were going to get our dinner, they loaded us up and took off to Tailem Bend. The pic shows us overlooking the Murray River in flood. The big expanse of water is the flood plain, the river is behind the trees in the distance.
The late start on Thursday meant we were a bit closer to Warrnambool so that the Friday drive was a bit easier. We had stops on the way and got to Warrnambool about 4:30 pm, set up the camp and so we are ready for Hannah's first real show tomorrow.

January at Home

We have been staying home for a while. The humans are doing things round the house and caravan getting ready for the next trip. The pic show us on our walk in the dog park. Hannah is almost as big as me and she is not 6 months old yet!
Our new toys did not last long, the squeak came out of the rabbit, the nose is off the weasel and there is a big hole in the soccer ball. We got hold of Kathy's reading glasses, but they were not much fun, once the plastic ear piece came off there was nothing to chew. Did you know dog teeth can gouge a lump out of a prescription lens?
Anyway, KnK keep using the "B" word so I had better hide before they get the shampoo out.

Merry Christmas

Its Christmas for Dogs Too!

We have Kevin staying with us for a few days, so the three of us went to visit Molly on Christmas Day. We had lots of runs and plays at Molly's place and had a feed of Scooby Snacks for lunch. All Molly's toys were spread everywhere and by 3:00 pm we were exhausted and had to sleep. It was about then that we had to come home leaving Molly to clear up her toys. It was a great Christmas, and we still have the evening to go.

Merry Christmas to all our readers all over the world.

Summer Storm

Here we are, resting after a hard night of thunder storms. Rain, Wind, Thunder and Lightning all night, neither of us got a wink of sleep. The rain started yesterday afternoon, too late to save the Aussie cricket team, but it kept on for the rest of the day and was still raining a bit this morning. Now it is OK for the humans, they have indoor plumbing, but we have to go outside. Poor Hannah aged 4.5 months, had a reef knot in her back legs waiting for a break in the storm. Ah well, things have calmed down now, so we will try to catch up on our beauty sleep.

Party Time

We had a party on Sunday. Audrey and Kevin came to play for the day so there were four of us running round playing chasey, hunt the ball, find the Cricket and the best game of all, see who can scrounge the most food!. The pic shows us playing chasey, Hannah on the left, then Kevin, Audrey the Deerhound and then me with the sock in my mouth. They were all trying to get the sock off me.
There were lots of humans there too, but all they did was sit around talking, drinking and occasionally dropping a snack for us.
Hannah and I slept like babies last night.

Top Lady Dog

I won the Top Obedience Bitch at the club for the year, and all I got was a bit of glass. I can't play with it, I can't eat it, I can't even read it, all I can do with it is look at it.

You would think that after such an award I would have got a new toy, or a lump of steak or even an extra bonio, but no, I had to sit here and pose for ages while Keith fiddled with his camera, and this pic was the best we could do. Hannah was running about barking and carrying on like a pork chop laughing at me while I had to pose. Life is tough when you are a Toller.