Hot Dogs

We are hiding under Keith's desk because it is January and hot. The last few days have been OK but we expect more heat soon. There are fires in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia, so touring in the van is out of the question. Training at the clubs is in the off season, because of summer and being too hot, so there is not much for us to do apart from light training and playing in the evenings. KnK are getting out of condition and it will take us ages to get them back up to speed, lot of work to do when we start back training.

44 degrees Celsius

It was 44 degrees on Friday, hotter than Hell on a hot day. It is supposed to be 40 tomorrow so we are due for another hot one. 44 Celsius is 111.2 in the Fahrenheit scale for the readers in Fahrenheit countries. What could an Arctic bred dog do on days like that?
Well, we slept on our cool mats, or we slept on the tiled floor, or we slept under the air-conditioning ducts. If we had to go outside, it was very quick. When the sun went down, KnK brought out the Clam Shell. It is a plastic shell that we can fill with water and we play in it. See the video link, "The Pool" on the left side of this page and you can see what we thought of the idea.

Boxing Day

We spent Christmas Day at Audrey's kennel. Molly came with us and Kevin was there too. A little later, two of Audrey friends, Lochie and Gracie came, so there were 3 Scottish Deer Hounds (Audrey, Lochie and Gracie), 2 NSDTR's (us), Molly the Tenterfield/Jack Russell and Kevin the Suburban terrier. There were a lot of humans there too but they don't count.
After lots of games, food and drinks we all went home and vowed to meet up again next year. We were exhausted when we got home and slept like babies. Molly went to bed and we have not seen her since.
Today we got stuck into our Chews. I got a pig's ear and Hannah had a beef hide roll so that should keep us quiet for a couple of hours.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everybody! Its that time of the year again when humans buy each other gifts, drink until their boots wobble, eat until the scales scream "Get off", and they dress us up in funny hats so they can take weird photos of us. Well, they did it again. We are wearing our Christmas Hats, our Christmas Collars, our dumbbells have Christmas paper on them and we are jumping a tinsel covered jump. Still, it seems to make the humans happy, and when they are happy they give us more Scooby Snacks. So Bring On Christmas.

Murray Mouth

KnK told us we were going to see the Murray Mouth. We were expecting to see a great gaping maw with poison dripping from huge fangs, but it was just where a river meets the sea. The Murray - Darling river system collects water from Queensland, NSW, the Snowy Mountains and the Canberra sewage farm and  brings it to the sea just behind us in the pic.
We are in Goolwa for a few days holiday. It has been hot so far but we have been on lots of walks when it cools down. May get a swim at the dog beach later.

Molly's Visit

Molly has come to visit for a few days, The pic shows us sitting out side with Molly. We have had a good week, Hannah won the Obedience Bitch and the Agility Bitch awards for the Gundog Club on Monday night, I got second. We both got awards for our titles too so we have quite a few trophies to add to our trophy cabinet.
The other night there was a thunder storm and a tree got hit in the park behind us. There was a big flash and a bang, we woke up and barked, KnK got up and staggered about until they realised what was going on, then took another ten minutes to calm us down. Molly was in the front bedroom and woke up Maisie, so nobody got any sleep.

Hannah's ADX pass

My baby Sister has passed her first Agility Dog Excellent course on the first attempt! She only got her AD title 22 days ago, and here she is with her first ADX pass. It was not easy for her, Kathy has an injury to her foot and it is strapped so Kathy can not move as well as she should, but they got round the course with a few seconds to spare. Hannah went visiting on her Jumping course so that was a non qualification.
I was in Masters, and we were doing very well until about halfway round when we got mixed up a bit and I passed a jump on the Agility course, and I missed an entry into a tunnel on the Jumping course, but we got round all the difficult bits. Keith is happy we are getting better, the new training system seems to be working.