Four Legged Views

Although that isn't my paw in Vickies hand, my heart as well as all of our hearts here at Caninie Country Club and especially me and my friends from American Search Dogs all send out our love and hope for the victims and families of those who live in the areas that have been torn apart by the tornados this year.

As a search dog unit we wish we could be there to help but know that we have friends who are already there helping to look for the lost and missing. To be so far away safely tucked in our beds at night, knowing others are suffering from the fact that their homes have been demolished, well.....we send our love.

We havn't suffered from tornadoes but it has been cold and miserable. Rain, snow, hail......it just keeps coming and we are all getting a bit moody as you can see from Scrappys attitude above.

Even our guests, like Shelby here, are getting a little ornery.

However Shelbys brother Cedric has been keeping himself busy by stalking Allred, day and night. He has almost dehydrated himself watching, staring, waiting. We often find him in just this position with a pool of slobber at his feet as he drools waiting for Allred to come down.

Allred just sits up in his castle and stares back. Sometimes I even here him chuckling cause he knows that Cedric is no match for him. Poor Cedric has no idea what the pain would be like should he ever really meet up paw to nose with this guy.

Vickie and I have this cool friend who called us a few months ago and asked if we had any pictures of moose she could use to design a new collar. Well of course we do. Vickie and I take pictures of moose all summer long on our hikes. I like moose, they are big and beautiful and sometimes, not often, even a little friendly. Well the little ones are.

So we sent our friend, her name is Jill, a few pictures and look at the cool design she made.

Arent these cool. This is one of the first ones off the line and they forgot to put on the trees so the next collar I get will have some trees in it.

They are made by lupine but designed by Jill so she is the only one that gets to sell them. So if you want to be one of the few people across the country that wants to own one, you have to buy them directly from her and her business.

You'll be cool like me cause only people who know Jill can buy them.

These are the two pictures we took that helped make up the design. That moose is my friend Stanly. He lives in our mountain and comes by our camp to get water and sometimes we take him apples from our tree.

This is Elvis. He lives by our lake. Well he comes to our lake, we are not for sure where he actually lives, but I do know where one of his kids stay most of the time.

Anyway, If you want one here is Jills site. You can be one of the few too. Don't I look good in it....

http://www.petexpectations.com/PetExpectationsLupineDesign.aspx

OK, Vickie is forcing me to put this video in. It is only 7 seconds and well, it is not my proudest moment. You see, sometimes I get very excited to greet the dogs that come to day care and well, I like to run the fence with them when they come in.

Dang if I don't forget every time......there is a fence there.....
So Vickie and I have joined a really fun group of people and dogs across the country. It is a walking challenge.

http://www.lessonsfrom4legs.com/2011/04/26/walking-challenge-update-introducing-monday-miles/

So far, it has all been to my advantage, well and Vickie too. We try to walk at least two miles a day which is pretty much what we have been doing but now we are keeping track and sending our miles in to be tracked.

So we wont get bored we have found tons of different places to go to to walk. So far all of them have water. Lots and lots of water which is good because, well you know......I LOVE WATER

Our usual places, down by the river which are closest are the places we can go to when we dont' have a lot of time.

But when we have a little more time, we can go to the Bird Refuge west of town.

We live in such a beautiful place and there is always somewhere to go that gets us out of town and away from people and into nature. I LOVE NATURE.

Finally I pulled out a few of my pictures from last years puppy party to share with you when Vickie took this picture. I know it looks like I am drunk but I really don't drink. Well I drink water but I don't drink. I just sometimes look like I drink. Like at the puppy party last year.

(ok, so I was called on this. Yes I did sneak some wine from one of the humans glasses, while they weren't lookin and I LIKED IT.)

You see, Us dogs got a swimming pool and a big yard to play in but the humans had this wonderful bucket full of ice with their drinks in it. (Vickie loves her water to be ice cold) Some of the other humans liked orange juice and pop and other drinks in thier big water bucket.

I liked the pool but it was a hot day and that ice water bucket looked so good to me so I just went over (while the humans were eating dinner) and pulled out a few of those drinks and then I just climbed into that cold wonderful crisp icy water and curled up.

Oh my that did feel good. I know I look like I am half drunk and I am, I am half drunk with pleasure at the way I feel when I am sleeping in a pool of ice cold water. I LOVE WATER

Finally I just plain went to sleep in that bucket of ice on that hot summer night. Ahhhhhh!!!

Life is sooooo good.

I am going to leave you with this. First, I know I talk to much and my blogs really long so I am going to start up my own personal day. "Talkin Tuesday" Kind of like "Wordless Wednesday" but I am gong to do "Talkin Tuesday" So I can tell stories about searches.

I am gonna start with a story from Vickies first partner a big big collie named Andy. Who would think of a collie as a search dog but years a go most dog handlers used German Shepherds. Opinions have changed a lot since then. Andy was a big part of changing views on what breeds could be used as search dogs, he was good and I am going to tell a story about one of his and Vickies searches on "Talkin Tuesday"

SEcondly for those of you who like country music here is a slide show of my adventures this week. Take care
Love
Bert