Hunters

Well, I took our new camera to test it under "field" conditions. While I was a "bit" distracted with the new toy the dogs went into hunting mode. I hope all creatures was hidden well and nobody died out there just because I was playing with this silly camera. |video|

The picture below is my favorite of the month :)

Obedience test

Today, Alisa failed the test in obedience to move up one level (rejecting food was the only thing she did perfect) the rest of it was just a joke. Everybody, including two trainers, were very surprised because she's been very good lately at everything, they were sure she would do it easily. HA!
I wasn't really surprised at all at what happened, I saw it coming - she was just not in the mood to behave today. It was her "off manners" day and we were just distracting her from having fun.

Stanley has started an Agility adventure!

Our crazy, loony Stanley at the age of 5 has started to learn Agility. So far he really loves it and is picking up things fast, though still getting distracted very easily. But the big looming question is for how long this big monster will keep his now enthusiasm and when/if he'll start to show his amazing lazy side. Can't help it, but am expecting soon to see his very well known look - "want me to jump (fetch, run, swim), eah... sure, do it yourself I'll watch it from here".

Do these dogs look happy?

When we were at the beach they played like mad and looked soooo happy. At some point when they slowed down a bit I thought it would be great to take their picture (I don't have many nice pictures of them together). So I said the magic word "stay" and they did, but they kept turning their heads like owls and since I wanted to have both their eyes on the picture, not only the ears. I told them "look at me" and after a few attempts they started to sort of look in my direction. Click! - the picture of my happy dogs was taken, but Ouch! Look at this photo! What happened? Do these dogs look happy? Why such stiff and depressed faces?


Of course it was entirely my fault! I did torture them by making them stay still on the beach for a whole minute or so! How cruel is that? Of course they immediately got the happy , expressions back after I released them from this agony and shot off like bullets.

Well, I still want to hope that one day, some year, I'll get my nice, happy and perfect picture of them together.