Thank you Urban Hounds

Hi Furiends,

We was hanging out over at Urban Hounds and they had a drawing for Ping's birthday. 

Ping from Urban Hounds

This beautiful girl just celebrated her 10th birthday.  She is a little cuttie in her new birthday dress.  Their Mom makes them lots of yummy cakes and homemade goodies.  She even shares recipes for the humans too.  They have fun adventures and get really cool clothes and collars.  If you haven't stopped by yet you must give them a visit.

We couldn't believe we won something.  We were doing zoomies all about.

We enjoyed every bit of our package from the box it came in, the plastic wrapper, and the Himalayan chewie.

Thanks Urban Hounds.  We think you're PAWSOME!

Bella & Sweet Pea

Happy Gotcha Day Sweet Pea

Happy Gotcha Day Sweet Pea !

My first photo. I still LOVE this bird!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

My first night with my new family

 

 

We started the Pea month celebrations with some nose work.  We've moved up to the next level of classes working outside on concrete so we practiced that.  Then we came inside and searched for treats in a box full of balls  just for something different.  We haven't played this game for awhile.

We played indoor fetch with some toys from the archives.  Our whale squeaky water bottle toys.  We went outside and sat and sniffed around in the beautiful 80 degree weather.  We didn't stay outside long because in the shade the pesky mosquitoes were very annoying.

We practiced my "quiet" command for which I got more yummy treats.

Then when Daddy got home we all went for a walk.

After our dinner we got some Pea Day pupcakes.

Where did the cake go?  Will it reappear? 

While looking up photos for my Pea Day blog post Mom discovered she has the date all wrong.  May 15th is not my Gotcha Day.  It's really May 18th.  Dad said Oh well it's only 3 days.  I think it really means I get another cake!!


I'm gonna bounce.  Thanks for stopping by. 

Sweet Pea

What to do, What to do?

We went to our annual Doggie Games event (we will post about the tons of fun we had later) and.....................................we met this sweet, cute, friendly, adorable, playful little girl.

I'm guessing you have already guessed our dilema.  Yep, we are chewing over the idea of adopting her.

We started our day with the pure joy and excitement of having waited 365 days for our turn to play dog games again.  We had no thoughts on our minds of adopting or looking at any adoptable dogs.  Then this sly, sneaky, clever brindle baby pranced across our path.  The mom saw her and poked Dad and said Awww, look at that.  The mom stopped the lady walking her and commented on how cute her dog was.  Yep, it was all over after the lady said Oh Yeah!  She's up for adoption.

We went about our games playing and having a great time.  Then the mom saw her again and decided to go say hello and pet her.  Can you believe it I had to sit there and watch my Mom be all lovey, petting, praising, cooing over this strange dog.  Who is she anyway to get all that attention?

I whined, I cried, I mumbled and can you believe Mom kept sitting their playing with this strange dog as if I wasn't even there.  She finally looks my way only to say what do you think Bella?  Um, I think you need to get back over her to us.  You do remember us right?  We are after all the dogs you brought to play and have fun with.

Then I have an opportunity to meet this dog.  I sniffed,  and sniffed and checked her out.  I have to say I don't know what all the fuss is about.  She's a plain ole dog. 

The question is do we want to be a 3 dog family again.  It  has been nice to have one person per dog for our walkies.  If we have 3 then one person will have 2 doggies to walk.   It will be 3x the heartworm meds, food, medical bills, exercise, playing, attention.

Honestly I'm not sure I want to share my Mom with anyone else.  I've been told this other gal loves to sit and cuddle on laps.  What lap do you think she will want to sit on?  Mom says Dad needs a dog.  I've seen how this goes. Dog comes in, dog favors Mom, I've got to share her. 

On the other paw I would have someone else to play with and since she's only a year old she'll have tons more energy and desire to play with me than Sweet Pea.  Pea tends to fizzle out before I'm done playing.  Then again sometimes she asks to play and I ignore her ;)  When she does play we can really rock the furniture.  Yep, furniture makes great spring boards. 

I guess only Mom and Dad know how this story will end.  From what I've been hearing I don't think they are too sure yet.  Will there be a new chapter?  I guess we will just have to wait and see.

Fishing for Bella

Mom had an idea. 

I went along with it. 

She's a bit awkward, but I rock!!!!

Check out my newest video.  I even got a little creative with the editing.  Wait until Mom sees it, hehe :)

Did anyone notice how much Mom babbled and said the same command over and over.  I have really good ears, they do work, I got it the first time Mom.  I have to get with Dexter about this babbling human thing because it can be pretty confusing at times.  Geesh! new game, lots of extra words, I'm super excited, but I did good despite all the challenges.

I think I did pretty awesome and showed a lot of self control and restraint considering the voice inside my head was saying "chase toy, chase toy".  I was a very good girl and put into play my awesome-est stay.  I also need to remember to tell Mom I prefer to sit and not down when quick bursts are required to chase a moving toy. I'd like to see her spring up from a down and run after a squeaky.  Oh! Great idea that will be my next video adventure.

Mom has been wanting to make me a flirt pole for a really long time.  She forgot about it and just come across the the idea again.  Luckily for me she didn't hesitate to put that idea into motion today.  We  had everything but the rope so Dad was nice and went to the store and got some rope.  In just a few minutes I had a brand new interactive adventure. 

This was our very first time with the flirt pole and I'm sure we didn't do some things exactly right so if you want more information on how to properly use a flirt pole check out the instructions at Bad Rap Blog and click on the flirt pole handout and watch their video because it's much better for teaching/learning purposes.  Ours was just for fun.  Mom said she's going to read the handout and watch the video again.  Repetition works good for the humans too.

Mom did have to think upon my training and the meaning of the words we use.  I already know sit, stay, down, leave it, take it, give.  These concepts are required before attempting this game.  Mom said she didn't want to use "take it" for my cue to chase the toy because she thinks it's two totally different meanings.  For instance when Mom says "leave it" that means do not touch it and do not take it.  I should wait until I'm told to "take it" or I'm given something I can take. 

When using the flirt pole I'm asked to sit and stay until given the cue to move and begin chasing the toy.  "Take it" just doesn't mean that for us.  So, Mom said we were going to add "chase" to my vocabulary.  Now I have a new word.  "Chase" for us means I am free from my sit-stay to chase after the toy and take it once I catch up to it. 

Has anyone else played this game?