Company's here!

The other night we had 4 dinner guests.

Guest 1-3 arrive – the dogs happily greet them at the door, minimal barking. Gemi tries to bite everyone (as she does when her favs come over). She gets give her toys and she calms down.

Guest 4,a friend who isn’t over as much as Guests 1-3, arrives. Same greeting, but then Miss Hailey Bug kept barking at her. Guest 4 came and sat down and Miss Bug kept barking! This lasted a few minutes and then fortunately she settled down. If not it would have been a long night!

Speed Demon

In week four of her agility class, Miss Cricket showed the crowd what she was made of. While last week she created a new time designation called “Gemini Time” this week she showed the class that she could move it when she want to.

Her best time for 2 jumps, a tunnel and the weave was 15 seconds. The class watched in amazement as Gemi speeded through the weave.

Was it the new treats? Was it that she preferred the obstacles this week? Miss Cricket is refusing to answer why she was so fast this week. She said “I like to be mysterious.”

Nap Time

Dreaming of the Sen's winning!

It's a miracle

After nearly 5 months, they are finally friends!

Puppy school from my eyes

As written by Hailey Bug

Puppy school is stupid. I want to sniff bums and play and instead the people use the meanest trick in the book, tasty snacks I don’t get anywhere else, to call me away. Then I have to pick between puppies and cookies. Cookies win because my people don’t feed me.

Then they make us do silly things like walk around in circles and sit and stay and down and come. I do all of this just because I am getting the cookies and I think it makes the people happy. I don’t know what the big deal is, I can do these things when I want to. I spend most of my time thinking “why do people want me to do these things?” It is all rather dumb. I don’t think I will ever understand people. But I am willing to tolerate their stupidity if they have treats.

Baby it's cold outside!

Cold would be an understatement – it has been around -27 C in the mornings (or -17 F) since Sunday. That is before the wind chill. For those of you who have never experienced this, this is what we call #*!@*!@* cold! For dogs, even boots and sweaters aren’t enough to keep you warm enough to have a long visit outside.  

This has put the kibosh on our walks. Miss Hailey Bug is quite happy about this. She pretty much goes out, does her business and comes in. This is a slight improvement to Loki who would refuse to go out and you would have to carry out and not let in until he went. When this happened he would lift his leg about 5 inches from the door, go and demand to come back in.  The problem for Miss Bug, is she was fine for a few days, but now is starting to get restless. She needs a run. Here is hoping the temperatures warm up enough today for us to go out later. (You realize you are a true Canadian when anything over -12 seems balmy!)

Miss Cricket is a beast who is not as bothered by this cold. (Although note, she will only go out in the yard on cold days. If you offer to take her to the park, she will hide!) You would think she was part husky. The other day, when it had warmed up to -18 C (around 1 F), she was out for a very long time. I know she is not as affected so I left her as long as I could. However, after 15 minutes I was too stressed so I went and called her. I couldn’t see her. I called again, still nothing. I started to feel that panic of |oh my, she is so cold she can’t come in.” I decide one more call and then I will dress to go out. I use the special call “Gemini Cookie” and she come barrelling in from the one spot in the yard I just can’t see. She was completely covered in snow. I guess she was rolling and playing out there. She was cold when she came in and wanted to snuggle, but I am sure if I had let her, she would have stayed out long. Silly girl!

Stay warm!

Get the cat!

Lee and Gemi getting Nin

Lee caught Nin but didn't know what to do