Lots of dog years!

It was mum's Birthday yesterday. She was a lot of dog years, I can't count on my paws,I get confused with the amount!! But even though she's got older, she still had to go to work :( 

However when she came back home, I took her for a treat: a walk with me!! Now that's a present isn't it?! I also added a few big licks and some mad tail wagging with it :P

It was a lovely walk too, even if it was a bit hot and humid. Played on the kids play ground and did a bit of seesaw! Tried to run up the slide but I kept sliding backward on the metal slope, so I gave up after a while... Dunno why mum was giggling, t'is serious business!!

Then I decided that we needed to do some selfies! Now mum doesn't like pics of herself, but I do!! so I just had to be quick. Took her new phone and snap, took a shot before she could run out!

We came back home for a celebratory pizza afterwards. Mum still had to make fun of me... I let it slide because it was her Birthday but really? The whole pack of mince needed to balance on my head? really?!?!? I know it was for my treats but could have just made them without all that malarkey

At least today she did make the effort! I even have two types of home made treats, my "traditional" beef mince loaf (got carrots in it!) and these special steak-egg-tuna bones: YUMMY!! Can't wait to try them in the morning!

Time for some more post Birthday cuddle now. See you next time :)

The new girls are not better than the old ones...

Well I told you last time that the chicks were needy and taking mum's time. Well now the 3 have grown a lot and moved to their house. But the minions decided that the house was big, so they went and got 3 more!! Different ones... They were 2 Dark Barred Plymouth Rocks and a Barnevelder before and now they got a Coronation Sussex, a Buff Sussex and a Silver-Grey Dorking... At least those ones are not in MY house, they are in a separate quarantine enclosure outside before they all go together. But they are not much better than the previous girls. Minions thought that, as they were older there would be less drama. Oh no, not the sneaky hens! They must have passed each other messages to get sick, so that mum spends ALL her time with them and neglects ME! They are doing it on purpose to looks all miserable *grump*

What is that all about, to be syringe feeding chicks and all that for ages, while I am here all cuddle-less!! That will not do at all!!!

Hope they will sort out all that disease faking so that things get back to their normal state: spoiling me, me and me! At least the minions said that if I was patient those time-sucking meanies would find me some eggs for an omelette just for me. Ok I'll wait then...

a v. bad pic of the 3 new girls

Coronation Sussex dinosaure 

the big girls trying to have a dirt bath...

I am a bit tired... but not really!

All right so now for the "piece de resistance" of the weekend! On Sunday morning, something really weird happened: dad's alarm went off! Daaaad!!! It's Sunday!!! And the something weirder happened: mum got up... Don't want to say, but if mum gets up at 6.10am on a Sunday, something's definitely going on... And they started running around and packing stuff, guess what? There was a trial on, woohoo!

A full day of agility fun. It was the Springwood trial which had been postponed from the end of last year due to the awful fires that took place in the Blue Mountains around where the club is. This time it got also moved but due to flooding from the large amount of rain we've had over the past weeks! But everybody soldiered on and made it to the right place. Started early in the morning and the judging itself got on the way at 9am, so no lazy Sunday lie-in.

Minions had overdone themselves... They got us a mat for our gazebo, much more comfy than the muddy wet ground :)

Our first event was the open jumping (JDO) judged by Pat Walsh. Even though did a bit of exercise

Really clumsy mum...

So as I was telling you on the last post, when we came back from training, mum let me in the pool to play with her while dad mowed the loan.
Started normally, but after while mum was trying to get me to walk on the little edge of the pool (not keen!) so she was on the other side being all silly. Next thing I see is mum jumping in the pool! All dressed, with her shoes... and then she just jumped back out with a lot of words that I won't repeat here! I had to cover my ears with my paws... And she starts patting her legs and take out her phone...
And then she tries to get dad's attention waving and shouting and dripping... Nope dad's in full mowing trance.
I was just so embarrassed by her gaucheness that I could only stare at her from the other side. Really can't take her anywhere, lucky I hadn't invited mates over.
Mum was grumbling that she could die in that swimming pool and nobody would notice her little dead body floating. She was a bit grim and overreacting really... I would have jumped on her for a play!! :P
But dad did really not see her for a good while. I would say more than 5 minutes of her pestering and dripping all over the place *giggles*
With all her dramatic arm waving she's fine, I don't see her issue with the fact she went in the pool really! I had been in at least 10 times before her and I didn't make such a fuss, but what do you want... However, I don't think her phone liked it very much... It's looking a bit lifeless...
How am I going to do all my blogging and tweeting now?! I'll have to share the computer with mum, and gosh she is so slow to type... I'll never be able to do anything... That's why I'm so much behind in my blogging!

fairly accurate representation
of mum...

A study on Snooker

Gosh been a bit mad lately with the minions work, mum being sick and clumsy and a whole lot of other dramas! And on top, we had yet again another week end of agility madness and other fun :)

We started on Saturday morning with some training at the club. This time it was a bit special as Pat Walsh who is an agility judge came round and setup a great game course. It was a Snooker course, not something we do very often at all. Only did it once a long time ago at the Bathurst trial and even though I came third, it was the only run were I had a bit of a wander...
The idea of Snooker is that you have a set of jumps "the reds" and other obstacle "the colours". On the first part of the course you have to get a minimum amount of points. You jump a "red" (1pts), then if you cleared it you can attempt a "colour" (variable points). If you missed the "red" you have to go direct to another "red" and cannot go to the "colour". You have to jump a max of 3 reds but need to accumulate more points depending of the level you run (novice 10, excellent 15, master 20). Then you have a closing sequence to do, which is more like a normal agility course set up by the judge. All that within a set time of course!! We all had a lot of fun and lots of peeps got lost around on the course, tsehehe! Hopefully that will become a monthly thing :)

After that, I thought the minions were going to be boring and want to go back home but no!! We stayed and we met Ray and Cody to train a bit on my retrieving skills. Ray ran us through the exercises necessary for a RATG trial (mostly dad cause he's the one who needs help, I'm a natural of course ;P) and Cody showed us his moves, it was really cool! And now the minions are doing a lot more fun things since we did the workshop. I love it!

Then we all went back home, was quite late and hot so mum let me in the pool for a bit of a swim and a play while dad was giving in to his addiction... mowing the loan... again... I'll have a good one to tell you about that later but back to the week end of agility madness...

After mum's little swim, the minions went on their mundane occupations for the rest of the afternoon, but they seemed to be doing some weird preparations and packing. They also went to play with the chicks without me... not fair... but I didn't care, I just stayed there and did as if I was snoring...