We did a-Zs-gility seminar!

What a weekend we had last week! The minions told me that they had three days of play time with MEEEE, woohoo! I like long weekends even if entertaining the minions for 3 days is exhausting... :)
And there was a special treat for "little" me. It has been a long time since we did a full weekend of agility, but the minions had reserved a working spot to an agility seminar a long time ago.
Two full days of crazy work under the sun.

The lovely person giving the seminar was Zsofi Biro from Hungary. Both days started at 8am but that was the actual working start, the minions had to be there earlier tsehehe.

It was so very hot, for both days. Luckily some very organised mum had brought little clam shell pools for splashings. I was mostly a very good boy staying in my crate (well the minions gave me treats for just staying in there without doing anything!!!). Only just ran out once to scare Mum to death... Mwahahaha...
Did quite a few things on the agility course too, but after a while it was so hot that I went and hid in the tunnel tsehehe, they had to drag me out again and again ;P

The evening of the second day we all finished with some fun tunnel course and I ran and didn't hide this time, but they had to reset all the tunnels cause my big butt moved them all off despite all of the heavy bags! Well, sorry but I'm bigger than my mate Jaxon! It's not fat, I'm just big boned...
Lots of my mates did really good and I'm sure lots of us were sleeping soundly for a few days afterwards. I really didn't want to get up for my outing the next morning Zzzzzzz

Was a lot of fun and daddy got lots of ideas during that couple of days, so now he keeps working on some agility things while we are out and even in the garden. Mum is even doing some stuff as well!! Can't a pup get some rest?!?!

cooking oven course

Look at me all good in my crate

my mate Bodhi doing an Alice in wonderland impression!
slightly too small crate ;)

Adventures

FREEDOM!!! I succeeded at last!!! Last wednesday, Mum and I went for a little late afternoon fun on the grounds next to the national park. It was dark and as usual there was a lot of rabbits and kangaroos. Mum decided that, as I had been a very good boy for a while, she was going to use the very long lead again while we were walking. She put my walking harness on, the one that daddy likes... then the 5 metre lead and then my usual bungee lead that is 1-2m, plenty of length for running around mummy, sniffing while she snails ahead... I love it.

Off we went in the darkness, I would add some scary ghost soundtrack there but really that's not that scary! Had some good sniffs and then we arrived at the far away open space where the horses run around. There's always kangaroos and noisy lapwings down there. Even saw a fox once! But this time I was walking next to mum and I saw a nice little wallaby at the back... I took off, Mum kept her arm for the first run up. I must say that I was impressed with her little hand strength there, 32kg full speed bullet versus a stationary mum of undisclosed weight :P! But I loosened her grip and went again... She couldn't hold on and I ripped the leash off her hand. I had a momentary slow down with hesitation but when I realised that she had let go, I took off hot in pursuit of the bouncy prey. I think I heard a feint but slightly crazed voice calling my name and some kind of frantic whistling, but didn't care I was the hunter, finally showing my greatness, following my prey, in the dark... Oh very dark... mmmm where did the kangaroo go again? ah that way... oh there's also some smells there... mmm where's mum?

Mum had forgotten her phone at work... of course! And Daddy was in the centre of Sydney for work... Perfect timing for my escapade.
Apparently, she told me that after calling frantically for me for what felt like an eternity, she tried to run back full speed to get to the peeps doing the training at the club, to reach a phone and tell dad what had happened and where she would be. She also admitted that she ran out of steam half way through and decided to slow down as feinting in the middle of the field wasn't going to help anything...

She got there, stopped everybody which her frantic waving and out of breath unintelligible utterances. Luckily, some kind souls understood her... Jaxon and Biddie with their mums helped her. I came back to find them getting into their car! They said they were going at the back where I had left but I'm sure they were all going to leave to have a nice cup of tea somewhere!

Anyway I arrived back after my nice run. Followed Mum's smell to find her back because she wasn't where I left her. That wasn't too hard really, cause she SMELLS!!! I was all happy and proud of myself, she looked very relieved for some reason and she gave me plenty of cuddles and treats, but if I am not mistaken I saw something that was really saying a lot of rude words in her eyes!! Don't know why, but anyway I got a fun run and treats! double bingo!!
Was a bit tired afterwards, panting for ages, but gosh that was so much fun!! I will try to do that again, Mum says no way, pffff kill joy, might try anyway and go LALALALALAALA if she tells me otherwise!!!  

until we meet again...

Good old truth I say...

He he he, read that with mummy last week but forgot to post it on the blog! I completely agree with that. Hope they make T-shirts. Might get one for my minions...

http://firstdogonthemoon.com.au

The minion's disappearance

Well pals, it happened after 2.5 years... It started all innocently. The minions were putting things in a bag and then, the door bell went off and the next thing I remember was being put in a van! with a strange person I didn't know, and no minion!! They abandoned me, or I was dog-napped!! I got left with weird strangers *sobs* for an eternity *sobs again*

Ok the weird strangers were actually pretty nice... and I got my own big place and treats and pigs ears and we played a lot of ball games... BUT I HAD NO MINIONS!

I'm hesitating between two explanations for this ordeal:
1- I was dog-napped and the minions looked for me tirelessly for 3 days and nights and finally tracked my captors and me down in a state wide search for little me, that's the most dramatic and really the most sensible explanation I can think of...
2- I believe their incredible far fetched story that they had to go up north for something and I couldn't come in the plane... Why can't I come in the plane, they didn't even ask me hey? I'm sure they just invented that story to lessen the drama of my dog-napping really....

But I do have some doubts about their whereabouts and how hard they looked for me, because they keep taking about what a nice time they had and how nice something was... It must be a ruse, something couldn't have been so good without ME really...
But then look what I found in their pics!! Uh Dad?? Is that you?!?!

Well all that is really strange... And then after we finally get reunited, Dad disappears again. We all drove in Mum's little red car one morning and Dad got out with a big bag and I haven't seen him since!! He might have been dad-napped!! But Mum doesn't seem to be looking for him at all! What is happening?
I'm so depressed I had to ask the hens for some of their eggs, for once they were nice and gave me some to add in my brekkies. But Winifred the silver grey dorking is still talking about it... Gosh she doesn't stop cackling that one, I need earplugs...

It's only fair!!

Well after Dad and I got in trouble last time for playing with needles... it's only fair that the girls get in the dog house when they make trouble!

looking all innocent...

Zelie, the youngest PR finally did an egg, but wasn't a great one. She got so shocked by it all that she became quite badly sick... So Mum had to syringe feed her with antibiotics and wetted feed. Mum did try to share the duties with Dad, but he didn't succeed to feed her, apparently Mum said that he was waiting for her to open her mouth and she didn't Bwahaha...

Then on top of that, they are little pests. They look all innocent and sweet when the minions look at them, and then as soon as they turn their back, the girls start fighting between each other! Mum thought that one of the currawong attacked Winifred the silver grey Dorking, as she was bleeding from the top of her beak. But actually, it was Barnie... They are sooooo naughty!!!

nose bleeding or not one has to look ones best

Last week one of them decided that she was going to lay an egg from the top of the perch... The perch is at more than 1m height... Guess what happened to the egg! SPLAT!!! Now I'm sulking because I was promised one and it got all splattered on the floor :(. And also they lay their eggs whenever they want, it can be at 7am through to 4pm... I'm hungry waiting for my omelette me! Have a bit of consideration!!! And don't want to say but only two of them are truly working, the other 4 are still broken...

I also don't want to keep dobbing on them but they keep digging spots and makes the front garden look like a crazy mole as taken residence in the front yard. As well as nibbling all of the leaves of the hedge plants that the minions placed in the front.

And just while I'm at it I shall add that Winifred escaped twice while Mum was trying to clean them up on Saturday...

So you see I'm a really good puppy while the girls are being the naughtiest ever, but oh no, who is being called a silly naughty pup? ME, while I'm being so good!!! That is not FAIR.

what is she doing in here again? 

got any food? 

big grown up girl Mildred