I'll munch them!!

I am absolutely appalled!! Once again the chicks have stepped over the line! I thought it was weird when I heard some noise outside on Monday so I went to check and look what they did while I was out!! They wrote all over my blog. AND they insult me as well!!
I can't even count on the minions to be fair, when I showed that to mum she just shrugged and giggled, telling me that I had only myself to blame for not logging off!! There is obvious bias! Since when can the chicks get out of trouble and I'm not the most spoilt, uh I mean "loved" puppy in the whole world mmm?

I tell you, when the minions are not looking, I'll go and tell those girls what I think about their behaviour... Ok I need to open those doors, and I'll need the keys, and also I'll need to do a bit of tricky paw work to open those locks... All right, I'll write them a strong worded letter, that should do the trick...

Pose

Mum's still sick and she said she didn't want to write a big blog. So I got to paw something all on my own while she wallows in misery...

So I thought I would just add a photo of ME!! Phew that was so exhausting... need a snooze now...

Trick and Treat Tuesday: a balancing act

Hi pals, mum and I thought of talking about this trick from a chat I had on twitter with a buddy of mine. This trick is all about patience and steadiness, mmm doesn't start to sound easy does it?!... Well it's not that easy I guess. The trick is balancing things on my head/nose. It can be food (my preferred version) or objects (mum's preferred version cause she makes me look silly....).

Mawson what are you doing? I'm sick, we'll do some tricks later...

Don't worry mum, just open the treat box and I'll take it from there... 
So where was I? Yes balancing things.
This trick needs some basic obedience/behaviour training from us pups:
- wait (preferably a good sit-wait, but as long as us pup aren't running around that's good enough)
- leave (that's a hard one, not to rush towards any food for immediate ingestion ;P I'll get onto that later) 

... and basic obedience training from the minions:
- patience (cause I haven't got any for this nonsense so mum needs it for the two of us!)
- sense of humour (a treats that falls off nose is the same as a treat in my belly, just need to be quick enough)
- dish up the treats!! (well I'm not going to do all that nonsense for free, am I!!)

What is happening on here, Mawson? Oh you're writing a trick training post! Shall I take it on from here? ok...

Our new bachelorette pad

*giggles* oh stop it girls I need to type... 

Hi there, the girls here! We played a good one on the big furry thing. He is looking for us outside pahaha. And as he never logs out of his accounts we've taken over, he's going to be mad :P

We finally moved into our new house yesterday. The big furry monster kept staring at us in the other room we had. So inconsiderate... A girl needs a bit of privacy, thank you. And the noise! We nearly had to peck at his nose to quiet him down... And who knows where he placed that nose...so unsanitary!

The humans made us a purpose built house, fit for the ladies we are. It's quite roomy so we can have parties and invite our girlfriends along. We might even invite the some cockerels, gosh that little Barnevelder has got so many naughty ideas, and she seems so sweet too, you'd never know!! It's going to be wild! 

the Barnevelder wild child

The nearly finished version:
front door and box nest door

We have demanded a constant provision of caterpillars too, but now that our house has got a garden, we can find them ourselves instead of waiting for the female human to bring us some. She is pretty slow at finding them. Look at us in our backyard, stretching our legs.

And with the sun, it is heavenly... I might even sip out my bikini a bit later and go featherless, why not after all. It's so liberating ;)...

Oh what is that obtrusion in our house, we are having a rest, and I haven't done my hair!! shoo... go away! shoo...

Oh... we have to go, I think I can hear the big furry thing coming back, hihihi! Tada darlings... *air kisses* mwah *bats eyelids*... ahhhh the big furry thing's here! Girls ruuunnnn HIHIhihihihi....

Another big weekend

The minions and I had another crazy big weekend. Lots of my buddies from agility were away to a full weekend trial, so there was not as many pups at training on saturday morning. We did a lot of jumping! And it was hot! Was supposed to be raining and cool from what dad told us, uh dad? where did you get your forecast??

In between agility runs the minions took me around either walking or running after the ball and doing some retrieving training. Was full on!
Then went back home, but dad and I went a different way! We passed next to the train station and we picked up nana!! Yay, she came back home with us :D
When we arrived back home I still demanded a swim before my cuddles though. And then we played with the chickens :)... ok not really... I wish...
The minions have been on a drive to finish the chicks new bachelorette pad, due to my threat of an eviction letter for disturbing my peace. So they said that we were going to do some training. Basically that means they spent the afternoon torturing me... But at least the coop is advancing.

see tortured...

I was so good that I got some lamb neck for dinner, yummy! And plenty of cuddles :)
This morning I had to drag mum out of bed for our big sunday morning walk. It was really hard work, she's getting sneakier and sneakier. I push her one way and she just rolls the other. Took me a whole 30 minutes... as if 7am was sooo early!?! gosh she's lazy...

Well after a bit she finally got ready and we went  for a walk. Was fun, lots of challenges for me as there was a cycling event going in the area. Lots of families and little kids on bikes. But I behaved perfectly and did not get stressed at all. Yay me!!
The only thing that upset mum was that we crossed the path of lots of small pups who just yapped and tried to lunge at me :( Wasn't even looking at them or paying them any attention. We even had two different off leash dogs rushing towards us in the street, not in a very friendly matter. We were just walking! Mum stopped them and told them to ahem... go back home... but she didn't use those words exactly...
Anyway was still a fab walk and longer that what mum though of doing, I'm not going to complain about that!

magic mushrooms :)

When we got back nana was just getting ready to go, hope she'll be back soon. I sniffed out some little cuttlefish bones she forgot just after she left though. Twas for her cockatiel! We'll keep them safe here.

Then the minions did some more stuff on the chicks pad and then they went all excited, so I did too. Didn't want to miss out you see... even if I had no real idea why...

But the minions were acting suspiciously... they gave me a pig's ear and placed my bed just in front of the window, then they went out without me...
And guess what I saw them do!!!! They had caught the chicks and were parading about in the front garden. WHAT?!! I can't play with the chicks and they can? That is NOT fair!!

At least they came back to take me over there, but they didn't let me play with them still. Really not fair. The chicks were running around and gosh I really wanted to play... Ooops think the minions said more training required *sigh*

all right I'll sit down but only if they
stop shaking their  feathery bums at me

Was so much packed into this weekend, I've only just given the highlights here, so dad and I went to have a nice relaxing dip in the spa :) no bubbles though... a bit too scary.

ahhhh relaaaaxxx

I found a new thing to do this evening, I have been staring at the minions intently without saying anything. Drove them a bit crazy mwahaha. I got a bit tired of staring after a while so started snoozing but I keep that idea for later. It was too good tsehehe.

what do you mean stop staring?