How to Properly Roll in the Snow as Demonstrated by Davie

Snow today, mud next week. Gone will be the days of a clean Border Collie

First taste to be sure it is worth rolling in.

Yummeh, now for the flip

Ready

One final taste and we're up

Ginger

Ginger the lab puppy came to play today. She is 5 months old and a cutie. She has the deepest bark, it sounds like it should be coming out a dog three times her size. Here are some pictures from today.  And apparently not only coonies have wild eyes and wild ears!

I'm after you hound!

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Gorgeous three

And shes off!

How does she bend like this??

Flying

I got it!

Happy Spring!

Spring officially arrived at exactly 9:57 this morning. And since it was a cool but sunny day we decided to spend as much of the day as we could outside. This included a nice long walk in the forest and a lot of snooping around in the yard. Well the dogs were snooping, I was working. Getting 4 summer tires out of a shed in over 2 feet of snow can be fun, but today it was easy as everything was froze nice and solid. I think I tired them out.

Don't know why he prefers tile to sleep on. Must trim the hairy feet!

A sleeping hound is a good hound, she has sugar on her from helping me eat a Tim Bit!

Bucky the Mule Deer, he is lucky the canines didn't see him

Davie the glove thief

Emmi and her Timmy's cup

Icy driveway, still over 2 feet of snow

It's Melting!

I do believe spring may be coming. The snow has dropped at least a foot since last week end. We have had a busy couple of weeks. The first weekend in March Emmi and I did a Level 4 K9 Nosework workshop with Dana Gallagher. It was a lot of fun. We worked with three odours, birch, wintergreen and anise. It was a cold windy weekend so a good one to spend in doors.  Since then we have been working on odour with both Em and Davie. For a guy I used to call "Mr No Nose" Davie is doing great. He just gets a little too excited when we first start but gets down to business pretty quick.
 
The following weekend was the Top Dog Agility Trial. It was a busy weekend for me and a boring one for Davie and Emmi. The trial was indoors at the Agriplex. It is the indoor arena used by the Prince George Horse Society. I did enter Em in Starters Jumpers. And she did exactly like I thought she would, a couple of tunnels then the nose kicked in. Can't blame a hound who hasn't seen dirt on 4 months. So today we went up to another barn to practice. After a case of the zoomies she settled down and did decent work. Once she gets the idea that equipment in a barn/field means agility not sniffing I think we will be on the road.

And Davie got to go herd ducks too last week. He was so good. He didn't even back down when the "Duck with Attitude" was going after him, he stood his ground and Mr Duck changed his mind. I need to make a concentrated effort to find a place to work him on sheep.

Here is the link to a video of Emmi looking for birch on chairs. After she figured out boxes weren't involved she got down to work.

These two pictures show how the snow is slowly dropping.

March 7th

March 15th

Watching for the numerous squirrels that have appeared!

Emmi is 2!!!

It was PR Davis Branch Bayou Emmi Bleu's second birthday yesterday. I can not believe she is two years old. Needless to say she had a lot of fun yesterday. We went for a snow shoe and she got to smell lots of rabbit tracks and rabbit turds. Did you know rabbit turds look like kibble scattered on the snow, didn't fool Em though. Then we had a bit of a party. We finished off the evening with some yummy bully sticks. Today she took some of her cake to the RallyO class and shared with her class mates. We still have some cake to share with the wiener dogs down the street and Catja. Benji isn't allowed any because Davie's cake upset his system, but we will find something for him. Here are some random pictures.

Emmi FKA Miss Pink

Mama Lucy and her 7, 3 girls and 4 boys

My cake

Crazy one

In flight

What's the chances of catching both ears up??

Me and my brother

Stating her opinion

Davie's new puppy friend

Meet Luna the Catahoula!

Happy Gotcha Day

It was three years ago today that I first laid eyes on Davie. I will never forget that day. We have come a long way and it hasn't always been easy. Davie's self confidence has increased a thousand fold and more.  Davie is now comfortable meeting new people on his terms. He has his favorite people and to them he gives all of himself. He has his crazy coonie sister who he has done a fine job raising and training. He has lots of dog buddies. He has helped raise numerous puppies and has an incredible way with young pups. People who see him interact with a pup for the first time are both amazed and fascinated by what Davie will do to bring the most frightened pup out of their shell, or gently but firmly correct an boisterous pup. His favorite thing is our daily walks in the bush. He is in his element running like the wind. I can never thank Amanda enough for letting Davie come to live with us.

I had a hard time picking pictures, I know I have missed some of my favorites but I this is enough!

My first view of Davie

Getting Ready for the journey home

Mud Man

Tenting on the way to Bender

Prairie Guy

Why me

Sledding with Shiloh and Lexi

His favorite place

His little sister

Wrestling match

At least I have company for these pictures now

Amber

Teddy

Looking for Marvin his British Columbia cat

Laddy who comes for walks with us, have never met his owner

A cleaner puddle

At Eromit Labs

Rune

Three best buddies, Davie, Catja and Emmi