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niedziela, 07 lutego 2010
Girls being cute
This is a bit unusual, as usually Brava takes the whole couch and pushes everybody else off:
 It must have been really cold. And yes, Eri is playing farmville, she's just bought a cool new tractor:  Apart from such nice pastimes, Brava also started killing everything. I mean everything. She just chews and tears apart every single thing she can lay her teeth on. Boys, kid's toys etc. So, don't be too happy if your puppy is good. It only mean it will start later, when she/he has more destructive potential.
wtorek, 02 lutego 2010
Happy Birthday Brava!
Brava is 1 year old already!
The fact that she is big girl now didn't stop her from trying to steal and eat banana together with peel...
niedziela, 31 stycznia 2010
piątek, 29 stycznia 2010
Winter every day
Really, I'm so fed up with this whole winter thing that I would just go to sleep somewhere and sleep until spring. So sorry, no text today, just some winter pictures:        Believe it or not, this is Vigo:     And after being crazy in the snow, sleep time:  
sobota, 23 stycznia 2010
wtorek, 12 stycznia 2010
Tons of snow
We're totally under tons of snow. You cannot drive on my street unless you have a spade and a couple of neighbours willing to push you. Agility is out of question, yet we're going for a trial this weekend (sort of experiment: a trial after almost two weeks without training).
Doggies decided to try if they could live in a pit dug in snow - just in case they were really fed up with me :).  Eri is too big:  Or perhaps not?  The rest of walk was devoted to retrieving stick through the snow:     Vigo:  Braveczka:  I take photos of these every year, because I love their fluffyness agains snow:  Other news is that Eri decided not to be wussie any more so kicked Vigo's ass when he tried to steal a ball from her. Also she actually dares to get on the sofa and doesn't run away as soon as we look at her, which she used to do. I guess she's maturing.
poniedziałek, 04 stycznia 2010
Perhaps...
it's because I've always said that I want a dog that looks like a pyrshep with cocker spaniel's character, or because I named her EXTREME BRAVEHEART, or because she's just mad as a hatter... Today Brava saw ducks. Ducks where swimming on the river (or in the river? I think ducks rather float than swim, that's why ON the river), so she did her spectacular big splash jump INTO the water definetely. Duck escaped, some flying, some floating, she swam after them and then perhaps the temperature of the water got into her tail (that's where they keep their brains, as we know from Vigo's example) and she swam back, got on the bank, shook of the water (the remnants of which froze on her fur) and started running in circles with some stick in her mouth.
I gave her some vitamin C, calcium and fish oil, perhaps she won't get a cold... Sunday did very similar thing once. She must be getting more mature or something for she didn't show any inclination to repeat it, even though a couple of years ago she would jump in without hesitation.
sobota, 02 stycznia 2010
Why do we have to make New Year's resolutions?
Sometimes you're just so happy and satisfied, everything seems perfect, the dogs just pretend to be good and all. And they of course they stop pretending and the monsters reappear.
So it is with Brava. She doesn't get along with other dogs too well. Neither does Vigo, so my theory is that the breed, bred somewhere in the middle of pirenean nowhere with a couple hundreds of sheep for company just don't consider the existence of dogs outside their pack necessary (so they try to exterminate them). It's sort of excuse for not doing anything with it, obviously. So far Brava just barked a couple of times when meeting a dog and then she was fine. It was not the perfect reaction, but as I could call her off and as she didn't even notice the other dogs if I had a ball or tuggy, I didn't mind much. Actually she got better recently and even played with some dogs. Well, that was the old year. The New Year, however, the monsters resurfaced, worse than ever. I really couldn't stop her today and it wasn't nice, because I had all four dogs on the leashes and my four dogs together have one brain and it belongs to Sunday, who is the only one who just ignores other dogs totally. Vigo is not much better than Brava and Eri hasn't got an opinion of her own, just does what the most of them are doing. So, that brings us to the initial question: why do we have to make New Year's resolutions? Because old year's monster make us do. So my resolution is to do something about it. Susan Garrett (oh, she does write wise things, that's why I quote her from time to time) says that is you say your aim is perfection you actually set yourself up for failure. So my aim is for Brava to ignore other dogs and focus on me. I don't need her to love them, I just need her under control. Which actually brings me to my second resolution: to control my emotions better. Like a mama, like the dog: I really could be calmer and don't get angry or frustrated about little things. That's my other theory: why I like pyrsheps so much: because we're the same: maximum nervous energy in a small package. Plus tendency to bark.
wtorek, 29 grudnia 2009
środa, 23 grudnia 2009
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