Habby Sunday & A Trolley Ride

Habby Sunday!

Whee haff been so busy wif busyness... not super fun busyness but more juss reuteen stuff, and I haff naught been able to deu the blogging.

Teuday, howebeer, stacked up teu be a GReat day ob obboard-toonity and all so maybe a road trip.

And so when whee boarded the trolley teuday, my berry first fought was... swimming at Rummy's. Abter all, I am still trying to loose some few poundage and all so increase my muscle strengf in my legs.

I go teu my first Beginning Agility Class teumorrow, so it makes sense teu me that my the berry planning and fought full Mom wheu lubbs me and all ways looks out fur my well being and all so fun habbings... wood whant me teu get in a timely aquarobicks work out... Right???

Does this camera angle make me look... affletick?

Wrong

And so imagine my ghastly surprise when the trolley deboarded at...

Dirty Hairy Dog Wash!

Now do naught get me wrong... as baffs go...  Dirty Hairy's be in my top teu places teu haff one [Mister T Day Spa being the odder!], but when a berry clean boy leafs home, he eckspecks teu be going teu a water hole wif a plug in the bottom. Juss saying.

Teu make madders worse,

take a look at the GSD ober my left shoulder...
She was behabing like a berrry baff champ.

This deus naught be time fur a comparisson.
I am outta here.

Eups.
I am hooked teu the front ob the tub.

Please teu note that no body else is stobbing teu take pickchers...

butt ob course, MY the Mom is...

naught juss once butt at ebbery fyeu minutes.
Sigh.

Dirty Hairy's has be come part ob our reuteen.
Whee are going teu come here
ebbery weekend what is free or four days
abter my Advantage Multi abblicayshun.

Teuday is being my fourf bisit.

The Mom says whee whill nebber baff at home again
on a counta, Dirty Hairy's...
1. iss only a fifteen minute trolley trip

2. habbs bunches ob shamboos teu seleck from

3. habbs speshull face shamboo what deus naught bodder the eye balls
4. habbs ear cleaner and little cotton wibes
5. means no bending ober fur the Mom
6. habbs aprons fur the Mom
7. habbs the berry best absorbant towels
8. habbs ebbery greuming teul right there
9. habbs blow dryers (I am naught a fan)
10. whill deu my nails fur me!

And here is me,
strabbed teu the table while the Mom towel dried me...
and I am waiting teu see if I need my nails trimmed...
abter all and in case Yeu haff for gotten...
I begin Agility teumorrow,
and my performance cood hinge on my nail lengf...
or so my oberly worry sum the Mom finks.

Good Noose!

I did naught need my nails trimmed... and all so, whee hobbed in the trolley and went straight home where I whas habby teu drain my water bowl and race out ob doors to roll in the saint august teen grasses untill my the Mom yelled at me teu stob and come back teu the in ob doors and I did.

I did all so take a short nap and abter did follow the Mom a round while she did chores. Ebbery time she did get still, I all so putt my cold whet nose on her hand juss fur effeck.

I deu like this necks pickcher on a counta I deu look berry fin, and all so, I fink Yeu can see eckstream in-no-sins in my eyes and spellt out right a cross my face.

Here I am sneaking in a begetarian snack and showing off my muchly brushed and clean furs what smell of yeu-call-ipptus and pepper mint and... saint august teen grasses.

Ok, ok, I haff teu confess...
I deu naught under stand the fastinayshun wif
skirts and feffers and tail furs,
butt the Mom insists I show Yeu this....

The End
[hee hee hee]

Skool Night

Skool Night Skool Night
The Opp O Sit ob
Golden Rule Night
(ecksept I deu get lots ob treats)

I tole you last week that I am working to get Yeu a life feed fur my Skool nights, butt until then... I am deuing the next best fing what is sharing last week wif Yeu this week so it iss kinda like Yeu are juss running a little late. And juss so Yeu whill naught feel teu lost, I whill try naught teu progress teu quickly. ;o)

Welcome teu Dogwood!

I hobes Yeu are ass habby teu be here ass I am. Please teu pardon the blurry pickchers. The photographer tries naught teu make a specktackle ob the pickcher taking on a counta she deus naught want me distrackted.

What iss that ober there?

This iss me deuing a sit stay be fore class. Yeu can see my training bag in the chair. In that bag iss lots of stuff I may or may naught need. One day I whill show yeu in side it. It iss a berry fun place teu stick yeur nose.

Here I am showing Yeu a down stay. Be hind me Yeu see a low 'Intro teu Agility' bridge. I aced that a long time ago. Naught bragging, juss bringing yeu up teu date.

The Mom finds that habbing me demonstrate my sit and down stays be fore class, while steudents are coming in and getting positioned and ready, helps me teu settle and focus.

Whee all so deu some flat work (healing), quick sits or halts, freezes and left pivots teu warm up fur class. [The Photographer acksidently turned on the flash.]

Judy, my regular instrucktor, whas naught here last week... so I got a chance teu learn from DeNise a gain!

A long wif Judy, DeNise taught me in many Intro teu Competition classes. She whill all so be my instrucktor in Beginning Agility what starts next Monday, June 11f.

Whee played some 'get it' games. Whee did some flat work... And whee learned teu read and perform teu new Rally signs.

These neu signs were...

Call Front Finish Left Forward

Call Front Finish Left Halt

I'm naught sure, the rest of the class might haff tried it teu the right... but I did only work on my left. Thiss is a nice progression from the work whee started last week as whee learned finishes.

Whee all so did some sit stays, and I did pretty good until the last one when I got in teu some trouble. I guess I whas a little tired. The Mom walked a way teu ward the instrucktor wheu said... "Are yeu going teu let him sit that way?" The Mom turned a round...

I had rolled back on my hips, had my left leg sticking out straight and out teu the left and my front legs were way off teu the right. The Mom sayed all I whas missing whas a cigar, smoking jacket and a scotch... neat.

Christie, a nother ob my prebious instrucktors [wheu iss all so a steudent in the class] said I whas sitting... 'ungentlemanly'.

All I know iss that I whas made teu stand up and then all so deu a pretty sit... what I did deu. And  then ebbery body whas habby. *takes bow*

I whas all so habby when it came time teu board the trolley, and then as whee began teu pull out ob the station... Look quick! There is a golden retrieber at the fence!

Fank Yeu fur coming a long on Skool night. Sixty minutes in a row iss a long time fur a young golden retrieber boy like me teu focus and learn fings. I deu lubbs it so much, but my brain deus some times ecksplode be fore the end. Pleas come back a gain next week teu see if it happens a gain.

Fifteen Fun Fings

On the list of
The Tob Fun Fings In My Life...
[in no particular order tho I am ordering them]

1. The Mom
[The Trolley Driver. The Fotograffer. The Typist.
The Sponsor. The Benny-Fackter. The Bank Roller.
The Maid. The Chef...
A mong odder fings.]

2. Rummy's Beach Club.
3. Swimming.
4. MY Ball.

All so on my list...
5. The Rummy's Fence what grows TOYS!

6. My Cousins Rizzi(out front)
and Zeke (yellow best)...
and my The Aunt Karen!

7. My Best Bud Lisa Goebel,
Proprietor of Rummy's Beach Club.
She is taking my picksher here...

And there she iss, juss beyond me.
She taught me how teu swim...
and I am swimming berry strong and long now.

8. Hanging out in the cool waters.
Here iss the Rizzi resting (left),
Zeke (yellow best),
Me (red best)
and the Aunt Karen.

Rest. Shmest.
9. I gotta RETRIEBE!

10. Stretching out my legs and going afbter it!

11. Being My Inner Seal
Here iss me being my berry habby...

12. Gibbing The Fotograffer a good profile shot.

13. Swimming teu the Wolf
fur my Best Bud Lisa...
and MY Ball.

14. Showing off MY ball
while swimming it back teu the shallow end.

15. Swimming up on Zekey's wake.

I am Reufus and I am a Swim-A-Whole-Lick.
I haff only been free times in my whole life,
butt I can naught wait teu go a gain.

Wheu among Yeu
finks my the Mom
should install me a swimming peul???

Friday Food Speshulls

Habby Friday!

I haff been crazy busy wif busyness, and I haff a back log of fings teu post... so berry much to catch yeu up on! And ass I whas pondering where teu start, I found my self odderwise infolfed...

Waiting. Patiently
Fur My Fabe Oritt Fing...

Dinners

Fur my dining pleasure this ebening, I whill be habbing The White Slow Eater Bowl Speshull what consists of a bed of 2/3 cup Innova Low Fat Kibble topped wif 1/3 cup [No Sodium] Green Beans and 1/2 Ring of Pineapple, garnished wif One Zuke's Hip Action Square [divided in teu four pieces].

Once my meal is prepared, I make a run fur the study... A  unorthodocks place to eat, I under stand... butt this iss where I learned teu gobble eat... so that The Bleu cood dine at he's own pace in a secure relaxed enbironment. And now, this iss where I deu lubbs teu be served.

'Sit'

*good eye contact*

'Release'

*nommy nommy nom nom*

*nom nom*

The White Slow Eater Bowl Speshull iss meant teu be etten slow... butt I deu ett it wif guss toe.
[gus-to: golden retrieber fur fast, furious and wif enfusiasm]

It whas a  berry good dinner. Ass best ass I can remember...

And speaking ob good and tasty foods...
I am a bout teu begin a new diet!

The Amazing Treat Diet For Dogs
by Katie Newman

wheu iss my friend Hustler's the Mom!

Ob course, I am only four pounds ober weight... butt I haff had a bit ob a hard time getting a single pound off[deu teu the training and the treats, the Mom finks], eben wif all my exercise. So while it won't take me long to reach my goal, my the Mom finks I whill need to whork at keeping my boyish figyeur.

Now Yeu know me and the ettibles and I haff teu tell Yeu... This iss one diet I am looking for ward teu gobbling. It is berry full of tasty fruits and vegetables what I lubbs and seuper easy fur the Mom teu prepare!

She whill haff teu go teu the grocery store how ebber, *taps paw* but I digress.

Apris Dinner
aka Lemme Out
You're coming wif me, right?

and now...

Dessert

Speaking of dessert fings in my garden,

here is a nuffer look at those big pink fleurs.

Ebbery fing in the yard and garden is wilted, crispy and dry.
I fink the Mom needs teu spring fur a drink ob the waters
fur all ob it!!!

Whell, Fank Yeu fur stobbing by teuday...
I hobes Yeu enjoyed yeur stay

Please teu come back teumorrow,
when I might treat Yeu teu the rest of
My 203 Memorial Day Swim photos and bideos!!!

Ok. If I promise naught to post them all,
whill Yeu please teu come back???
I sure hobes so.

I haff tried fur some time now...
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