Friday, August 10, 2012

My Tent, My Toys, My Chiggin and The Storm that Whas Naught

Habby Friday,
Habby Weekend
and
Welcome teu My Tent.
I fink I shood be an Orvis Model / Spokes Dog...
Yeu prolly fink I am cambing in the wilds
butt really and in fack
I amb chilling in
My Tent
in my libbing reum.
Yeu see...
Steudents in Agility III
are required teu habbs a tent.
I am only in Agility II
butt iff I gradyeuate in one monf...
I whill need one
and here I amb in mine.
Here I haff been discubbered... Juss hanging out in My Tent
I really deu lubbs tents and such...
And I haff been pracktissing...
The Trainer says "Tent"
I run in and turn a round.
The Trainer says "Come"
I come busting out and teu her...
berry ready teu run back in teu
My Tent
I fink I might all so habbs
a future in modeling fur...
Orvis.

Training Days
I deu lubbs teu deu my training.
 Whee keeb a pretty busy schedule at it
 and here it is...
Monday: Agility Class
Teusday: Finking Skool (Obedience)
Wednesday: Off
Thursday - Sunday: Training
Whee wait until early ebening teu deu our fing.
It iss much cooler then
butt thiss iss all so
when funder storms roll in...
And teuday...
It got berry dark in the late abternoon.
The out ob doors whas kinda noisy
wif the rumblings and
My Agility Equibment
seemed teu know...
(2) Sets of 2x2 Weabe Poles and (1) Jumb
There whas a storm brewing.
I amb naught funder fobick...
butt I whas distrackted by the
rumbling and the winds.
It whas berry far a way
butt condishuns were a bit iffy...

so whee did naught train
out ob doors teuday.
Dagnabbit.

My New Toys
what I did receibe
by UBS Delibbery teuday from
Clean Run.
A Bariety ob Treat Stuffable Toys
I amb a berry high dribe boy
butt I amb mosely treat dribben,
and I deu need teu work on
My Toy Dribe. 
Mine Mine Mine Mine
And being the smart,
treat dribben boy what I amb...
I haff peoples finking that
a toy what holds treats
wood teach me teu be
Toy Dribben.
[I amb a Genius]
Pick One.
I deu lubbs thiss one the best
on a counta it reminds me ob
My Aunt Karen Toys
what I deu lubbs teu
tug on and all so steal.
Yes Yes, it habbs teu tug ends
and a pouch in the middle.
What Yeu see here iss
juss fur blog picksher purposes...
I can only play wif thiss toy
wif the Trainer.
In berry fack,
whee played and played and played
teugeffer
wif thiss teuday.
I mean, wheu knew...
but there iss a
baked chiggin facktory
in that pouch.
I retriebed and retreibed and retriebed
and out ob its belly
the Trainer did pull forf and feed me...
a bite ob baked chiggin
each time I brought it teu her.
It. Whas. AweSum.

The Storm That Whas Naught

Whee had the funders
and the darknesses and the winds
and the strange colors...
butt whee habbed berry few ob the rains.
Whee were tricked a bit by the wheffer
but that's ok...
It whas a wonder full Friday...
and now it habbs come teu
The End.

Friday, August 3, 2012

Habby Week End Plans Wif Lubbed Ones

Teuday iss the day what be gins
those feu days what whee refer teu as...
Habby Week End
Unfortchewnuttly,
I haff no berry big or speshull plans or obligashuns...
no dog show, no big ebents, no swimming...
butt all so...
 no rescue stuff and no work or drudgery.
Whee whill be taking care ob sum fings
a round our home...
A Little Thiss A Little That
Like a bit ob land scabing.
The Mom habbs a neu shrub trimmer,
and she iss going teu butt cher the shrubs.
Ass fur me,
I prefer teu trim one leaf at a time.
The Mom deus diss courage
my hedge-itarianisms...
so mose times I haff teu be sneaky
and fassst.
And ass sabby ass I am at miss chief,
I amb all so
Prince ob the Inno Sin Look...
fur a moment any way,
and then...
I'm off.
butt I all ways come back
fur more.
The Trainer and I all so habbs
a good bit ob
Training Home Work
teu deu...
Me and My New Leash
I whish Yeu knew how much I lubbs to train.
I get so berry ecksited when I see my gear...
and all so berry restrained.
I mean...
Suddenly my hearing is imp proobed,
and I amb highly motibated...
butt ob course...
I know what a pocket ob chees means!
Now here is how
The Photograffer tried teu cabsher
what The Trainer sees
when whee deu our
Flat Work
I deu mosely look up at the Trainer, butt wif the camera... I did mosely turn away.
Flat Work iss healing
and halting...
varying sbeeds like
slow, normal and jogging...
all manner ob turns
and all so stobbing like moobing sits
and odder fings, like...
Drob or Freeze.
And teuday,
my drob/freezed turned inteu
A Down Stay
I whas a bit naughty wif my leash...
butt I did keep my feetsies still.
The berry mose hardest bart iss when
The Trainer hits the 180 degree or
Six O Clock
mark.
"Hi Mom. My fumping tail means I lubbs Yeu."
I can keeb my feetsies still,
butt my tail...
naught so much so.
Here is
Habby 3 O Clock.
And well come back
teu minutes later teu...
12 O Clock.
And now, fur fun...
Scroll back ub and combare...
Feetsies and Leash are in the original position.
Friends, I haff come a berry long whay!

The Trainer abbroaches me showing me a chee.
I am naught teu moob my feetsies still...
I gobble the chee and hear my word...
"release"
I am ub
and whee break the tension wif
a habby and fun game ob
Leash Tug
Whee whill all so be working on
 My Agility Moobs
I whill be pracktissing
a combin ayshun
Jump and Contact 
Thiss iss me set ub fur the ecksersize.
The Trainer whill turn her back teu me
be fore gibbing me the commands...
so she can naught take a picksher.

She whas quite surbrized when I
did this perfeckly the fourf time I tried.
Whee whill keeb working and making it
harder and harder.

All so..
Whee whill be working on
Weave Poles
a nodder hard fing to take a picksher ob...

It iss so berry hot these days...
so whee haff teu train in short spirts.
This ebening,
whee boaf hobed fur a nodder session...
butt I banted fur an hour
and the Mom nixxed a nodder outing.
And once the Trainer took off her sheus
and embtied the chees and venison fillets out ob her bockets...
I did settle in wif

My The Mom and...The Typist
She helbed me boot ub
my lab tob
and check out my facebuck...
juss be fore I did compose
these words I amb sharing wif Yeu.

I whish Yeu
A Berry Speshull Week End

May it be full ob the fings Yeu enjoy...
in the combany of
The Ones Yeu Lubb.
[in my case...
The Mom, The Trainer,
The Photographer, The Typist,
The Chef, The Trolley Driver,
The Valet, The Maid, The...
uh huh, this house gets crowded sum times.]

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