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Strictly one per dog!
Happy Ricoh is happy - he'd spent a good half hour hooning round an acre paddock playfighting with D, digging up old rabbit holes, mooching along the hedges sniffing things wot needed to be sniffed, sitting in the water trough to cool off and finally he plonked himself down in the long grass, sighed a long and satisfied sigh and made this expression.
This afternoon he saw a heron taking off on the opposite bank of a big carp pool and did a very credible dock dog-esque leap, flight and plunge after it. Luckily there was 50ft of line between me and him and I was able to lift the plonker out by his harness. He was very excited by his surprise plunge and did silly zoomies once I'd fished him out. Had I been able to capture it on camera, that would have been my favourite!
And D - not a posed one for once, just a chance snap from our old agility club. She'd done some fantastic and difficult work that day, really brilliant. As a reward she got to have free play with Harvey the spangle - lots of playfighting, rolling, chasing and zoomies without being too much for him. Here we'd just called them back, utterly knackered and blissed out on a warm summer afternoon. It reminds me of how far we'd come that I now regarded it as normal to work her off the lead for a full hour with other dogs zooming around and that she'd do exactly as she was told. Never thought we'd see the day.
Happy Ricoh is happy - he'd spent a good half hour hooning round an acre paddock playfighting with D, digging up old rabbit holes, mooching along the hedges sniffing things wot needed to be sniffed, sitting in the water trough to cool off and finally he plonked himself down in the long grass, sighed a long and satisfied sigh and made this expression.
This afternoon he saw a heron taking off on the opposite bank of a big carp pool and did a very credible dock dog-esque leap, flight and plunge after it. Luckily there was 50ft of line between me and him and I was able to lift the plonker out by his harness. He was very excited by his surprise plunge and did silly zoomies once I'd fished him out. Had I been able to capture it on camera, that would have been my favourite!
And D - not a posed one for once, just a chance snap from our old agility club. She'd done some fantastic and difficult work that day, really brilliant. As a reward she got to have free play with Harvey the spangle - lots of playfighting, rolling, chasing and zoomies without being too much for him. Here we'd just called them back, utterly knackered and blissed out on a warm summer afternoon. It reminds me of how far we'd come that I now regarded it as normal to work her off the lead for a full hour with other dogs zooming around and that she'd do exactly as she was told. Never thought we'd see the day.
as it sums him up completely!
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