OFFICIALLY ON VACATION!

Mom and I are officially on vacation tonight. I really do not know what va-ca-tion is, but it must be something good as Mom is REALLY excited!! I can't wait to find out what it is??!! She is also putting my food in containers and cooking good stuff. WOW! If vacation has to do with food, I am excited too!!!

Sports Car Edge

Mom has been trying to describe what I do when I have lots of energy and today she figured it out. She said I am like a Sports car in traffic :) When I have a lot of energy and I am on a leash, I go really fast for a really short space and then stop. And it can be vertically too. That is the most fun!! She saw a sports car in traffic today and it let a car get ahead of it and then it took off and slammed on its brakes. Just to get rid of that energy!! That's what I do too and it is FUN!!!

DON'T EAT PRETTY MUSHROOMS!!

If you do, you will have to swallow nasty stuff that makes you foam at the mouth and eventually vomit all your cookies!!! I found this really pretty mushroom in our back yard and picked it for Mom. Well, she was not paying attention as she thought she had found all the mushrooms! She thought I had an apple, but when she figured out what I had she started screaming and ran after me. Wow, I didn't know this was going to be a fun game of chase! Well, then she was upset with me ...but SHE started it??? Sometimes I do not understand her rules?? I threw it in the air and caught it and started chewing it. She was digging it out of my mouth but I swallowed a couple of pieces. Had I known what would come next, I would not have picked that mushroom!! Wow, I have never seen Mom so upset and worried. She kept calling my doctor and telling them that I would not vomit it up. So they told her to pour more "stuff" down my throat. She did this SIX times!!! I guess this pretty mushroom is pretty dangerous, Mom called it a Fly Amanita.

After everything was a little more calm, Mom made me go out and show her where I found it. It was back under some brush close to our apple tree, but the brush had covered it from Mom seeing it - but *I* could see it!! I am okay now, I didn't eat that much for a big boy and what I did eat I had to vomit up, so it never got in my system. Mom was worried about my eyes as they were dilated for a couple of days, but they are back to normal now too. My Mom's co-worker said they learned in boy scouts that you should stay away from colorful mushrooms. Why didn't they teach me that in puppy class??!!?? That is a good thing to learn...as learning the hard way sure was NOT fun!

Food making day

We had a great time today, we made veggie mix!!! I decided that I REALLY like veggies and apples and celery are my favorite. I ate an entire apple by just nibbling it little by little. It was FUN! Then Gary gave me a small stock of celery to play with. The carrots were okay, but not as good as the apple!! We also packaged 50# of chicken, 5# of chicken offal, and a total of 10 qts of veggie mix. I really like Mom's veggie mix as she puts honey, ACV, and garlic in it. I was eating it too!!!

Great week at class

Mom and I had conformation class on Wednesday and I did great!! We worked on my gaiting and I did so much better. Mom and Sami were both proud of me :) I also did wonderful stacks and free stances. I was a VERY good boy and mom told me so!! We also practiced on Thursday night and I did great then too.
We had rally class on Friday night and that was FUN! I did 2 advanced courses - off leash! This is only the second time I have done off leash courses in class. It was a lot of fun and I was a good boy!!! I tucked my butt and ran once (when mom did a running call front) but I turned and went right back to her and kept working. She told me that was very good!!

The incredible shrinking pig!!

Can you believe how much my pig is shrinking?? I used to be able to curl up on him and sleep, now I am lucky to have my head fit on him? I bet Mom put in him the dryer or something. Have you ever known anything to shrink this much?? I just don't understand.... I think Mom needs to buy me a new pig that I can sleep on again and keep it out of the dryer!! I pulled an old picture to just to show how much smaller this pig is!

First Rally Q!!

Mom and I went to Medina today for an APDT Rally Trial. Mom thought I needed to work in a new place with distractions and that is why we went. Well, I showed her, I did GREAT and even got a Q and a 3rd place. I was distracted a couple of times because I saw the dog in the other ring, but I just looked and then went back to work with mom. Everyone there thought I was handsome and very well behaved :) I met all kinds of new friends! Mom and I had a lot of fun. I can't wait to do that again!!!