Picture Time: More dog park escapades :)

Took the Curly Tails for an outing on Monday. The park was rather quiet when we went. It was also pretty humid with the heaviness in the air promising storms to come. We ended up not staying too long, but on the way home we went by the pet store for cat food...and everyone there fawned over the Curly Tails :) Pettings, praises, treats, and admiring comments were heaped on their little heads!

This little guy was the only dog we met at the park that day!

Watson checking on Menchi, who was flopping down in the grass...

So pretty!

...and another side.

...and another angle.

I think she is watching her brother...

<3

Almost always on the move...

When you're handsome and you know it...

Picture Time: The "We found yet another dog park" Edition

So last week my friend Shari showed me another one of the dog parks that dot Dane County.

I decided that today was the day to go and try it out with the Curly Tails. They loved this one...even though there were not as many dogs to play with as there usually are at the park we regularly go to. I think they liked the fact that this one had lots of trees.

So thank you Shari you made the Curly Tails very happy!

Menchi was rolling in the grass with happy!

Hey, mom, I think she may be possessed...

You feeling all right there?

Jogging Shar Pei and statuary Basenji

In the tall grass

Zoomies

Trees, and grass, and a river, oh my!

Checking out the water

Fearless Explorers

More exploration

Break Time

Where is he?

Cool grass on a warm day is your friend.

Happy!

Shar Pei with scenery.

There is something in the tall grass...

Look I are a handsome boy!

Nope not getting in the wet stuff!!!

Picture Time: Squinty Face Edition

I have a pair of beautiful dogs ;)  I love showing them off...

I mean just look at these faces...

I needs me a pair of shades...

I am going to close my eyes and make you go away...

Here are the most normal shots I managed today...

Strutting...

:)

The basenji is focused...

Spring is finally springing...

...so we finally are getting outside to do some yard work here. Of course I have a team of highly experienced assistants to help me in my yard clean up and gardening efforts. Before any planting can be done the yard needs to be properly cleaned up, surveyed, and prepared.

The team surveying the site.

Inspecting some yard waste...you can see a pile of sticks and brush that we collected in the background :)

Excavation

Watson supervising.

Break time

Hey did you know there is a hole here?

Menchi's finished excavation efforts :)

Picture Time: Hiking Edition

Took the Curly Tails on the first extended hike of the year today with Laura, Sunshine, and the three remaining puppies of the litter that have not gone to new homes yet.

It was a little chilly and it did snow on us just a bit...but the dogs clearly had the best time ever. I think part of what made the hike so successful for them is that they found all the dead and disgusting things...all of them!

There was an unidentifiable, slimy smear of some sort (good for rolling in), a dead vole (one of the puppies found it and tried to eat it...was foiled by a determined Laura, though), a dried up and putrefied deer carcass (delicious), something slimy and highly disgusting (which Watson consumed before any of us could do more than look horrified), and a dead weasel (best toy ever according to the basenji puppies).

So now the dogs are dirty, stinky, and tired...mission accomplished!

Also Menchi managed to get a cut on her leg...which may need a trip to the vet on Monday  >.<

...but you are just here for the pictures, aren't you ;)

Sunshine and a zooming Watson in the background.

Menchi, with loads of sand on her snout, leads the pack.

Takedown!

What? What are you looking at???

Sunshine, Menchi, and puppies.

Sabe getting puppy mobbed.

Still being mobbed.

Watson <3

Menchi's happy pei face.

More Watson :)

Happy girly <3

What do you smell? I dunno, but it is delightfully disgusting! We should eat it!

Puppy

Pretty, little girl!

The end!