The weather wasn't all that good this week. In fact, one of our activities (lure coursing) was even cancelled due to weather. It was pretty dreary most of the time which brought out the worms for this little fellow. He has one hanging from his mouth but you can't really see it in this picture.
Tracking wasn't just Boogie's activity this week. Poor little Slugger doesn't get to do much any more as his left rear leg is really giving him a lot of trouble...arthritis. So we decided to take Slugger along on one of Boogie's tracking outings.
He was excellent! The only thing Slugger loves better than sniffing is swimming so this activity was right up his alley. I think as much as the tracking, he just loved getting to participate in any activity.
Needless to say, Boogie thought he should be getting all the turns and didn't exactly wait patiently. The grass has grown even taller since we were here last. Boogie really is in the field with me...in front and to the right of me...I'm not hunting for the glove by myself! I'd never find it.
While you may not be able to see much (if any) of Boogie, you can at least see how pretty it is here.
I think if you look closely in this picture you can see he really is in there.
Today he got a little tuckered as he really had to bound the entire time if he wanted any chance of seeing out of the "forest".
Maybe someday I'll show you tracking pictures where you can actually see Boogie!
Three of the kids wouldn't be happy without a pool session at least once during the week. Just before it was time to swim I opened a new chew toy for the dogs that they all really like. It's a deer antler. They all wanted the antler. Since we only had one antler and they all wanted it, Mike put it in his pocket and took the dogs all out to potty before swimming. The antler fell out of his pocket and Boogie found it. The dogs all chased him but no one could get the antler from him. After some time, the others all gave up chasing him. But Boogie wouldn't let Mike have it either. Boogie kept playing keep away then taunted Mike by lying down to chew on it until Mike got close. Then off he'd go again.
So Mike and the other dogs all left the yard. Mike opened the pool yet Boogie still wouldn't come. I called and called. Nothing. (Bad boy!) It wasn't until Boogie heard the splashing that he decided he was missing out!
About half the time, we had three dogs in the pool at a time. They are totally fine all swimming at one time and never go after each others toys. To make things a little more interesting we had some swimming races.
In actuality, it wouldn't be much of a race. Sparkie would definitely come in a distant last. And while Boogie is an extremely strong swimmer, Slugger has amazing muscle strength and would definitely win any swimming race amongst the three of them.
All three dogs have very different diving styles as well. You've seen pictures of Boogie's amazing diving style. Let's compare some landing styles. Here's Boogie landing.
If you can see amongst the splashing water, you'll notice Sparkie.
Slugger looks so graceful leaving the side.
But not quite so much while landing. Looks more like a belly flop.
Sparkie got done swimming way before the boys. While it's nice and warm in the pool house, it's not warm enough for Sparkie. She'd think 99 degrees would be too cold!
The boys kept swimming...it's hard to ever get them to stop.
Boogie isn't particular about the color of his ball but it must be a Squidgie ball or the won't even think of retrieving it.
When Mike had to tend to Sparkie (dry her off a little more), Boogie set his ball on the pool edge and looked at Mike as if to say, "Will you please throw my ball?" He was so patient!
Much to their dismay, we did have to stop swimming at some point! So Mike closed up the pool, dried Sparkie some more, and then dried Boogie.
After Mike finished drying all the dogs, he closed up the pool. Boogie was trying to look under the pool cover to see what happened to his pool. He didn't much care for the fact that his pool disappeared.
Don't worry, Wazzu and 2iggie weren't left out. We had them in the pool house with us but they wanted nothing to do with the water. They both stayed well out of the "fun"...or "torture" as they see it.
Debbie
4/26-30/10
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