A Quiet Girl

Not me, sillies, my sisfur, Jamaica!

Today is her furst year Annifursary here on Dogster! It is also her four year Rainbow Day.

She mostly keeps to herself, that one. She doesn't bark many PPRs or diary comments. A little sensitive to bein' thought of as a hauntin' ghostie pup. I bark to her how silly that is but she don't listen to me much. So the PPRs are pretty much only accepted not offered.

Anywoofs, turns out she found sum things to bark about in her one Dogster year! Mostly she shares local and sum not so local stories usually about animals. I hope she doesn't get in trouble fur plagurizin' one o' these days! She does make a point to give credit fur her source, tho. She also woofs the occasional pup poetry. And she's able to bark better about the family's human events and news that I, bein' an earthly dog, may not understand or know about. Sumptimes our diary entries refer back or are related to each other.

As a Rainbow pup, Miss Jamaica does not need earthly things. So I am not encouragin' any pup to spend zealies on her. But if any pup wants another pup pal she has turned out to be one infurestin' Dogster diary barkin' gal!

Good Stuff!

It's been 90 degrees out our way. That's not the good stuff but it is the cause of sum good stuff!

Furst, yesfurday, my pool got filled up! Wellwoof, it's not really a pool but more of a doggy bath tub. But I use it as a pool to cool down. It's great!

Then, today, My Boy called and wanted a ride home from sumwheres. The ma was gunna leave me at home but I showed I wanted to go by standin' at the car door. So I gotta come along. Sure enuf, because it was 90 degrees, they decided to stop and get sum ice cream. And I got my own Jr. size cup o' ice cream, again, just cause it was 90 degrees!

Infurmediate Flyball - Week 4

Wellwoof, all 4 dogs was back this week! The last coupla weeks one pup or anofur was missin' leavin' only 3 of us. Next week I will be the missin' pup as the ma has sumptin' goin' on she can't miss. Sumptin' more imporfurant than flyball?!! Bah! Humans and their priorities!

So since there are 2 lessons left, only one fur me, the ma asked teacherlady if there was gunna be advanced flyball. Teacherlady said at this point we is ready to start explorin' fur teams. She is not doin' an advanced class:(

So now it is time fur the ma to decide if she is gunna do the politickin' and schmoozin' that seems to be necessary to get on a team. Teacherlady suggested volunteerin' at sum flyball events. Not that the ma is against volunteerin', she is just not a politickin', schmoozin' kinda gal.

And since the Howlister dock divin' seems to be back in the swing o' things, I has more dock divin' oppfurtunities again. Flyball will be a greater commitment and might conflict with dock divin'. While I likes flyball and so does the ma, dock divin' is our furst luv.

So decisions to make, but let the humom worry about that! And the humom says she is gunna let the cards fall where they lie, whatever the woof that means;/ Guess that means she'll see how she feels about it in a coupla weeks!

Mediocre Jumps and a Human in the Pool!

Had a bit of a mediocre day today:( The ma says I did not go outta my 11 foot comfurt zone. I jumped 11'8" then 11'6" in my 2 jumps of my furst wave. I did win a 2nd place Junior ribbon for this wave:)

Then I jumped 8'11" in my furst jump of my second wave. This is the shortest measured jump of my dock divin' career! My furst jump of my furst competition back in 2010 was over 9 feet. I has not jumped less than 10 feet since! But I was havin' a hard time stayin' in my sit stay and the ma decided to try it my way. She let me creep forward a bit and I only had half the dock to run.

After seein' the results of doin' it my way, we went back to her way of makin' me stay then usin' mosta the dock to get a nice runnin' leap. I did 11'9" on my last jump of the day. Not sure where I placed as we left after this jump and the results have not been posted on the infurnet yet.

But no mediocrity in the havin' fun department! I always do super good at that!

Also, sooner or later, we thought it might happen, but sum pup's poor mom fell into the pool! OMD! She was lookin' back at her pup and just stepped a bit too far and, PLOP!, in she went! Her pup seemed a bit surprised but he jumped in right after her! BOL! The lady was a real trooper and let her pup jump one more time while she was soakin' wet. My ma felt bad as this was their furst dock divin' event. Hope they had enuf fun earlier in the day and might consider comin' back!

The finals are on Easter Sunday. We will be missin' out on them this time.

Infurmediate Flyball - Weeks 2 & 3

I did not bark about flyball last week, bein' distracted with my big campin' trip with the guys! I am gunna fix that right nows!

Last Windsday 'The Wall' got introduced. 'The Wall' is a big piece of wood with a carpeted surface so we don't get splinters in our paws. So we practiced runnin' up to the wall and we are supposta jump up with all 4 paws and bounce off it while our human is usin' a toy to guide us around. It involves sum timin' and coordination on the part of our human. So gots a feelin' I am gunna be limited by the ma's rather unathletic tendencies:( But, you knows, I am not sure how many humans are willin' to do this stuff with their pups, so I am not gunna bash on her about this too much:)

Anywoofs, this week we continued to practice our wall work. I had a little episode and started breathin' kinda funny. Teacher lady said I had a backward sneeze. It was windy this day and maybe I inhaled sumptin. I hadta take a break and got sum water and walked it off. Once I was better we did sum full course work, meanin' we run all the hurdles to get a ball and bring it back over the hurdles again. I am doin' real good with that and understands I should not go around the hurdles:)

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Wellwoof, just got back on Tudesday from hikin' and backpackin'. Then on Windsday had my weekly flyball class. Now I finds out I am goin' dock divin' on Safurday! Woo-hoo!

Pooped Pup!

Came home today from my furst backpackin' and campin' trip. Boy did I have a grand time!

We started the hike with me on leash. But that was only at the beginning then I got let off leash. Pretty much all the doggies hikin' out there were off leash, so it wasn't just me breakin' the rules! There was lotsa doggies and only one that I ran into that was a bit rude and aggressive.

Dadders and My Boy had real big backpacks on their backs and I had my pack on too. Ours packs made it challengin' sumptimes to get thru brush or walk under fallen logs n' stuff. But fur the most part mine didn't slow me down much. I was my normal quick, little self!

Lunch was pretty good as My Boy balanced his cheeze and crackers on a rock. My Boy says a smurf came out and pushed his fudz over. Well, thank you, smurf, because I gotta eat those cheeze and crackers after they fell on the ground. Yums!

We hiked to a camp area and decided to make camp. We all gotta take our packs off and rest and relax a bit. Unfortunately, no smurfs came around to mess with My Boy's fudz at dinner so I just had the kibble that was in my pack fur this meal.

Pretty soon nighttime came and I was wonderin' where is we gunna sleep. We slept in a tent, which is a very flimsy sorta house. This was very strange fur me. I has never slept outside befure.

Next day we hiked to a place with hot springs. It was about 3 miles away from our camp. The guys left their big packs behind and just brought smaller day packs fur this excursion.

We all went into the hot springs, even me, but, wellwoof, it was just too hot fur a pup. So I opted to stay outta there. Since it was a little smelly, too, My Boy decided to rinse off in a nearby river afterwards. The river water was cold but I joined him in there. Cold water is fine by me!

We spent anofur night sleepin' in the tent, then hiked back to the truck at the parkin' lot. We found our truck had a flat tire! This delayed us a bit, but we got the tire changed and made it on back home. Now we are all weary wanderers and enjoyin' sleepin' in our beds and in our house. Good night!

A Campin' We Will Go!

I am goin' backpackin' and campin' with My Boy and the dadders! Hope I do as good as my pal, Wesley! I have my own backpack to carry my foods and bowls and a tennis ball. You can see it in my new profile pic!

The ma is bein' a diva and will not be comin' along. She was invited but backpackin' and campin' is not her thing.

We are headin' off real early in the mornin' fur Big Sur. Think it is gunna be a blast!

My Dogster Day!

There are now 3 candles on my Dogster cake! Today is my 3 year Dogster annifursary!

Plus my Rainbow sisfur had her diary picked along with pals Lucky & DemonFlashBandit! Way to go pups!

Infurmediate Flyball - Week 1

Flyball class started up again last Windsday! "The Wall" had not been built yet but is supposta be there this week.

We didn't do much new. Jumped over the hurdles and brought back a ball from a static retrieve. A coupla times the ma told me to 'bring it' a bit too soon which made me loose concentration and I dropped the ball. She is workin' on her timin':)

Seems four outta the 7 of us from beginning flyball has moved on to infurmediate. Kensey is a Shetland sheepdog about 16 months old. She is one cute little pup! Shasta is a black lab like me! She is a therapy dog and about 5 1/2 years old. Shadow is a Belgian Tervuren.(Ma thought he was a GSD) He is already workin' with a flyball team.

We did not see Murphy, an Australian Cattle Dog. Towards the end of beginning flyball, Murphy was showin' sum signs that maybe he was gettin' a little stressed out. He nipped at a volunteer that was supposta be holdin' him back while his mom ran away with his toy. But I can't blame him! I was a little taken aback by this exercise, too! Some stranger holdin' me by the hips?!

We also did not see Milo, not sure of his breed. He was doin' real well in beginning flyball.

Also, Sophie, a Wheaton Terrier, was not there. But her dad is already involved with a flyball team and they hadta miss sum of the beginning classes due to other commitments.

Woofs! What alotta diffurent pups we has met at flyball!