Fun,Fun,Fun....and some agility!

Had another fun day today,or evening in this case! My brother has his friend over so me and Oscar spent the lovely evening outside in the garden and went for a nice walk in the field.

Oscar had dinner early tonight because it takes him a little while to eat a pig trotter and i wanted to get a walk in after dinner too.

We started off playing a few games of tug and fetch and then i took some photos of shadows. No,I'm not crazy but yes,shadows. They make really nice pictures. Sadly i didn't get great ones tonight,i was trying to get one of me and Oscar tugging but i couldn't get a good one. I got this one though,

Its not great but its the best one i have,neither of us are in the positions i was aiming for but as you can imagine,its hard to tug and take a photo of your shadow at the same time.

Oscar really enjoys jumping up and grabbing his toys in mid air so i took advantage of this and  got some good shots,this time much more successful than the shadow ones!

We also played the 'race for it' game. Its supposed to help get the dog to work away from you in agility and race ahead of you,but we will see how that goes. For now Oscar enjoys it and it gives me good photo opportunities!

He does actually get to tug and retrieve the toys too,it wasn't all 'race to get it and then me take it away',although i'm pretty sure that Oscar enjoyed the racing for it and jumping and grabbing it parts!

Tug,tug,tug,tug!!

Here i come!!!

Again,again!! Throw the toy!

That was most of the playing part,i don't think he has ever played for so long with the same toy! 15 minutes with the kong one and another 15 with the snake! Improvements! 
We also did agility,well at least a type of agility,if you could call a line of 3 obstacles agility? Thats what we did anyway,lets call it 'mini' agility! 
What was this 'mini' agility course made up of? A tunnel(it was actually 2 but they make one long one),an old car tire(yes,i'm still using that tire for yesterday!) and 1 simple jump. Hard? Certainly not,for Oscar anyway!

Tire!

Jump!

Tunnel! (with crazy ears!)

So that was our 'mini' agility all over and done with so Oscar,being the clown that he is,played some more!

I just have to show people this one,its hilarious!

He is just crazy about this snake toy!


After all the fun and excitement we had a walk to 'cool' off,and it was a nice walk too! Oscar was very good,he practically stayed with me the whole time!
I just couldn't resist a good game of hide and seek. I can't say that i hid too well though,how could it?!?! It was an open field with nothing to hide behind,so most of my hiding spots were just me lying flat on the floor. I hardly ever got to hide though,Oscar was on me like a bullet anytime i even thought to walk away from him!

Haha,i found you! Silly human!

Oscar is now fast asleep in bed. I bet all that chewing on the pig trotter took it out of him!!!  Although i will admit,today wasn't his most active day,he only got 1 walk today! I know,lazy right,but i just wasn't feeling well at all this morning,and walking around only made me feel worse but i think he has forgiven me for missing a walk and a few training and play sessions today. He isn't the type of dog who holds grudges,he probably doesn't even remember what he had for dinner yesterday! 
But with that said beagles are known to be able to remember different scents and recognize them in the future,so maybe he remembers a lot more than i think,after all he remembers all his tricks very well.

One bad thing was discovered today though. You know that new field we found,the one with the stream? yeah,that one,well the only way to get to that is to go through the second field we walk in but.....
..... thats now occupied by horses!!! :-( 
So we are back to one field again. I wouldn't mind walking in there with the horses but the electric fence is on so now i can't get in there anymore. 
And just to add to it,although not as bad as i can buy some more,i lost the cat nip!!!  Oh,wait,i never mentioned that before! Well Oscar is trained to find cat nip! I wanted to do something other than tracking(because its very time consuming planning and laying tracks every week) and something more challenging than just finding food or toys so i trained him to find cat nip. I got the idea from customs dogs,and they way that they are trained to find drugs and stuff,so i just used cat nip instead because it wouldn't harm him and it was easy to get in pet stores. But now i have gone and lost it! I don't know how,the container it was kept in is still here and i remember putting it in there the last time i used it!
I suppose i can always get some more somewhere.

I'm all typed out now,so i will leave you with this nice photo i got in the field today,

The Irish sunset!