Walkies Fun!!!

The weather has been really nice today,and it wasn't too bad either yesterday! So with the weather so nice me and Oscar went exploring!
We found a NEW FIELD to walk in!!! Thats 3 fields now,and if the horses leave the others then we will have 5 to walk in!! Our walks just keep getting better and better and longer and longer!!!

There is one very good thing about this new field............

..............Its got that!!! A stream!
I knew there was always a stream going through the fields because it flows though one of the other fields we walk in but this is nice and wide and shallow too!
So i wore my wellies,which felt so weird on my feet because i am so used to wearing my hiking boots.
But.........

.......Oscar wasn't too pleased with our discovery and tried to keep his paws dry!

It was a battle of wills,but in this case,i won!!!

The walk wasn't all spent down in the stream though,we did do some dry land walking too! (and probably to Oscars delight)

Stretch!!

"I can heel if i want too!"

 I'm coming!!

Oscar has some fans!!

Just to give him a bit of a challenge on the walk we did a 2 minute down stay.....

...... which he did great at!!! 


Then just to add to the day we played with an old tire i got!

Through

All 4 paws on it

Up on it

And the day was ended by relaxing on the grass,well i was sitting on the tire but it made a rather good seat!

A nice fun few weeks for us!!

Haven't updated this blog in a while! Oscar was giving out to me for not satisfying his fans,so i am typing this now with a dog watching,ready to use those teeth as weapons!!! Haha! I'm only kidding! he couldn't hurt a fly!

Last week we had some lovely days,warm outside,sunny and no wind!! It really was a nice week. Not really sure if i mentioned this before but Oscar does agility and we have been working on weave poles for a little while now. Last week he finally made it to 6 poles!

I was going to do 12 but my poles are crap and just wont go into the ground straight and i end up with wonky poles that are certainly not in a straight line! And if its not that then the pols themselves are bent to the left and to the right! So Every time i have gone to set them up i have just gotten pissed off and they are chucked to the other end of the garden. I just need to get something to make sure they are in a straight line,but i haven't got a piece of wood thats thin enough to use for that.

Another good thing on the Agility front is the fact that i finally got wood to make all the equipment! When I am done i should have 7-8 jumps and a small A-Frame and Dog walk. I already have a see-saw,tunnel and tire jump!

Oscar has also gotten a new trick,

Skateboarding! He loves it! You have to keep the skateboard out of his reach,if not all you see is a dog rolling past to door!!








The field was also cut and baled last week! I got all excited at first because both me and Oscar love to jump on Hay bales but it didn't last because i soon discovered that the bales were loaded up and taken away straight away. So no hay bale jumping this year for us,but at least all the long grass is gone now.

Thats the field before it was baled,all that grass is gone now,so its much easier to walk in!

Just Oscar enjoying himself in the 'new' field! He loves running up the lines of grass and rolling in it,also jumping over them as you can see!








And here are the last few pictures from last week,

He decide to play ball!

My ball!

So you want my ball do you?

This week wasn't so nice on the weather front. Wet and windy for most of the week,but we had great fun on Thursday with no parents or brother around! Just me and Oscar,for most of the day at home!
We started off playing with the ball up and down the hall and it went well for most of it too! He seemed to really enjoy fetching! But then,

I threw the ball up the hall........

..........And he came back with that!
I hate to tell you this Oscar,but thats not the ball i threw up,that is a teddy tiger!






None the less he made friends with the savage tiger,

And then raided my room in the process!

Is the food up here???

 

After he was finished with Mr.Tiger,and in my room he played a fun game of find it and then it was time to bring out the treat ball!

Jackpot!!

Its here somewhere!

I'm stuck!!

Then he had breakfast in a kong,

 And eventually he got to relax! Beagle style,

GRRRR!!!

But sadly the fun didn't last because he eventually had to go for a walk! The walk part wasn't the sad bit for him,it was part where he had to walk in the RAIN! And then he was all embarrassed because he had to wear his silly coat!

Please don't make me go!

Walking in style!

Dinner!!!

For some reason he wanted to eat dinner in his dog house that night but at least he was smart enough to choose a dry place to eat,even though he could have stayed inside and eaten it on his towel! It was a chicken carcase for dinner on Thursday and he enjoys those very much!

Its actually sunny today,with a blue sky and everything so maybe,just maybe,there will be something new for here tomorrow!!  Oscar is currently snoozing on the grass though,so i don't think i will get my hopes up!!

He might make a show dog yet!!!

Me and my dad took Oscar to a fun dog show today!!! We nearly didn't go because of the rain,but where the show was,2 minutes away,there was only a small shower and it was sunny!!!

So we went and i had a great time. I nearly got Oscar a fleece jacket from a local resue groupe but it didn't fit him :-( But i still gave them a donation anyway!

I entered Oscar in 4 classes,
- Best small dog
- Best handled by a lady
- Gundog/working dog
- Dog the judge would like to take home

 He came 3rd in the small dog one,despite trying to sit on the judges lap!!
And he came FIRST!!!! In the best dog handled by a lady!!! he did get distraced by a man with chips behind us in that one but the judge said that she would give it to us anyway because she likes us the best!!!

The judge was really nice too! She said that me and Oscar should go to more shows because he was a lovely dog and she also comented on how obedient he was and she loved the fact that he did tracking!

Waiting for our turn in the ring!

It was a battle of wills to get his nose off the ground,and if it wasn't on the ground it was steering his body to the nearest burger or dog!  But with some persuading and a little, a lot, of ham and treats! I even used chips at one point because i got a bag!
But he was fairly good once you got his nose off the floor!

Standing,waiting to be judged.

He is supposed to have his tail up,i know  but each time a held it he tried to sit down!! It was quite funny really. Tail up,arse down!!

Working for ham! Oscar not me now!

It was a nice day. Oscar enjoyed it too......i think????? He finally got to sniff some dogs which didn't try to kill him!!
And at the end of it all this is what i got..........................

........................ A tired,knocked out doggie!!!


Well,thats not all i got,or should i say Oscar got!!

2 rossettes,1 trophy and a bag of dog food!!! I won't be using the dog food so i think i will give it to the wspca!

Might i also add that Oscar did pee on my leg while we were waiting to go on!! But he needed to go,so what could i do other than laugh!!! It was on my boots though so i didn't walk around with wet trousers for the day!!!


I am very chuffed with Oscar!! (despite the fact that he peed on me!!):-)

SUN....... That big bright dot in the sky!!!

Its here!!! The Sun has arrived!!!! Its about time too! 
While I'm happy its here its more of a disadvantage for me,and for most dog owners really! I can't say that Oscar is too pleased with the heat,but then again are any dogs?

Do you see that? The sky its BLUE!!!!

We went for an early walk this morning but it was cut short because of the damm horse flies! Would the little feckers ever get away from me!While i got very happy with Oscar recently regarding recall, he has,as of today,taken a step back and is now back on the long line,but its a shorter one so we didn't jump too far back!

hello! Can i have a treat now?

It got quite hot after the walk so Oscar wasn't in the mood to do anything at all! I even brought him inside to do some recall training but even then he was so slow and the exercises became pointless really. 

Trying to make training fun and entertaining is hard when you have a dog which is showing absolutely no enthusiasm no matter what sounds you make or how fast you run! Maybe its just the heat but its still not easy! 

While i didn't plan to do agility today,Oscar had different plans and used the tunnel for his own comfort and leisure! 

Its the wrong way up,but it looks cool!

Keeping Oscars water issues in mind and the nice hot sunny weather outside i took it upon myself to try and cool Oscar down,make shift tiny swimming pool box style!!!

There was only enough water to cover his paws but Oscar wasn't too pleased. He didn't show any visual pleasure at getting in and out of the paw deep box of water but he did get treats for doing it so maybe he will be a water loving dog soon...............????






Something that was a little more Oscar style was using Ice cubes to cool down,so he got some and had a little more fun with them than he did in the box of "deep" water!

I also made Oscar an interactive toy today,its what i like to call 'the bottle tipper'! And the best thing about it is, that it was FREE!!!!! 

It took Oscar a little time to figure out what to do with it,and i still don't think he has figured it out but as soon as he has i will get a video of him doing it.

 It wasn't an overly active day and Oscar spent most of it like this,

And just a quick update on the raw diet before i go. 

Oscar is loving it! The salmon oil we got is crap though,but not to worry,i will be getting a better bottle the next time! Oscar wont,however,eat his vitamin E tablet by himself so its the manual way for that I'm afraid! Thank god it's only every other day that it has to be done!  Sardines in tomato sauce for breakfast tomorrow,so lets see what he thinks of those. I can't say that I'm a big fan of fish though,unless its cod and in batter,so i don't think i will enjoy opening the tin tomorrow at all! 

On big difference on the raw is the amount that Oscar drinks. He doesn't drink half as much now,usually he would be finishing a bowl a day and thats not including what he drinks outside,but now he doesn't even finish half the bowl. 

Other than that though,no major improvements,but its early days yet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We took the plunge!

Yesterday we took the plunge into Raw Feeding!!! And we wont be going back!
Oscar had some beef mince for breakfast and he didn't really know what to make of that.He has had raw meals before but never minced meat,but he ate it anyway so it obviously wasn't too hard for him to handle!

He had a chicken thigh for dinner and he really enjoyed that! He even had some attention from the cat who was curious as to what he was chomping down on! And for some bizarre reason Oscar ate outside,it seems as if he prefers to eat his bones outdoors..........Strange Dog! Hehe!

Dinner! Yum,Yum!

Waiting to be released to eat

Yum!

All is going well so far and Oscar seems to be enjoying it to!
We have a freezer with nearly 1 months supply food in and 2 boxes and 1 bag of fruit and veg in. Not to mention the vitamin E and salmon oil in the cupboard  and the box of Dorwest Keepers Mix on its way to us too! So we have lots of food for Oscar!

Meat, meat and more meat!

Fruit and veg!

 We kind of got crappy salmon oil though,but i didn't know so it will have to do for now. When its empty i will get the other one i wanted,the more expensive one!  I also hope that the butchers can help me out a little by getting me in some stuff,i asked them a while ago but they never got anything in for me. I suppose i will just have to ask again but this time for not as much stuff,just the stuff i need,no offal or anything this time.


I'm just hoping for some good weather now! Its about time that the sun made an appearance!