The dog blog and I have both been on vacation, along with my girlfriend, to West Australia. We spent part of our time touring Ningaloo Reef, the largest fringing coral reef in Australia.
While we were away, the dog, Luna, got to go to puppy vacation camp, aka a very nice kennel that lets the dogs play outside all day long – and then washes them just before you pick them up to take them home.
I’m still getting back into the-swing-of-things at home, hindered by a head cold I contracted the last day of the trip, and a job application due tomorrow. But, I should have lots of critter pictures to share by next week’s edition, including such photogenic exotics as Thorny Mountain Devils, Stumpy Tailed Lizards and “28” Parrots.
Ack!!! I forgot to resize that first! I hope someone (Susan?) can fix it!
Since your dog went to puppy vacation camp…was this the method of travel?
Uh. No.
She used her usual transport, the entire back seat of our sub-compact car (we get jokes, from complete strangers, about our having to get a bigger car to fit the dog in it).
Can you imagine trying to get all that hair off of all those seats? <SHUDDER>
A friend house-sat our other pets: two rabbits, six ducks and two aquariums of fish. But Luna is a bit too high mantainance to be left all day by herself while the friend went to work (I’m home most days, and when I’m not, Luna goes with me). Hence the kenneling.
It looks like maybe I should have “kenneled” the ducks as well, as they appear to have slipped a nest past the pet-sitter – so we may have some ducklings soon to go with the rest of the circus.
Do those dogs have their seat belts fastened?
Which begs the question, can you wear a seat belt if you don’t have a lap? A harness, sure – no lap required, but a seatbelt . . . I’m not sure how to put one on a dog.
And then there is the whole recling seat bit. Like you’re ever going to get the dogs to put them in the upright position again for landing.
And tray tables! Even with opposable thumbs I sometimes have trouble getting them secured.
Nope, that flight is going to be one big fluffy nightmare for the flight attendant pictured above.
My new friend. He and his sister belong to the owner of a Bed & Breakfast where my Toronto friends stayed. They keep a good watch on the B&B. While cooking supper, my friend would often find two noses at her window sill. They LOVE to be petted but are quite jealous of each other and insist on equal time.
I love this image, because it shows dogs really know how to relax.
Which is why we say “lie like a dog.” Nobody does it better.
Looks like your new friend is a Burnese Mountain Dog (fun dog fact: Burnese occasionally have the double dew claws they inherited from the Pyreneans – like my dog Luna). They were bred to pull weavers carts through the Swiss Alps – so, at least in theory – they are a working breed.
Be cool…Just be Cool…
Welcome back Keres. was just asking about you in the cafe yesterday…g’day.
Peace
In the midst of the dogs?
Peace
for fooling us. NO, make that BLESS YOU, for keeping us on our toes.
That’s one coooool cat, er, dog, er, fox. 😉
Great photo. And thanks for thinking of me in my absense.
Or so says Julie:
And who’d argue with her?
I am so glad you all are back!!!!!!!!!!! I really missed seeing your diary. Thanks for coming back. I really love seeing your pictures.
Wow. What an endorsement! Brenda.
And pictures you shall see. I took about 500+ on my latest adventure (including lots more of the fishies above). And a good deal of those were the wild and wonderous critters of West Australia.
At least 100 photos are of wildflowers, which may have to have their own web host/folder – so I can share them more easily.
Unfortunately, the wire I need to get my laptop (where I stored my digital pictures during the trip) to talk our desktop, where I have my photo editing softwear, is at a friend’s house (it was needed for an emergency back up of a hard drive about to bite the dust).
So, next week will likely be the eariest I’ll have those photos available. So, be sure to check back next Thursday (Australia time – which over half-a-day ahead of most of you).