Videos and Countries

Lowri - TM and I were watching the Nationals videos and, poof, the puppy sweepstakes one just quit.  Before we got to see ME!  We were watching and having a good time and it just quit.  TM even tried the DVD reader on the computer.  The other two videos worked just fine.  Oh well, I am sure TM and MC will take care of it.

MOM!  She's pulling on my lips!

MC came up and brought little Dinah.  Boy, she is rough!  She was chewing off my lips.  Dinah said that's how she and Treasure play.  I say it's good that she lives with MC!  I don't think my lips would hold up.  I was a good big sister though.  I donated my lips to the cause.

Kearney - TM has been keeping track of all the countries where people have been reading our blog.  Today we hit 50, the big Five O, countries.  That is since March of this year!  Wow!

Lowri - We are famous!  We are famous!  Do you suppose Leno will want to chat with us?

Kearney - Here are the countries (according to Blogger's stats):  Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam.

Thank you so much for joining us!

Fixing Fence

Kearney - We are back in town for the week.  TM was busy working today.  When one of her friends came for a massage, TM pulled back the drapes to show her the baby ducks.  They are really cute!  Anyway, they were talking a little bit more, and the friend jumped and said the baby ducks were out in the front yard.  TM put some shoes on and dashed outside.  The babies made a beeline for the fence and dived through the hole.  TM made a quick fix and they went to do the massage.

When they came out, the babies were out again.  It was pouring rain and they were really enjoying the front yard.  TM tried another quick fix  - it didn't work either.  She ended up spending a couple of hours out working on the fence.  We think it will hold the stupid ducks now.

Lowri - shhhhhh, Kearney, I am sleeping on TM's foot.  I WANT to keep sleeping.

Ducks, etc.

Lowri - TM went to town and bought a kennel run.  It is for the ducks.  They are going to get out of the bird house with the pheasant and have their own yard.  That will make it a lot easier to get them out so we can work them!

Late yesterday, MC brought over my new half-sister (my Daddy is a wandering kind of guy!).  She got her from the McCombs in Texas.  Last week, MP flew to Texas and got her.  Then on Saturday, she shipped her to Tennessee.  MC is very happy to have her very own puppy.

Kearney - I took Dinah out into the field and showed her what to do.  She caught on really quickly.  I am going to enjoy showing her the ropes.  MC took her home after TM worked Treasure.

This morning, Lowri got to work both sheep and ducks, while I just got to work the ducks.  TM is working on my skills for B course, but mostly I am going to help TM with lessons.  That is a lot of fun too.

Dog Breaking the Duckies

Kearney - We are at PR's (our country home) for the long weekend.  TM got up bright and early this morning and went to work in the garden.  She is putting out weed barriers and then using hay on top.  She finally figured out to put the hay UNDER the plastic so the rain will slide off to the plants.  She only has a little bit to rework.  Her goal is to get the garden done this weekend.

Then she took us down to the barn.  We had to sit in our crates while she finished putting up duck fence around the field.  But, she is done!  We have a regulation sized duck field to work in now.  I am SO excited!

TM caught the six 6-week old baby ducks and put them out in the new field.  They are almost as big as their mama!

Lowri - That would be the mama who hatched them out and then deserted them when they were about 10 days old, so she could start a new nest.  She hatched out four baby duckies and a baby pheasant last night!  Since everyone was being mean to the baby pheasant, TM brought it up to the house and put it in the pen with the four other baby pheasant that just hatched from the incubator.   We have babies everywhere!  And more on the way!

Then TM took us back down to the field.  Kearney and I both got to work the young ducks.  Kearney got to go first (he always is first at dog breaking our stock).  I got to go next.  By then, TM had caught the white mama duck and put her in the field too.

I should explain - the white duck isn't really a mama duck.  She is just a stupid duck.  She built a nest and sat on four duck eggs and half a dozen pheasant eggs.  Then she moved the nest - eggs and all - about six inches.  Then she moved again.  Then she moved again.  TM checked under her at one point and she had only the four duck eggs.  This morning, she had one duck egg and three pheasant eggs.  All in all, she moved about four feet and then around a corner and a foot further.  She is a dumb duck.  TM put her eggs in the incubator and put her out in the field to be herded.

I was the VERY GOOD DOG!  I moved the ducks around the field and sort of got the idea of driving.  TM was very happy with me.

Railroaded

Lowri - I am being railroaded.  TM has NO evidence and yet she is calling me a baddog!  How come I am the only one who gets any blame around here???  You would think that Kearney, the Wonder Dog, NEVER did anything wrong!  He has!  Let's see...He...no, that was me.  He... no, that was me too.  He...okay, so he doesn't do anything wrong!  We still have neighbor dogs!  They might have done it.  Just because we have a fenced yard, they might still have jumped in, eaten the hose and jumped out.  Yeah, that's it.  THEY did it.

Kearney - Do you really think TM will buy that the neighbor dogs did it?  I think you need a lawyer.

Lowri - Besides, I HEARD TM say that the hose was too long.  Now it is only four feet long.  That isn't too long.  I did her a favor...yikes, I did NOT just say I did it.  I want my lawyer NOW.

Play Ball!

Lowri - Tonight I was nagging TM to play with me.  She got up and picked up the ball.  We went to the hall.  TM put up the barrier so she and I were the ONLY ones to play together.  She would throw the ball and I would get it for her.  TM would cheer when I picked it up.  I had so much fun!!!!  First, I started grrrrr'ing as I carried it back.  Then I started barking!  TM was laughing so hard.  Do you know how hard it is to bark when you have a ball in your mouth? <VBG>

Kearney - Then TM let me into the hall and put Lowri in the kitchen.  I got to chase the ball.  TM only threw it a couple of times because she knows it really isn't my thing.  On the other hand, I DO like to make TM cheer.  She did every time I brought the ball back.   That made me wag my tail really hard.  I had fun too.

DC and Baddogs

Kearney - TM and PR put up lots of hay today.  They had two guys help them.  TM was VERY happy about that as she would have been the one doing all the hard work without them.  PR would have helped some (he works VERY hard!), but TM would have chewed him out the whole time because of his bad back.  They also got 16 round bales.  TM was VERY happy about that too.  PR can move those with the tractor <G>

Afterwards, we came back to the house in town.  TM stopped and picked up the mail.  There were three envelopes from AKC for me.  I am now official with all my letters.  That made TM happy.

Lowri - I have to say it...First we were locked up all day in the kennel run.  Then Kearney gets lots of official letters.  THEN TM catches me standing over a deceased baby duck.  It was NOT in my mouth!

Kearney - Not when she caught you.

Lowri - TM only applies the rules to what she actually sees.  I did NOT have the baby duck in my mouth.  TM took it away from me and buried it.  I was told I was a baddog.  TM didn't emphasize it because she didn't see it in my mouth - but she definitely was not happy about it.

Kearney - Then TM counted the baby ducks.  There are only eight.  She doesn't have any idea what happened to the 10th one.  We don't either...