Dog Party

Gotta love it when you can commute to a dog show from home. You can come back to the house, hang out on the newly renovated porch, jam to some good tunes and watch the dogs play!

Yikes! of course only wanted to "schwim"

Jive worked very hard to keep his sheltie self from getting wet in the sprinkler ;)

DAMN! I think a drop or two must of hit him!

Got'cha! likes the sprinker best when its being turned off. THEN its a good time to attack it

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This dog party thing... ummm... yea well like "whatever!"... I hate crowds... and loud music... and...

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Banshee looking good but thinking  "do you KNOW there's a squirrel in the tree? HUH? Could SOMEBODY PLEASE get with the program here?"

Torch was actually caught on camera being a dog! GASP!

Down On The Farm

I recently watched a friends farm for the weekend. Great photo opportunities and the dogs got to spend the weekend running around the farm. 

Unfortunately, I downloaded all the photos I took the first day to my computer and cleared the card (ugh...). That computer crashed. So all I have left are the photos from the rest of the weekend and a lesson learned: "Dont clear the card until you back it up!". 

Sometimes however its as much fun to shoot photos of your friends shooting photos as it is to dodge sheep yourself...

 

I named this shot "Road Kill" :)

And yes... I suspect that Carolyn has a photo of me taking this photo of her :)

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Like father... like daughter.

... and then there was Ras, the Islandic Sheepdog. She does get around :)

Yikes! was in love with her.

Jive was interested but he was saving his heart for someone else.

Dig-it! was happy to have someone her own size to run with.

Got'cha! obviously was not listening :)

Gilli, a rescue BC that was being fostered at the farm, was too busy making sure she smelled REALLY good for her newest boyfriend...

"may I have this dance?"

... Pretty Please?!

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How can you have this many dogs in a shot and not have a SINGLE one looking at you?

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Can you find the Blue Boy? 

Im telling ya... he really IS a mountain goat!

Autumn is my favorite season

I look forward to breaking out the down jacket for the first time each year. 

I have this book with all kinds of places to go hiking with your dogs in New Jersey. Each week we go to a new park. 

This was Jack's first hike. 

He was a superstar and was SO HAPPY to be out in the woods! I normally take just one of my dogs with me at a time when I go hiking. It makes for great one on one time for us and it is easier when we go with a group of friends. Its also a great motivator each week to get out and hike more so each dog gets a chance. 

We brought Carolyn and Jive to collect ticks. Seriously, Jive is so low to the ground he collects all the ticks so there are no more for anyone else to get! Poor buddy - but is he a cute dog or WHAT?! I was never a sheltie fan until I got to know Jive. Now Im hooked.

Next to go for a hike was Got-cha! 

He was a mountain goat! Loving to climb on rocks and downed trees. His ears are in-between tapings (don't freak out Gayle... I wont leave them this way!)

LOTS of leaves in this park.

If you kiss your dog in the park and someone has a camera... its considered PUBLIC and that is mortifying :)

He's so cute I can't hardly stand it :)