Introducing Pepper

We have a new doggie friend!  In addition to Sprocket.  Not only is she a new doggie friend but rather she is being introduced a long time after we adopted her.  We adopted her in April 2015.  When we were about to move back to Peakhurst.

She's very cute.  Was marketed to us a a 'schnauzer cross' but looks more like a wolfhound.  Only smaller. A lot smaller!!

Here's a couple of photos from the pound when I fell in love with her:

And a few more current photos with Sprocket:

 When we are out they do a lot of running around and playing:

 Pepper loves waiting for us to come home:

 This is what happens when they go to doggie paradise their dog sitters:

 and a photo of Sprocket.  Just because he looks a bit silly :)

Different Dog - same blog

We adopted another dog after Batman passed away but I haven't had the motivation to help him post some blogs.  Sprocket has now been with us for over 2 years so I thought he deserved to get a voice too!

Sprocket has some issues but overall is a fantastic dog... recently we've been trying to train him out of his separation anxiety issues with some mixed results.

Let's kick things off...

Here's a picture of Sprocket walking with me.  I think I took this when we lived in Carlton/Allawah...

Last Post

This is Batman's last post.  Or rather his humans' last post as they grieve his passing.
Batman passed away due to his habit of eating things off the ground.  Unfortunately I wasn't familiar with fox baits but he ate one at around 7.30 on Monday 14th June during the normal morning walk.  He was fine up until mid morning (10.30ish?) when he vomited all his food from the morning up and then followed up by lots of convulsions and foaming at the mouth.  He expelled all his solids and liquid wastes and was clawing or paddling frantically.  After a number of these convulsions and us frantically calling for a local vet he passed away as we just got into the car and were heading to a vet.

He is buried with his basket under a tree in Howes Valley.

We will absolutely miss our favourite and best dog in the world.

FIFA World Cup “Footy” Tipping

I’m branching out and have entered into my human’s work ‘footy’ (soccer in this case!) tipping competition.

Through a series of questions I have indicated my tips.  I do like it when they use the food as an option although I do have a tendency to head towards the left first…

This is round one:

France v Mexico  = France

Greece v Nigeria = Nigeria

Argentina v Korea Republic = Argentina

South Africa v Uruguay = Draw

Spain v Switzerland = Spain

Honduras v Chile = Chile

Brazil v Korea DPR = Draw

Ivory Coast v Portugal = Portugal

New Zealand v Slovakia = New Zealand

Italy v Paraguay = Italy

Japan v Cameroon = Japan

Netherlands v Denmark = Netherlands

Germany v Australia = Germany

Serbia v Ghana = Serbia

Algeria v Slovenia = Slovenia

England v USA = England

Argentina v Nigeria = Draw

Korea Republic v Greece = Korea Republic

Uruguay v France = Draw

South Africa v Mexico = Mexico

Howes Valley Visitors

We had a lot of visitors up at Howes Valley this weekend.  So many chances of someone feeding me!  Oooh how exciting.  Some of them even took me down to the dam so I could fascinate them with my frog catching and eating ability.

Please Ms Spud… I want some too!!! 

It got cold in the morning so someone made me wear my jacket. 

Then… even after I played with them and put my dirty paws on all of them… they left one by one or two by two or some number by some number and left only my humans.  Where did they go and why did they leave me?  They just drove off!  *whimper* *bark* *whine*

Bye Adam and Sheetal.  It was fun growling at you Adam (but you scared me!)

Bye Ciaran and Georgie!

Bye Jonathan!

Bye Spud, Cathy and Pauly!

(Bye Nikki from the day before)

Helping out at Howes Valley

This is my new haircut!  It’s a bit chilly in terms of timing but at least I don’t have as many bad hair days. 

I’m helping out and checking on the progress of those floorboards.  The view from up here is pretty good… get back to work guys!

Um seriously I’m helping!  I’m just dreaming of ways to make this build go quicker…

Keep on working guys… I’m watching you.  Supervision is such hard work!

Guilty!

Oops. I did it again! I raided the bin but was caught with the goodies on my towel. But hey... at least it was on the towel. Surely that counts for something?