Happy St. Patty's Day

Or, well, I'm a day late, but I was busy yesterday. We had a lot of stuff to do, including heading up to flyball practice, which was great. Pallo was having some ball dropping issues, and his box turns looked terrible for once. I had someone else in the club run him. First time someone other than me did it, and he couldn't have cared less. I think I could officially send him off to a tournament with anyone and he would run just dandy.

Koira's x-ray analysis came back clean, so no hip, knee, or back injuries, and no signs of any inflammation of tissue either. I will get her to the chiropractor for an adjustment, and see if that helps, and otherwise am doing just gentle exercise for a few weeks (no frisbee, no flyball).



Pallo had a ball last night. Got a little out of control for the holiday.



Getting out of control like that leads to sleeping with strangers



Which leads to wide eyed regret the next morning.




Hope everyone had a happy, and safe, St. Patrick's Day

The day after Christmas

Well, its the day after Christmas. Me and the dogs had a good one, traveling to my sister's place. She did a big Christmas Eve dinner with her inlaws, me, and our mom, and then Christmas morning was just us.

It was Pallo's first Christmas with me, since I got him last February.
He is getting a good deal better at posing for me.


He is also a first class present opener. The pets always get presents in my family, so each of my dogs had four toys wrapped up as well as a bully stick each. Pallo got the hang of unwrapping his presents really fast, pinning them down with his paws and ripping up pieces of the paper. No pictures of it since I was supervising making sure the paper pieces were spit back out, not swallowed.

Koira has always been a great model for pictures. She sits still, looks straight at the camera, and seems to enjoy it for the most part.



Of course, you get even bigger pit bull smiles if you take pictures right after running the dogs at the dog park for an hour.



Koira is getting really good with the frisbee lately since we have added it to our playing routine. We've made a pretty big fool of ourselves for the past two years in frisbee competitions, but this summer I think we might actually do pretty good.

And of course, the dogs played tug with one of their new Christmas toys, ripping the tiny little Santa hat right off the hedgehog it belonged to. Meaning, of course, that I had to put the tiny little hat on the dogs and take pictures.



Hope everyone had a great holiday!

Merry merry Christmas and a really big hat

A few days ago I decided we needed to get some Christmas pictures done. It is Pallo's first Christmas with me. He has already choked on an ornament from the tree (he's fine, just spit it back up) and tried to steal the really large ornament ball on the coffee table.

Koira knows how to sit for proper Christmas pictures


She even kind of seems to enjoy doing pictures


At least until I start taking a few too many. Then she gets bored, but still photgraphs very well


Pallo on the other hand hates having to sit still for pictures.


He hates having stuff be put on his head, and does his best to eat it while ruining the picture


My favorite picture of him is when he finally gave up fighting it


And I can't leave out the cats. Martha wouldn't deign to have her picture taken, and Kitty was no where I could find, but Sassy loves all kinds of attention, even if it does involve giant, oversized Santa hats


Silly doggies.