Two flyball titles and a ton of pictures

Pallo is now a Flyball Dog Excellent. He has officially earned his FD and FDX titles, and is well on his way to his next title. One of my awesome teammates managed to get a good picture of Pallo coming back during the tournament. He may not have run clean in every race this time, but he did awesome for being a green dog racing outdoors for the first time, in the hottest weather of the year.

Yay Pallo the Viking.


So took the dogs for a hike today. I wanted to try out my new (new to me) camera. We hit the water in a quarry pond on the way back to the car, and got some fun pictures.
Koira shaking, right next to the camera.And of course looking noble. Or, waiting for the ball to be thrown. One or the other. This picture is so typical of these two dog beasts. Koira, paying attention, posing, and looking beautiful. And Pallo's butt, looking silly, as he runs off to do something else.

Though, I did manage to get a nice picture of the Pallo dog for the first time ever. Looking all noble and everything.

More pictures to come. Over the next two weeks, Koira will be filming for Animal Planet and modeling for RuffWear, so we are excited and busy.

Tree frogs and chiropractors

Yesterday Koira and Pallo went to the chiropractor for the first time. I've never been to one myself, but someone suggested they could use an adjustment, and I figured why not.

Pallo was a bit weird about it, as he is with pretty much anyone but me touching him, but the chiro worked with him about it, so he did pretty good after he relaxed a little. Koira just wanted to lick the chiro, but did get her jaw and neck realigned, so hopefully that will help her with catching the ball out of the flyball box.

Then, this evening, Koira came walking in the house with something green on her back. Thinking it was a leaf, I gave it a flick, realizing as soon as I made contact that it was not a leaf, it was a tree frog. I searched all over where I thought it had gone, and didn't find anything. Then, a few minutes later, sure enough, there was a tree frog hanging out on my door. I took it out and let it loose in the front yard in some bushes. Now I just wonder if its the same tree frog Koira had hitch a ride in with her a month or so ago. Does she have a tree frog friend, or is she just tree like to the frogs?

Canada, here we come!

I just got an email this morning from a team looking for a dog to run both days of the Black Creek tournament, so looks like me and Pallo have our ticket to Canada.

I just made a vet appointment for him to get his health certificate, so that we can actually cross the border both ways, because it would suck to get most of the way through the drive and then not get over the border. Now I just need to look up where we need to get a ferry, what it costs, and make sure I've got the money to do this.... I better have the money to do this, I've been looking forward to it for a long time.