A new pup in the park pack

Yesterday Maja had to fax something so she decided to dognap Lyra and take us both to the park, her sister came with us also. When we arrived we met so many dogs, who raced and played and ran and barked and then...little Sophie came to check us out. Sophie is a tiny 8 week old Parson Russell terrier, who is now in a new home with my owners friends. She is adorably tiny, faisty and can defend  herself, just doesnt know how to bark properly yet hihi. Today as we went to the park in the evening, when the sun goes down and we can normally breathe outside, she was there again, sleeping in her owners lap, tired from a 10 minute walk, hihi those were the days, was lovely being carried around in a hug. A lovely picture of Sophie and me:)

Other than her, we also met a few other dogs tonight, one peed on me haha, he marked me, yuck, had to be showered afterwards, I am not property I am a dog too! Hehe. A poodle defended his lab friend from my curious sniffing, so he bit me in my face, I insulted went away and layed down, shocked since I have never had such a bad confrontation before, but, I am not the fighting kind and I easily learn my lesson, so I stayed away. No harm was done to my pretty face tho, it was more of a disciplinary bite hehe.  Funny things happening in our doggy kingdom, but the evenings are long and cooler now, so a lot of dogs come out to play...I remember this time from last year, very lovely:). Asleep on my elephant toy I dream of tomorrows advantures. Nighty night all:).

Wet dog and cake

Maja's sister took some pictures of me a few days ago, when we were at the river bank, on which I look pretty and as usuall very wet hihi. Yesterday was norwegians national day and today was Magnus' moms birthday, so happy birthsday to both hihi! In celebration of those two day we baked a cake today, even Lyra came to help, and we enjoyed the making of it very much. Pictures to prove it hihi. First the ones Nina took.

Nicely groomed and wet as can be, enjoying the swimming after the stick. And now the making of cake, yum yum.

As you can see, we helped with cleaning hihi, vanilla cream, whipped cream...needs to be cleaned off hihi.

Groomed!

My owners decided it was time for my old hot fur to go. The summer is approaching and it's reaching 37 degrees celsium already, me, I suffer from it a lot and get very tired quickly. So off it went, 6 hours of scissor cutting of my fur. 6 hours of tolerance, which my owners are shocked by, I was so good and behaved, stood still, sat still, layed still for hours...Amazing isn't it, how shockingly good I can be hihi. Since shaving a cocker leads to curls and bad looking fur, we used scissors, which is very very precise work. Every bad cut shows as a line and it was hard work. I do have some lines hihi, we are not pros yet. But this is before and after pictures:)

My fur when I turned one year, long and easily dirty

New skin hihi

Today, playing with my bulldog toy

and this is what we were left with before the vacuuming hihi....I was furry, very very furry, but now...I will be less warm and more relaxed when it's sunny outside. So much fun and worth the work. Hihihi.

and now I am naked as a sheep hehe.

The duck hunter!

So there I was, minding my own buisness, slowely walking and drinking the river water, when a duck, who appears hurt starts flapping wings and taunting me to swim after her. Ofcours I don't listen to my owners, I think i heard Magnus yelling but I had to start paddling like crazy after the duck, who was somehow always just 2 meters ahead of me. Spaniels are known duck hunters so I had to prove to everyone that I can be also. I swam and swam and couldn't reach the duck, but I didn't give up. My owners were calling me, but hey, don't get me wrong I do have instincts sorry. After swimming a 100 meters Maja started to run after me, by the river shore to try and call me out, she cought up when I was approx 250 meters from when I started swimming. I finally reacted and gave up, I swam like crazy and didn't get the damn duck. Booo! Walked shamefully to the shore where my owners were and the duck flew next to us, mocking me by making "Kwak kwak" sounds. She won this fight. And then we saw, she had babies! She pretended to be hurt so I'd chase her and not attack or hurt her babies, tiny little ducklings, so adorable...
She "kwaked" a few more times and enjoyed the water, we went home. I am tired! I had a shower (needed it hihi every single hair on me was wet) and now I am asleep. Deep sleeeeeeeeep. Hihihi ducks are a good exercise!

April is...

... a month of birthdays, so many people and dogs celebrated. The most important thing is a new edition to the family, a little baby girl! Cannot wait to meet her and play hihi.
After my birthday we started preparing for Magnus', which was on the last day of april, so we were busy! By busy I mean we had to bake another cake! Oh yes I am known to be the cake monster now, but before I get into that, this is the cake we made:

 We took it up to the vineyards where everyone was celebrating bdays, so many people had their bdays around now, that the humans gathered on the same day with a lot of barbeque and sweets, no need to mention the cake was gone as it was served...soooo yummy!
But me being naughty me, before we took it up there, when it was being decorated I licked the whipped cream of the side where it was being decorated hihihihi...what other people don't know won't make them angry hihi. We redecorated it and noone noticed, haha. But what a yummy cake! I was crying at the closed door to get to it when it was being prepared, and Maja wanted to steal some also, but Mags wouldn't let us, mean mean mean hihi!
The day was amazing, so many of us gathered, and all dogs at one spot, even Lyra was there trying to steal the meat off the grill haha.

I have become obsessed with swimming, now when it's warm outside, I cannot seem to be able to stay dry.
Today we actually took our camera with us to take pictures of me swimming.

 And we made so many movies of me, I feel important hihi.

 

Perfect retriving of the stick by a wet dog hihi

Swimming to get to the floating stick, always wiggling my tail...that's me hihi

Running in the water after sticks, very tired already hehe

 Chasing birds that are in my way, hihi, pigeons, ducks don't bother me hehe. In the back you can see the castle, which is about 500 meters away from the vineyards