The trip to Logar Valley

The magnificant panorama of the Logar Valley

    Early saturday morning, breakfast and the car safety belt. That can only mean one thing! Roadtrip yippppyyyy. We packed towels (yes I tend to get wet and dirty hihi), blanket for the car seat, sandwiches and waters, phone rang, it was Klemen, I barked...crazy happy excited I started running around the house showing how much I wanna go already, what is taking so long. And so we went, driving about an hour thru Slovenia, among the fields between the mountain cliffs, we finally arrived at the mouth of the most beautiful valley in this country. It just opens up, with white mountain tops gently covered by trees at their feet. What magnificant nature. The Logar valley is the flattest valley I have ever walked, leading all the way up to the waterfall of the river we have in our town, but this water is crystal clear and cold. It's a national park, with romatic little pathways thru the area, which lead to the water fall if you don't take the direct road. We walked about 2 hours to get to the waterfall, meeting people and dogs, played and then I found the best thing...oh yes, the best smelling thing a dog can find in nature...horse poop! Oh my owners weren't happy, I just dived into it, started rubbing my ears in it hihi... the speed of me being pulled away from it was like the lightening, followed by laugher from the people around. Oh come on, can't a dog have a good nature scent. Haha. After a bit, we walked and actually met the creatures who provide such a good smell, hihi, I have met horses and a donkey! Never seen a horse upclose or a donkey in my life. I was scared and sceptic about them, which is good, I didn't invade their privacy, I just looked at them and respected them from afar. After the intial fear, I saw they weren't there to harm anyone, so I just enjoyed their presence and didn't get bothered at all, but I never barked at them, I was polite and so were they.

Already dipped into water and ready to walk

Being calm with other animals

Rehydrating is important hihi

Dry riverbed I was exploring

The waters in the summer subside under the land, making the riverbeds look like a rocky road, I had to explore everything ofcourse hihi. We walked over the road onwards the forest patch and met a big touristic cottage, where a lot of people were and even tho all dogs are supposed to be on a leash, I was kept free most of the time since I behave so well and tourists seemed to enjoy it, comments about how good and trained I am could be heard from people walking by.

Small reststop for people

Here we ate and played, pretty nature

First dip into water a few meters from waterfall Rinka

The water was too cold even for me

And a few pictures Klemen took, so one can see the magnificent nature.

Pascal team

Okay one of me, since I am just supercute

Right before the waterfall, see how behaved I am hihi

Magnus being showered with icy fresh waterfall

What a beautiful day so far. After walking uphill for 20 minutes, we finally got to the waterfall, where the wind was quite strong and the spraying of the cold water got us all soaked hehe. And since I had to explore the surrounding areas, I let go of my ball which the water took down and Magnus had to climb down to get it hehe, but we got it back. A movie right before I let go of the ball.

The waterfall Rinka from afar

 The area was filled with tourists, and the rocky paths were wet and overcrowded, but we got our turn to see it and we safely checked it out. We started walking back, down the steep path from the waterfall when all of sudden, it started raining, and I mean raining, pouring down like mad. Which was quite crazy since we were about 10 kilometers from our parked car hehe. We had to walk really fast by the road to try and get there as soon as possible. We were soaked and tired, since we just walked around 5 hours haha. Fun but cold and wet hihi. We wanted to make a few more stops on the road to see other things we planned, but since we got all wet we had to skip them and plan to do it another day, which is even better since we now have to come back to this area and enjoy the scenery again.

So to sum it up, today I did the following:
- Saw my first waterfall
- Saw a horse and a donkey upclose for the first time
- Enjoyed a good horse poop dive for the first time hihi
- Walked thru one of the national parks for the first time

What an exciting day. Now I am sleeping like a bug, all warm and happy on my pillow on the bed, next to Mag's foot, being hugged by Liza and dreaming of the things I saw today. I also forgot to mention we have baby fish which I can't even see since they r such tiny babies still, but lots of animal love in this house hihi. Cannot wait till the new advanture.

Cottage trip

Two days ago, we decided to walk a little longer, to cleanse our bodies and refresh in the minty air of the nearby hills. The town we live, was built in the valley of surrounding hills, where in the medieval times people built pyres to signal the attacks of invaders to the city castle. Our destination was the Cottage of Celje, which is only 650m above sea level, yet quite a walk from the bottom where we started. We traveled about 20 kilometers there and back, taking a few pauses and drink breaks. We passed an old Beech tree, which is belived to be around 300 years old, it's huge and has a little water spring running under it, where we got to refill the bottles.

The 300 year old beech behind me

Suprisingly there was a lot of people walking the same path, which isn't the easiet to walk for non sportsmen, when you begin you need to walk up a lot of stairs, which are made from logs, making it hard to run up. I was off leash all the time, while Lyra, who came with, was always on the leash since she likes to bark at people. I behaved and didn't bother anyone who passed us by or walked behind, I just enjoyed the scenery and company.

the starting steps, many of them

We met loads of animals on the way, and while we were curious, poor little Lyra came a little too close to the electric fence and got spiked, she cried, but mostly since she got scared, I was kept away from it not to learn the lesson also hihi. I get very curious over livestock, I want to befrend everyone and most of the big animals don't trust dogs, smartly so, since some of us can hurt them I guess. But I was allowed to stare and observe the funny creatures munching on the grass.

If I am not allowed to play with them, I lose intrest hehe

So we took a few pictures of me in the view of the green surroundings and headed home almost in the dark. The trip took us around 4 hours and we were really nicely tired afterwards, so the best part followed, dinner and sleep hihi.

Posing in front of the castle and the valley between

Pretty dog in pretty nature, doesn't get better then that:)

After a good nights rest, we had to get up early and meet with Maja's family for some good old fashioned mushroom picking. It's been a lovely trip, where we found baby shroomies and ran in the forest with Lyra, chasing eachother and fetching sticks and branches.
But I have forgotten to add another very funny movie, which we made after the fridge we won at the coca cola competition arrived and got unpacked, I played the destructive polarbear (with permission hihi) and made holes into the packing. I am strong and powerful hihi. Magnus thought me how the polarbears puncture ice when hunting for seals, so I used the same strategy on the carton and it worked! I made a hole and started bitting the parts away. So much fun destroying things when owners allow it hihi.

Helped putting things in, made sure it was all fresh

And here I helped with recycling hihi

Things get worse before they get better

After my post yesterday, things turned for the worse, I thought we might need the vetenarian for sure. I have lost all the water inside of me, could barely walk, couldn't keep a drop of liquid down and then...Maja forced edable carbon pill melted in water down my throat, which I swallowed and voila! I stopped feeling bad and went to bed. Magnus woke up to stay wih me in case of cramps or any more problems, but I just slept. When I woke up, I had breakfast, which stayed inside me, drank loads of water and felt fine.
As if nothing happened.
The walk in the morning was fun too, met some dogs and played a little. Afternoon Maja and I went to the vineyards and stayed there till evening, so Magnus could get some well deserved rest. Poor owners, they were caretakers all night and day, but now we are all happy that I am lively, playful and have a HUGE apetite hihi. All is well for now, apart from a little constipation on my side, hihi carbon pills really worked. But the sun shined thru the clouds and we are all feeling good.

Huge scare

I was spoiled by a nice dinner tonight, rice with wet dog food from a bag. Almost instantly my owners started looking at me very funny, observing me and inspecting me. My eyes were red and swallen, the inner eye was covering half of my lens and within a few minutes they turned back to normal. Really creepy.
A few hours later I started getting really bad diarrhea, it was just running out of me. All day I had diarrhea but this evening, it turned into water and slime. And soon after I started womitting, badly. First the undigested food and later foam and water. I was drooling and could barely move around, that was going on for a few hours, I was completely exhausted and lifeless, they tried to take me for some fresh air, but I was walking without energy so we made only a few steps before we turned home. I didn't want to drink water and we feared dehydration. So my owners forced some water into me with a syringe tube. We almost called the emergency vet, I have never been like this before. It was really scary.

About an hour later I got up and drank, my eyes were clear and happy. I wanted to play a little so we did, womitting stopped and now I am just walking around a little, my owners are just glad that whatever I ate, has hopefully gone out and tomorrow we wont be in such worries as tonight, if I am not myself, we will go visit Dr. Rok and the gang at our vet's office. But so far so good.

Long time

Oh dear, I haven't posted in a very long time, almost a month!
So much has been happening so let me start at the beginning of the month.

At one of our walks by the river we met a german terrier girl, who didn't like dogs and she went at my neck and bit me, no blood or anything but she just kept attacking me with the intent to hurt. I cried and got really scared since this was the first time I have been in pain by another dog. Ever since that incident I am a bit less tolerant to dogs and I just try and ignore them, even those I used to play with, althought I am gettng back into the whole happy to see doggies routine hihi.

Middle of the month was the biggest test for me, my owners went to Norway and for the first time I was without them. I was without them for four days, 4 whole days! And nights! Klemen, their friend was doggysitting me and we had loads of fun, he was even kind enough to live here with me and the cats so we wouldn't be stressed out too much. He spoiled me, oh yes he did, he made me special dinners with chopped raw liver and fried me eggs...Since then I demand some extra goodies for my dinner hihi. I was spoiled.
That weekend I was visiting Maja's parents in the morning of friday and monday when he had to work, so I spent a lot of time with Tara and Emma. Ofcourse I wouldn't be me if I didn't bother her mom for throwing me a stick that I can fetch, but she did and we had a great time. It was very confusing time tho, I didn't know what was going on and where my owners were, when they were comming back for me and why I was left behind. I was sad, but I was kept busy and taken out a lot of times per day to be tired and have fun. I spent a lot of time in the car also, just driving to places and enjoying the air conditioning hihi.

Missing my owners with sad eyes, but having fun outside

Klemen and I got a free frisbee which was nice to chew on hihi

 Monday came and in the evening we were waiting for the sms from my owners to come pick them up as we had planned, so we sat in the car and drove about an hour to a very loud place. I saw airplanes and it was a lot of people. We drove from the parking and there they were! Those buggers, leaving me alone for days! I was happy and angry hihi. I cried and jumped and barked and I told them everything I had on my mind. I am way too adorable to be left behind damnit! Hihi.

At the airport parking, after greeting I had to mark I was there:)

We sat in the car and drove home, I slept most of the time on Maja's lap and listened to Klemen tell how indiscribably good I was. Magnus kept petting me and telling me I was missed. They were so proud of me for being so shockingly good with everyone, so I got a lot of kisses. Klemen told how I didn't even need to be on a leash 95% of the time, since I walked so nicely with him everywhere, crowded public places and out in the open. Maja's parents said it's not normal to be so disciplined and well behaved and most of all as Cesar Millan would say, I am balanced! I am one year and only a few months old and people notice how behaved I am, Sophies owner even called me a "zen dog" hihi. But damn was I dirty when they came home, I smelled so bad, since us two boys didn't bother with showering me for that long weekend, I obtained a nice dog smell haha.

When we arrived home, we unpacked a few of their things and I had to smell everything since it was so many new smells which I never smelled before. And then we slept till noon, well I did, I needed the rest since this was quite stressful for me, I have to admit.

Days passed and I was slowely getting back into my normal routine, I wasn't scared everytime one my owners left the house, I knew they would be back for me.

I got new food with salmon and a good scrub with the new shampoo. I will need some time to get back to normal, but I am getting there little by little everyday. I do shake a lot when I am scared or excited, but we do a lot of fun stuff together so I am slowely losing the fears I gotten since I had to be without them.
It's very easy to spot that I am not completely myself, since they once joked that if I ever refuse to eat, they will know something is very wrong. And it happened, I am very reserved when it comes to food, I need to be told to eat out of my food bowl and if we are playing with a tennis ball and I get offered a cookie, I just spit it out and continue to play. Something I have never done before their vacation.

A few days after their returned, we were doggysitting little Sophie, the kiddo has so much energy that we had to take a long walk, a really long walk with her, but she wants to play rough and I have to tell her I dislike it, so when I got tired, yes me not her hehe, Maja just played with her, while I went to sleep haha. She is really cute and tiny tho, so when I see her I get very happy. We actually met them yesterday on our walk, it was raining but we always enjoy the outdoors anyways. She has those baby needle teeth and no park manners yet...oh those puppy days were fun! She is already in school tho, and is behaving very nicely on the leash, good girl:).

For a few days in the afternoon, we went up to the vineyards to help out, me by brining all those slippery wet sticks back to their land and my owners by putting nets on the grapevines so that the birds and the hale won't destroy them. Once we got caught by rain and we walked soaking wet home, that was fun, I was sooooo muddy, oh they joy hihi. But then the dread happens, a good shower and grooming..oh how I hate being combed, when one of my owners says they will groom me, I just go sleep under a table where they can't reach me. I am not a girl! I don't like being all pretty and clean hehe. Has to be done tho, my long ears especially. Since I have the talent of bringing half the forest with me in my fur, hidden very deep in knots I suffer a lot with having to sit still and look fresh haha. I don't feel the discomfort I just don't think it's fun hihi.

We were suppose to take a long trip this weekend but the rains in Slovenia are very awful at the moment, so we couldn't go into the mountains just yet. Soon I hear, in a couple of weeks. We will take so many pictures again hihi.

Those were my adventures for the month, but from now on I promise to keep everyone updated more frequently.