The long walk and then some

The dogs woke us up at 4am this morning. Let me rephrase that, Miley woke us up at 4am. I thought she had to use the bathroom but she would go. At 6am we were walking all the dogs on the beach. I put long lines on the two shelties and let them run free. There is no one on the beach at that time of the morning. Guiness seemed tired today. Miley was out running him, unlike yesterday when she couldn't catch him. So I wasn't worried about him going to far. But he must have gotten a second wind because he took off down the beach after the silly birds flying over head. He didn't circle around and come back either. He just kept running and barking. Nothing was going to slow him down. Miley turned around. So far she wont go to far ahead without coming back. I wasn't to worried about Guiness. He cant leave the beach and its only several miles long. While several miles is a long way when you have to go chase your dog. When we came around the corner and couldn't see him it was time to get down the beach, especially when it gets close to 7am and people start coming onto the beach. They don't want to see a loose, barking , manic dog. Although he just wants the birds and is running in and out of the water ignoring everything else. My very nice husband went down the beach to retrieve the manic dog. Here are the pictures of him coming down the beach and what Guiness looked like when they got back.

Miley has had a hard time adjusting to being here. She cant seem to settle down and relax. It doesn't matter how much I exercise her. When we get back into the house, she starts barking at me and giving me toys to throw for her. She has also had a few accidents in the house. Not good. But I guess after this mornings extended exercise she was tired. See picture below.The next picture is of the logger head turtle tracks left by a turtle laying her eggs. The turtle patrol was coming down the beach after we retrieved Guiness and told us that there are usually 190 eggs in the nest. They will count the eggs in this nest and then decided if they were going to move the eggs further back into the dunes. They thought when the tide changes it may come up over the nest. Also they said to come back Sept. 15th if we want to see the eggs hatch and the babies return to the sea.

At the beach again

So we went down to the beach again. A training center close by was holding run-thurs on Saturday. I decided to take Miley and see what happens. There was only a few people there so that was kinda nice. I ran Miley first through the standard novice course. I don't think there were any problems except at the very last two obstacles. She ran down the dog walk and was suppose to take the jump off to the left but she came into close to me and passed the jump. Next I ran the masters course. Multiple problems. Started off great but then she was suppose to take the curved tunnel behind the a-frame but she took the a-frame instead. So Lori, who owes the training center, told me to front cross at the jump before the tunnel and that took care of that problem. Then, when she was suppose to take the a-frame ,she would take the tunnel. She had problems taking the correct side of the tunnel. She also dropped some bars. I ran the jumpers course too. I think it was to hard for us. But it gave us lots of info on what we need to work on. She dropped more bars then I thought she would. It maybe she needs more time to heal after being spayed. So the rest of the week she will be off.

Guiness and limping. Its very funny. Guiness can run on the beach chasing birds for about 4 miles. He runs up and down the beach , in and out of the water and never limps. But if I were to try and jump him, he would start limping. I know this because that's what happened last time we were at the beach. My husband said , "It looks like there is nothing wrong with him". So when we got home later that week, I tried jumping him. It was bad, he even just crashed into a jump. So that was the end of that.

Today is a good day

I got up at 5:30am. Not because I wanted to but because Miley was showing that she had to go outside. Of course she didn't use the bathroom. She goes outside and I think she forgets what she originally went out there to do. Anyway, I thought "man its hot out here". It was only 75 degrees out, but the humidity must be high. So as the sun started to come up, I notice it was very over cast. Must be a good day to go out to the training field and practice agility. So off we went. We got to the field and the weeds were very high. Those weeds that have the black seeds all over the top of them. They were higher than Miley and there were lots of them. I wasn't sure if that was going to be a problem. It wasn't. I wish I had brought my camera because she had those black seeds all over her face and chest. It would have made a great picture. We practice the chute since we hadn't done that in a while and I set up a panel jump and broad jump. She hadn't been expose to those before today. No problem. And , Ta da da daaa!!!!! She got on the teeter all by herself and road it down without any problems. That was a chicken jackpot moment!! And she repeated it several times and ran it in a sequence. I couldn't be happier. I was very worried about that teeter. I was thinking that I couldn't even run her in home trials because she wont get on our clubs teeter. I hope it stays that way. Over all she did well, some wide turns but they were my fault. My cues were late. I saw some blatant head checks.
Another good thing was that she rode in the car in a crate without a problem. In case your new to this blog, Miley hates the car. I put the crate in the front seat. This car will turn the air bag off if the weight is to light. I also bought this stuff called, "NatureVet Quiet moment". Its suppose to help with traveling, fireworks etc... I'm not sure what helped but I just hope it continues. Yea!!!

Here's Roxy

I'm finally home. Its always so good to come home. The dogs went crazy when I got here. They have been running around the house like crazy. My husband said they didn't do any of that while I was gone. I thought I would post this video of Roxy barking. Its a funny bark I think for a chihuahua. None of the other chihuahuas I know bark like this, but I only know about 5. Roxy is barking at Miley because Miley has a bone. Roxy has a bone too, but she always wants Guiness's or Miley's bones. Roxy never eats her bones.

Still in Virginia

This is my son and I on the deck of the battleship.

We went to see the USS Wisconsin. Its a battleship that is Inactive. It periodically gets reactivated for service. The last time was in Desert Storm. You cant go inside it but it was still neat to be able to walk on it.

In the mornings, Ive been walking on the beach. I'm surprised by the amount of people that don't pick up after their dogs. They are only allowed to be on the beach before 10am and after 6pm. No wonder since a lot of them cant pick up after them. Yuk!! Who would do that?

My sister has a 13 year old lab. She jumped down into the living room and hurt her left rear leg. (same leg a Guiness, maybe I'm a jinx) She really could hardly walk. It was terrible. My sister took her to the vet. They checked her leg and didn't even do x-rays and said it was a partial tear of her ACL of her knee. Anyway, they said to rest it for 3 weeks and come back for a recheck. They gave her an anti-inflammatory. About an hour and a half later she was so much better. She can now get up and down the step and can go from room to room. She only has a very slight limp. I wish anti-inflammatories helped Guiness like that. But they don't.

Happy Fourth of July!!!

We are in Virgina Beach visiting my sister. No dog, no husband , just kids. Poor husband , poor dogs. We walked to the beach and saw the fire works. It was probably one of the best fireworks displays ever. I did go with the friend, Maribeth, while I was still in college to see the fire works in Washington ,D.C. They were pretty good, but these were better. And we didn't have to fight all the people getting home.

Who sleeps like this?

This is how Miley was sleeping the other night. And there is a book under her that you cant see. .Here are some pictures of the other dogs sleeping too.