We are back again

Greetings from Lucky and Rocco after the long brake in our blog. It seems I'm very capable to keep myself very busy and as I definately won't steal time from my daughter and dogs there's just computer left to steal that time from :o). But all my big projects are over for now, so I hope there will be more life here again in the future.
To write here all the things we have done in between would make this posting too long, so I'll try to make it short:
Starting last autumn - we started agility trainings with Lucky.
Our trainer is Kristina, my friend and ovner of Lucky's friend Joker and Rocco's friend Kendzi. Years ago, when we run agility with Rocco, I admired cooperation between Kristina and Kendzi and Kristina's handler skills. Though Kendzi is retired now, they still are my favourite agility couple and probably always will be. Thank you, Kristina, for teaching us!!! And I just have to mention that Kendzi is Estonia's first International Agility Champion and this far the only one . Talking about our training - Lucky loves agility. He loves all the training, but running he loves even more then treats and toys I offer him on the agility field. We competed up to highest class with Rocco, before he had to retire because of his arthritis, but with Lucky I feel like I hadn't ever run agility before - Lucky is just so fast. But he is fast in everything, even barking 10 x faster then Rocco :o). And Rocco is agility tourist now, waiting in the crate and eating candies for that. Here's couple of pictures and I'll keep you updated with our progress



About winter there is a few postings already, but just to summarize : it was wonderful . With so much snow, that most roads to our beloved walkingplaces stayed closed almost until the middle of April and everywhere else you could think about walking the dogs were skiing trails and walking and dogs were prohibited. Well, still I hope that Rocco & Lucky don't have reason to complain, here's some photo evidence for you. Starting from the most beautiful I have - here is a slide show of photos made by Karin Põiklägu and bigger pictures you can see here.

Then a new experience for me - driving on the ice road. I'm not sure if dogs appreciated the new experience, but it was interesting for us. And dogs got a walk on island.


Then spring. Again I have many beautiful pictures made by Karin to show to you

And now it's summer. The weather has been amazing, sunny and very, very hot . Dogs enjoy their summer freedom at our country home. At the evening, when I get home they greet me well rested and waiting for me to entertain them :o). Lucky has most sweetest "back-molar-hi" for me :o) It means he jumps up on me and if I give him my hand to lean on (because he want's to be taller to say hi properly) he'll chew my hand and kiss me alternately :o) . There's so many things he would like to do (all those things include speed :o). ) and he is confused to choose which one to ask. Rocco, just the opposite, knows exactly what he would like - to go swimming. He is real Shetland beaver - first one to go to water and last one to come out. Swimming 30 minutes without resting is no problem for him and considering it's good for his joints + it makes him happy, I haven't really limited him. Lucky doesn't see any point in just swimming, he complains when we go in and only sometimes joins us, if it seems to him we have too much fun without him. BUT... he could chase water splaches endlessly. If I stop the splach-game and turn my attention on something else, he'll look my leg in water for some time, beeing very concentrated and then scrapes me very pollitely to remind about discontinued game:o). And if we go out of the water too early (well, it's always too early for him) he just stands there and won't go out :o). He can go swimming too if we throw something valuable there - like wooden stick :o), but then he still first tries to walk on water :o). I haven't understood why retrieving from water is so fun for him. He very seldom retrieves on land. His favourite game at home is football. Me and Kelli play with his soft ball and he chases it back and forth and barks all the time :o).
Now, link to summer album and that's all for summary. If I have forgotten something important , I'll tell about it later and I'll post some "new" news too and try to keep the track in future ;o)