Sheltie fun day

Rocco and Lucky are sleeping next to me right now, and probably dreaming about the great day they had today. We had Kristina visiting us with her 2 Shelties - Kendzi and Joker.

Rocco and Kendzi are old friends - for about 6 years, and they share same hobby - barking :o). But Lucky and Joker met first time. You can see from pictures below how much they enjoyed each others company.

Bigger one has bigger bowl, smaller one smaller bowl :o)

We tried to take some "proper" photos of the puppies, but they were too busy for that, here's some best shots we got.

Rocco has learned to love the camera. He had no interest of posing before Lucky came, but now he is always somewhere very near, if I have camera with me and of course the dear old friend has to get to the picture too:

It's wonderful summer outside, Rocco just loves swimming, Kendzi knows how to swim too, and Joker learned it today. But Lucky only agreed to put his 2 first paws to water and preferred to tell his oppinion from safe distance :o)

And here some more posing by puppies:

Rocco and Winnie on Kõrvemaa

Midsummer

Learning to know the world

Lucky met cow today. He was very suspicious and had a lot to say to her,

and cow seemed to like the company of little herding dog, as she came as close as she could to look at him

It was fun to see Lucky and cow getting acquainted, it remembered me when Rocco first saw the cows, he sneaked near to them and just lied there and watched them for quite a long time.

Today he was watching us, wondering what's the big fuss about a cow :o)

Rocco hasn't been posing much lately, and that's mostly because he has "enjoyed his life too much". For example last weekend when we went for a walk to a bog, before we even got to the boardwalk, he had a bathing in ditch. The bog ditch of course has a lot of bog peat in water and so Rocco didn't look very blue merle after coming out. And that's not exactly desirable in order to get a good sheltie-photo. The usual mud comes out of his coat easily, just let him dry a little and it's possible to plant a flower to the place he was just sleeping but dog is clean again :o). But the peat was still in his coat today, so I found he had deserved a very comprehensive grooming. Lucky was very helpful :o) steeling my tools to save his friend:
But still Rocco donated a lot of hair to my dog-hair-jacket-to-be foundation :o) and looked very good after that:
Even Lucky cooperated for a second - with the help of dryfood pieces between his legs.
But we need new picture for homepage and it's impossible to take it in one second. So I asked daddy to catch Lucky and bring him back. Result was, that both Shelties escaped from Sheepdog-catcher and daddy brought me the only he could catch:o) :

It's Lucky's 3 months birthday today!!!

Happy birthday to Foxy, Shadow, Max and Isac! Lucky & co.

Lucky is 27 cm and 3,3 kg.

Lucky at 12 weeks

Here is my "catch" after chasing Lucky for a week with camera to get some good 12 weeks pictures :o).