Weekend in Pärnu

Well, you all know I have 2 dogs. But daddy can't perform worse then me - he has new friend too - 4-wheeled :o) and biiig. A bus. And Toyota of course :o). And as he needed to test it, he took out the last seats, builded a "sleepingroom" instead and we had a wonderful travelling weekend to Estonian summer capital Pärnu. As pictures tell more then 100 words:

Fountains were really to gladden our daughter - water is just wonderful babysitter for a 5 years old, so after taking pictures of her having fun, I still had time to entertain my dogs too - who, as you can see, didn't like the idea very much :o)

Rocco loves the water and Lucky loves chasing Rocco...

...and they both love chasing me...

... and although Lucky doesn't count swimming appropriate for a decent Sheltie, he couldn't trust us all to go to water and have fun without him - Lucky's second time of swimming:And to follow the old tradition - we haven't visited Pärnu if we haven't walked on Rüütli street:

Bus was just great for 3 people and 3 dogs, (oops, I just found out, that our weekend-dog Jossu and the bus didn't get to any picture, we have to go back and correct that mistake:o) ) so I hope to share more travel pictures here with you soon :o)

Dogs in theatre :o)

Rocco and Lucky are watching soap-opera "Cats eating". The episode actors are performing is almost the same evening after evening, but dogs won't get bored. Specially Rocco can stay there watching cats for very long time.

Picking berries

Well, red currants are too sour for them, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries are very tasty.

Rocco & Lucky playing

01.08 Sheltie fun day vol 2.

We had wonderful day with Kristina and her Shelties again.

On the picture Kristina with Joker & Kendzi and my daughter Kelli with Lucky & Rocco

Weather was not so nice this time and I didn't get as much evidence of how happy the dogs were as I would liked to. But what I got is here:

More summerpictures

05.07 on Kõrvemaa

26.06 on north coast

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 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) :

22.05 walk at Kakerdaja bog (almost, with the help of Photoshop:o) and my very little experience with it)

21.05 Lucky meeting "Kissing students" in Tartu

Sandstones at beach of Peipsi lake

Sunset at Aa beach

Lucky helping us with planting flowers :o)

First you have to put some food between puppys paws and the capture the moment he has finished it. As easy as that :o) :

Rocco just has to carry his tail high, otherwise little black mouse will bite it off :o)