Sunny Sunday

After for about a month of rain it was sun outside this weekend! I was already afraid I have to buy underwater camera to be able to take pictures outside :o) but fortunately rain did stop at last. Well, as it comes to pictures, still all I have to present is some snapshots. I had a plan to try to take some well posed photos, but dogs were running around so happily, that looking at them the was bigger joy then would have been having pictures of well behaving dogs. I try to find opportunities for Lucky to run off leach every day, but was it the sun, or place or having his all family out with him; he was running around us just out of pure joy of running. Even Rocco, who usually cooperates very well, showed in every possible way he doesn't have time for posing :o)

All souls' day

Today it's All souls' day in Estonian national calendar. It's the day, where on windows of most homes candles are lit to honour the dear ones who are not with us any more.

At our home, next to candle lit for the dear people we miss, one candle is lit for the furry friends, who have played important role in our lives.

Here's a picture of Rally, my first dog. Still miss you, dear little friend.

Rainy autumn photos

It's raining and raining and we haven't seen sun for weeks. In order to take picutres outside, I probably should buy an underwater camera :o). But until I don't have it, her is what I have got in mean time:

Lucky saying good bye to birds leaving to south

Rocco always has time to stand still for the picture

It's Lucky's 7 months birthday!!!

Best wishes from Lucky to his sister and brothers!

Lucky's weight is 5,8 kg and his height about 36 cm.

Our camera refused to cooperate today, so we don't have any fresh evidence, how beautiful the birtday boy is. Until we fix that mistake, here's a picture from last weekend :

It's just a catched moment, I wanted to try again today, with better posing, but unfortunately we had to postpond this plan until next weekend. I hope the scenary stays the same. This wasn't the only weekend plan, that turned out different. First was the friday night walk at country, which is obligatory if I don't want to wake up at 6 on Saturday morning :o). As our country home is quite far from civilisation, dogs can run free there. I just put a blinky on Lucky, so I could see where he is. This time we surprisingly got company on our walk - we heard a barking-like noise from the forest just some meters behind us. I'm not sure who it was, but my good imagination automatically created a picture in my mind of 2 foxes arguing which will get which of my dogs as a dinner :o). Lucky of course senced great fun and wanted to join it, the whole world seems nice to him. But I managed to catch him and as Rocco did some "serious watchdog" barking instead of his "I love to bark"barking, Lucky too got serious and helped him :o). After that of course we went home as fast as we could and next time I'll try to hire Jossu to be a securitydog for us :o).

Sheltie fun again...

... even bigger, as there was 6 Shelties involved today.

„Light Wanders in Kadriorg”

Today it was concert night in candle and torch light in Kadriorg.

With dogs we listened the music from distance, but the park was so beautiful in the light of thousands of candles and torches. Dogs probably would have enjoyed a walk in forest more, but a little bit of culture never hurts :o)

Weekend pictures

I was afraid it will happen some day, and now it has - it's autumn outside :o). It's raining almost every day and it's cold and dark on mornings and evenings. But if it's not raining, it very beautiful outside. Friday night it was big full moon outside when I went for a walk with dogs at country. The birds too used the light of the moon for their travel to the south. It would have been so easy to stay at home and watch TV, I'm so happy I have dogs who won't let me miss beautiful moments like that.

On Saturday the weather forecast said the big storm is coming, so we took the camera and went to catch some autumn photos.

Here's the picture how hard Lucky is trying to ask Rocco to play with him:

And here's the ansver, if he is too unmodest:

But Lucky is happy about any attention. Rocco's "strong words" just make him run big rounds around Rocco :o)

Lucky got new friend today...

... a beautiful blue merle Sheltie girl Fancy. Fancy is just in same age and size as Lucky and they had wonderful time playing together. Here's the evidence:

All photos are taken by Karin Põiklägu. I'm sure many of you have seen her pictures before, Karin is absolutely the best Sheltie photographer in Estonia. Here's link to her photo album http://picasaweb.google.com/kuukivishelties/ and here's some more photos of our walk http://picasaweb.google.com/kuukivishelties/2009Sugis#. There was no light conditions at all outside, Karin really made wonders to get so many beautiful pictures.

Sportive weekend 26.9

Near to our country home is sports center. This weekend bicyckle marathon took place there. Our friends participated in long distance, but our little daughter was participating too, on childrens marathon. She is in the middle on the photo below (photo taken by T.Paesüld)And of course Rocco and Lucky belonged to her fan-club too :o) Here's how Lucky and another little fan had fun together.

Shocking story in newspaper today

There was a shocking story in newspaper today. Here's the link to original article http://www.postimees.ee/?id=167033 . And as it's only in estonian: it's written as a dog had sent a letter. And the letter tells how his ovner hurt him very bad. He tells how he loved his ovner, and how he thinks he didn't do anything bad. How he thought that she wants to play with him, when she grabbed him, as she had been nice to him, when he was a puppy, held him in arms and scratched his ear and sometimes took for a walk. But this time she took scissors and cut him. To both of his ears and then tried to cut off his testicles. He tells how he cried from pain and how somebody walking by heard it and came to help. And how police came and how he was taken to vet. And now he is in Võru shelter http://voru.varjupaik.ee/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album272&id=September_09_066.
The punishments for cruelty against animals are ridiculous in Estonia. Maybe she will be denied to have animals in future. But if not, maybe she will even get this poor dog back. I really hope this will never happen. And that what goes around comes around - 1000x to this person.
Probably this dog was looking at his ovner with the same loyal, loving, shining eyes as our dogs look at us when we interact with them, hoping something nice will happen. HOW can someone deliberately do something like that to a dog??? Unfortunately stories like this are not rare in Estonia.

Just a picture...

... of Rocco's and Lucky's kennel :o)

It's Roccos 8 years birthday today!!!

Happy birthday, dear little friend!!!

Autumn pictures

Here's some pictures I promised to take.

And if you scroll, there's an "old news" added too.

There is a lot of everything in forest this year:
Rocco with a big muchroom we found:
(Providing it was somebody's home (worm's for example) we left it there:o) )
Lucky with lingonberries - there was more of them, but Lucky choosed to sit on them :o)

Rocco and Lucky with cranberries:

And I usually try to leave the choice of posting or not posting her photos in internet to Kelli, (when she is older) but this one I just couldn't resist to put here - Kelli with cranberry jewels :o)

And 2 pictures of why I sometimes feel ashamed to be a human:

Nature recovering of forest fire on June 2006, 664 ha of forest was destroyed because of human negligence:

And I hope economic recession reaches off-road people too. Soon. I'm sure nobody misses them on nature reserve: