Its been a Dogs day afternoon…

May 17, 2011

and soon to be bath day as well for three super won­der­ful doggies.

Today, I am tak­ing a day off from the stu­dio to just relax and get myself orga­nized. I’ve dis­cov­ered I’m the worlds worst at relax­ing. I just can­not do it. Always feel like I need to be doing some­thing at all hours of the day or night. So today I sat out­side with the four legged babies and threw toys and just chilled. They loved it and I love watch­ing how they are all so dif­fer­ent in per­son­al­ity. We can only throw rope toys or balls for one dog at a time. Chiefie being the youngest can out run the other two, Buster being the mid­dle is a pure toot and will turn nasty the sec­ond Chief or Sonny even thinks about touch­ing the toy and then Sonny, well he is get­ting up there in years and just should not have to deal with the two young whip­per snappers.

Chief is funny… when he runs after and gets rope toys he always has to flip it in the air first and catch it mid air… then he will run back in a slow gal­lop. Once he gets to you he has to give it a few good shakes to make sure it is either dead or it has enough slob­ber for your hands…

Buster runs full speed to get the toy and then just hops all the way back doing a lit­tle light bark of glee. He loves to retrieve any­thing… once he gets to you he does this funny lit­tle prance and is so excited and ready to go again. You would never know if another dog was out that this cute lit­tle thing grows devil horns instantly. Some days the cute­ness is all that saves him.

Sonny rest­ing in the sun…

then moved to the shade and napped with his toy while I sat and lis­tened to the birds.

Sonny (click here for more pho­tos) will always be my heart dog. I got him from res­cue at 10 weeks old and the fun we have had all these years will never be for­got­ten. I trained him in the field to retrieve birds and can say he never ever did not bring me back a bird. He was awe­some in the field. Sonny has two field titles his AKC JH and his GRCA WC. I retired him after he got his WC due to bad hips. Here are pho­tos I took doc­u­ment­ing all of his train­ing. We had a blast. It was a lot of early morn­ings, chig­ger filled week­ends, hot hot hot sum­mer after­noons.… rain or shine muddy or not week­ends but gosh I would do it all over again with this boy if I could.

Hope you are hav­ing a relax­ing day!