Funny best puppy

The pups - remember? the cute little ones from just a few months ago - are big and rambuctious now - long legs and lots of jumping. It was a huge pleasure to see 4 of them at the show in Tilst yesterday, friendly happy pups, not the least bit intimidated by the situation.
Great of course also that Funny, even if she really would have preferred to play in the ring and thought that the time it took judge Martin Klopsch to get through all 6 bitch puppies was excruciatingly boring won Best puppy in Show. The critique will come at a later stage. After the show over half of the exhibitors came back to our place and we had a lovely and very animated New Years lunch
... and only three hours later I had to get up and fly to San Diego, so poor Henrik was left with the cleaning on top of making all the wonderful food.

Happy 2009 - or Mandies last diary

What is happening in this house - the last few days I think a war must have broken out just behind the hills, heavy booms, loud whistling, lots and lots of coloured lights and the night sky. The other dogs didnt seem to notice, so sometimes I had to go out and give it all a good bark. Yesterday it seemed worse than ever, and I must admit I didnt like it too much, but some of the nice people visiting took me and Sammy on a 8 kms walk through the frozen bogs, so that was nice. Then back in the house more people arrived, and then more again music was on and then they all started cooking - and responsibilities or not, when Henrik is cooking no dog can worry about anything, you must keep your nose CLOSE to all the goodies!
Then that little Taitha boy came, he does need a good telling off sometimes, but he is so much fun to play with and we played for an hour or more outside, just running and running. We did try to take the play indoors, but the humans werent too happy about that.
Everybody was really nice and I got a lot of pats and hugs and totally forgot about whatever was going on outside. Weirdly enough, at one stage the noise outside became really strong, and that was the same time as the humans started standing on the sofa and jumping down and hugging -very strange, but fortunately nobody asked ME to jump down from my soft spot so I was OK. The two little ones actually wanted to go out and play even if the sky was totally filled with colours and lights.
After a lot more human talking and sitting around I went to my crate and went too sleep and nobody woke up before very late the next morning, actually we dogs were so tired that we hardly even had the energy to find our breakfast in the yard and most of the day was just spent lazing about in bed.