family visits

With such a large and extended RR family it is wonderful to travel, earlier this summer I visited Mandies breeder Denise at Revodana in Long Island, USA and had the fun of seeing his mother and two sisters and right now I am visiting Marianne at kennel Ikimba where many of my dogs originate. It was wonderful to meet old Ikimba Okoa again, the half brother of Puuma and great grand sire of my F litter - he is now 11½ years old but still going strong and still as interested in food as ever. here he is busy eating blueberries straight from the bush - way to go great grand dad!

Funny's first "roadwork"

Funny is a teenager - 13+ months old and with all the energy and mischief that goes with the age. She spends hours teasing the other dogs, barking at them - trying to get them to play... and with not nearly enough (in her opionion) success.
SO today I decided to try get a new outlet for all this energy and took my new bicycle and her out.... weird... this thing is noisy.. I have to run on the RIGHT side????? NO WAY!! this is wroonngg and there is a car coming, let me get out of here.... so to cut some very long seconds short, I went heads over the handle bar and she was running loose on the road.
Fortunately the car belonged to a neighbor who was more frigthened then I was (it must have looked pretty dramatic) and Funny just ran to her with a waggy tail.
SO - some training seemed to be in order and we walked up the hill, me, the bike and Funny - teaching her to walk close to the bike AND on the "wrong" side from what she was normally used to.
This went well and after a km of walking we found a quiet closed road and started cycling first without leash and then quickly with leash. Soon Funny was trotting at full speed next to the bike and looking quite pleased with herself :-)
AND she is VERY quiet tonight!