7 posts tagged “dog”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GEbkjgii6E

Merry's first dance. It was taken the same day as Mystic's, and Mystic was in the car - you can see that every time she woofs Merry looks around to find her. Oops :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUX1cTT_2hI

Mystic's first dance. Yahoo! She's my lil spunk :)

(I'm glad she's able to compensate for my less-than perfect handling :P )

I hate uploading things onto youtube. AAAA

I miss Meggs. The house still seems somehow empty without him.

Mum doesn't want to get another cat, because what would happen to him once me and Viv move out?

She said, maybe we can get a dog. For her, so she won't be alone when I move overseas and take my little munchkins with me.

That would be nice, I think.

I don't think I hear him purring when I walk down the hallway at night anymore.
I don't know whether it's a good thing or a bad thing.
The dogs are finally eating well and not being depressed. But every time I reach into the cupboard to get their dinner, I find cans of cat food that are never going to be eaten ...

Have had a RA - THUR good weekend. Have done NO WORK even though FINAL EXAMS start in only SIX WEEKS and we haven't even STARTED unit 4 in biology.
Oh well. I am happy, and that is becoming an increasingly rare occurence these days, so it was worth it.
On Saturday Viv and I tagged along on mum's feild trip to Werribee Open Range Zoo. First we made a stop at Readings, and mum told me I could buy books. I asked one of the staff where Arundhati Roy's non-fiction stuff was, and she said in the political section. Mum was like "... er, Political, Steph?" and I raised my eyebrow at her and said "Yeah, her writing *is* political." and I could see mum's mind ticking over <aw crud, our constant cynical attitude towards modern politics has somehow had some kind of effect on my child ... does this mean she's actually *serious* about her opinions? Now she's going to go all obsessive ... Aw crud.> So I bought "The Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire", which is a book of speeches, and "The Chequebook & The Cruise Missile", which is interviews with Arundhati Roy.
The bus driver was really nice. Only about half of the students turned up - there were meant to be forty, and 23 were actually there. On the bus I managed to get mum addicted to Arundhati too. I'm good at getting people addicted to things.

IT'S RAINING! YAY!

And at the zoo we went on a bus and the tourguide wasn't particularly engaging or competent, but the animals were prddy. We saw giraffes and scimitar horned oryx and hippos and emus and rhinos and zebras and cape barren geese and various kinds of antelope. And then we walked around and saw the meercats and the lions and sculls and things. And then we got food, except it took a reaaaaally long time and we were getting late so everybody ate on the bus and the people with chips had to put them in bags so that they didn't stink the bus up.
Next stop was an Alpaca farm. Alpacas are awesome because they're like llamas, only cuter. And there were very very cute ones when we went, little young ones with booffy heads and big eyes. Awww! We gave them injections and trimmed their toenails and learned about alpaca farming. One of them really didn't want to have the hair over its eyes trimmed, and it spat up its stomach contents and it stank. And then we just went in and patted them. The little ones were covered in burrs because there's been a drought there for five years so they've had to buy in lots of feed which has burr seeds in and the little ones roll in it. But they're still adorable. Pretty much everyone aproached them head-on, standing straight up, and reached over the top of them then patted down onto their heads. HOW SCARY CAN YOU BE?! They flinched away and got freaked out. So I went in and knelt down and gently stroked down the sides of their necks to calm them down. And then we had biscuits and Viv found that the people had German Shepherds so I went and said hello to them. Sooky babes! Then the alpacas saw the bus driver and gave the alarm call, which sounded like birds. (If I really was christopher I would find a sound clip and stick it in, but I am not so very pedantic.) I felt ill and had to go sit down for a while, but apart from that it was cool.
And some of the students said that it was the best fun they've had since coming to uni.
And I went, oh shit.
I guess because I have been blessed with that most rare and wonderful of gifts - good parents - a trip like that is a somewhat more everyday occurence than it would be to most. And I also know that learning SHOULD be fun, because we learn things so much better that way. When you DO things, you learn how to USE information. But never mind.
Maybe one day I will make the system change, with my wonderful research papers revealing things which any animal trainer worth their salt is fully cognicent about.

A rat trap just went off.
I don't think it caught a rat though.
Um.

Anyway, Jess and Gity and AJ and Marie and (a tad late) Josh came over today. (You know you did, but I am writing for my imaginary audience here, okay?) Aparna didn't come because she was STUDYING. Her brain is going to melt with the stress of constant study, I just know it. And Bharat didn't come either, but he had a reason and so is forgiven. And we watched the end of the Umbilical Brothers, and then we played monopoly while Doctor Who was on in the background. Monopoly takes a Very Long Time to play. Jess and Gity had to leave before we had finished. Josh wouldn't sell me Liverpool St Station or that green property that I have now forgotten the name of. But then he went bankrupt and sold me all his stuff for $20. And then I landed on  Park Lane and I really wished I hadn't sold Mayfair to AJ, and I mortgaged all my properties and soon after went bankrupt, and AJ won. And then we played Uno, and I won. Then I got Mystic to play, but they wouldn't let her win because she couldn't say Uno. I thought that was unfair descrimination, but they wouldn't back down. Meanies. And Marie had to go home, but AJ and Josh and I played Upwords, and one of AJ's words (she won, btw) was Smut, so I showed them Tom Lehrer's Smut song. And then everyone went home. We had a LOT of chips today.
Mmm, junk food ...

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Mystic

OK, I don't think I'm ever going to do that part 2. So in summary:
We went to our first NADAC agility trial on the 6th of May - and we took Mystic. And we ENTERED Mystic. Her first agility run ever!!!
Anyway, Merry had 2 jumpers runs and one regular agility, Mystic had one agility run. On the first jumpers run Merry did everything fine, clear run, but came in way overtime.
Then it was Mystic. She got a little nervous by the start line. It was time to go - and she ran with me - and then the dreaded tunnel. She froze. Oh great, I thought. I knew this was going to happen. What now? So I told her to sit ... gave up on that idea, told her to run, and she went through the tunnel. Woot! But then she went past a jump, and when I called her she back-jumped. No pass, oh well. She froze at the next tunnel too and I let it slide, kept running and she was getting some nice speed towards the end. Good Dog!
On the second jumpers Merry got it all right, was going nicely - and then missed the last jump. Ah well. And on the regular - she was going well until the distance. Merry and distance don't mix. So I crossed the distane line, took her through the tunnel, up the A-frame, and then she went crazy psycho and did rabbit zoomies, round and round and round. It was hilarious. People on the sidelines were cracking up. I e ventually got her back and finished the course properly - 40 seconds overtime. Hooray!
And now I'm missing spicks and specks, so thunderstorm and pap club'll have to wait. Ta ta for now.