A Day at the Pool

Our friend Hektor the Vitali Vizla was 1 year old this week and to celebrate his Mum arrange for his doggie mates to go swimming at the best doggie pool on Vancouver Island (in our humble opinion anyways) designed, but no longer owned by, Hekkie's Dad! http://www.camaqua.org/

Chi took his canoeing boyancy aid and after 3 goes shed it to go solo! Still not his most natural pastime but he had quite a good time. Our new dog Tigger took to the pool for the first time and also shed his boyancy aid after a couple of goes to swim solo, which was awesome as his back end isn't good and the swimming will so help him gain the muscle support he needs back there.......

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And as for our Truly True, well she didn't swim but is just as pooped after a long day of receiving lots of love and attention from human guests in attendance.

Home Made House Sign

Today we hung our new house number sign at the end of our drive. It was carefully made from a piece of wood cut from a tree on our property. I really like the paws as it looks like our big dog Tigger has jumped up on the sign and left his mark!

New Home and New Pack Member

Chi has a new play mate, his name is Tigger and he is possibly one of the very few lurchers in Canada as his parentage on the adoption forms states he is Greyhound x German Sheperd. He is the biggest dog we have ever owned and has the most gentle, kind & loving approach to life. Here they both are with True on the back deck.

Chi now has his very own dog run with kennel. He loves to run barking at the elk on the property at night - needless to say they completely ignore him and carry on munching the 'lawn'. I use the term loosely as it really is just like a field out there. Roll on the summer when we've decided to have ride on lawn mover races! :)


We've decided to paint the tree in the photo above and hang stuff off it hippie stylie. We keep trawling the thrift stores for the right color paint - I'm rather hoping for a bright plumb!

We are so lucky to have found this place it is rather special and plenty of room for lots of agility equipment! Chi has 4 vizla friends across the highway who have been helping to keep him fit chasing him through the bush when we go for walks.

Ha - P B'day G'Mama True!

Here she is celebrating in style (no wonder her pups like a sup!), kayaking and supping good Canadian beer to celebrate her b'day.

True will be 13 this weekend. She is still very energetic and very special in her own 'blond' way......

True is the Grand Mommy to all UK Obay shelties. It is fitting that she is now back in Canada where she spent many summers as a young dog.

Noble Billy Ottaman July 1996 - Oct 2010 R.I.P

Although this is Chi's blog Billy was a big part of Chi's life so I thought it fitting to do a little tribute.

Billy came to me at 12 weeks thanks to Barrie James. We had 14 years together as unquestioning companions, including alot of success at agility:- Crufts 2005, runner up in the Eukanuba circular knockout & 2007 in the mini / maxi pairs. Dispite his 'queen ann' legs Billy acheived senior status equivalent to grade 6 in the mid noughty's.

His other talents included canoing, camping and bin raiding!

Run free Billy, remembered by so many, deeply missed by a special few. We love you special dog and will enjoy the memories you have given us for many more years to come.

Beautiful BC

There are many local interesting trails around Sayward. Yesturday we decided to try out this one. Don't be decieved by the 2km sign and the level pathway leading off to the right.....




The view was spectacular and Chi proved to be part Sheltie part goat! It's a good job he is so fit and body aware. He did a gr8 job of finding his way up and down the rocky bits we had to climb.

Dog Wash!

Look what I found right next to the Car Wash! Perfect timing as Chi is due a bath. He needs to be all fluffed up for his public performance debut at the end of the month. (We've been asked to join in an agility demo at at the Comox Valley Fair)
Notice the ramp for ease of getting ones pouch in and out.