Evacu-vacation

Okay, so as some of you know, the gulf coast just evacuated from Hurricane Gustav (really? what a name). So we packed up our house, my sister & father, the dogs (Prime, our dachshund, and my sister's german shepard), three cars and we boogied. We evacuated to a family friend's son's farm in Mathersville, Ms. We left at 6 pm on Saturday and we got there at 4 am on Sunay. A trip that would normally take 3 hours from our house.
Once we got there, we were happy to see that we were staying on a farm with 150 acres of land with numerous ponds. We spent basically the whole time hiking, letting the dogs swim and letting the puppys run and play and have a good time. I also got some really great pictures out of our little evacu-vacation.
We also played some search games, while we have yet to be able to get to the northshore to go see the SAR team, we have been playing search games with prime. We've been training him some with my sister's search dog and he is showing some promise. While we were evacuating we did some L-shaped run aways where he couldn't see me before he searched for me, there was also one 'runaway' where he found me in the vineyard before Halley. So i have great hopes for him.



Dogs like peanut butter auntie heather



I want to be a pointer




But Halley, that's MY cuz




I was starting to worry for a while that we were the only house that didn't get a "water dragon" because prime doesn't hate the hose but he's not crazy about it like some of the other babies. However, as soon as we showed them the pond he hopped right in!



In fact all of the puppies enjoyed the pond.



Then he tried sticking his whole head in the water! (Don't worry jen, we unwrapped his ears and let them dry after he got wet. It was a pain but he was having so much fun i couldn't deny him.





Hyper speed



Pining after the Wubba



Ella even got in a little session of mud wallowing.



Then we took a hike, and along the pond there was a boat, we practiced with everyone playing in the boat since it was a new object.



We played by a second pond on the property which was right next to the vineyard which we played some search games in.



My sister calls this "small dog in tall grass"



And i know he is wet and has sand on his ears but i thought this was such a pretty head shot that it needed to be added.