The Lake

Today my sister, brother-in-law and I took Prime and his cousin Halley out to the lake. We found a little sandbar and let them play in the water. The only camera i had was the one on my phone but i got these photos.

Puppy Park

New Orleans, while progressive in many things, is not very progressive when it comes to dog parks. Most of the levees in our city become impromptu doggie parks most days but we found out about a legetimate fenced in park to go play with other puppies. We found some time this afternoon and went. While we were out, i got some really great shots of Prime.


I started the evening by getting some really pretty
pictures of our boy on the lake at dusk.


Kevin is such a patient helper!












Then Prime went and started making friends left and right












While still checking in with mommy and daddy every once in a while



Then Prime started running, and running, and running.

...and chasing...
...and playing...
...and running some more.









He even made friends with some of the other dog's humans. Who were really nice and let him slobber on them and gave him cookies.





There was some more chasing, that Prime kept instigating.



Ella even made a friend, and she's usually a big grump.



There was even a little 10 week old merle puppy named Lincoln who we played with for a while.

Prime and Kevin practicing the "watch me" command! Prime's doing so well!

All that running makes puppies VERY thirsty though, prime figured out the water fountain very quickly.



I just love this picture. Something about the orange of the sunset and the fact that he almost looks like he could be stacked out if it weren't for the fact that he's actually running very quickly.



So the long and short story is that we had a great time and i think we will have to make this a common playtime! It's such a pretty setting to, getting to watch the sunset on the lake

New Pictures

So tonight i decided to take prime's ears out of his wraps and they are doing pretty darn well, if i do say so myself. He occasionally holds them a little closer together than i would like but we are gonna go see the vet tomorrow and have her re-wrap them so that they finish perfectly. He is loosing teeth like a madman, tonight one of his canines came out and his normally neon yellow Wubba is now covered in pink blood stains. He is still doing well in his puppy class and tonight i endevored to get some pseudo-stacked pictures of him. Tomorrow is the first day off i have had in a long while so i'm gonna try to get some more pictures then. For now though (thanks to kevin) i have some to share. Like i said we tried to get some stacked pictures but much like Wasabi it was kind of a joke in balance. Here are the best

Height

Right about 25.5"...it's hard to measure your own leg

4 months

Prime weighs 74lbs as of yesterday. He finished his puppy shots and saw the vet about some thin hair which the vet says is fine. Although we did notice yesterday that one of his testicles is about half as large as the the other, we are taking a wait and see attitude. I know this is a quick update i will post a height as soon as i get one, he is sleeping soundly right now and i don't want to wake him.

Class

Tonight Prime started his puppy obedience class. We were told that he is nearly ready for beginner class. I was a proud momma. He had a blast, somehow he bruised the bottom of one of his feet though. Hmmm.

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.