Pets In the Park 2009

Hi doggies,

On this past Sunday I spent all day at Pets In The Park.

Momma only took me. Buddy, Nikki and Pixie all had to stay home. Ha ha ha.
It was a fun day.

Pets in the Park is a united initiave of 3 local animal groups: New Hope Dog Rescue, Saskatoon SPCA and SCAT Street Cat Rescue. The purpose is to have a fun day in the park with our animals and to raise money for these organizations to assist animals in need.

There were lots of trade booths and almost every both gave away doggie treats (yummy). There were demonstrations of flyball and rally-o, a silent auction, concession, entertainment, microchipping, and nail clipping and ear cleaning for dogs and lots more.

These are some of the people that were there:

There were all sorts of big dogs like big St. Bernards, Irish Wolfhounds, Great Pyerenes and this Afghan that posed for a picture.

There were medium sized dogs and there were also lots of tiny doggies like little yorkies, chihuahua's and these dachshaunds that were playing with the kids.

Gio and Romeo from Life Is Better With Sheltie Hair were there representing St John's Ambulance Therapy dogs.

This lab puppy was just too exhausted to stay awake for it all.

In addition to dogs there were also cats, ferrets and lizards present.

I got lots of treats, hugs and cuddles from many people. Here is a volunteer of New Hope Dog Rescue carrying me. I sure liked that!

I ate so many dog treats that my poop started to turn loose and green. Then Momma said "Casper, You are cut off! No more treats!

That's okay because I had already had lots ;)

I had so much fun and when I got home I was so tired I slept for almost a day straight!

It was grrrreat! I can't wait to go to Pets In the Park 2010 next year!

Woofs Casper

More About Poop, Another Agility Trial, and Having The Poop Scared Out Of Me

Hey Doggies,

Buddy reporting here,

Well last weekend was very interesting. We went back to the same city for another agility trial.
This time we didn't stay in a hotel. Momma said we were too loud last time, so we drove there, did the agility and then drove back all in one day. It was tiring, but Momma said it was better than last time because that time we kept her up half the night anyways due to our need to guard Momma and bark and growl at all potential noises. ( Huh, I don't think we were THAT bad!!)

Nikki came along to keep us company this time. Nikki only takes agility classes but she doesn't like to compete. She gets really nervous. Maybe she is picking up on Momma nerves at competitions? After one jump she will either sit down refusing to do anything for Momma or she trots off the course. I guess Momma figures that it costs enough money to enter 2 dogs in trials and that she won't push Nikki to trial if she doesn't like it. However Nikki does like to attend agility classes so she does do that and she comes to most agility trials to bark for us.

Well since we were in the same horse riding barn, I was beside myself with glee 'cause I could smell the horse poop again! They had cleaned it off the the course area, but I just knew they must have missed some, so I kept going off course to the back area in search of horse poop. As requested by Comet and BLU here is what I was looking for

(poop picture deleted- it's just too gross)

Don't tell Casper that I posted this picture on his blog as he would be very mad at me and he may even restrict my blogging privileges. However I can always sneak on to blog. Here is what Casper is doing now.








Too bad Casper- You snooze - You lose. Ha ha ha


Back to my story. Well apparently Momma was not impressed with my antics and little did I know she had told the judge that if I took off to the back area that they should scare me off. Well of course I went off course in search of poop and all of a sudden this CRAZY LADY came running at me, yelling , arms flailing all over. It was SCARY. I tell ya I went running back to Momma so fast and Momma says my eyes were WHITE and as big as SAUCERS. I stayed with Momma and did the whole rest of the course as she wanted me too. However I thought I detected a hint of laughter in Momma's face and voice so afterward I checked it out and found out that yes indeed Momma had set me up! Bad Momma! Bad, bad Momma!

So I gave her the "cold shoulder" / "doggie sneer"/ "I'm mad at you " look for awhile but I've forgiven her now.

So anyways that was our weekend. How was yours?

Woofs from Buddy

A POOP TOON

Buddy thought we should post a poop picture, but I overruled him seeing as it's my name on this blog. However I did find a cartoon that is in keeping with the theme.

Woofs, Casper

Enjoy!

Being Goofy At The Agility Trial

Hi Doggies,
It's Buddy here,



Just thought I would let you know about the agility trial we went to last weekend. We stayed in a Travel Lodge hotel.



Momma was not all that happy with us at night time 'cause we felt the need to growl and bark at every little noise we heard. We were just protecting Momma in a strange place, but we kept on waking Momma up ! Oops

I had great fun running "off course" and sniffing everything that I wasn't supposed to including a tractor that was parked in behind a fenced off area. Momma wasn't to happy with me. LOL The trial was in a riding barn and there were great smells of horses and horse's poop which I paid more attention to than the agility course. Oops ;)

Casper had a few zoomies too. Momma says the was a good "learning experience". Whatever that means? We did have lots of fun. Momma's having a bit of a problem with the camera so we have no pictures right now but may get some this weekend.


Nikki stayed at Jo's place while we were gone . She had a great time playing with all the toys and other dogs. She doesn't do agility competition, just fun agility classes.


We are going back this coming Sat. for another agility trial. Yay !! So I get to sniff at more horse poop!! Yay! And Momma is probably going to chase after me and try to get me to stop. It will be great fun! LOL We are probably just going for the day and not staying in a hotel this time and Nikki might come too just to keep us company.

We will be sure to let you know about all our adventures when we get back. Momma is hoping for some better agility runs, while I just want to enjoy the simple things in life - like sniffing more horse poop ;)

Woofs from Buddy

Pet Expo

Hi doggies, It's Buddy blogging here.

I just want to tell you about our really fun weekend. We spent most of our time at Pet Expo.

There were all sorts of animals and people there. Even a whole bunch of llamas-like about 20. I was very interested in meeting the llamas but Momma said "No" :((

There were also llamas vs the dogs agility competitions, but Momma wouldn't let us enter.

: (( :(( Apparently she had to be sure that we would not bark or run at the llamas and she just couldn't be sure of that. Us bark and run?? Never !! hahaha

Oh well, we got to do tons of other stuff instead. Winnie spent a whole bunch of time at the New Hope Dog Rescue booth and she even met some people who may be interested in adopting her. Keep you paws crossed for Winnie.

Casper and Nikki got to go into the Parade of Breeds since they are purebreed American Eskimo Dogs. They walked around the ring while the commentater was explaining all about Eskies. And guess what Casper did???? He got his nervous, excitable stomach going and decided he needed to take a poop right in front of everyone! And Momma had just taken him outside where he had gone too. Momma was very embarassed! Oh well!

I got to do agility demos. In the first one Momma got mixed up in the course and went the wrong way! Momma what were you doing? In the second agility demo, I wanted to make it up to Momma since she was embarrassed by Casper's pooping episode, so I thought I should get the crowd laughing a bit. I decided the best way to do this would be to go running off the agiltiy course and land in the lap of a nearby child. WOW- IT WORKED !! The crowd laughed and laughed - they just loved me! Even Momma was laughing as she came into the audience to get me. It was so much fun! I think I'm destined for comedy ;)

We have all been very tired since the weekend and have been sleeping alot. Events like this can really tire a doggie out.

See ya,

Buddy

Toonie Tuesday

A Big Pile of Poop

Nikki here reporting on Family Friday and guess what happened? Momma came home from work tonight and once she walked in the door she said" Who pooped in the house?"

I guess she could smell it. Well lucky me- Momma knew it couldn't be me 'cause I was locked in my crate. and there it was on the rug a BIG PILE OF POOP!

Casper was it you?