The Days of Johann - an agility dog! |  |
- Holy ticks Batman!
- Having fun keeping track of our walking and hiking!
- Dog escape artists!
- I'd sure like to go canoeing again!
| Posted: 15 Jul 2010 01:34 PM PDT We've been telling you about the ticks and how many there are. Well, the other day Mum notices I was licking my paws a little more than the usual 'cleaning up licking stuff', and wondered what was going on. The next morning, she found out what it was! When she woke up, this is what she found on the bed where I was sleeping! Click on it to 'bigify.'  Over 100+ little tiny ticks, all dead. And I had been crawling with them the night before! OMD! Mum thinks these little things took some of the best prenatal vitamins ever!!! We found out that they are called 'seed ticks,' little tiny ticks the size of a pinhead. They are the same as Dog Ticks, but are in the nymph stage, the stage just before they become an adult. And you can get into a nest of them where the eggs turned into larvae, then into the 'seed ticks,' and get them all over you! Some folks call it getting 'tick bombed.' Can you believe this? How creepy! So far I've been lucky, before and since, and haven't run into a nest of them. And Gracie didn't suffer this fate. Good thing I was treated, because they say these ticks can spread dreaded tick disease too! Ewwwww.....          |
| Having fun keeping track of our walking and hiking! Posted: 15 Jul 2010 12:52 PM PDT  The other day Mum came across an app for our BlackBerry that we're now using to track of all of our walks and hikes.We've been testing out Roadrunner GPS and it's been pretty fun. Not only does it track distance, calories (human ones, you know) burned, time, pace and speed; but it also tracks elevation, which is one of the reasons we really like this one. We found some free ones, but they sure didn't measure up. We've been trying out the 15 day trial, and Mum's gonna buy it, only $4.99 after the trial is up. Here's kind of how it works. You start the app, and then it finds a satellite signal to keep track of you. You can pause for potty breaks if you want during your walk/hike. When you're done walking, you press the stop button, and you can view at all your stats and even a Google map of your walk/run/hike. Then you have the option of uploading to their site (to share or keep private). When you get home you can login in see all your walks! According to RoadRunner GPS we've been doing about 15 miles a week, that we've tracked so far...keeping us from those diet pill side effects, fur sure, BOL! So if you're looking for a good walk/run/hike tracking app for your mobile, this is the one we recommend. Works on lots of types of phones too.    |
| Posted: 15 Jul 2010 12:41 PM PDT BOL!!! We came across a 'really bad dog' the other day on YouTube. Check out SpiderDog!!! DOG, he can climb! This vid got me thinking about the other dog 'escape artists' I've seen on YouTube over the years. Who can forget this beagle and his antics...leaving his bros and sisters and going on the lamb? Hope he didn't need any North Carolina health insurance because of his great escape! And of course one of my absolute favorites, this guy really knows how to help out a pal, BOL! One time when I was at an agility fun run, I escaped from my soft crate. OK, fellow pups, here's how I did it! There was a tiny bit of fur caught in the top of the zipper of my crate. So, I just slipped my nail in there and the zipper opened right up! Then all I had to do was run my nail down the zipper and voila, I had an opening for my great escape! Where did I escape too? Mum of course, she was out there getting ready to run Gracie, and I just couldn't stand that!!! So have you ever escaped anything? Tell, tell!    |
| I'd sure like to go canoeing again! Posted: 15 Jul 2010 11:33 AM PDT  We've been having a blast hiking around our new home in Tennessee and Mum is starting to look into other adventures for us.I remember, when I was just a year old, Mum took me with her on a canoe trip down the White River when we lived in Indiana. Believe it or not, I loved it! It was my first time in a boat (and it was my first time on a crowded school bus too, going to the launch site). We were packed in there like sardines that just checked out apidexin reviews, BOL! Once we got Gracie, Mum didn't think she could handle both of us in a canoe...but we'd sure like to try sometime, maybe if we bring a friend with us, hmmmm... Anyway, here's a great video to intro your dog to watercraft safely...and we recommend a life jacket too, to be on the safe side. I'm wearing the Ruff Rider K-9 Float Coat in my photo, fits great and has a great secure handle to grab me up if needed. Intro to Watercraft from Walker Parks on Vimeo.    |
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