Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Doggie Love

One of the nice things about visiting Bart and Tony is that they need to go for a short walk every day. At least once, actually, and preferably several times.


The reason for these jaunts lies below, panting and enjoying the attentions of a loving guardian. Kira and Cooper are white German Shepherds, bred to be loyal and protective, but loving and gentle in this case. They shed like fiends, too, and have a rather unhealthy obsession with chasing balls.


Cooper is especially ball-mad, running after his beloved ball when Tony or Bart fling it high, high, high into the air and out over the park. He lays around the house all day, saving his energies for ball-chasing.


Iain does the same thing, except he's like Jughead from the Archie comic books. Jughead once set an alarm so he wouldn't oversleep and miss his nap. Likewise, Jughead lived to eat.

While Cooper saves strength for running, thus, Iain hoards his stamina in order to be better prepared when mealtime comes. He likes to pack.it.in. As below, when he took a peeled apple and just went to town.

Of course, he threw some up later. But that's not the point. Look how happy he is!

4 comments:

Heather said...

Those dogs are gorgeous!

Iain really does look happy....

Bart said...

Just be glad you can't smell them through your monitors! They were really chilled around Iain, I suspect because he was pretty chilled around them. Very non-chalant in his 'yeah, big dogs, big whup' sort of way.

Fiona said...

Yeah, that's his attitude, all right. Today, Charles took him to the zoo.

He was all, "Tigers, yawn. Lions, whatevs." Of coure, he called them all "doggie."

bugboys69 said...

Too cute!

I usually just say, wont one!