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Photos from our Mini Break!

We just spent a few days camp­ing at Arat­ula, near Cun­ning­hams Gap, and of course we took the dogs with us. It was great to get away, and we really were away from it all with­out the usual run­ning hot water and toi­let block on hand. Won­der­ful!  It was REALLY cold so we slept all cud­dled together in a heap in the mid­dle of the tent, hop­ing not to have to go for a walk in the mid­dle of the night.

It was a few days of ‘firsts’, espe­cially for our new boy Bollo. First time camp­ing for Bollo, first time sit­ting around a camp fire for Bollo,  first time swim­ming for Bollo, first time pulling Beck head­first into the water for Bollo. Yes he had lots of fun ;-) Sophie also enjoyed her­self, get­ting in the water and rolling in mud, as well as see­ing off a wan­der­ing Staffie (she looked so tough in her pink pyja­mas!). We decided that she was find­ing her ‘inner dog’ (too much time spent sleep­ing on the sofa, some­times she for­gets she isn’t human!).

Bollo has also just com­pleted his Urban Basics train­ing course with our friends Danielle and Paul at Urban Dog Train­ing. When he arrived a cou­ple of months ago from the RSPCA he didn’t even know sit, now he can walk on a loose lead, sit, stay, and my favourite of all ‘leave-it’. I dropped some chicken on the floor yes­ter­day RIGHT under his nose, and before he could wolf it down I said ‘leave it’ and he just sat and looked at me. Such a proud dad! Had to give him the chicken any­way of course, plus a bit extra for being a good boy. He still can’t fetch beer though so more work to be done.

If you get a chance, please vote for us in the Paws and Claws Awards for best pet pho­tog­ra­pher! We are run­ning a com­pe­ti­tion as a way of say­ing thankyou for your vote, more details here, you could win a fan­tas­tic Canon DSLR cam­era, with a lens, and a les­son on how to use it from yours truly. Fantastic!

3 Responses to “Photos from our Mini Break!”

  1. Donna says:
    July 28, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    Bollo obvi­ously had a ball. He would have made an excel­lent hot water bot­tle too!
    I hope you had a beau­ti­fully rest­ful break.
    Donna

  2. Vanessa says:
    July 29, 2010 at 6:01 pm

    What a life les­son for Bollo, and his own­ers! (wink) I’m sure a great adven­ture was had by all, judg­ing by the pho­tos Bollo made a seri­ously good attempt to con­vert the camp­ing chair into the clos­est he could get to a comfy home-style “lounge” — or did that “lounge” become YOU Beck?? Hehe, I think so! Sophie get­ting in touch with her inner-dog and mak­ing it known she is the boss, even if it is while in her pink pyja­mas cracks me up laugh­ing!
    Glad you guys got away and got back to basics! Now it’s time to repeat, repeat, repeat: “Leeeeeaaave it!!“
    Ness

  3. Hilary says:
    July 29, 2010 at 8:39 pm

    How won­der­ful to see pics of the gor­geous Bollo at last! Looks like you had a won­der­ful time. I’ll write soon.

    Big Sis, H xx