The Royal Easter Show

I've just finished performing at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. I was part of the Mass Dog Obedience display. Whoo hoo!

There were nearly 100 dogs all being obedient at the same time - it was amazing.

We have been practicing for weeks at our club and then we joined up with a lot of other clubs to do it all together. We were the pink team and I got to wear a very smart, sparkly kerchief.

The really cool thing was that just before we went on, there was a display of all these police horses doing a musical ride...kind'a like obedience for horses.

So, when we got into the arena, there was horse poop everywhere! It not only smelled great, but tasted great too. Lie down in the horse poo? Sure thing, not a problem...yummmm!

It was all pretty easy, but the audience was impressed with how good we all were. They gave us a big round of applause as we all marched out. Afterwards, we did a quick tour of the show and all the exhibits and I got a 'Pluto Pup' (corn dog on a stick) for my dinner. Also very yummy.

All Terrier show

We spent the day at the Terrier show yesterday. It was good fun - I got to catch up with all my Airedale buddies. Here I am with Major, Selby and Ben.
Ben has his UD title, Selby has his CD, I've got my CCD and Major is starting obedience work. We must have been the cleverest terriers at the show!

Selby was looking quite smart as he was entered in the Airedale Parade. I was impressed with how good he looked. He won his class too. Way to go Selbs!
There were alot of other terriers around - gee those Scotties are fiesty! There were plenty of Wheatons, Westies and Jack Russells, and Aussies, but not so many of all the other weird and wonderful breeds - the Bedlingtons, Kerry Blues, Skye, Dandie Dinmonts, Sealyhams, etc.

Anyway, it was a fun day out.

It's my birthday!

It's my birthday and I'm three years old today.

I had a bit of a party with Neil and Kay - I even had a special birthday hat to mark the occasion.

I got lots of prezzies - squeaky ones and ones with bells and ones that said oink oink and some tasty treats like liver covered cookies and smoked turkey wings.

It was so hard to choose which one to destroy first. See me check out the toys.

I went with the liver coated cookie first. Very yummy.

After that was finished off, I worked my way through the toys. I particularly like pulling all the stuffing out - until I find the squeaky bit - which I promptly chew to bits.

They don't call me the Shark for nothing.

Actually, all the toys are in bits now.
These birthdays sure are fun!

Bathtime again

Sigh, it was time for another bath yesterday. Bath days sure seem to come around pretty often.

Kay and I have made a deal that if I get to have my bath in the tub with nice warm water, instead of outside with the cold water out of the hose, then I cooperate. I even hop in the tub by myself.

Sometimes though, I think it must be like that waterboarding torture you hear about.
I like the towelling off part at the end ...and there is always a good game of ball afterwards, so it's not too bad I guess.

Later, I got a bit of a trim so that I look especially smart for the Great Joint Terrier show next Sunday.

I'm not actually in the show, but I'm going along to support the airedales and meet up with all my friends.

Dinner time

Here's a quick video of one of the favourite parts of my day - dinner time! First we check out the fridge, then check out the bag of dog food... yes all looks good.

Then Neil and I do some quick eye-to-mouth coordination practice - this must be where I developed my frisbee catching skills. And then it's out the back to chow down! Yummm.

Agility classes have started again!

OMG I love agility. I zoom around the courses...up the dog walk, through the tunnels (love the tunnels!), over the jumps, through the weave poles (okay, still not so great at weave poles). It is just so exciting - like an amusement park for dogs. We train at night, so it's nice and cool - but not so good for photos.

Those see-saws are a bit tricky though. Have you ever noticed how much they look like a dog walk?

I go barreling up what I think is a solid ramp and WHOOPS, it's the see-saw and it's moving and I'm moving and there is nothing for it but to launch off into space and hope for the best. Which I do.

Kay says this is not the best technique she's ever seen. She babbles things like "steady, steady", "slowly, slowly".... I'm an Airedale, those words are not in my vocabulary.

There's another Airedale at my agility club now! He's Ralph and he's an English dale that has come all the way out to Australia. It's always fun when there's more than one of us.

Look how much bigger he is than me! Mind you, nearly everyone is, I am somewhat on the petite side.

Ralph is in beginners, but hopefully he will be up with me in the big dog's class and we can show those Border Collies a thing or two.

(Well, maybe, they are incredibly fast and even more focused than me - hard to believe, but true).

Anyway, I recommend agility to all my blogger friends - it's such fun.

Trip to the beach

We got to get away for a quick break to the beach last weekend - it was good fun. I dug an amazing, big hole - nearly to China (which isn't actually so far from Australia).

I was a full-on Airedale digging machine. Watch me in action! Neil said there was a crab at the bottom, but I never did find it.

Then on the way back, we stopped at a cafe in Buladelah and Kay and Neil had burgers and chips. I have told them that all the other Airedales get to share the chips (and pizza and ice cream). And then... I got one!

Mmmm, very nice too.

Life is good!