Caught in the Act

Close Up

Far Away

Why are Monarchs always so high up?

If I concentrate ... I can jump up another 2 feet

Foiled again!

Blurry due to full magnification
(the 2 "alar spots" on the hindwings indicate this is a male)

Wednesday's Work

3 "mainstays" of obedience

Last week: verbal cues
This week: hand signals only

A Vizsla Thanksgiving - Part 3

WHY

would a birddog serve a rotisserie chicken to his relatives at Thanksgiving?

BECAUSE

I was in Highland, Michigan earning the remaining two legs needed to finish my

JUNIOR HUNTER

title!

My first AKC title

Saturday

One of our judges in the bird field with an earlier brace

with Jen Miller and my bracemate, Nova

Sunday

Looking longingly at the bird field
(way in the distance beyond the yellow tree)

"Thanks for the road trip!"

"Gotcha!"

Watching the judges going out
with another brace

"Small World"

Turns out that Nova and I were both in the Winners ring at the Regional Specialty at the VCA Nationals (I won the 9-12 mo class and Nova won the Bred-by class) AND Nova is one of my cousins!  We share a grandfather - 4x BISS Am CH Pirok Kannon JH. Since Nova is a brother to Ash (can't remember if full from a repeat breeding or a half-brother) that means Ash and I are cousins, too!!!  Wow, it was by pure chance and timing that Mom met Ash's human, Alex "Jr Handler Extraordinaire" Haberbush, and asked him to be my handler!

Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving weekend!

Thank you to all the judges and the volunteers of the Irish Setter Club of Michigan and the Nodrog Gordon Setter Club of Michigan for hosting the tests in such a beautiful setting. Thanks to Jen Miller for the candid photos.

A Vizsla Thanksgiving - Part 2

  

MUST

HIDE

 THE

 EVIDENCE

!

WOW, Bodi!
You really are the King of the Kitchen!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYONE!


 

A Vizsla Thanksgiving - Part 1

Just planning my Thanksgiving menu.

This looks interesting!

Hmmm...

So many choices...it's overwhelming...whatever will I cook?

I have an idea!

 

. . .

Wednesday's Work

Bodi: "stand"             Diva: "drop"              Miska: "sit"

We begin and end every day with a mini training session.  Here I am practicing the 3 "mainstays" - sit, stand, drop - of obedience with verbal cues.  In this session, I promptly and accurately respond to a dozen cues in a minute. Would have been a much shorter video were it not for the time required to chew the very crunchy Charlie Bears!

(Notice that I respond to the cue "table" with an immediate drop - a touch of agility training in the middle of an obedience session.)

I Spy

I spy, with my little eye, something that

breezed through the garden one spring day

stopping long enough for just one photo

and then returned on August 30th

to feast on the remaining blooms of the butterfly bush

Nymphalis antiopa