What a week it has been!  Elliot Cool (that's my new brother's name - mom *finally* decided!) probably had the biggest week of all.  Here is a video of all that he experienced:


Me and Caper were actually IN that agility trial he went to and we got some prizes!



Dally was there too, but she didn't play 'gility she just played in the pond and yard!


It was lots of fun but then when I got home on Sunday night I realized I was really, really, really, really, SORE!  I  couldn't use my right front leg at all!  And every time I shifted my weight it HURT and I cried out.  My mama was really worried about me.  She gave me medicine but it didn't help so the next morning she took me to the emergency hospital!  They took pictures of my bones!  They said none of them were broken so that was good, I guess.  But they said I had a "soft tissue injury."  I don't really know about that - it sure didn't feel soft to me!  They gave my mom more medicines for me to take and told her I had to stay in prison until I was better.  I sure didn't like that but I felt pretty lousy and it did keep my pesky little brother from bouncing on me so I guess I was ok with it.  (Mom can't make the disc the doctors gave her work, so you can't see the photos of my bones!)
Well, I finally got more freedom by the end of the week and while mom still won't play with me I am now allowed to run around on my own, so I took advantage of that this morning while mom hung out with us all in the yard.  We all had lots of fun, I think.  Well, maybe not those feral foster dogs (yup, they are both still here, .  Hopefully one of them leaves soon, though, they are annoying!  I always have to keep them in line.
Anyway, here are a gazillion photos of us from this morning!
Am I handsome, or what?!

Dally being reflective for a moment...

Lazy Lacy

Zooooooooooooooom!  Finally freedom!  I don't need my mom to play with me to have fun!

Elliot Cool thinks he's all that!

Sharing the stump!

Arrrrrr!

Dally trying to get mom to play with her (since she can't play with me, she doesn't play with anyone!  HA!

Caper posing!

Dally looking adorable as usual.

Saga hanging out by mom.

Caper posing again!

Elliot Cool keeps trying to get Dally to play.  She isn't giving in yet but mum says for Mr. Cool to keep trying, as she is sure to give in eventually...

Lacy looking serious.

Mischief and Porter the feral fosters.

Mr. Cool himself.

He's still trying to get Dally to let him join in play.

All of the dog family but Saga (he's deaf, so he didn't hear what attracted our attention!)

Mr. Cool stealing Dally's toy!

Dally and Elliot on the stump!

Me with the remnants of the soccer ball!

Lacy looking like she's about to lay down the law to someone.

Elliot Cool trying to get Porter to play.

Caper posing AGAIN!  She's such a show dog!

Dally and Elliot playing tug!

Lacy back to being lazy.

The girls!

Elliot Cool chillin' on the stump.

Lacy looking.

Elliot Cool with the squished ball.

Elliot seeing if Mischief will play.

Mischief checking out Elliot Cool.

Lacy watching.

Elliot Cool collecting toys.

Leap!

In the pool ...

Lazy Lacy goes back to sleep.

The feral boys, Porter and Mischief.

Elliot Cool having a stretch during play.

Elliot Cool chasing Dally.

Feral fosters again, Mischief and Porter.

Saga getting a kiss from Mr. Cool.

Here comes Mr. Cool!

Elliot Cool posing!

Saga...
Well, that's all for now!  Hopefully that was enough photos for you all for awhile!  See ya later!WOOF!ArthurGOOD!

BIG NEWS!

Well now, you read that right!  I do have some BIG NEWS!  About 22 pounds worth!!!  And I don't mean that British money kinda pounds, either.

What's that, you ask?  Well, I am taking about the flesh and blood and bones and fur kind of BIG NEWS.

Yup!!  It's true!

I.

HAVE.

A.

NEW.

LITTLE.

BABY.

BROTHER.

Whoa!!!  Can you even believe it?!  Well, it's true.  And, like the Mr. GOOD! I am I am going to teach him all the tricks of the trade when it comes to being the brother.  I'll teach him to bite noses, steal toys, pounce the cats, and sleep on the bed.  I am ready!

The best part of my little brother is that he is not a border collie.  Mom knows I wasn't going to stand no whipper snapper charging in here and trying to be the bestest boy border collie ever over me, no way, no how!  So, my little brother can be the bestest boy Coolie in the world.  I'll keep the Border Collie title, thank-you-very-much!

Yes, that's right, I said Coolie.  No, I didn't mean to say Collie, I really meant Coolie.  (I am a border collie, I can spell, you know!)

What the heck's a Coolie, you ask?

Well, perhaps you may remember my foster sister, Easter Bonnet, from about a year and a half ago?  She was a funny multi-colored dog, and a real good playmate to my little sister Dally when she was still tiny, like this:

Well, mom's friend from Australia pointed out to mom that she thought Bonnie looked like a German Coolie!  Mom hadn't heard of them so she went searching to see what she could find out.  All the info she found she thought was pretty neat, but she was busy with baby Dally so she didn't do much with it except tell Bonnie's adopter's that she could be a German Coolie.

Fast forward to this summer and my Disc Dog seminars!  Mom went on FB looking for different disc dog events and somehow stumbled upon a FB group for Australian Koolies (similar  to German Coolies.)  Someone had posted a photo of a cute pup on there and mom followed that back and found out he and his brother were both still looking for homes.  She couldn't believe no one had wanted that little pup because in ever picture, she said, he was staring right at her (I think the reason she liked that so much is because that's what *I* do to her in *my* pictures!)

See:

 Here is that puppy, staring at mom.

 Here is that puppy, staring at mom again.

 Here is that puppy, once again, staring at my mother!!!

And finally, again, here he is staring, staring, staring at her!  Now, even I can tell what he's saying in this last picture.  "Hey Lady, can I come play with you?  I promise to be a real good pup and not cause any trouble at all."  Of course, being a puppy he's prolly telling tall tales about being no trouble!

So, mom was still not biting, but then she got a message from the pup's human mum and after she read the message she said it was just something she couldn't say no too...and SO, that BIG NEWS little pup got put on a plane this morning and went for a very long and noisy plane ride....to US!

He was 'sposed to get to the airport at 9pm but instead he didn't get there until almost 11pm!  We finally got home and it's already tomorrow and in just a few hours it'll be time for my and Caper's AGILITY TRIAL!

Here are some pics of my new little brother at home.  Mom got some videos too but those will have to wait!

and here he is all tuckered out and tucked into bed:

He doesn't quite have an official name yet but I'll keep you posted!

Be sure and stay tuned for lots more details on how he fits in here and all of the adventures he has with Saga, Lacy, Caper, Me, Dally, the kitties, the birdies, grand-paw, and, of course, mom!

Until later,
WOOF!!!!!!
ArthurGOOD!

Disc Dog Seminar Video and pics!!

Here I am having lots of fun at the disc dog seminar! Uncle Marty helped my mom lots on her throwing but as you can see she is not always perfect. He also told my mom to keep working with my DROP (I WANT it!!) and the circling around her so she has time to throw better for me. Mom says we are not perfect but things are beginning to come together! Now we know what to work on, she says...so that is good!


Here are some pics of the other attendees that mom took.  There was another border collie (blue merle) not in these pics because mom video'd him since his mom video'd us...she hasn't gotten a chance to get pics off his video's yet but she will.  They were quite good, and he was just a youngster!:

And here are some stills of me taken from the movies!

WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!  Don't I look like I'm having a blast?!  I am, of course.  I think my mom had fun to!

~ArthurGOOD!

So far behind!!

WOOF!  Hello friends.  My mom says I am seriously far behind in updating my blog, and I agree!  So much has happened that you haven't been able to enjoy!

Let's see...we had lots of foster siblings come and go...right now there are two REALLY scaredy dogs here.  Mom says one of them is supposed to go to another foster home but so far no one wants him.  Unfortunately one of the fosters *Charlotte* pushed mom's good camera into the sick into a mug of water and ruined it, so she only has her Droid for pics now.  It's not quite as good as the real camera for taking pics and that makes mom a bit sad.

My sister Caper and I have done some agility trials this summer!  Those have been fun!  My sister Dally and I did another Rally trial, that was really fun too and I earned my RL1X - which stands for Rally Level 1 Championship!  Plus I am only one QQ away from my ARCH!  That stands for APDT Rally Champion!  Dally won some fancy ribbons too.

Let's see what else....oh, last week I went to a Disc Dog seminar with mom...she really needs some work on her throwing so it was a really important seminar for me to take her to.  We go for part two tomorrow!  Woof!  That will be fun!

We've also had lots of visitors this summer.  Dally even *played* with Levi the overgrown smooth coated border collie pup who stayed here for awhile while his family was in Ireland...(they didn't even bring me back any sheep!)

Ok well, here are some recent videos for your enjoyment...

Here I am NOT destroying the rally course!


This is Levi the visitor playing with Caper and Dally (but mostly Dally much to Caper's dismay!)


Here's one of Dally and I practicing with the disc!


Here's Dally showing off what she's learned so far in some of her classes.

OK, that is all, mom says we have to go to bed so we can leave in time for the disc dog seminar!
WOOF!
ArthurGOOD!

When Rally Goes Wrong! and Right!

My mom says I was taken over by an alien being this weekend at the APDT Wag It Rally Trial!  She wanted to write this post instead of me, so this time, so I'm gonna let her.  I'll bark at ya another time!
WOOF!
ArthurGOOD!

From my mom:
What a weekend!  We started with a pretty normal Level 1 run.  Scored a very respectable 206!  And then came Level 2.  It started out as a lovely run.  Something went wrong at the Fast Forward from Sit, and things went downhill from there.  I had no idea what was going on with my perfect boy!  I just kept going...LOL!  At least he appears to be having a good time...I think he was frustrated with the fact that it wasn't more exciting.  I had tried walking at a faster pace than normal thinking he would like that better.  He seemed to, but then the Fast Forward from Sit seemed to tip him over the edge.


By the end of the weekend he managed to pull himself together enough to get a Level 2 Q, although he lost it right at the end, again, not helped by the Fast Forward from Sit.


He did better in his Level 3 runs, the Jump was there for him to concentrate on, helping quite a bit, though it did not stop him from trying to destroy one of the signs on one run - but that was his only major transgression. What a crazy man!  Level 1's also went better - although he did grab a cone on one of those too!  Overall, ArthurGOOD! and I just weren't connected like we had been a few weeks ago at the Monadnock trial - at that trial we had the nices t runs of our Rally career, and were more connected than we had ever been.  I think ArthurGOOD! just didn't want me taking him for granted.  

One the other hand, there was his "Little Sis" DahliaRIGHT! She finished her Puppy Championship with 3 lovely Level Puppy runs, and then earned her very first Level 1 Q with this nice run:

And if that wasn't enough, her score earned her the High Scoring Rescue/Shelter Dog of the weekend!!  What an honor!  And she got to beat him big brother ... he had won the honor at his very first Rally trial last October, so perhaps he was trying to share the glory... ;--)

Thanks to all the wonderful judges and fellow competitors who helped me laugh at my silly boy this weekend!   The courses were super fun and challenging!

~Amy
DahliaRight!(I'm better than my brother!)
ArthurGOOD! (I'll bite your nose for that, you little brat.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LITTLE SISTER!

Today is my little sister Dahlia's BIRTHDAY!
From this:

to this:










That's not the exact same scale, but it is about the same size!  WOW!  She grew up good!  Be sure to watch the Garden blog for updates on her brothers and sister!
http://ivypeat.blogspot.com

WOOF!
ArthurGOOD!

Winter Fun

Mom and Grandpaw were playing on the roof today with shovels and stuff, so we puppy dogs had to entertain ourselves!  Mom took some candid camera pictures and movies, though.

Pictures!

Me looking at mom on the roof and Dally looking my my toy!


Me playing with my toy by myself.  You can see my shaved patch where my wound is still healing!


Nutty Noel


Dally looking at mom on the roof.


Nutty Noel and Little Lacy looking down on us from the deck.


Silly Saga and Dally chatting.


Caper, Saga, and Dally

Now, here are the movies!

First, here is Silly Saga and Dahlia playing.


Next, here is my sister Crazy Caper racing about.  I raced about with her for a moment, myself.


And, here is one more of Crazy Caper!!


After we played outside, I went over to visit GrandPaw with mom.  We posed for a picture!

Aren't we handsome?!?!

Here you can see my Auntie Sparkle thought I tasted good and wants another bite of me!  Good thing my GrandPaw was holding onto her!  (Ok, so she really just wanted to chase me some more, but she was not allowed!  That made her sad, but I was glad.)

Ok, that is all for now!  I hope you enjoyed the movies and pictures!  My wound is healing well, by the way.  Thanks for all the good thoughts!

WOOF!

ArthurGLAD!