Maine Millers

Sometimes you get to see something in a photograph that you kind of miss in real life. This photo was taken at Bowdoin College on the fields by Bill Kunitz last week. He caught Scout in what looks like a pretty happy place 🙂

Ok, I’ve been MIA for a few weeks. We got the agility bug and it’s a blast. Scout is doing very well at his jumps and if I can figure out a way to get some photos or video while training him in the yard I will post them. Next weekend I am planning to travel to an agility trial in Skowhegan, Maine to be just a spectator. We went last year and had fun but now that I understand things a little more I think I will get much more out of the trial. One thing that I have found it that agility can be expensive and after seeing a post on the tiptail blog for a contest to win a $30 gift certificate to doggonegood.com I figured I would enter. So, Cynthia, this is my entry to your contest and that $30 would go to good use at dogggonegood.com most likely in the agility catagory 😀

Don’t let your dog become a statistic! It’s not fair to an animal without an opposable thumb to be closed in a car even with the windows cracked.

You can download a pdf file of this poster here:

http://www.akc.org/pdfs/press_center/PSA_print/hot_car7×10.pdf

Scout got his first “grooming” the other day and he is so soft and fluffy.  He spent 7 hours at the groomer’s shop but I will venture a guess most of that was not pampering.  He really doesn’t look to much different but his “pants” are shorter and he doesn’t feel “dusty.”  Now to see how long it will last.

Today was the first real hot day of the year.  It topped out around 94 degrees at home and Scout was none too happy with that temperature.  He spent a lot of time on the deck in the shade or snoozing in his kennel in the cooler bedroom.  He is kind of funny about his water bowl, I took his regular plastic bowl outside for him and he was fine with that but I put one of our older stainless bowls in the kitchen for him and he wanted nothing to do with it.  He even tried to pick it up and move it kind of asking where is my regular bowl.  I have now switched them back.