HOHOHO! or... STOP!

Wesha and Ghandi had a pretty exciting Christmas Eve. We were invited by my sister in law. In her household there are 2 dogs, 1 parrot and 1 cat. Wesha and Ghandi know the dogs and they mostly ignore each other, which is fine. The parrot, however, was a whole different story. But let's start with the beginning.

When we arrived, the dogs went through the hallway, kitchen, living room and sitting room like two little whirl winds. They found some dog food on the kitchen floor, what a treat! No need to say, it was gone in no time. Ghandi discovered the Christmas tree in the living room and he must have thought that was there for his convenience... because he immediately peed against it! Wonderful! (NOT!)

And then Wesha discovered the parrot. She could not take her eyes of him! She stood up and just stared and stared at the parrot:



A little later, the parrot sat on someone's shoulder and we were all having a little snack. The snacks were standing on a low coffee table... oh my... THAT was a huge temptation too! I was constantly saying "No!" "Leave it!" or "Stop!". And Ghandi still managed to lick something (but he didn't eat it)... Wesha was still trying to hypnotise the parrot and Reto and I did not feel very relaxed. So that was the moment we decided to put the dogs in the car for a while.
Soon we took them out, because we were going for a little walk through the village. It was snowing and it was really very Christmassy.
After the walk we put Wesha and Ghandi back in the car again and gave them their dinner. We left them in the car and we had dinner too.

After dinner, Wesha and Ghandi could come back into the house. Ghandi was sitting on our lap all the time, and Wesha went back to staring at the parrot. Somewhere along the way she must have forgotten where she was, because we found a puddle on the carpet! (Can you imagine how I felt?! Visiting and BOTH dogs peeing in the house!)


So now we know what we have to teach Wesha and Ghandi:
No peeing in other people's houses! and
everything that is on a table (even if it is a low table) is OURS, not yours! and
parrots are to be left in peace!

More snow

There was a whole load of fresh snow just waiting for us this morning. Wesha was excited and happy as usual about it. Walking the dogs proved being hard work, as you can see in this video.

Wesha does have problems with snowballs that get stuck to her coat. It was really bad this morning... She had snowballs as big as tennisballs around her elbows! When we got home she was even standing still patiently, while I tried to free her of the snow. Ghandi helped too... eating the snow off Wesha.

Here are some pics of this afternoon (the snowballs on Wesha weren't as big as in the morning).

Snow fun

The first snow of the season arrived here in the night from Thursday to Friday. It was so much fun to walk the dogs Friday morning! Wesha was like a little pup, running, jumping and playing in the snow. She LOVES it! She was running into fields and then stopping to stare at me, her eyes begging me: "Snow ball?! Snow ball?!" and if she thought it took me too long to throw her one, she even started to bark at me.
Ghandi also enjoyed the snow, but not as much as Wesha.

Today we went for a long walk with the whole family and Lorenzo was throwing a lot of snow balls for Wesha. We tried to restrict him, because we were afraid that Wesha might eat too much snow. But it was hard. Both Lorenzo and Wesha were having so much fun.

The only obvious result of Wesha eating all that snow was, that she had to pee a lot when we got home.

Weighed

Wesha and Ghandi got weighed again yesterday. It had been a long time.

Wesha: 17.2kg
Ghandi: 10.6kg

I think Wesha is pretty perfect and Ghandi really shouldn't add anymore weight. He still looks good, but he could probably also do with a littlebit less.

Hairdresser

Wesha has been to the "hairdresser" again. Her ears and her legs were really extremely fluffy and now she looks so pretty again. Here are the "before" and "after" pictures.
With fluffy ears:

At the "hairdresser's"

No more fluffy ears


And some pictures that I took during our walk this morning:

Walk near Altikon

This morning, I took Wesha and Ghandi for a walk near Altikon again. Time and time again, I am surprised at how much Wesha loves going for walks in that area. She plays and runs so much more than during other walks.

Here is a video clip of this morning.


Here are some pics too:


Ghandi was getting ready to chase after Wesha:

Then I tried giving them some commands from a distance. I was standing about 7m away from this rock. I took the dogs in "sit" next to me. Then I sent them "up" on the rock, "sit", "down" and "wait" (so that I could take this pic). I am so proud of them, they did it so perfectly.

Wesha decided it was still warm enough to swim. (It really was not cold today)

We're back!

Not that we were really gone, but I have been neglecting this blog for too long! Wesha and Ghandi are both doing fine. They are good most of the time and stubborn some of the time and trying out limits every now and then too!

Today, Reto went for a long walk with them (to Rheinau and back!) and when they came home, Ghandi still wanted more action (see this Video!)

I can't go for such long walks at the moment, because I am recovering from an emergency surgery. Doing really well, though. Today is my first day without pain medication. :) I will be back to normal soon.

Here are some pictures of our two beauties.