Sunday, 25 April 2010

Wednesday, 21 April 2010

TV commercials

Tollers are appearing more and more often in Dutch TV commercials. They mostly have a small role... not in the latest one though! Major role for the toller in this commercial!And it is such a clever Toller too. It is a "she", but if asked "how do boys pee?", she lifts her leg. She demonstrates that quite nicely in the commercial. It makes me laugh every time I see the commercial!

You can see it here on YouTube

Edit:
Just found out there is another commercial with the same Toller (for the same company). It is soooo funny!!! Have a look here.

Sunday, 18 April 2010

Happy Birthday Ghandi!



Our little boy is turning 2 years old today!



Tuesday, 13 April 2010

Breaking in her new harness

I bought Wesha a new harness today and on our walk this afternoon, she decided to break it in properly by rolling in a dry, plowed field:



(Shame, the video is cut off on the right hand side. If you want to see the whole video, please click here )


And afterwards, she looked like this:

The Spanish Patient, Part 2

About 10 days ago, Ghandi had another penis infection. Of course it started during the weekend again, so that we couldn't go to our own vet. After another treatment with antibiotics, I made an appointment with our vet to check him out while he had no symptoms. I was suspecting a problem with the foreskin.
So last week, I took Ghandi to our own vet. Ghandi wasn't pleased at all that the vet wanted to check on his penis/foreskin and we even had to put a muzzle on him. The vet luckily saw that there was no problem with the foreskin. But he also saw some signs of infection. So he rinsed the foreskin a few times and gave me an ointment to put on/in it.
The vet took some blood (we had to hold Ghandi with 3 persons, he is so strong!) to have it tested on Leishmaniosis.

At home, Ghandi was very good and allowed me to put the ointment between the penis and the foreskin every day.

We had to go back to the vet today. The blood test came back negative and we are very happy about that! Ghandi was a lot better than last week and it was a lot easier for the vet to pull the foreskin all the way back. There was a bit of dried ointment there, but apart from that, nothing unusual. The vet rinsed it again. I will keep using the ointment (but only every 2 or 3 days) and in 2 weeks time we will go back to the vet for another check up.

Sunday, 11 April 2010

One year with us!



Today it is exactly 1 year ago that we picked up Ghandi! He has brought us so much joy and we wouldn't want to miss him for the world! He is a great friend and play mate to Wesha, a lovely cuddly dog to the children and to Reto and me. He learned so incredibly fast and he is still doing so well at dog training, that it is lots of fun to work with him. He is cheeky and sometimes stubborn, he is always hungry and looking for food, he can be a bit harsh to puppies and young dogs, he sometimes makes a mess and breaks our things. But most of all, he is part of our family and he managed to totally fit in after only a few days. We all love him to bits and we are thankful that we could give him a home. I hope we can enjoy him for many more years to come!

Saturday, 10 April 2010

Another photo shoot...

Can't get enough of my new camera :








After about xxx photos, Ghandi got very tired of posing: