Places to go, bunnies to see, doggies to meet....

Hiya! How are you? I'm doin great ;-) Welcome back to my blog!
I have been a busy, busy girl and so much has been going on this past week! Mom had several bookings this week, so she didn't let me get on the computer as much as usual, so I'm a bit behind in my blog...sorry ;-(

(It's Mom's fault! Shhhhhh!)


***OH! Remind me to tell you about a special day that Mom and Dawson had on Thursday! They went to the Respect, Reflect and Remember day in South Orange, NJ. Mom said it was an honor to be a part of such a wonderful event, and she wanted me to dedicate an entire blog entry to it; so stay tuned...I'll be doin that later this week after I "interview" Dawson and get his take on the big day! ***

Anyway... today I had my formal class...and guess what?? No one but me showed up again! Don't know why, but I was the only one, but Mom takes advantage of a good opportunity to train me at anytime, so since she still had her Canine and Abled demo equipment in the van, she went ahead and set it up.

I did my retrieving meds from a cabinet---open the door, pull the meds, give to Mom, then go back to close the door task (one of my favorites!)

Then, I picked up laundry that was strewn all over the place (messy, messy!) and put them into a laundry basket, then pulled the basket over to where Mom was waiting. Hers said I did good!

When I do good, I get my squeeky thrown for me! Oh boy, do I love my squeeky!!!

Then I turned on a light/turned it back off again...again I got the squeeky!

That was all the equipment Mom had with her, so we worked on those tasks individually, then Mom had me do them all together; and boy, was that fun! Squeeky throw!!!!

It was gettin pretty hot by then, so Mom finished up my training session with a focus exercise, and advanced obedience drills. I was really hot and thirsty after that, and Mom said I was so good...that guess what??!! Hers took me down the trail and to the lake and I got to go swimmin! OH, I LOVE to swim!! It's one of my most favorite things to do; like, ever! Squeeky and me went swimmin together, and we both loved it! I love my squeeky!

So I was all nice and cooled off and Mom said it was time to go home. I was tired by then, and was happy to be back in the A/C and snoozied in the van all the way home!

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So guess what?! Tomorrow we go to the horsie farm where Mom teaches riding lessons... Oh, I love goin there! So many things to sniff, and play with, and and sniff; and oh, they have a hose, and I get sprayed.....Love dat!

Last weekend, Mom took me down there, and there was some other doggies that didn't like me so much before. Mom would keep me in the crate when they was there, cause she didn't want me to get eaten. (I didn't want to get eatin either!)

... well, last week, the other doggies' mommy thought that we should try to meet again, cause when they tried to eat me before, there was puppies involved...now, I would never, ever try to eat no puppies (they so cute and fluffy, and remind me of my own little fur person), but the mommy doggie didn't know this, and well; she tried to eat me! I got so scared! I didn't want no trouble, but hers didn't want to hear any of dat....

Anyways, the puppies and mamma werent' there anymore, so Mom let me go say hi again; and guess what!? They didn't eat me! I was scared at first, but before I knew it, I had made friends, and one of the doggies even went swimmin in the pond with me; oh boy! You know how I like to swim...and swimmin's even better when you have a stick-fetchin buddy!

OH! Guess what else! There was bunnies...baby ones, and OH was they cuuute! The kids put them into a big storage container with soft hay in the bottom for a little while each day to get them used to being handled. They was so cute, I just had to say hello! Mom let me kiss a couple of them, but I got scolded when I tried to climb into the container with the bunnies ;-( I just wanted to play with them! I would never, ever hurt the little babies! Thems so cute! They liked me, too! So then, I had to be happy with just hangin my head over the side of the container, and kissin the bunnies when they came to see me ;-) I loved dat! Theys my friends, and guess what?! We get to go back there tomorrow, and I bet they got big!

Well, I best be gitten to bed... I's got a big day again tomorrow, and want to be plenty rested! I can't wait to go see my swimmin friends (now that I know they won't eat me!), and play with the bunnies, and say hello to the chickens (they don't think too much of me, but I dont' chase them or anything!), oh what fun a farm can be! Yeee haaa! I'll tell ya all about it later! G'night!

--Nadja
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