7 posts tagged “dogs”

Carter was nine weeks old yesterday. In the last two weeks since we got him our conversational scope has been reduced to remarks about eating, sleeping, playing and pee'ing and poo'ing. A few variations on these topics are included here just in case you were thinking about getting a puppy too.

• Shhh, he's sleeping.
• Has he pee'd yet?
• I don't think he should chew that.
• Carter come...Carter come...come...come...Come...Carter Come!...COME HERE!
• What a sweetie!
• I think he pee'd somewhere but I haven't found it yet, watch your step.
• Do you think he's getting enough food?
• NO!!
• Ohhh, isn't he such a good boy.
• Do you think he's getting too much food?
• This was in his mouth. Is it yours?
• I didn't think he could reach that.
• We need new toys.
• Carter! Get OUT from UNDER THERE!
• I can't find my other shoe.
• He's pee'd and poo'ed and now he's yours.
  

  Guilty or Not Guilty

On The Road with Radar

On Sunday we drove up to Ladysmith to pick up Carter. Radar Rabbit is excited about welcoming another newcomer to our household so soon after joining our little family himself. Little does he know...

Carter Likes Slipper

After the excitement of the truck ride home and being shown around his new home (sleep here...eat there...toys...pee there...) Carter pretty much ignores Radar in favour of slippers and towels and sleeps most of the rest of Sunday away.

Carter Sleeps

Monday, Carter meets Radar and decides he likes him better than towels.

Carter Meets Radar

Carter Bites Radar

Later, I stitch up Radar's wounds while Carter sleeps some more.

Carter Sleeps More

Here they are as of last Sunday, just over 5 weeks old.

These are the Girls

Puppy Handful

They are a lot bigger than the last time we visited them. And they aren't just lying around sleeping anymore either. I had a hard time taking pictures. I could hardly aim the camera, focus, set exposure, and shoot fast enough to capture a shot that wasn't either very blurry or simply showed the tail end of one or more puppies scampering out of my shot.

Three of the Boys

One of the boys will come home with us soon.

Puppy in Profile

Puppy with Cedar Cone

We drove up to visit the puppies today and were even allowed to hold a couple of them. They all have their "puppy" names and The Big Guy is holding Walter.

The Big Guy and Walter

Mom is Worried

We don't know which one of the five males we are getting yet. The owners wait until the puppies are seven weeks old and then formally evaluate each of them before matching them up with the people who are going to adopt them. For us they will choose a steady laid-back companion dog who is likely to get along with our other dog, Andy.

The Other Nine

We are thrilled to soon become the adopted parents of one of these Labrador Retriever puppies. They were just born on Friday and are two days old in these pictures.

Rylee and Pups 2

Rylee and Pups

I think his name will be Conner but The Big Guy hasn't warmed up to the name yet.

My first big landscaping project at our new house this fall was this garden. I call it the Big Rock Garden. The plants were all very carefully selected with the help of two staff members at the nursery for their minimal maintenance requirements and "deer resistant" qualities.

Footprints

The fact is that hungry deer will browse on pretty much any sort of plant, deer resistant or not. So far they've cropped the blossoms off almost all the fall-flowering plants and have nibbled down the stems of a couple others. The heather seems untouched. If the other plants don't make it I might go for the all-heather look.

The garden also has footprints from at least two dogs, one with very large feet. I suspect the Saint Bernard puppy from up the hill.

I filled in the footprint holes with soil and then went back to the nursery yesterday to buy some extremely disgusting stuff called Plantskydd to spray on the plants. This is supposed to reliably repel all deer, elk, moose, bunnies, etc., etc. I doubt that it will help with the local dogs. It's made of blood.

I haven't posted any of my Photography Art class homework for Shapes and Forms because I really did not like any of the work I did for Shapes and Forms. As for Text, I just didn't get around to photographing any text or playing around with text in Photoshop either.

Part of the reason for the lack of homework to show here was that every time I got my camera out, I became distracted by other things. Things that I really prefer to photograph. Things that had nothing to do with the week's homework assignment. As a result, I have yet more photographs of trees silhouetted against the sky, leaves backlit by sunlight, our dogs and radio antennas. I don't actually set out to take photos of radio antennas but around our house taking a photograph that doesn't include at least a piece of an antenna or a guy wire takes keen observation and some deft maneuvering.

Anyway, here are pictures of Andy and Tyler.

Andy

Tyler

I will post an online version of what I created for our final homework assignment, "Completed Work", within a day or two.