Easter Egg Hunting in 2010

Hey look! It's Auggie hunting Easter eggs and being SUPER EXCITED about it!
Look at his tail... LMAO



This year he remembered *exactly* how to get them open and get his treats out.


AN EGGS *tail wag*


I sit for egg?












NOM EGG









Sitting nicely with his basket...


It was windy. And this photo just cracks me up because of it. It's so model-with-a-fan, LOL




Knocking the basket over, as usual...


Pushing it so all the eggs will roll out.




Checking to make sure they're really empty. =P



I put them all back in and made him lay down next to it. AUGGIE WAS PISSED. He wanted to push the stupid basket over and dump all his eggs out.


I NOMS MY BASKET


ONE good laying down pic (and notice that I had to reposition him on the other side...)


Nomming an egg as his reward for sitting nicely. Because I'm pretty sure I had to grab an egg and hold it up like a treat to get his attention.



(Don't you love his sheep basket? I bought one for his breeder too because she shares my sheep obsession. I also bought... um... two more to put in storage... because I won't always just have one dog... so I... I needed more than one sheep basket... DON'T JUDGE ME)

Easter Egg Hunt 2009

It was nice and sunny outside, warm enough that I just needed a jacket - so OUTSIDE WE GO for the egg hunt this year! I had the camera but was slightly less inclined to throw myself on the muddy ground for photos the way I can lay on the living room floor and get photos whenever we go the egg hunt indoors, so my angles are a little different than usual.


This egg was hidden inside the gator's mouth - I didn't get a shot of him knocking it out of the mouth to pick it up.


Cookie treats inside the eggs!


Ohhhhh egg.


Nosing it over to me so I can open it for him...


...until he decided it was easier to open them himself.


This is the third year we've done an egg hunt, and this year he was pretty good at remembering how to open the eggs with just enough to pressure to pop them as opposed to actually chomping down and breaking them. (He broke a couple the first year... oops!)


EGG NOM.


MORE EGG NOM.


All the eggs are in the basket! He wouldn't sit nicely next to them so I gave up and told him, "Fine - get up and do something cute with the basket."


Which means he pushed it over with his paw.


Yeah okay, I admit it - that's pretty cute.


Trying to open them again in case he missed a cookie somehow...


He still wouldn't sit down nicely next to them. But okay that's pretty cute too.


He nosed the basket over to knock the rest of the eggs out...


...and resumed opening them to make SURE they were really empty.


You see, he doesn't trust that when I say "No, the treats are REALLY gone," that I'm being honest. I don't know why. I've never lied to him.
About all the treats being gone, anyway.

Hunting for eggs

I do what with this..?


Oh, I get to hunt EGGS. Okay.


LOOK MA I FOUNDED ONE


Oh oh here's another!! Miiiiine!


OMMMM NOM NOM NOM NOM


I founds them all... I puts them in my basket.


I lieks eggs!


Hurray for Auggie! He remembered just how to do this from the year before... and remembered there were cookies in those eggs.

Auggie's First Easter Egg Hunt

So I had a great idea. Stick cookies inside of large easter eggs, hide them... and let Auggie loose. And then follow him with my camera.


Hey, there's one!


Oh, and another!


"MOM I FOUND ONE!!"


Itty Bitty Bones from Three Dog Bakery is what I stashed inside of them all.


Posing with all of his eggs. Hurray!


He had to make sure he'd gotten the cookies out of all of them.