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April 12, 2011

Auggie with sheep

It might seem like Pepper is dominating right now, but that's just because she is new and most of the annoying things Auggie is doing relate to her anyway.
HOWEVER... we are entered in our very first herding trial soon - we're going to take a shot at herding at Sheltie Nationals 2011!

I took some photos while out at his breeder's house while she was working him, but they are not very good - the sun was setting by the time we got to work so I didn't have much light to take good action photos. The sheep are in focus more than Auggie.
















And here is a link to a short video my mom took:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5e64IBavZc

April 2, 2011

If you didn't know better, it might look like they're playing


Hurray!







She's too slow - and if you only knew the struggles Auggie & I have been having you would think it very funny that Pepper is too slow for Auggie...


PEPPER DERPFACE


What you don't see is that Auggie actually turned around and ran the other direction around the jump chute to me after this because he finally realized tearing after her at top speed wasn't actually going to influence her to play with him.


She did actually grab the tennis ball in her mouth ONCE and took a few steps towards me with it in her mouth. Unfortunately as a result of seeing her actually grab the tennis ball in her mouth I started throwing a "OH GOOD GIRL PEPPER!!" party and I think that terrified her, LOL. *facepalm*

Between Auggie, who apparently thinks the best way to initiate play is to divebomb her at top speed from across the yard, and me, who hasn't yet learned that when she does something slightly brave that loud and exciting is probably NOT the best way to encourage her, I'm pretty sure she's right - she IS living in a horror movie, and the Crazy Banzai Twins are ruining her life...

March 30, 2011

Somebody's in the wrong bed, and More Pepper


The bed with peppers on it and the pink toys would suggest this is not the correct bed for my bad monster. Auggie disagrees and submits the argument that technically EVERYTHING in this house is his therefore this is also his bed.
Somehow I can't quite dismiss his argument.


Photographic evidence that she HAS slept in this house... this was taken her first night here when she finally settled in her crate and fell asleep.


This is typically the shot I get of her, LOL. I can't get much further back.


So then I took the same shot of Auggie, LOL.


Monster man <3


She walked away from me for a second. Whoo! Standing by the jump chute (she won't actually take any of the jumps even though they're only 4".)


Comin' back to me.


Ahhh! They're standing next to each other!!




Standing next to each other again!!


This got out of order I think, this looks like it was right before she came back to me from the above photos.


I tried to get a nice one of her and Auggie together but she doesn't really listen to sit and she DEFINITELY doesn't listen to stay so it wasn't happening. Auggie sat there patiently and waited and finally I just told him he was a good boy, forget it, and he could go play now. Sometimes I think he must be sitting there next to me and Pepper, watching her, and thinking "Gosh, it's just SIT. It's not like it's hard. Just SIT!"

She is settling down faster when I sit down somewhere instead of pacing around like something terrible is about to happen... the first couple of days, if I sat down at the computer or sat down to flip through channels on the TV, I ended up stuck there for a while because I wanted to wait for her to settle down before I got back up. Now she seems to have learned that, okay, if somebody has sat down, we're going to be here for a bit so lay down and take a break! But she still won't settle enough to take any naps outside of her crate (and even inside her crate, if people are around, she's awake and alert)... and she still won't play with anybody, including Auggie. Sigh.

March 26, 2011

Needs More Pepper

I purchased... some things.

Pink things.

In preparation for this:

Pepper has returned for Attempt #2.




She is pretty much stuck like glue to me so I couldn't get far enough away to take many photos of her. I took a few that would have been great if they weren't overexposed, because like a moron I started shooting based off my settings from a previous overcast day, so I lost about 15 photos before I realized I was off. And yeah, I realize even some of these are overexposed too.


My dog is incredibly undignified.


These were after I took some shots and told Pepper "You're so pretty!" I guess he wanted to prove how un-pretty he is.
And seriously. Can you blame her for not wanting to play with this thing? I mean really.


Attempt at a pretty Auggie...


Auggie and I have decided we are going to basically carry on our lives as though she is no big deal, and she's just going to have to deal with it. If she won't play with him, too bad... we are going to play and she can just sit and watch!


BALL


Ball is smelly (and also it needs some more air put in it.)


Auggie is perhaps a little unimpressed with all this, but he's being a good sport.
Kinda.


Awkward expressions brought to you by... Pepper!


Another attempt at pretty Auggie.


MOAR BALL


Pepper thought she MIGHT want to play... then changed her mind.


Auggie: YAAAAAAAAAAAAY
Pepper: God you are so weird.






I love that she has white whiskers.
This is just how it is, LOL.

March 3, 2011

If Auggie were a show dog...

and got his coat all floofy dried out, I guess it might look like this.

[IMG]http://www.beanieart.com/puppy/fluffy.jpg[/IMG]

Except slightly less deranged looking. Well maybe not.

Can you see this?? His hair is EVERYWHERE. He slobbered all over the place playing with his ball, then got out his giant sheep and started throwing it around, and his mane went *KER-POOF!* I had to take a picture but maybe you can't see it very well in photos. He looks like a moron.

February 14, 2011

What Auggie really thinks of Valentine's Day

valentinessux
Valentine's Day sux.

valentinesboring
This holiday is sooooooo boring. More candy plz.

52 Weeks of Auggie - 7/52 Valentine's Day

52 Weeks, Week 07
A puppy would make a fantastic Valentine's Day surprise. Unfortunately mine still isn't even conceived yet.


Rejects:
52 Weeks, Week 07 Reject 01
I had some "backdrop" malfunctions involved with these rejects. This one is SO cute but the backdrop didn't cover the whole couch, so I felt funny using it as the one I liked.

52 Weeks, Week 07 Reject 02
More backdrop malfunctions. He looks so smug in this one!


Here's the set on Flickr where you can see all of my 52 Weeks photos in one go:
52 Weeks of Auggie
Want to see the shots that ALMOST made it, but didn't quite? Check these out!
52 Weeks of Auggie - The Rejects