The One Where Lucy Became a Ranch Dog

Some back story for you. The alpacas chase the dogs quite often. They really don't like them. Consequently, the dogs are afraid of the alpacas. I would be too...if they chased me with those front teeth bared like they do. As for Lucy, we got her from the shelter in Pinole. They said they found her in Richmond. She's a ghetto street dog. She didn't know much when we got her other than not to pee in the house. Now that we're done with the back story...on to the real story!


Yesterday, FIL D was out cleaning pens in the morning. As usual, the dogs were outside...the alpacas you know. Plus, they occasionally like to chase the sheep. As he was cleaning, he heard the dogs going crazy. He figured there was a stray dog or a goat loose or something so he goes over and finds the alpacas fighting each other. He leaves the pen to get a rope to separate them and when he comes back, he finds Lucy IN the pen (our chubby girl somehow managed to jump the fence) and standing between the two of them holding them in separate corners.

Remember, these alpacas chase her down normally but now she's managed to break them up AND keep them separated AND keep them off of her. Pretty cool. Lucy's finally reached her potential for ranch-dog.

Lucy was so little...she's much chubbier now. See yesterday's post.

FFR

The one where the day was cold...

I guess it's not really the only day that was cold. We have a lot of those. I know, I know, those of you in the mid-west and east etc...you all have snow and whose fault is that? You're the one who decided to live there. I chose California. Mild weather for the win! But in the winter...it gets cold. Yesterday I woke up...to this:

All the frost on the grass. What, you can't see it?


A little better? That's the grate in our fire pit.


Fuzzy grass.


I froze for you. Really I did.

Well, this morning. No frost, it was only 40 degrees outside and it was all cloud cover. I'm grateful because our heater is broken for now. Working Man figured out what was wrong with it but there were no part stores open last night. As such...we were chilly last night. And today. I'm looking forward to sticking my face in the carrots I'm steaming right now.

FFR

The one who is camera shy...

Everyone wonders why I don't have pictures of Lucy. I do, but they're few and far between. Unlike Honey, Lucy is very camera shy. She spends her days dodging my lens. I did manage to catch these:

Count the legs you see here and win a prize! Well, not really.


Ear flapping...


It runs in the family.


I love you Lucy girl! Mommy is only half sorry she tortured you.

FFR

Honey and Her Toys

When I'm playing with Honey, she loves to grab something, anything at all, and run with it like she shouldn't have it. Sometimes, it really is something she shouldn't have. When I took these photos, she was trying to go after rocks, dried bird poop, more rocks.... Every time she picks up something she shouldn't have, I give her a very distinct "uh-uh" sound, one which I learned from my mom (and one which ALL of my animals know), and she drops it and hunts for something else. Unless it's food. If it's food, no amount of noises is going to stop her. She's taking it and running.

Finally, she located a toy. I love to watch Honey with toys because she runs so fast and wild and usually the toy is larger than she is. So here's some more Honey Gone Wild, this time with a tug of war toy.

She has just picked up the toy and off she goes!



This day was very cold and cloudy, as such a lot of these pictures are blurry. I couldn't use a flash, it just wasn't going to do anything. Without it, my shutter speed was slow, even set on sports. *Sigh*



We'll call it artistic blur. Not shown: FFR turning around wildly while snapping pictures and getting dizzy.



This really IS artistic blur...but not intentional on my behalf. Keeping it, that was intentional.



I did say it was cold. And I was outside. In short sleeves. And in my requisite flip flops.

Maybe I've gone a little wild,

FFR

Crazy Honey

So we've seen Honey in so many forms. She's been dressed up, dressed down, rough housed, pretty, growling...just about anything you can think of, Honey has been seen and photographed. Well now we've got Honey going crazy...again. For probably the hundredth time.

Here's Honey. She's cute, sweet, and I love her in B&W High Contrast. It just brings out the black points of her face.

But what you're not seeing are the moments before this sweet face got her photo taken. Side effects from the following post may include: laughter, confusion, tears, and wishing you had a puppy. Please go to your local animal shelter and rescue a puppy if the last symptom persists for more than 24 hours. The moments that follow include but are not limited to:

Falling over...

Skidding...

Ear flapping...

And general skidaddlery.

And let's not forget:

Levitation!

Happy Saturday all, I hope these side effects weren't too much to handle. See you tomorrow!

FFR