I love Cardigans!
We had a visitor arrive yesterday. Young Cardigan named Quinn is hanging out at our house for a week. It is so nice to be able to introduce a new dog to the pack and they just adapt. We walked into the yard, PJ said hey dude who are you? Henry, said “it’s cool, just don’t mess with my stuff”, Lindy said “Hey! Haven’t we met before? Let’s play”. Then they all went running out into the yard.
Later in the weekend, I drug our agility tunnel into the play yard. The cardis hadn’t really seen it and boom they all just ran thru it like they had been doing it every day. PJ even jumped on top of it and ran like a log roller across it. I wish I had the camera then.
Then we went to Yappy Hour at Grandma’s house and hung out with Dublin, Dublin is my mom’s 13 year old Cattle Dog cross, the Cardi kids said, “Hey Dub, this is our friend Quinn” and that was that.
Pool Party
Hot Muddy Days
We have had a ton of rain and everyone is muddy and the yard is under water. It is just now starting to dry out. I keep filling the pool for the dogs and they keep filling it with mud but don’t they look like they love it!
Look this water is muddy again
Didn’t take long
Monsoon season has started and it didn’t take long for the grass in the yard to grow tall again. We haven’t had any rain in El Paso all year until a couple of weeks ago. Here is the result of rain in the desert. We had “big rain” again last night so it will be even higher by the weekend.
Where is the Cardi?
Added Links
I’ve been adding some links to my Cardi Friends web sites, this will make it easy to find more of the cardi folks around the country. I’m adding more as I get time, so stay tuned.
What a good boy!
I was so proud of the PJ today. Last week at training he was all over the place with his attention but today his attention was all on me. I actually got all the rally signs right tonight too. It was great to have such a good session because I had a crappy and unproductive day. Yappy hour rules!
Birthin’ Babies
Babies are imminent! Harry’s Addy is due any time, the target date is July 5th but she is starting to act like she is ready to get on with it. She is full of puppies! Check out the Xray and see how many you can count http://www.arylan.com/Puppies.htm . I’ll update after their arrival.
UPDATE
So far there are 7, 4 boys and 3 girls. Harry is updating as he can on his website.
UPDATE
Total count is 8 5 boys 3 girls.
Big Bone Lick
I’ve been asked several time about Big Bone Lick so here is a link to the State Park http://parks.ky.gov/findparks/recparks/bb/
Here is what wikipedia says about Big Bone Lick:
Big Bone Lick State Park is located at Big Bone in Boone County, Kentucky. It is located on Beaver Road and between the communities of Beaverlick and Rabbit Hash. The name of the park comes from the Pleistocene megafauna fossils found there. The mammoths and other creatures are believed to have been drawn to this location by a salt lick. It bills itself as “the birthplace of American paleontology” a term which dates from William Clark’s expedition in 1807.
In 2002, the National Park Service designated Big Bone Lick State Park as an official Lewis and Clark Heritage Trail Site.[2] The Park was also listed in 1972 on the National Register of Historic Places.
The petting zoo
Today’s rally class again had lots of distractions but not rude ones like last week. Today we had a spectators gallery of about 6-8 kids. They were thrilled to hang out with the dogs, fairly respectful and asked a lot of questions. It was like a petting zoo. PJ ate it up. It didn’t help us with training, he really had an attention issue tonight but we got some good work done in small steps. PJ is a popular student a BMOC.
Some Random Yappy Hour photos
Nothing special, just Lindy being Lindy.
Big Bone Lick
When Leslie and I were traveling to the Nationals in Kentucky we went past a park called Big Bone Lick and we thought it would be a place the dogs would want to stop and visit. I had to google it later on and found out it is a natural salt lick where people found bones of prehistoric animals hence the name Big Bone Lick.
We had a version of Big Bone Lick
at the house today. I moved to sofa and low and behold there was a big bone that I think we brought back from Houston last summer. Finding that to go along with the usual rawhide bones laying around we also had rib bones from the State Line Restaurant, they are so cool about giving you a bag of dog bones, it was a Big Bone Lick Day.
I got home from working some OT and just wanted to hang out with the dogs and do nothing so I put the big dogs up and let the babies in and they had a blast. The big bone changed paws several times. Lindy dosen’t like to share her bones with the boys so she will grab something and go under the bed. Wicca just picks something and chews it until it is gone or it is time to go out. The boys trade back and forth, back
and forth, back and forth. 
Sometimes it is good to be a dog and this one of those times. In addition to the bones they also got steak! One of my co-workers, Clare, brought in some steak that had gotten left in the marinade too long and she didn’t like the way it tasted. She just couldn’t throw it out so she brought it for the dogs. They said Thank You Miss Clare! They are getting a few nibbles in their dinner at night and it makes it extra special.
Solstice Kennels 