Studio shoot - what is that?

We were taken into a photographic studio today by Kati and Miles! They wanted us to put some strange things on our heads et cetera, and expected us to stay put in front of some really bright flashy lights. Well, really, I wouldn't have it. Long story short: here's Kati's blog about it. http://lighttrick.blogspot.com/2010/12/mythmas-shoot.html

And here is the photo that she is using for her Mythmas cards, apparently!

Snow...

Hey, there's more of that white stuff on the ground now! And you know what? You can hardly see me when I'm running on it! Well, apart from my brown bits. And tongue ;p

Zebedee sometimes chases me when we are out and tries to bully me. His doing it in this photo.

But he can't always catch me any more! I can run so fast now!

There are a lot less smells when the ground is covered in snow. Luckily there are still smells near trees, though.

Snow or not, it's still so much fun to run free. We went for a long walk in the woods in Stanmer Park today.

And we were asked to stop for a photo... as if they hadn't taken enough photos of us...

Snow means less smells, but it's still fun to run around outside. Wish we were allowed to be out exploring more! I'm getting a little restless spending so much time indoors nowadays. I could easily run around for hours!

White stuff in our garden

I have been playing (=play fighting, wrestling) with Zebedee most of the evening. It's been great fun! I don't know why Kati and Miles keep telling us to calm down and be quiet every now and then. Anyway, we decided to go and play upstairs in the bedroom so that we wouldn't be disturbed by them. After a while we hear this "Tigger! Come! Come and have a look at this! TIGGER! Zebedee! Do you want to go out! Come! Let's go out!" Well, we would have liked to, but the bedroom door was closed! We hadn't noticed that we'd closed the door by mistake while we were playing. And Kati kept shouting "Tigger, come! Zebedee, come, let's go out!" As if we could!

Well, luckily, Miles came over and realised that we were stuck behind a closed door, and let us out. So Kati leads us out in the garden looking so excited and Miles looks so excited, too, and - well, what on earth are they on about? It was just cold like it has been for a few days now.

Is it this white stuff they are so excited about?

Well it doesn't smell of anything interesting and it's just cold. People make a fuss about the weirdest things!

South Downs

Today's walk was on the South Downs between Stanmer Park and Ditchling Beacon. And as soon as we got out of the car, wheeeeeeee!!!! We can run free!!!

I can't get enough of this running stuff! It's fantastic! :)

They are back!

I have some back log of blogging to do, but I'll post this first:

Zebedee and I have stayed with a different family for the past four weeks. It's been fine... I was just a bit surprised at first that I was in a new place and new people all of a sudden, like when I was moved from my mum and siblings to Kati and Miles's place a few months ago.

To be honest, Zebedee took a lot longer than me to get used to the new place. He was restless for a few days, whereas I just thought, "well - OK - I'm here now". We had visited this house once before, after all. I guess Kati and Miles wanted to check with the people that it was OK for us to stay there.

We had fun with the people... in fact, I got quite into watching Formula 1 on TV with them. The sound and the cars whizzing by... it's compelling to watch! The only bad thing is that when we went out for a walk, we were not allowed to run around free in the woods at all! They kept us on a lead all the time. That was really not funny at all. I felt compelled to pull as much as I could and it got so bad that I had sores in the places where my harness rubbed against my skin. So the sores on my neck were healing, but I got new ones from pulling on the lead. But I couldn't help myself!

But enough about that - today Kati and Miles came back! Zebedee went completely bonkers when they arrived: he was completely beside himself, jumping and swirling and wagging his tail like it was about to take off. I was happy to see them, too, of course. But I'm happy to see anyone any time.

First thing we did together is to go to Stanmer Park in Brighton, and we got to run free!

Oooooh, we were both so happy!

We were all happy, in fact! Kati and Miles kept laughing and calling us back every now and then. Petting and telling us how good we are. And Kati, being a photographer, went on about "how beautiful it is"...

Yeah, OK - but back to us. Beautiful or not, I loved running around in Stanmer Park again!

Zebedee has taught me a trick for when you get thirsty in the forest: there is always water between the roots of big trees. Here Zebedee is drinking from one of those "water bowls". Well, you can only see his bum, really.

And here's me - thirsty - looking for another one. ;-)

It's great to be able to take walks in the woods again, run free, sniff all the smells and go grazy.

My last milk tooth

I have one canine left! One puppy canine, that is. All four adult canines are already growing, but I just have this one odd one left. Miles helped Kati take a photo of it.

See? It's the bottom left one. It's like a weird double canine with the milk one stubbornly hanging on and the adult one growing next to it.

I wish it dropped off already, as Kati and Miles keep trying to open my mouth every now and then just to have a look whether it's still there. Strange people; obsessed with my teeth. They've saved a couple of my canines that have come off... they keep them in a bowl in our living room. Weird, eh?

Lost tooth

Look what Miles found on the floor today!



It's one of my teeth! Lots has been happening with my teeth recently: I have lost all my front teeth and they have been replaced by new, bigger ones that have slowly appeared from inside my gums. I still have my original canines, though, and this tooth above is the first one to disappear from the back. Very, very strange.

Lots has been happening in my life otherwise, too... Kati is in Finland at the moment and she has all my photos with her, so I will have to wait until she comes back before I can fill you in on everything that has happened. There's been an embarrassing trip to the vet's, for example... but more about it later!

Very very wet

Today we went to a tiny hamlet called Piddinghoe for a walk.



...or a run, rather. ;-)



I was in for a surprise: we came across a little lake!



Zebedee jumped right in, so I was curious what this lake thing is. I tried to reach it from the edge of the grass which was higher up than the water... I stretched closer and closer to the water until I just almost touched it... and then, I fell in it!! Kati didn't get a photo of me falling in, unfortunately. I'm guessing she was worried whether I'd know what to do. To be honest, I didn't know what to do! I was completely under the water for a second or two before I realised that I have to get my head above the water. Phew! That was a bit of a shock.



Afterwards, both Miles and Kati tried to coax me back into the water...






...but I wasn't so keen on the idea.



Zebedee was jumping in and out of the water all the time; he was fetching a tennis ball for Kati.



I didn't quite have the courage to jump in, myself. It was great fun to greet Zebedee every time he came back to shore with his ball, though.






...and then I could play with Zebedee on land, run around like a loonie, as usual.















So much fun! Hope we go to Piddinghoe again some day soon.

Just an ordinary lunch time

Guess what I'm doing in this picture.



Chewing a rawhide!



They are great! I feel like entering in a trance when I chew one. It's bliss.



Here's a typical moment in our house: me having a wrestling fight with Zebedee.



Zebedee often rolls on his back when we wrestle. It makes him look rather extraordinary.



Here's me having a sudden moment of clarity in the middle of a fight. I'm between Zebedee's legs, as usual.