Sunday Funday

A week ago today, we took the pups on a horse trail along Lake Lavon.  It's taken me a week to post these because I had to somehow clean them up a little.  Click through and you'll understand.  

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Puppies aren't gonna slow her down -- she can still get up and GO!!

Still always makin' it to the front!!  Srsly -- fastest dog I've ever seen.  

Even when she's barefoot & pregnant.

Still pretty as ever -- even sopping wet and chunky as can be.

Still intense

Still holdin' that one paw up in anticipation <3

 Still wanting to DIVE into the water

 Even if she doesn't have a dock to jump off of...

 ...she can still levitate out of the water and put on a good show!

 Nothing can hold a good Bean down!

& now...

I present to you  THE DIRTIEST DOG TO EVER LIVE:

So while the other dogs were racing around the lake, and frolicking in the fields...

 Neo spent the entire trip to the lake...

 Trying to hike this huge boat bumper between his legs.

 He made some seriously nasty mud pits in the process!

 Look at the size of that thing -- and he wouldn't leave it behind!

 He was very proud of his find.

 Sometimes he'd hike it into the water and get halfway clean.

 Being clean was unacceptable, though, so he had to re-PigPen himself ASAP.

 That mud was flyin' high!

 He had a lot to say about the situation as well.
"The bumper and I are WAY too clean -- where did all the mud go??"

"Come here, little pretty...."

I apologize in advance to any puppy owners whose pups inherit this PigPen gene.  It's something the likes of which I've never before witnessed.  Neo's propensity to cover himself head-to-toe in mud is nearly beyond comprehension.  You just have to see it to believe it!

As an aside, he sure does make a lovely matching bookend to my porpoise-like Fil'!!

So while they may be covered in mud...these pups will be able to FLY!

"You know, some people pay good money for such an all-over mud treatment.  It's good for the pores."

"I'm handsome anyway, you leave my mud addiction alone!!"

& that's that, folks :)

Fillie the Fattie

Josie wants to know "Where are the babies??"

Fillie's food intake for the day:

1 extra large, extra meaty rib bone

1lb cooked catfish fillet

1lb ground beef

1lb fresh green tripe

3+lb of food a day -- really, fatty??!!  She ate a few licks of yogurt, too, but she wasn't totally into it so the elder BC's got a little extra (they are enjoying her odd eating habits!!).  Speaking of odd eating habits -- today was the first day she has *ever* voluntarily eaten fish.  Of any kind.  She doesn't want a salmon treat, salmon oil in her food, fresh catfish just out of the lake...none of it.  A few days ago Jeff purchased a few pounds of "catfish nuggets", complete with silver skin and all, and none of the dogs (even Ivie -- wtf??!!) wanted to eat the fish raw.  So I cooked the remainder up last night and chilled it for a day.  I brought it out to feed to Ivie and Josie tonight and Fillie was drooling at my feet (what??).  I figured one sniff and she'd be gone, but she chowed it right down!  Must be like that pickle/ice cream phenomena in women.  

I figure I'll get her to eat as much fish as I can while she's with puppy, though, so maybe it'll carry over.  She's been eating about a pound of fresh tripe a day, and she's so funny about it.  You've never met a dog who could take longer to eat some ground up green mush!!  She picks it apart, leaves microscopic bits behind for her sisters...and doG forbid a piece of nature gets attached to her food -- she makes the most ridiculous faces and tongue gestures trying to rid her food of the intruding organic material.  Seriously, this dog is *special* in every sense of the word -- & I love her so much my heart just might burst if I loved her any more!!

Silly Fillie.  I'm just going to faint if she has like 10 or something.  Not like I've ever had a litter before, but with over 2 weeks to go, I wouldn't think she would be THIS BIG.  For a finicky eater and everyday-Ethiopian pre-pregnancy, she sure has turned a corner!

I've been swimming her this past week, since it's been nice and warm here.  The water's warm, too, so no Beanie-cicles ;-)  We went on a nice trail hike/swim in the early afternoon on Sunday.  We were all super tired of garage sale-ing, and with the crowds so much smaller on Sunday, we just closed up shop early, threw everything leftover on the curb, and took the dogs for a romp.  Much more fun than sitting around haggling prices with folks that ought to take a few ESL classes.

Fillie looks like the typical woman, completely irritated by her man's ridiculous behaviour.  

CLASSIC.

(& yes, that is Neo -- aka PigPen -- barking behind Beans)