The Little Furmaid

Happy Birthday X 2!

Guinness & I share a birthday party, Bungee's definitely invited.

Guinness's favorite kind of fun is swimming & going to the lake, (us too), so a swim party & camp out at the lake it was. Only one minor detail to work out, Bungee needed to learn to swim to join in all the fun. As we quickly found out, no problemo!

Where are you going Bungee? Come on, the water is this way.


Hey the water is pretty awesome! Am I swimming yet?



How are you doing that Guinn? Where are you going?


Come on! I'll show you!



Listen, once you can swim really well, they'll throw you some bumpers too!



See Bungee, you bring them back like this.



Piece of cake! I can definitely do that!



You carry them like this, right?


WooHoo!! You got it now sister!


Guinness & mom have great birthdays & Bungee learns to swim!

11 months old & Bungee is retrieving bumpers like a pro. Best of all she turns out to be a terrific new swimming buddy for "brother" Guinness!
He really needed that!! Thank you Bungee!
& Happy Birthday all around!

The time it took to read these captions down to here is about the same amount of time it took for Bungee to get in the water & start swimming! Of course she had the help of a true master with our fabulous little Border Terrier, Guinness to show her how.

P.S. Wow! I almost forgot! The coolest tests of our dog's left & right skills have sometime come in the water, quite by chance when they are retrieving/looking for bumpers. This weekend's swim was no different! Quite unplanned, when Bungee's bumper was floating off in a strong current, I tried giving her a "left" command and boom - she cracked off a left turn, and "Oh! there it is!" saw it, and made a beeline straight for her bumper. Later on I had a chance to successfully use her right command when a poor throw & the currents had sent everyone in a snarl of wrong directions. Sometime with currents & winds it can take some doing to keep each dog swimming toward their own mark. Imagine our delight to see some recognition that Bungee is already understanding her directionals too, not once but several times. Just brilliant!