Dax Loves Harry Potter Too!

I was getting ready for work this morning and Dax decided that my book looked especially enticing. Golly is also taking a nap on my bed. (If you're wondering why I'm so far behind in the series, I didn't want to read Deathly Hallows until I'd seen the movie Half-Blood Prince. Enjoyed the movie. Looking forward to the next.)

Roc's girlfriends

Roc loves television. Really, really loves watching television. He lies on the couch and stares at the screen. Sometimes he yaps his fool head off (at dogs and cats) but mostly he just stares at the screen. So we have a running joke that he's staring at his girlfriends. And we've noticed lately that many of Roc's girlfriends are strikingly similar:

I swear, they're all different women, different shows. But it makes a bit of a statement, doesn't it?

Big-time DUH!

Big news last week! Two separate studies have shown that dogs understand gestures! I wonder how much money was spent on this study? Most Obedience Trials have free admission......

Coming Together

Things are really coming together at the shop. We've managed to put away all our inventory on our new racks. We've put up shelves above our packing table. And yesterday the electricians installed lots of new outlets both in the office and the warehouse, and a couple of ceiling fans in the warehouse! We've ordered the under-mats for our practice ring (because they're on sale), and we're going to call the handyman to do other jobs for us! Exciting times here at Golly Gear!

Dogs on Sunday

Ceilidh

Roc

Golly

Dax and Golly

Naughty Dax

I'm a bad, bad auntie

Fridays are my day off. I have the whole house and all four dogs to myself - my two (Roc and Dax) and Fran's two (Golly and Ceilidh).
I think we've mentioned about 80 zillion times that Ceilidh is a "special" dog. She doesn't like to be petted, she's constantly on the move, she's not good at eating, is hyperactive, etc. etc. etc.
So yesterday, I took the dogs out into the backyard, let them do their thing, sniff some, lie in the sun for a while. Then it was time to go in - I had things to do!
So I call them. Golly goes back to the house. Roc is right on her heels. Dax reluctantly gives up her patch of sun and goes inside. Ceilidh's running around the yard with a stick in her mouth. Ceilidh, who is obedience-trained, ignores "Come" ignores "Go Home" and dashes around the yard some more. I'm getting impatient, so I say "Dammit Ceilidh." At which, she immediately goes home.
So it occurs to me that Ceilidh thinks "Dammit Ceilidh" means go home. Poor Ceilidh.

Quiet Friday at the Shop

Fridays are usually pretty quiet around here. It's a good time to get a lot of what I call "thinking" work done. That's the design work for the Golly Gear website. I keep telling myself it's good for my accountant's brain to turn things around and do something creative. Use the right side of my brain instead of the left - or vice versa! It's not easy and not what I was trained for, but I have to admit, it's lots of fun! Writing product descriptions isn't something I saw myself doing in college. Turning pictures of our dogs - and our customers' dogs - using the products we sell into web pages is very rewarding.