Adventure!

Hi hi hi! Ojo here!

Today we went on an Adventure! Human friends put me and my person in a car that was also a little house. I got to sit on the back seat with my person!

Car-that-was-also-house drove us to somewhere new! This place had forest! This place had lake!

The people had snacks! They shared their snacks! They made music and sang songs!

Then something happened. My person went INTO the lake! 

She got further and further away! This wasn't good! I swam after her! I swam and swam and swam!

My person saw me, and she came back. This was very relieving. 

But then I got stuck in the lake-plants! And then I slipped on the rocks! And then I ran and ran and ran in wet zoomie circles!

(Okay, it was kind of fun. But kind of stressful. But still kind of fun.)

(There are no pictures of this because my person and I were both in lake, and I'm told the little black boxes that the humans have in their hands all the time don't like going into lakes.)

Then there were more snacks for me. And then another ride in car-that-was-also-house!

This time, car-that-was-also-house stopped somewhere that smelled delicious, like pizza! It also smelled like goats, because there were goats! And chickens! I got to go look at the goats and chickens, but I didn't care about them because there were also picnic tables, and under the picnic tables were crumbs!

And then we got back in car-that-was-also-house one more time and went home.

I liked sitting beside my person in car-that-was-also-house! I liked going somewhere new! I liked all the snacks the people shared! 

Now I am very tired and I am going to sleep for about three days. 

Have you had any adventures lately, friends?

New Sniffing Job - Search!

Dear friends,

I said I would tell you about this new thing my person is doing with me to celebrate how amazing I am at ten years old. I am learning a new job! The people call it nosework.

Ojo is learning it too, but guess what? My person picked ME, Cobi, to go to class! I haven't gotten picked for class in forever! But she picked ME!!!

I am just getting started learning. Here is what I know so far...

First I put on my special collar. I only get this collar when I am working. Also my person tells me that it is time to work. So this is how I know it is time to work.

Then there is this SMELL. It is a funny smell. (My person says it is wintergreen, pine, and thyme. Some Dogs sniff out bombs or drugs. We only sniff for these funny oil smells.)

The SMELL goes inside of something. Something like this:

(And yes, there are holes in the blue lid so I can still smell it!)

Then my person hides the SMELL.

I am asked to Search. And my job is to use my nose and my amazing sniffing powers to find the SMELL!

I sniff all over!

There it is! I found it!

The SMELL can be pretty much anywhere.

Hey, I found it again! Momma B, look here! There it is! Do you see it? I found it! (Treats please!)

Now we are outside. My special collar goes on! It is time to work!

This time the SMELL is in a flower pot. (Although I did not know that. It was a surprise to find the SMELL in a pot! I still found it though, no problem, because I am amazing.)

The SMELL is in a pot because Ojo fetches the container with the blue lid. This is not supposed to be a fetch game. It is a poke-it-with-your-nose game. And Ojo will not fetch the flower pot. So the silly pot is Ojo's fault. Like most things are.

Time to Search!

I found the SMELL in the pot! (I am very good at this job.)

I need to stick my nose on the SMELL for a while, or at least poke it again and again, to make sure my person knows I found it. (She's kind of slow sometimes.)

I still have my nose on it. Do I get my treat now?

Aren't I amazing?

I love this new sniffing game! And we only just got started. I wonder what we're going to learn next week?

Pee Ess This is not the first sniffing job for either of us. If you'd like to read more about our other sniffing jobs, look here!

Ojo is employed as a Thing Finder. She finds lost things. Here is her job:
http://dogdoesntfetch.blogspot.com/2017/02/my-new-job-by-ojo.html
(She is even better at it now, by the way!)

My first sniffing job was finding lost people in the woods. And the stuff they'd dropped too. But haven't done that job forever and ever. So I am glad I have a new job.
https://dogdoesntfetch.blogspot.com/2011/09/sniffing-day.html
and
https://dogdoesntfetch.blogspot.com/2011/01/world-under-water.html

We Dogs have the most amazing noses. I love my new Search job. I hope we practise again soon!

Swimming and Fetching! (by Ojo)

Hi hi hi! Ojo here!

I like to swim! I like to fetch!

Did you know that you can SWIM AND FETCH at the same time?!?!?

Stick goes into water! I go into water!

I swim! I snatch Stick!

And I bring it back!

Fetching AND swimming! More please!!

Pee Ess My person says I look tired in these pictures. I do not know why. I was not tired at ALL! I was bouncing around like a maniac! I think perhaps the sun was in my eyes. No tiredness here!!

Is anything fun happening yet? (by Ojo)

Hi hi hi! Ojo here!

Is it time to have fun yet???

I love to roll! (by Ojo)

Hi hi hi! Ojo here!

I love rolling in grass! It feels so nice and scratchy!

And it makes me laugh, because it feels fun and tickly!

Look at all that grass for rolling in! Would you like to come roll with me in the grass?

Puffie and Squeak-Cow

Rarwr! We play!
I am chewing on Puffie! Ojo is chewing on Squeak Cow! We are fierce! We play! We chew! We make noises!

What? What are you looking at?

Too much fun? (by Ojo)

Hi hi hi! Ojo here!

Have you ever had TOO MUCH FUN???

Me neither! It's impossible to have too much fun!

NOT spring, but still happiness!

This is NOT spring. BUT it is still very happy!

We we for a very-long-very-boring drive in Truck. When we stopped, we were in SNOW!

We did much running and much zooming.

We sniffed and we explored.

(Aren't I beautiful?)

We spent much time looking and sniffing everywhere. It was amazing!

We even looked UNDER the snow!

It was so amazing, and I felt so happy, that I even decided I would play with Ojo! (Wasn't that nice of me?)

By the end Ojo's tongue was falling out.

Oh Snow, I love you!!!

Hi hi hi! (by Ojo)

HI!!!!!

Did I startle you? Hee hee hee hee! I love running towards my people at full speed! So much fun!

Ball and Beach

Our Balls came out to play!

Oh Ball!

When you bounce
On the Beach
Very bouncy, and rolly

We chase!

Ojo brings you back.
(I do not.)
(I do not fetch.)

Oh Ball!

When you bounce
On the Beach
We chase and run and have so much fun

You are the most fun ever

On the Beach
Oh Ball!

I help with the Rake!

Nature is making Fall. It is called Fall because this is when many things fall from the sky. Rain falls, and also many, many leaves fall.

I LOVE it when leaves fall from the sky, because then the people bring out my friend Rake!

When Rake comes out to work, I always make sure to help! This is me helping.

Helping with the Rake!

Helping with the Rake!

Come on, Rake! Time to go again!

Helping with the Rake!

Hurray for Rake! I love the Rake!

Can we do Rake again soon please??