The Adventures of Miss Luna

When we left Grandma’s house, we headed over to Dad’s family’s house. There are always lots and lots of people there, but us doggies aren’t allowed inside cos of all the food. That’s ok cos there are lots of things to explore and do outside!

I might have met them last year but I was only little so I can’t remember, but this time we met horses!

I always thought a ‘horse’ just meant some type of dog, mainly because that’s what people call us all the time.

It turns out, horses are a LOT different to us doggies. These ones are pretty small apparently (most horses are MUCH bigger) so they are about the same size as us, but they have some stuff we don’t! Something we definitely don’t have is pretty long hair on their necks, called a ‘mane’. They have tails, but theirs are made out of long hair just like their manes. Really good for flicking away flies – what a good idea! I wish I had a tail like that!

Another big difference is they eat grass! Lots of it! In fact, they do it all day. That’s pretty much all they do too. Bit boring I reckon.

We fed them some grass though the fence. I tried to ask the black one why he liked grass so much and did he like meat too? But he just rolled his eyes at me. Silly question, I guess.

The white one was much nicer, I think she was the mummy horse. She was so pretty, but I don’t think she understood me either when I talked to her.

Since there was so much grass around, I thought I would have a go eating some. I closed my eyes and gave it a go.

Ugh! A mouth-full here and there is ok, but no way could I eat this stuff all day!

Just as we were about to leave, I thought I heard one of the horsies call out to me. I didn’t think they could talk to us! I trotted over to investigate…

I listened closely…

Well I’m not repeating that!

I’ve come to the conclusion that horses are dogs are really quite different. I’m not exactly sure how people can mistake us for horsies – but I guess I’m going to take it as a compliment in future – they are very handsome animals!

Last year's Boxing Day wasn't really that fun, but this year was much better! This year we went up to the place called "Toowoomba" again.

First we stopped in to see Grandma. For once, Mum didn't take the pictures, Grandma did! I reckon she did a pretty good job! Then again, I love my Grandma to bits and think everything she does is wonderful. Grandma and her man have a new doggie who we got to meet. Her name is Topsee and she is the same sort of dog as Tashi, just a different colour.

Here's Mum holding Topsee!

As you can see, Topsee is very very hairy, just like Tashi. She was brought up as a show dog by her breeder and is a Champion!! Which is pretty good apparently.

There are a couple of things that Topsee needs some work on, like being off the lead, so Mum walked around with her on the lead for a while, while us other doggies did some exploring of Grandma's front yard.

Here's Mum looking weird jumping over a bush to keep up with Topsee!

We decided we better get some photos of Topsee and us girls. It took a bit of organising. I was perfectly behaved as usual.

Luna needed a bit of persuading from Mum to stay there cos she would much rather have been sniffing around the front yard with Tashi.

Eventually we managed to get a reasonable photo. Personally, I think Mum's facial expression lets the side down, but I guess she's not really much of a model, unlike me.

Luna was off as soon as we'd finished, and one of my kiddies stepped in for a quick shot. I'm not sure  what relation they are, they are Mum's brother's kids, I guess that makes them my cousins?? Too hard, I just call them my kiddies!

After that, I decided enough was enough.

And went off to see if Tashi wanted to play.

But he was only really interested in sniffing my bum, which he has trouble reaching.

He quickly moved onto Luna's bum. She's much shorter and easier to sniff.

Luna soon went back to looking under the caravan for the cat that she met earlier who nearly scratched her eyes out – talk about a sucker for punishment!

I decided to have a little rest.

Then sat quietly with one of my kiddies, the boy one, who is very nice and much quieter than the girl ones.

Grandma couldn't resist taking a nice photo of two of her favourite grandchildren!

Then we were off to Dad's family's place for the rest of the day!

We were playing in the front yard today…

When Mum suggested we should go and explore down the back yard instead, just for something different! So off we went down the rocky overgrown path to the back yard.

It’s a bit wild down there, the grass is really long, so long Mum reckons we could keep a small pony! I reckon a pony would eat it all pretty quickly though.

One of the reasons we don’t go down the backyard much is because there are bugs – lots of them!

They land on us and bite us…

We try and bite them back but they fly away so quickly…

Mum said that the light down the back yard was really pretty, so she got me and Luna to play some games with our toys so she could play with her camera toy too! Tug-o-war is one of our favourites.

Sometimes we even like to share and run around together…

Most of the time we play-fight though…

Sometimes we lost the toy in the long grass!

Long grass is good to lie in too, so I settled down for a rest and Mum took some modelling shots.

The pretty light even made Luna look good!

Flying ears and all…

After a while we headed back up to the front yard to wait for Dad to get home from work.

I heard him coming up the street!

Yaaay Dad is home!

When we’ve finished running around at the park, we always head over to our tap for a drink. It’s perfect for us, Great Dane size!

I just wish we could turn it on ourselves, instead we have to wait for Mum or Dad to work it. We like to make a big mess but at least it washes all the slobber off our chops!

I especially like to make a point of drooling water all over Luna’s head. She loves it, honest!