The Adventures of Miss Luna

I’m not exactly sure how it happened (I didn’t do it, honest!) but somehow Luna managed to go and hurt herself when we were at the beach the other day.

She started limping around and at first Mum and Dad thought she was just faking it. Luna is good at this and it gets her lots of attention, but then she blows it by getting distracted and running off just fine. But this time it was obvious she’d REALLY hurt herself so home we went and off she went to the vets the next morning.

Turns out, Luna has a broken toe! Ouch! She will be out of action for a while. She is going in to see an ortho-something special man at the vet soon and he might have to put her toe back together with screws and pins and plates and stuff. Like the kinds of metal stuff that Dad likes playing around with! That sounds like it would hurt a lot. But hopefully she will just get it straightened up again and she will be ok.

I hope so! It sucks at the moment cos we can’t play and run around like we usually do. We have to stay inside and be very quiet and only play when we are lying down. Mum even has to come with us every time we go outside in case we start running around! How annoying!!

The awesome thing is, I get to go for walks in the morning with Mum all to myself! How good is that! Mum says it’s to wear me out so I don’t bother Luna too much but I know it’s cos she loves me more.

Anyways here’s some pics of Luna being a sook.. (and hoarding the squeaky chicken legs)

Just a quick modelling shoot at home in our front yard…

Practicing our close-up faces…

Luna posing nicely for once, pity she decided to do it in front of an ugly brick wall, white gate and a water tank… (that’s what you get for using an amateur)

Some of the head wrinkles that Mum loves…

I had some head wrinkles of my own on offer…

And who can resist my lovely ears…

By the way, Mum told me today that I am vain. I haven’t had a chance to look that word up yet in the dogtionery but I am imagining it means something along the lines of ‘extraordinarily beautiful’.

Mum tells me that Great Danes started off a long time ago in a far away place called Europe. We were bred to hunt wild boar! Whoah. So I guess our natural habitat would be in a cold place running through mountains and forests…

We have a different theory though. Me and Luna reckon that Great Danes were bred to be beach dogs. Why?

1. We have very short hair which makes it easy to get the sand off later.
2. Short hair means we don’t get too hot or weighed down in the water when we are swimming.
3. We are big! Which makes running in the sand and leaping up and down big dunes really easy.
4. Being big makes it easier to keep up with our humans when they are playing in the surf, we can touch the bottom so we can stay out longer as we don’t get tired having to swim the whole time!
5. We LOVE the beach!! It’s our favourite place in the whole wide world.

We like to follow the sunshine around on the floor in winter. Mum always moves our beds so we can be comfy in the sun! Since she’s so considerate we let her take some photos of us. More of those ‘arty’ kind of photos it seems…