The Adventures of Miss Luna

Continued from Part 1…

We have a few favourite things we love to do at the beach, but I reckon number one would have to be fetching sticks from the surf!

When Luna was little, I could run a lot faster than her and always used to beat her to the stick, but nowadays it’s a bit different. She is just so damn determined! Not to mention competitive! I’m just not that kinda Dane. I like to take it easy, take my time and do a really thorough job of fetching the stick.

Dad has a really good stick here. The really good ones float (hey, some don’t!), they are nice and short (so we don’t run them down our throats, ouch) and they are preferably soft and flaky so that once we fetch them, we can satisfactorily munch on them for a while.

Dad starts walking towards the surf…

His arm goes back! Winding up for the throw!

Whoah this is gonna be a big one!!

YEAH! We are off!

The best bit is crashing through the surf to get to it! Sometimes the waves are just right and we JUMP over them on our way in, it makes Mum and Dad go – "oooooh" – so we like doing that.

As always though, Luna gets the stick. And shows off.

While I secretly stalk her…

Sometimes Mum and Dad take pity on me and make the throw especially for me! Just so I don’t feel left out. I haven’t the heart to tell them that I am perfectly capable of getting the stick before Luna whenever I want to, if I tried just a little bit harder.

So, I let them think they are doing me a favour. It is kind of nice to get special treatment while Luna has to sit and wait… in the water even!

Yay I get the stick!

Done with stick chasing, we move onto our next most favourite thing to do at the beach…

Can you guess what it will be?

It was a lazy weekend day and we were just lying around, bored, as usual. We never do anything exciting.

Well actually I don’t think Luna ever gets bored, there’s always the floor to stare at. I can’t for the life of me see what’s so interesting about the floor but as long as it keeps her occupied (and not biting at me or annoying me), that’s fine with me.

Suddenly there was a flurry of activity – it appeared we were going somewhere! Somewhere different, cos our beds got put in the car too! As soon as we realise we are going somewhere, we load ourselves into the car, you know, just in case Mum and Dad forget us at the last minute.

We drove for a looong time up the big road, then through a city, then on another big road. Then, we stopped at someone’s house! Who could it be!?

Turns out it wasn’t anyone exciting. Dad was just picking up a big broken screen-thing (like the one at home I watch the lions on for my stalking research). We had to stay in the car and not get out and run around. It got a bit boring after a while.

We were just about sick of all the waiting, when Dad said it was time to go!

Woo hoo! And guess where we ended up going! THE BEACH! Not our usual doggy beach (a loong way away from there) but it was a doggy beach all the same. We had a quick drink (car rides make us thirsty), then headed down the path to the beach.

This beach was a bit weird though and we could only be off-lead after a certain time. We got there just before that time so we had to have our leads on on the beach for a little while.

I asked Mum if it was time to go off-lead yet…

And it was!!! Time for running and chasing!

And swimming in the surf!

We had heaps more fun on the new beach but Mum has lots of stuff to do (as usual), so this story is… TO BE CONTINUED… 

On Mums travels on the internets she came across a beautiful fawn Great Dane girl (not me for once) who lives in New Zealand (I think that’s the place where Mum goes away to sometimes to visit her littermates). Honey is very very clever and does all kinds of cool stuff like doggy dancing with her Mum Hsin-Yi, therapy and she’s even a model, just like me! I think me and Honey would get along real well.

Another thing that Honey and us have in common is she gets a raw diet too! Honey has a website and on it is a GREAT page about raw feeding that you should definitely read if you are considering it. It explains everything really well!

While you are there, you should also check out her pages on canine freestyle (that’s the doggy dancing stuff) and her work as a therapy dog. In fact, her whole site is pretty cool so go and explore it all (ooh and remember to watch the videos on her training page)!

Here’s some pictures of Honey doing lots of fun stuff!

Hello fans – just another quick post today!

We have been really busy out and about having lots of adventures and Mum has also been working heaps, so to tide you all over until she can get around to doing a proper post here’s us doing one of our favourite things, basking in the sunshine in the dunes at the beach!

We’ll be back soon with lots of fun photos and adventures!

Love and licks, Kaya and Luna xxxooo