The Adventures of Miss Luna

Ok so Mum ended up caving and has decided to keep posting my stories here instead of on her own la-di-dah “professional” photography blog. Good! I like my home here thanks Mum!

She did want me to mention though, that with her job and her photography stuff and taking care of me and her horsie Rocky and all the other things she gets up to, she won’t be posting very often. But that’s better than not at all, right?

Mum also wanted me to let everyone know the situation with her and my Dad. They actually aren’t together any more, which is kinda sad, but as Mum explained, these things happen in life! I actually live with Dad for most of the week but still get to spend time with Mum a few days a week too. So Mum doesn’t get to see me nearly as much, but when she comes and gets me, I get pretty excited cos I know we are off to do something fun!

We often go to the beach, or out to see Rocky, and of course we always go for lots of walks too. When I stay the night, I even get to sleep on the bed!

As soon as Mum wakes up, I know I need to get stuck into hassling her to go do something exciting (I LOVE my morning walks) or she might fall asleep again! I’ve noticed humans tend to do that, how lazy! I make sure I have her attention by staring at her, making yowling noises and sighing heavily and frequently. Here’s my stare.

When I know she’s definitely awake and getting out of bed, it’s time for my to make my departure from the bed too. I like to do this by putting my front feet on the ground and walking away with them, while doing a bit STREEETTCCHHH and a yawn for good measure.

This is Mum’s house. She has a nice front patio with a bed on it so I can lay out here and survey the front yard. Guard dog duties apply at both my houses! It’s how I earn my keep apparently. I’m a pretty awesome guard dog too, I have a really scary deep bark! I like scaring people who I haven’t met before, it’s kinda fun. Though I have to stop when Mum tells me to “shush”. What a killjoy.

We were just about to head out the front gate for our walk, when I decided that I better check the perimeter.

I once saw a cat in the far corner of the yard. Now everytime I look over there, I’m sure I see it again! I bet it lurks in the bushes all the time, just to keep me on my toes. So I always have to run over and check and do a big scary WUFF, just to make sure.

Mum lives in a really quiet street, so we practice my offlead walking and road sense.  Not that I really need much practice, I’m pretty darn awesome at this. Do you know, I’m so good, that if Mum runs onto the road, yelling and jumping up and down even, I still won’t follow her onto the road?

I just sit there on the edge, waiting for her to say the magic word (which is OK!). Then I always make sure I stick nice and close to Mum, and then get off the road quickly. Roads are pretty bad places for doggies to be, so I’m pretty glad Mum and Dad put the time into teaching me this!

We’re soon at the fun walking place! It’s basically a canal that runs along the back of some houses, with a walking track.

It’s a great place to sniff around because lots of other doggies get walked there too and there’s always something new to smell.

I like to call it “catching up on the gossip”.

Of course there is always time for a bit of posing action. It’s a bit of a deal we have going these days, I do some modelling work in exchange for Mum taking me fun places like this. Works for me!

On the walk, we get to go through a little tunnel thing, it’s kinda like being in a forest!

We have to cross a bridge, and then a pretty busy road next, so Mum puts me on the lead.

On the side of the busy road, we stop, I sit, and we both look for cars. First left -

Then right!

Next we walk down a short street past some houses, before getting to one of my favourite places! Mum makes me stay, and wait until she says OK.

Then I race off onto the sand!

This is what me and Mum call ‘the little beach’. It’s not a real surf beach, like most of the ones we go to on the Gold Coast, but there is sand. It’s actually part of the canals and river that  sit in behind where the surf beaches are. There are lots of flash houses on the water that have their own jetties and boats! Would be pretty cool to live on the water, cos then I could go swimming ALL the time – I love swimming!

Anyway here’s a link showing where our little beach is.

There’s a nice park with a playground next to the little beach and we often see other people walking and swimming their dogs there too.

Mum took sooo many photos that it’s just too many for one post, but she’s going to do another post that has the rest of them, hopefully soonish!

Love and licks, Luna xxoo

One of my favourite things to do these days is to hang out with Rocky while Mum rides him! Most of the time, we go ‘out the back’ to this huge paddock with cows, where we get to run really fast. Running with Rocky really fun, horses are very fast! Sometimes though, we just muck around in the arena place instead. Jumping is my favourite thing to do – I can do a whole horsey jump course – even better than Rocky can!

If Mum is just riding around though, I like to trot around with them and supervise. This time Mum was riding Rocky ‘bareback’ which means without a saddle contraption thing! People are always telling Mum that she should put a saddle on me for some reason. I’m glad she doesn’t. I think Rocky is happier without a saddle too. It just makes it a bit harder for Mum though, so she doesn’t go very fast for very long. He’s a bit bony, she says!

I’m usually pretty happy just following them around. I try not to get in the way, but sometimes there is something awesome that needs sniffing and I stop in front of them, but Mum just yells ‘QUICK!’ and I get outa the way pretty fast!

The best part is when we get to do jumping! I love jumping. I like showing Rocky how it’s done.

Unfortunately he hasn’t quite got the knack of hanging his tongue out the side like I do, which is an integral part of jumping. And everything, really. But he does try, and that’s the main thing.

One thing that Rocky is getting pretty good at is modelling. Mum has taught him to stand pretty and put his head down like this to make him look handsome. Being a budding professional model myself, I like to stand by and give a few tips here and there.

He still doesn’t get the importance of the tongue thing, but we’re working on it.

Hello everyone! On the weekend it was my second barkday, I had a really great day! First up Dad made pancakes, but he kinda didn’t do too well and they turned out a bit lumpy which is fine with me, cos it means I got to eat all the lumpy ones – yummm.

We were going to head to the beach but it was kinda windy and a bit cold and the beach isn’t too fun for the humans when it’s like that (not that I care) so we went to a park instead. First up Mum wanted some birthday photos with me – I was much more interested in investigating the park and saying hello to all the other doggies, but I posed for a few shots anyway, just for Mum.

Then if was time to head off exploring and meeting new doggies!

I thought I better do a bit of modelling cos Mum likes that kind of thing.

Then it was off to go play in the water. I’m such a water baby, if there is water anywhere, I just have to go look and have a paddle around!

After that I went and played with a little 12 week old Border Collie x Australian Terrier puppy. Mum didn’t get any photos cos they were busy talking, but we had an awesome time! To start with she was a bit scared of me, but then she got her confidence up and just started attacking me and trying to bite me! I had a great time jumping out of the way of those snappy little sharp puppy teeth!

I’m glad that Mum was here for my birthday this time, cos for my first birthday she was off having fun in that cold place called New Zealand, playing in something called snow! Mum’s going to put some photos together of my second year like she did for my first birthday, when she has time spare time, hopefully soon! So stay tuned!

Well I’ve been promising for ages that you’ll get to meet my other special friend from out at the horsies, so here she is! She’s a little bit camera shy (not an old hand like me) so she did try and hide, but Mum got her anyway…

You’ll never guess what her name is – it’s the same as my Mum’s name – Charlotte! Little Charlotte likes hanging out with us doggies and joins in on our stick games. She fits in well, she’s about the same height as I am!

She always makes sure Rocky doesn’t feel left out, what a considerate girl.

Mum seemed to think that we were cute and that we deserved some photos together. I was pretty tired out from running around with Sparky, so I happily obliged. I’m not sure what little Charlotte was doing here though. Warming up I think.

I gave her some tips and our next attempt was better. I told jokes to try and make her smile and it actually worked!

I thought I better show my appreciation for her laughing at my poor jokes.

We tried a different pose and finally got one Mum was happy with – what a cool pair we are!