The Adventures of Miss Luna

The Million Paws Walk is run every year by the RSPCA which is, as Mum tells me, a group of people that help out doggies, cats and other animals in need. Would you believe that sometimes people decided they don’t want their doggies any more, and send them off to find new homes! I can’t even imagine that, those poor things. Anyways this walk was to help raise money to support these helpful people, so I was all for it!

I went with Mum and her Mum (my Grandma) and also Mum’s brothers partner, her name is Augusta.

I luuurve my Grandma!

I was wearing my beautiful new collar from Ruthless Leather. If you want to see some pro modelling shots Mum took of me wearing it, make sure you check out the post on her blog.

There were heaps of other doggies there, it was pretty exciting!

We even tried out the cool ‘handsfree’ lead that matches the collar. It means that Mum can have me on the lead and walk me, but not actually have to hold onto me cos the lead loops around and she wears it over her shoulder! That way, we can both be as trendy as each other.

At the end of the walk, we went and had a play in the agility area with heaps of other dogs, and lots of kiddies too! I think I gave them a bit of a surprise when I jumped up on the ramp thing, they loved it though!

We went over some jumps but they weren’t very exciting for a doggy who is used to jumping horse sized jumps. I was a good girl and jumped up and stayed on the table though.

I was even persuaded to have a sit for a while! Just the ticket after a long walk.

The Million Paws Walk was super fun, I hope we do it again next year! So many people and doggies and things to see and do, and of course all the attention I get cos I’m pretty big. Plus to top it off, I even got half a sausage from the sausage sizzle. What a day!

Sometimes when Mum goes out to visit her horsie Rocky, she takes me too, and we go for a ride ‘out the back’.

There’s a biiiiig big paddock out the back of where Rocky lives. It’s full of lush green grass and all sorts of exciting things to explore! Oh, and there’s cows! The cows are pretty curious mostly, they like to follow us. Sometimes they’re really interested in me, I think cos they think I’m one of their babies! I don’t think cows are very bright.

Mum likes riding out the back in the late afternoon when the light is really pretty. She keeps going on about doing a photo shoot out there one day, but it’s kinda hard using a big camera and riding a horse at the same time! So she usually just takes photos with her little camera.

There’s a really cool dam out the back. Sometimes I’m allowed to swim in it, but sometimes it can be pretty muddy and smelly cos the cows use it.

When we get back to the horsey place, I know where I’m going and run off ahead.

Hanging out with Rocky is fun, he’s pretty cool, he’s used to me now! I love being a country dog!

We visited Mum’s friend a couple of weeks ago. She has two little girls, they’ve started walking now so we decided to go for a walk to the park so we could all run around together! They have a doggie called Rusty, he’s pretty cool. I think he likes me cos he kept trying to kiss me all the time. He’s alright, but he needs to do something about his smell – or stop rolling in dead stuff in the park! Ugh!

Rusty LOVES his girls though and they love him too. He’s so patient with them!

The girls like taking Rusty for a walk, so we decided to let them take me for a walk too. I had to be really careful and stick close to Mum so I didn’t pull them over!

I reckon I did a pretty good job!

I even posed for some photos with them, all pretty like.

Then had my moment in the spotlight, the sunshine was nice and warm.

All that babysitting and modelling work is pretty taxing, so when we got back to Mum’s friend’s place, it was time for a rest. On Mum, of course.

This is part two of this story!

So you already saw a preview of my little beach in the last instalment. It’s the place Mum takes me walking to in the mornings before she has to go to work, it’s just down the road from where she lives, pretty handy huh! Because it’s a beach (although quite a small one) we can do all the fun stuff we get to do on the big beaches we go to on weekends. One of my favourite things is chasing sticks!

Mum throws them out into the water for me and I swim out and get them, then run back. I like it when Mum pretends to chase me (pretends, cos we both know she could never catch me if I really tried to get away) and I prance around thinking I’m pretty special.

Up the end of the little beach is a tree that Mum and I like to sit under for a while sometimes. It’s quite peaceful!

I look out over the water and watch the birdies and the people in boats cruising past.

There’s a pretty good view from there over to the big tall buildings of places called Main Beach and Surfers Paradise.

I don’t care so much about that though. I care more about…..

ZOOMIEEEESSSS!!!

There’s something awesome about the sand over near the wall at the end of the beach. It’s so soft, and deep, and SQUISHY! Every time I walk on it, I just feel the urge to go totally silly!!

Yaaahhhh!!!

After zoomies always comes digging. Digging is great – Mum lets me do it and even tells me “Dig dig dig, Luna!” to make me dig faster! If you’re wondering, at home I know I’m not allowed to dig holes in the garden, but at the beach, it’s on!

I judge how well I’ve dug a hole by how much sand I get all over the place, all over me, all over my face and if possible, all over Mum too if she stands too close! Afterwards I like to go have a rinse off in the water.

And what better way to rinse off than fetching sticks again!

Another thing I love about our little beach is the playground. Now I know this is usually for human kiddies, but there are never any there, so Mum lets me play on the the play equipment! This spinning thing is kinda fun, but makes me a bit dizzy sometimes.

I like jumping up on the platforms, sometimes it takes me a couple of goes though!

I always get up there eventually! I like being up high.

My favourite thing however is to go down the slide. I love slippery slides, always have!

Eventually though, it’s time to leave the little beach and walk home. I take one last longing look over the water…

Then it’s off back home again along the bike path. Mum decided to get a bit creative with the early morning shadows!

She decided the light was so pretty, she wanted to try and get some nice photos of me and her. Mother and doggy-daughter pics! She set me up on the hill sitting nicely (I’m good at that), set the camera up down the hill a bit, pressed some buttons then ran back to where I was sitting! Quite frankly I thought she could do a better job of the process and was telling her so, when the camera took the picture.

Mum told me to shush because she knew what she was doing, and we had another go! I tried for my best ‘looking into the distance trying to look interesting’ pose. It was good enough, apparently.

Back home, I always head to my water bowl for a big long drink. Going to the beach is thirsty work! Especially when you accidentally eat lots of sand and seawater.

Before I’m allowed inside, Mum makes sure I am dry and have as much sand off me as possible. She also likes to make a fool out of me by hanging a big pink towel over my back like a horse rug. Thanks Mum, super funny joke. Can I have my breakfast now?

I hope you enjoyed our two part morning walk adventure! Coming up in the future (hopefully soon!) will be the rest of Kaya’s memorial post, plus a fun modelling adventure with me at the surf beach! And oh, oh! I nearly forgot! Since Mum is such a Facebook Addict social networking expert, she’s started up my very own Facebook page! How exciting! It will link to all my blog posts here (don’t worry, it’s not replacing the blog) and will be a place where Mum can put random photos and videos that don’t always make it to the blog. Make sure you become a fan at Luna the Great Dane today!