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

Izzy came to visit me for a whole weekend! She’s a 9 week old Great Dane x Ridgeback x Mastiff (mostly Great Dane though) and her colour is called brindle, isn’t it pretty? Izzy likes to chew on sticks, I guess that’s the Great Dane in her coming out.

Unfortunately, she also likes chewing on me.

I put up with it, she’s just a little puppy…

She does have very sharp little teeth though!

I make sure I don’t bite her with my teeth, so I end up looking a bit gummy.

Izzy seemed to have a bit of a fascination with my belly. I think I might have reminded her of her mummy?

Mum thought Izzy was very pretty, and talked her into doing some modelling. She didn’t do a bad job, for a newbie!

Okay, so Izzy is just a little bit too cute and a little bit too good at the whole modelling thing. I had to think fast! I didn’t want her taking over my job, so I thought I better regain my superiority. What better way than proving my dominance with the stick! I lulled her into a false sense of security…

Drew her in, let her think she had a chance, then boom! I was off! No catching me!

It was kinda nice having Izzy to visit, someone to play with is always good! Maybe one day I will get another sister or maybe even a brother, but for now, it’s pretty cool being the centre of attention all the time!

Love and licks, Luna xo

I actually much prefer just trotting around with it in my mouth and having people chase me. Mum pretended to chase me but kept stopping to take photos.

I don’t think she quite understood the concept of my game. But being the good doggy I am and following in my older sisters pawprints, I thought I better oblige and be a willing model, at least for a little while.

Just as long as we got to play afterwards! Mum insisted we get some photos of us using the tug toys for what it was intended. I nearly pulled her over, it was great!!

This is actually pretty fun!

If you like the look of these tug toys, you can go here to a special page just for my friends, to find out more about getting your very own. Oh and if you want to see more road testing, go here.

Meanwhile, big news! It’s my second birthday on Saturday! This time Mum isn’t away so we will get to do something fun like maybe go to the beach. That’s what I’ve been hinting at anyway. Some pancakes would be good too, Mum! Hint hint! Maybe a special pleading look will do the trick…

This morning, it was a bit chilly and I was just keeping warm, lying down, under my blankie.

I quite like it when someone pulls it all the way down, cos my face gets cold too sometimes!

It’s quite cosy under there! And if I’m snoozing (which I do rather a lot) I don’t need to see anyway.

Except, when exciting things happen. Exciting things could happen at any time, and range from someone getting the cheese out in the kitchen, to perhaps someone getting ready to go out, and maybe taking me with them! In this case,  I need to be alert, really quickly!

This time, it was just Dad wanting to give me a kiss. Not exactly what I would usually consider exciting, but I suppose it was for Dad. Have to consider his feelings you know.

Ooh, ok that was DEFINITELY something exciting, Dad just went to the kitchen!

Is it worth investigating, and potentially losing my blankie?

Yep, definitely. Hang in there, blankie!

Mmmm totally worth it, I found some goodies that Dad dropped on the floor!

And, my blankie even stayed on! Well, mostly. I will probably still have to do the sad, cold face to get them to fix it up properly for me.