So you all know how much I love swimming. Now I have an awesome video to prove it! We went to the beach on the weekend with Archie, Mum and her fun friend Brielle and they took lots of video and photos of me swimming around with Mum’s special camera that goes underwater! There are pictures to come, but in the meantime here’s the video -
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I love swimming!
- wow, this is awesome!
- Neat neat neat! Great music to accompany the video, too!
- wow - great footage. very good dog paddle Luna!
- Love the swimming shots where your collar shows just a bit of color. You are a fantastic swimmer!!!
- Hi Luna! Is that your new daddy??
- Thanks guys! Nope Kirsten, that's my friend Lupe's Dad! He likes swimming with me!
- Is that the same Lupe that has been having play dates with Honey the Great Dane?? http://bighoneydog.com/honeys-blog/ Honey just moved from NZ and is looking for more friends!
- We've been making Lupe watch this video in the hopes that he might learn what to do!
Swimming at the Beach
I love love LOVE swimming, I always have. Ever since Mum and Dad took me to the beach for the very first time, I was in the water swimming around. I even went out in the surf on my first beach visit! Mum calls me a water baby, I think she’s probably right. One of the reasons I love swimming so much is cos I have a floaty bum. It’s really easy to just paddle around slowly when your bum floats!
- Love the floaty bum Luna!!! Don't ever change..you're a true STAR!!!! xx
- Luna, somehow I missed this one! You certainly do have a floaty bum, it sure cracked me up seeing you paddling with you front feet and just holding the back ones up and floating. Loved it!
Training Session
Mum and I haven’t been doing much training lately, but today she decided we should get back into it, so she grabbed some treats and we headed out into the front yard.
If you will notice, we don’t have a front fence any more! But that’s ok cos there is a massive pile of wood in our garage all ready to make a big new fence. Even though I’m not looking forward to it cos it means I won’t be able to wander over and say hello to people when they walk past any more.
Anyways, Dad took some video pictures of our training session! I remembered most things! But still need some practice. Oh and I’d love to learn some new tricks, if anyone has any suggestions? At the end of the video Mum tried to teach me a new ‘through the legs’ trick which is fun, so some more like that would be good!
Oh oh and if you make it all the way to the end, you can see me looking at the birdies. I like doing this. Though Mum says it makes me look a bit ’special’.
P.S. Mum says that for the video picture to look really good, you have to click on the little ‘HQ’ button, after it starts playing!
- aw, what a great dog :)
- Aww good job Luna! Keep up the training. Would love to see what else you will learn in the future. Smoochies, Solid Gold Dancer + Puppies
- Hi Luna - that is so cool! You are one well-trained girl :) I especially like your bow - you do it so beautifully, with your bum in the air. I'm really lazy when the I do my bows and I always try to see if I can get away with just going down halfway! :) Hey - I learnt the "going through legs" trick in a slightly different way. You might like to try it because it seems to be a bit easier for us to learn in the beginning - my human made a video of me learning it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5FikpSFDzA Basically, your human gets you used to putting your head through her legs and then walking through her legs first - by throwing a treat through her legs and getting you to go through her legs to get it. Then once you're comfortable doing that, it's really easy to get you to go through and then come round the front. As for a new trick - how about "marching legs"? I just posted a video about how I learnt that the other day - maybe you'd like to give it a try? Here is the post: http://bighoneydog.com/marching-legs-trick/ Happy training! Slobbers, Honey the Great Dane
- Oh wow- I didn't realize how big/tall Luna had become! Such a good girl! That crazed "looking for the birdies" look is just like what Bones does when you even say the word SQUIRRELS! He knows they're somewhere!
- hahaha! where's the bird, where's the bird??? that's great! Kaley gets so mad at the squirrels and birds, that she bites and pulls the bark off the trees. i swear she's gotta be using some bad doggie language!!
- Great job, Luna! You are learning some great tricks! Keep up the good work. :) Wuv, Gus and Waldo
- Luna you are so very smart!!! My Palmer loves to try to catch the squirrels... he even thinks he can climb trees sometimes.
- you are such a clever girl Luna, we loves visiting your blog
- My dog learned to look for parrots when we lived in San Francisco for a summer (they have a wild flock there that was somehow imported), and the entire time while I watched Luna's video, he was searching out the window of our Manhattan apartment for the parrots he could hear!
Learning to Talk
Back when Kaya was around, she used to do most of the talking when it came to important things like telling Dad it was time to the beach and informing Mum that it was breakfast or dinner time. Kaya did most of her talking with her eyes, but I find that a bit harder, so I’ve decided I need to start being a bit more vocal to get my point across!
I’ve been practicing my noises at every opportunity… in the middle of the night letting Mum know to come and cover me back up with my blanket when I get cold (no point in talking to Dad, he doesn’t wake up), telling Mum and Dad they should get out of bed and come play with me in the mornings, suggesting we might go for a walk and most importantly, informing them when I am hungry and they should feed me.
This morning Mum decided to take some moving pictures of me to show you all my talking skills! So! What do you think? Pretty good huh?
Oh and by the way, Mum is back from her trip! Yay! She saw lots of pretty Great Danes and one that even looks a lot like me! If you head on over to Mum’s blog you can see them for yourself.
- Roooohoooowooorooo!!!
- Aw, you're finding your voice, Luna! :) I love how it starts out with just a little whine, then the barking starts!
- Seamus has just started doing the same thing! And add 'the kids have locked me out of their bedroom AGAIN!' - Dont you just love dogs who can rest their heads on the table or counter top, freaks my family out!
- i just played this video and both my girls went nuts talking back to luna. it was like virtual doggie chat! :)
- Way to use your words Luna!
- Ooh, Luna - you're clever! I haven't learnt to talk at all! My humans even had to encourage me to bark, coz I'm such a quiet dog...they had to make a big fuss of me and praise me if I made even a little woof whenever someone came to the front door...so now I do bark if visitors come. But otherwise, I'm as quiet as a mouse! :-) Hey - have you picked up your award from me yet? Please do - (it's in the post called "Easter trip, more Awards...and being honest!") and tell us 10 Honest things about yourself! Slobbers, Honey the Great Dane
- Awwww, you have a lovely voice, Luna!! :):)
- Luna, my dog Sam does the same. Talks to us when he wants something and barks when he gets excited that he's going on a walk. You have a beautiful voice and I love your ears. :)
- I *loved* watching this! Luna, you are so smart!
- What a beautiful voice you have Luna! Boxen can woowoowoo if mom asks who is at the door but he doesn't talk like you do. You are so smart!
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