Bryce celebrated his 10th birthday on July 10th!

For a surprise, I borrowed my neighbor’s fenced yard and treated him (and the girls) to a little agility. Unfortunately, it was too hot for much of that so they spent most of the day indoors in the A/C, playing and eating cookies. Here are the happy threesome – taking time out from the festivities for a family photo:

Not knowing how many more he has left (true for everyone, but a more tangible concern for him under the circumstances) , I really wanted to make this birthday special so I splurged and bought him his very own 12′ tunnel – a matching blue with white ribs. What better present for my favorite agility toy? Here he is posing with it – under protest, in case you can’t guess that from the leash and the snitty face he’s making! He liked the tunnel very much, but wasn’t at ALL pleased about me making him POSE FOR PICTURES in front of it like some kind of dork. I discovered his ability to sit and stay in front of a tunnel is about as good as his start line stay at trials (hint: we do a variation on the good ol’ “drop and run”).

Speaking of dog shopping, darned if somehow the matching collar to La Raven’s little purple butterfly harness made it into my cart during a trip to the store the other day. She’s a growing girl and her hot pink collar was looking a little too babyish…

Aw c’mon! What’s the point in having a little foo-foo dog if you don’t dress them up ?

Here’s the stylish Ms Raven – looking fabulous next to some bright orange tiger lillies …