Silly Looking is the new Smart

We can have a great time while still staying safe! 

 Tonight Bailey and Chloe ran and swam wearing their "Outfox Protection Head Gear."

 We hiked for a little over an hour with the inventor of the Outfox in the hills above our town.  The dogs wore them comfortably for the whole hour. 

The other dogs, that we came across, looked "naked" with their noses and ears unprotected.



Out Fox Protection

"STOP!  I know better", 

I told myself Sunday as I hiked the hills above our town.

Foxtails are now the thickest I have ever seen them and they are drying out quickly. Billions of them.  Each one dangerous to the health of my dogs as they dry.

A nasty barbed weed in the nose is an immediate emergency trip to the vet and a $500+ charge.

Monday I went out again into the same area.  This time Bailey and Chloe were wearing their Outfox headgear.

The rattlesnakes were out on this warm spring afternoon.  Our rattlesnake avoidance classes came in handy as the dogs avoided the two poisonous snakes we came across.
Link to my 2011 post on rattlesnake avoidance training

But the dogs did not have to avoid the foxtails.  They could run with abandon through them.

This invention has taken the fear of the hills in the late spring and early summer away.

Great job Diane (local business woman)  for developing this fine product.

Here is a link to another friend that sells them:

Huntin' Dawg

Happy and safe trails.

Bailey ate my I-Pad

In an updated version of "The dog ate my homework!" Bailey enjoyed munching on my Apple I-Pad last Friday night when my wife and I went off to a restaurant. It's dead.

 

 Was it that I had been on the Hungarian Vizsla Forum too much?

Looking at pictures of other Vizslas?

At almost six years old Bailey started about a year ago with an annoying by lovable habit.  He chews on my clothing that has my body odor on it when we are away.

 Since I place the I-Pad on my lap, the leather case holds my scent and becomes the target of his desire.

So this year the totals are something like:

8 shirts,

6 pairs of pants

4 pair of shoes (just the tongues)

2 sweatshirts

3 jackets

1 Apple I-pad 

 

This is an unexpected owning expense but I never catch him doing it and he never does it to any of my wife's clothes, the items around the house or anything of mine that is washed.  Just those items with my sweat.

  How to you punish that kind of love?  I don't even know if I want to try.  Weird, huh?

Three Vizslas in fields of Golden Poppies

Springtime has arrived and the hills are alive

Chloe in a field of Golden Poppies

Open Spaces above busy and crowded suburban Contra Costa County



Chloe, Bailey and Penny loving the warm spring air

I love the hills as much as Bailey and Chloe