Slacker

When he's not in the pool he's slacking in the sofa.

Swim dog

He jumps in the pool by himself now. He likes it. It seems to cool him down too. A good investment of 45 kr.

Garden

Outside our apartment there is a small park. It belongs to all the apartments. I put out a pool for the dogs but they don't seem to understand how great it is. Fajsty is guarding a bone and fia is looking for shade that is cool enough. If she'd just step into the pool she'd cool down pretty fast.

Demon

The demon dog has risen.

Windy öland

Now we are on the island again. Today we are going to learn a lot about clicker training. In the wind. . .

Sea monsters

Two nutters enjoying the cool water.

Ethymology

feisty

1896, Amer.Eng. from feist "small dog," from fice, fist Amer.Eng. 1805 "small dog," short for fysting curre "stinking cur," attested from 1529, from M.E. fysten, fisten "break wind" (1440), related to O.E. fisting "stink." The 1811 slang dictionary defines fice as "a small windy escape backwards, more obvious to the nose than ears; frequently by old ladies charged on their lap-dogs." Cf. also Dan. fise "to blow, to fart," and obs. Eng. askefise, lit. "fire-blower, ash-blower," from an unrecorded O.N. source, used in M.E. for a kind of bellows, but orig. "a term of reproach among northern nations for an unwarlike fellow who stayed at home in the chimney corner" [O.E.D.]

From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/feisty

Summer

It is so warm and lovely for me, but but Fajsty wants to do is get soaked to cool down. If there is time we will go to the beach tonight.

Long time no blog

When life constantly comes to bite you in the ass then you don't have much time to blog...

The passed few days have been school only so my father has had the dog for quite some time. But last night we went out on a walk over the field, I let him off because there wasn't anybody in sight.

We had walked about 3/4 of the way when he spotted a hedgehog-ball. He didn't get close enough to sniff it, so when he approached I said "no!", then he ran around like a mad man, circled the hedgehog, then made another circle in a different direction and by that time I had passed it and he didn't go back to check on it. I think the hedgehog appreciated that.

It's the first time I have seen a hedgehog make itself into a ball, live. I have always known they could though. Normally when we pass them they sort of look at us and keep walking, I think its the fact that Fajsty approached it with such speed that made it scared.





And on a completely different note, me and dad thought/talked about our old dog,
Busan (bad photo, but the only one we have online):


She was a Bordercollie, Golden Retriever and Flatcoated Retriever mix (I'm sure there was something else in her too but I don't remember it) We talked about mental Stimulation and that she never got any. But Earlier today I thought about her too, and I thought that with the right means she could probably learn anything, only I wasn't interested in going to any classes, and by the time I was interested she was too old anyway.
Not too old to do stuff but she was getting blind and deaf and was "stuck" in the habits that had been created the passed 10 years or so. She was a personality but compared to Feisty she seems less special.

I don't think I'll ever forget how she was around Margot (the little white dog that Feisty is terrorizing too) .. Whenever Margot was around Busan looked like a teenager in love, High Tail, Happy face etc.

This doesn't Really belong in the feisty blog I guess, but I wanted to write it anyway... RIP.



In 12 days its time for another weekend in Öland, class website is coming up on www.iu08.net

We're not even sure what we are supposed to have done until then, I hope they sort it out soon..


Time for bed says Fajsty.. I think its a good idea too...

Cool

The awesomeness of the sunset is so not conveyed. Now the cabin is warm and me and doggie is sharing an apple. Soon time for evening walk.

Spring time.

Now there's no fooling anybody . . Spring surely is here with it's rain and pretty flowers. . Fajsty gets very warm very quickly. He wouldn't hesitate to jump into a lake right now, but he can't because he just had a bath . I want him to look nice when if meets my future coworkers . .

Listening. . .

There are a lot of different birds singing and industrial noise in the background.

King of the hill

We have found our own little place in the forest, and old burial mound.

Problem solving

More mental activities and less stressful ones. That will be the rule for some time to see if his nutty behaviour is indeed stress related. If it is it can be fixed but it's important to do it sooner rather than later. .

Bored?

Sleepy bored puppy. Waiting for the morning walk while i write necessary e-mails and do laundry. Which reminds me, those sheets are on next.

Cockerspaniel?

After a bit of trimming he actually looks like a cocker spaniel... Except that his hind legs are naturally (for him) too far front (which I think is more normal) so his behind is too high compared to the Standard... his fur looks similar though...

I probably did something wrong somewhere, but since I have yet to find somewhere to learn that isn't too far away from here, I now learn by trial and error. . .

Now he just made the kitchen a mess by having dug up the whole garden.... But the he made me calm down by cuddling up to a tiny piece of blanket that had fell on the floor from the chair... It's hard not to be angry sometimes, but its even harder to stay angry.... He's so cute..

Happy belated easter by the way...

Another angle, a different camera..

I received about 15 dog books that I hope to have read most of within a week, given it takes about 30 minutes to read one, I don't think it will be too much of a problem.

The one I just read was a guide and method on how to stop the dog pulling the lead, she claimed (as I have also heard others do) that harnesses reduces pulling. "I'll believe it when I see it", I thought. Now I have seen it.

There is a significant difference in Feistys pulling patterns when he's in the harness compared to when he's in a collar. I wont stop use the collar (because he really hates the harness) but I will use it when I have energy and motivation to train "walk nicely" (at least one walk per day).

When I have read one book from each author I will order some for myself (because these are all loaned).

After every book I will write a short summary/review, is anybody interested in me writing it here, or should I just keep it to myself?

Poser

I forgot to blog this when i took it . . I think he looks so cute. .

In harness

Looking cute

Harness

Eating snow