Nala started doing this in the car
so we decided we’d better get her some Doggles to help protect her eyes from any dust or bugs.
Doesn’t she look stylish? I think I need to find a motorbike to pose her on.
Getting a little too friendly with Nala
There’s this big white male poodle that shows up at the dog park every now and then. The dumb poodle must have a thing for labs, because every time he sees Nala, he’s always running after her trying to mount and hump my poor little puppy. One of the other lab owners said his dog was victimized the other day too. There are plenty of other dogs around, but the poodle only goes after the labs. It doesn’t seem like a dominance kind of thing, because as far as the poodle seems to be concerned, the only dogs around are himself and Nala, and he doesn’t seem to go after any of the other dogs. It’s a full time job just keeping the dog off Nala. Turn around and there he is again trying to climb on top of her.
Stupid horny dog.
Fun at the Labrador Fun Day
We were out at the Labrador Fun Day hosted by the Coastal South Carolina Lab Retriever Club yesterday. Great day to be out at the park, and they had a lot of fun things for dogs and people going on. There were lab races, biscuit eating contests, costume contests, lab kissing and tail wagging contests going on, and retriever demonstrations both on land and in the water. Nala got 2nd place in the costume contest and race! Definitely a fun time, and we got to meet a lot of other lab owners and their dogs. When it came to the water retrieving, she went for the duck like a champ. Not the most elegant retrieve, and she ended up splashing the duck further away before she managed to nab it though, but she really went for it. Maybe we’ll have to get one of those floating duck decoys. We’d have to attach it to a long string though, just in case she decides to go swim after something else.
A jolly good Howloween
Had a fun little Howloween party for the dogs at the dog park today. There were a lot of dogs there today, and a few of them dressed up too! Nala was in her Superman costume for a few minutes, but it didn’t stay on for very long once she started running around. So off it came except for the cape. There was Isabelle the pirate, Sam the pumpkin, Tide in Hawaiian shirt and lei, Bones in fairy wings, Sara all dressed up, and metal rocker Edgar. We even provided little treat bags with some biscuits, tennis balls and a rawhide chew for some of the bigger dogs. I think everybody had a pretty good time (people included).
Nala’s definitely having more fun with the cooler weather. During the summer she’d be running around, and after 30-45 minutes she’d be done and pooped out. Today she was running around the whole two hours we were at the park, and pretty much non-stop at that.
Nala turned 10 months yesterday, and weighed in at 70 pounds today.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane…
It’s SuperNala!
A Drs. Foster & Smith catalog mysteriously appeared in our mail box a few weeks ago. With Hallowe’en coming, the wife decided the Superman costume was too cute to pass up and decided we needed to go Hallowe’en’ing with the dog. So here’s Nala all dressed up in her Hallowe’en costume. Fit needs to be adjusted a little bit, and she’s planning to get some red cloth to make a skirt out of (Nala is a girl after all).
Of course, all this has led to the wife wanting to plan a dog Howlowe’en party for some of our dog owning friends and maybe even dog owning neighbours.
There’s even a pumpkin by the front door waiting to be carved into a jack-o-lantern.