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I had a proper modelling job for Mum today! Only thing is, I had to share it with Luna. Means I had to work it twice as hard to make up for her lack of modelling talent...
Luna not looking too happy cos she had to have my hand-me-down winter jacket from last year, and I got the new one!
A bit of synchonised posing...
Solo shot...
Some funky angles...
Finishing off with some close ups of my rather photogenic (if I do say so myself) face...
Wow, it's been a big week for me! For those of you who don't know - I got featured on the Daily Puppy website on Monday, just like my big sister Kaya when she was a little tyke!
I just wanted to say a big thank you to EVERYONE who left really nice comments about me and of course about Mum's photography! I can be a bit of a pain to photograph sometimes (compared to Kaya anyway) so I reckon Mum did a pretty good job getting the photos she did.
Actually Mum told me that she had to go back through all the photos she'd taken to find enough good ones of me to give to the Daily Puppy people - she founds a few that she hadn't published before. I'd like to share them here!
These are from the day I met my Mum and Dad for the very first time! I was 8 weeks old.
Me and Dad...
Me and Dad playing...
Me giving my new Mum kisses...
This is me and Kaya when I was 9.5 weeks old...
About the same age...
10 weeks old, look how little I still was compared to Kaya!
And I think these ones are Mum's favourite photos at the moment, she can't believe she missed them before. She thinks it was because my ear was inside out. I think they are great! Inside out ears are all the rage! Mum is just out of touch with my generation. I was 14 weeks old here.
Anyways hope you enjoyed the flashback! I reckon I was cute, don't you?
Luna probably doesn't remember what 'Winter' is cos she hasn't been around as long as me, but I remember that it means COLD! Last year when it got cold Mum and Dad bought me a jacket to wear outside. They don't have one for Luna yet so she got to snuggle on the couch with Mum's special blue blanket. How lucky is she!!?
This is me and Luna at our favourite dog beach - the Spit - with Mum and Dad. We love the beach! Hope you enjoy the video.
xxxooo Kaya
Oooh another post by me!! Kaya is being nice to me this week!
This afternoon we went for a walk down the road to our local park. There's lots of open space where we can run run RUN as much as we like! Usually Mum walks along one side and Dad walks along the other, and me and Kaya have races between them! She usually wins...
But I am getting faster all the time!
Sometimes we can't decide which way to go...
When we're running we just let it all hang out - tongues, lips, ears - Mum gets some pretty funny photos! Hehe Kaya looks so silly here...
Ok, ok, I'll admit I look a bit weird too!
There's HEAPS of good smells in the park, especially after it's been raining. We stop and check them out for a break from the running...
YIKES! Here comes Kaya! Looks like we're running again!
Oh no, she's beating me!
Back the other way - now I'm beating her!
When we're not running or sniffing, I have a little thing I like to do called 'doggy dancin'...
I basically just throw my legs around in every direction, prance around and jump sideways a lot, it might not look very co-ordinated to you but I know the latest doggy dance steps. Other dogs recognise my moves! Even if the humans think I'm acting like fool.
I tried to teach Dad but I don't think he gets it...
Oh well. Back to racing Kaya again - look, we're neck and neck!
Did someone say something about sneaky tactics? It wasn't me, Kaya started it!
Once we'd had enough running it was time to go home. Mum sneaked off and hid behind the toilet block! But we knew she was there and spotted her straight away!
Mum and I set off this morning on a reaaallly long drive to a show. The map on the computer told her it would take under 2 hours, but the road was really windy and we had some disagreements on the way.
What's wrong with trying to sit in Mum's lap anyway? The back is noisy, a bit too warm and a little bit scary, even though my comfy bed was there - I'd much rather be in the front with Mum. Apparently Mum can't use the levers and wheel properly though when I'm sitting on her lap and she has trouble seeing out with my head in the way. Geesh Mum, deal with it!
If only she'd let me sit in the front instead of stopping all the time and putting me back in the back (against my express wishes), we would have gotten there in time.
We finally arrived at the show place and we jumped out of the car and raced over to the show ring. There was another Great Dane in the ring - she was the only other one entered! We rushed over to the man in charge but he said "No! Too late! You've already been declared absent!". Mum told him that we'd just driven 2 and a half hours to get there but he didn't change his mind. I offered to bite him but Mum said I better not.
There was a horsey show on at the same showground so we went and watched them for a while, then we started back on the long drive home.
On the way back, we stopped at a nice creek with a bridge over it and Mum got the camera out. She let me have a snuffle around in the long grass first...
But then she told me it was time to work! Apparently since I'd gotten out of it at the show didn't mean I got out of it completely. Bugger. So I did my best show stack impression...
Pretty good, don't you think? Nope... not according to Mum. My tongue was hanging out, not good enough, try again, she said. Pft so what if my tongue was hanging out. It was hot! Dogs do that ya know Mum.
Mum informed me that I look especially goofy when my tongue is out. Apparently it's a BIG tongue. And it never seems to hang out the front, just out the side...
Admittedly sometimes I forget about it and close my mouth when it's still hanging out... of course Mum had the camera in my face at the time - doh!
Oh FINE then how's this Mum, look I even made my ears sit properly too. Gotta be bonus points for that, they aren't easy to control!
Mum, Mum! Are you looking? Look at my perfect stack!! How good am I!
How's my profile?
Mum said I was looking quite good and doing well, so she stripped me of my collar and made me do some nude posing! How do I look, boys? Only problem with this is I was doing what Mum calls 'munchy-lip' (sometimes when I close my mouth my lips get caught inside - oops).
We kind of gave up on the show practice shots after that. But did the posing demands end? No! This time she wanted one of my face. This is what I thought of the idea...
The next instructions were to smile and make my ears sit properly. I attempted...
My ears didn't want to co-operate though! I tried again...
Yay! Mum said that was much better. Phew. This modelling business is HARD! We had one last go at a nice-eared, non-munchy face, tongue not-out shot...
... and I nailed it!!! Yee haa!
I learned today that this modelling business is harder than I thought! I always thought Kaya had the easy job as Mum's professional dog model, but it's a lot of work and Mum is a very demanding boss. I think next time we are heading to show I might sit in the back and be good so we get there on time. I would much rather do that than be the subject of one of Mum's tedious modelling sessions!!
Dad filmed us and then Mum made a video of us doing some tricks training! We only did a few of our tricks - shake hands, back/come and catch, but we know heaps more than that too. We are going to make another one soon (now that the grass is mowed in the front yard).
Enjoy!
xxxooo Kaya
Very early this morning Dad and Luna drove off in the van, Mum said that they would be gone all day and we should do something special, just me and her! Just like old times! I was all up for that.
We decided to go for a drive in the mountains to try and find somewhere interesting. Mum put my red bed in the back of the Jeep...
It fits in perfectly! There is just the right amount of room in the Jeep for just me, but when Luna gets it too it gets a bit crowded and we sit on each other and get annoyed. So I was glad it was just me this time!
We drove to the mountains and went around lots of windy roads and up and down steep hills. Mum said she'd like us to live out that way someday. This is one of the roads we went on...
It was a creek! A cute little babbling creek. It was so pretty!
It was SUCH a good place to explore. So many cool new things to smell!
I saw some even cooler looking stuff on the other side of the creek!
It was really rocky under the water so I had to concentrate hard to keep my balance...
Yay! Made it to the other side...
I walked up the other side a bit until I found a little waterfall...
I was going to try and cross back here but the water was going pretty fast and I didn't want to fall over! That would just be embarrassing!
I went back down further and crossed back.
But there was a deep bit!
Today we went to the beach, as usual for a Saturday morning, but this time we met Mum's friend Catherine there for a photoshoot! Mum needs some photos of her and us doggies cos she is going to be in the newspaper again soon for her doggy photography stuff.
We did a bit of practice posting to start off with, just for Mum's camera...
When we met up with Catherine, first of all Mum wanted a photo of just me and her - yay! I think that means Mum loves me more. I did hear her and Catherine discussing something about 'testing the light' but I think that was unrelated.
Next we both did some posing with Mum...
Then it was time for all of us to pose together (that means Dad too) but there were so many other things to smell and see, we didn't want to co-operate!
We eventually decided we better just get it over with, the sooner we got a good shot, the sooner we could go off and play!
All done! Time to play!
