November: Tazmanian Flatcoated Devil Goes to Blazingstar

We've agreed to house/dog-sit for Liz & Andy at Blazingstar while they travel over to England. Since Cava is coming into heat - and is now the 'queen bee' of the pack - it was important to make sure she and Cedar were well acquainted and getting along before our stay began.

Yesterday Dave took Cedar out for another walk with the pack and to get some last-minute house and dog instructions. Good thing Liz wrote us a dog-care 'novel' to keep everything straight! War & Peace is nothing compared to that!

It was a chilly morning, with ice on the river and frost in the grass. Cedar was her usual wildwoman self, swimming and running in the river when the Blazingstar clan knew better, and racing through the brush catching burrs in her fur (and long, untrimmed (lol) ear hair).

Thanks to Liz for all the wonderful photos in this post. Dave left his camera at home so he could keep Cedar in line - a losing proposition sometimes. :)

Cedar's eyes popping over Cava's back as she tries to keep up with the fish toy.

Seems like frosted tips are coming back into fashion :).

Cedar tagging along with Tinbie, her buddy since she was a puppy. She'd already been in the river so looks like a frosty wolfish pup.

Tinbie playing 'possum', trying to escape Cedar's incessant pestering.
As Liz said, it looks like Cedar is saying: "Get UP Tinbie!"

Eventually Cedar moved on to pestering Cava and Puffin - Tinbie is likely happy to be left alone!

I think the Blazingstar dogs have it figured out right, each one tolerates plays with Cedar for 20 min and an hour later Cedar should be fully and completely wasted and they have a nice peaceful day left. Wrong. An hour later and she was just warmed up (on the inside), apparently this one came with a faulty off-switch. ;)

Our enthusiastic little girl, a gorgeous one at that in that hell-bent, give'er all you got, non-stop, I'm exhausted, but there's so much fun still to have, kinda way.

All that and she even managed to attend her evening heeling/attention class without falling asleep. Good girl, Cedar! Now I need a nap.