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Picked up the Halloween BAM figs a few days ago and of course, it’s my yearly (I hope it’s yearly) showcase of one of them through my eyes. Love the eeriness of this white lady!
Walking Pebbles the other day at a massive park, a big clump of bushes started wiggling. Next minute out comes this guy with his stick. I cracked right up. He carried it around for about half an hour. He put it down, cleaned some bark off it, even broke a small twig off it that was sticking out. He had so much fun, apparently it is the norm for him, and I had the biggest laugh just watching his energy.
Our yard is small, but the alley between us & our neighbour is quite long. It's a good run to use for a game of fetch.
While at the river i met some people with some greyhounds and managed these pictures while one of them was playing fetch in the water.
Flynn bringing his ball back to me, in one of our favourite fields for playing fetch.... I was happy because it's finally warm & more importantly, dry enough, to comfortably sit down on the grass. Flynn's 14yr old "big brother" Barney was with us on the day I took this. His legs get tired easily these days, so Barney & I had a nice rest on the soft grass, soaking up the early spring sunshine, while Flynn ran & ran, fetching his beloved (now squeakless!) squeaky yellow ball.
I still find it funny having a dog who doesn't deliberately destroy toys & who (mostly) plays fetch properly! When he was younger, Barney would very enthusiastically chase & catch a ball, start to bring it back, but then often get bored, drop it in long grass & run off - leaving me to search out the abandoned toy alone! He thought this game was wonderfully fun! He'd do a "formal retrieve" but playing fetch just didn't come naturally to Barney. We lost SO many balls over the years & I spent hours wandering in circles, staring at the grass, futilely looking for the latest missing toy. If Barney *didn't* drop the ball, he was quite prone to just racing off with it & gleefully ripping it to pieces! I'd buy extra tough toys & he'd shred them in minutes. He thought that was wonderfully fun too ;-)
Flynn will bring the ball back - not right to my hand but he likes to place it very carefully, a couple of meters in front of me, so I can easily see it. If I can't spot his ball, Flynn will eagerly return & point it out - he doesn't like leaving a toy behind! When I'm sitting, he generally returns the ball close enough that I can (with a bit of a stretch!) reach it, without getting up. He also very rarely deliberately destroys toys - he's still got some that came from his previous home, when I adopted him, 6yrs ago! Flynn's current yellow ball isn't that old but was only £1 & although it has lost its squeak, he's been playing with it daily for months & it's still in one piece! Funny how different dogs are, even in the same breed.
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Doc, an improvised explosive device detection dog (IDD) with 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, retrieves a bumper during a training session at Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, March 19, 2013. IDD dog handlers, often volunteers from their home units, are matched with a dog and work together to perform route clearance and other duties in a combat environment.
(U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Sgt. Tammy K. Hineline)
Powerful Imperial Bombast at the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park. There are four marble sculptures at each corner, each representing a continent of the British Empire. This represents the Americas.
I love the blue of the sky every time the camera compensates for a bright and brilliant foreground. The graduated sky gives away that I took a characteristically wonky angle to get the best out of this composition .
I stood near the shingle ridge watching this retriever being put through it's paces in the art of retrieval.
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He goes nuts over milk-rings. Chases them all over the house, bring them back, then waits for you to throw them again.
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Tessa usually stays put until I release her (for safety reasons I insist on this) but since I was busy taking a photo of her on point, she took it upon herself to move toward the bird that had just fallen. While that produced a cool photo, it irked me a bit that we quit on that note but overall, she did really great that day. It was our first time back on the plantation (where we used to train) since February and we all had a great time.