Fountains in Fryslân

Last week Workum, this week Stavoren or in my language Starum

This fountain is called "De Visfontein" de fish fountain, 

Well this one is huge!!!!! really huge.

The water from this huge animal is making a lot of noise, and there is water coming out of all places.

The waterflow looks like the teeth of the fish.

Leia has watched the water flow for a few moments and then she was not really interested, there where birds, and she loves birds so much.

I think you can even go in this big fish, but it was too cold, also I don't know about dogs. And then I think it could be slippery and I don't want Leia to get injured, so we took the pictures in front of this giant animal.

I hope you like the trips we take to the fountains, and maybe if you are in Fryslân you want to visit them also.

Next week another one.

checking out the huge fish of Stavoren

Tricks on tuesday, Emmy has her novice title

Emmy and I have been training, and having fun

And we did it.

Emmy is Novice trickdog!!

As you could see in one of my friday posts, Emmy is a weirdo and she did so many tricks and in the middle of the trick

she would lie down on her back.

So the final video I had to send in for her title is far from perfect, but she did it.

And as long there is no camera, she will really do a great job.

I'm proud of Emmy and I love her so much 

And here is a little video of Emmy jumping over a bar

Fountains in Fryslân

Last week was Harlingen, this week is Workum

This one is called "de Woeste Leeuwen van Workum" 

Personally, from the pictures I found this one not really pretty, to be honoust I tought he is hideous.

But in real life, well ok, not my favourite, but not that ugly as I thought from the pictures

It is really a high one and the water will come out at different speeds, from their paws.

Workum is a coast city so like Harlingen it was very very windy, and that made the water of fountain blowing on our backs.

I don't think Leia was impressed by this huge masterpiece, she was more interested in her cookies.

shake hands 

What to put in your Kong or Lickiemat

So this week I tried to think of something for the Lickie mat and Kong.

I also bought some other nice toys wich you can stuff from outward hound, 

I had some of their daily food allowence and mixed in a few treats, I have so many treats so I just put them there and I had a nice sausage from Rodi.

That is pretty easy because it is soft and sticky, so dry kibble will stick to it, and the food doens't come too easy out of the toys.

So next thing I did is I got a paper towel, covered the kibble and with a hamer I smooshed all dry food until it was a powder like substance! You should cover it, otherwise kibble will fly everywhere.

I put the powdered kibble in all my toys and lickymats. I spread out some of the sausage and the dogs where very happy!!!

They liked this way better then the plain kibble with the official Kong stuffing.

On the Move

I wanted to revisit the on the move topic again.

I'm super happy we had some nice video's of shows.

Here you see Dita in july 2018 in Luik Belgium

She became 3rth best veteran in show

That year she was a few times on the podium

in Luik, Den Bosch, Goes and Hazerswoude dorp

In this video clip Dita is 8,5 years and I think that it is a real nice "on the move" clip 

Fountains in Fryslân

Last week, we went to Bolsward and to Harns (Harlingen) to take a picture with Leia

and a fountain that was placed for the capital city of Europe 2018

Leeuwarden was capital city and all 11 cities in our Province got a fountain.

The fountain in Harlingen is a huge whale, and it will blow water every now and then.

I was told it will blow water at rhithem of the breathing of a whale.

We could not get really close to it. 

But we could get a nice shot of the fountain with Leia and me.

It was superwindy and really cold with the water.

When we took our picture the fountain started to blow water, and it is pretty cool it sounds like a whale too.

Super super windy

Posing with a buoy @ harbour in Harlingen

Fit dog friday square challenge

Here is a nice challenge for both you and your dog.

I'm always looking for fun stuff to do.

So last year I came across fitness with Fido.

Emmy has done a lot of challenges with me, 

doing fitness with your dog is really fun.

And doing fitness with Emmy is double fun

The square challenge was a nice challenge where the person needed to do a jump squat

and then jump in a square patten.

Then later you had to make sure your dog did a sidestep and backing up, in a square pattern.

Emmy has this weird behaviour of getting on her back to get cuddled in the middle of all kinds of sessions

She can do this is training, or in recall, and she does it also when we do fitness.

Here is the video of the square challenge, try it yourselve, it is a pretty nice workout for both.