Showing posts with label Angus the dog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Angus the dog. Show all posts
Friday, December 23, 2011
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Monday, September 05, 2011
of camera-shy dogs and helpful horses
Okay seriously, can someone please slow time down a little bit? I need more hours, more days, more weeks....
Eeek!
There is a particular photograph I'm trying to take of Angus, because I want to use it (well, "them" I guess, I want several photos) as a reference for a drawing. When the front door is open in the morning, he'll lay on the tiles and look out at the world through the screen door, watching the neighbors, waiting for the dog biscuit fairy, etc. The lighting is lovely, and he's so cute with his ears just slightly perked, his eyebrows all curious....
But if you point a camera at his face and he catches you doing it, he kinda shuts down. He'll turn away, walk away, look dejected, look guilty, look miserable, etc. None of which is what I want, so I'm going to have to enlist a little help (perhaps bearing dog biscuits) for this photo shoot. See, these photos just don't show the expression I'm aiming for! Ha ha ha...
Speaking of camera-shy, that doesn't apply to the horses at all. (Whoa, was that like the worst transition ever?) My horses have very different personalities. One way to notice this difference is to prepare for some sort of activity around the barn. This is the sort of response you'll get from Gwen:
Right, she doesn't give a rat's butt what I'm doing, she's busy.
Shylah, on the other hand, is always ready for adventure:
Even if the adventure is something really mundane like... picking up poo! Oh yeah, she's REALLY "helpful" with everything, has to inspect everything, and is pretty much in my way the entire time.
A friend of mine takes home buckets of horse manure for his compost pile... that bucket is empty! Shylah likes to give everything a "pre-fill inspection."
And then Mom brought out some overly ripe zucchinis and put them in Shylah's feeder....
Angus says "Hey Shylah, whatcha got there, smells good!"
And he proceeded to clean up everything she dropped, and she proceeded to drop large chunks of half-chewed zucchinis onto him. Gross!
And then she cleaned him up a bit! Ooooh I was laughing so hard!
What a bunch of dorks!
Eeek!
There is a particular photograph I'm trying to take of Angus, because I want to use it (well, "them" I guess, I want several photos) as a reference for a drawing. When the front door is open in the morning, he'll lay on the tiles and look out at the world through the screen door, watching the neighbors, waiting for the dog biscuit fairy, etc. The lighting is lovely, and he's so cute with his ears just slightly perked, his eyebrows all curious....
But if you point a camera at his face and he catches you doing it, he kinda shuts down. He'll turn away, walk away, look dejected, look guilty, look miserable, etc. None of which is what I want, so I'm going to have to enlist a little help (perhaps bearing dog biscuits) for this photo shoot. See, these photos just don't show the expression I'm aiming for! Ha ha ha...
Speaking of camera-shy, that doesn't apply to the horses at all. (Whoa, was that like the worst transition ever?) My horses have very different personalities. One way to notice this difference is to prepare for some sort of activity around the barn. This is the sort of response you'll get from Gwen:
Right, she doesn't give a rat's butt what I'm doing, she's busy.
Shylah, on the other hand, is always ready for adventure:
Even if the adventure is something really mundane like... picking up poo! Oh yeah, she's REALLY "helpful" with everything, has to inspect everything, and is pretty much in my way the entire time.
A friend of mine takes home buckets of horse manure for his compost pile... that bucket is empty! Shylah likes to give everything a "pre-fill inspection."
And then Mom brought out some overly ripe zucchinis and put them in Shylah's feeder....
Angus says "Hey Shylah, whatcha got there, smells good!"
And he proceeded to clean up everything she dropped, and she proceeded to drop large chunks of half-chewed zucchinis onto him. Gross!
And then she cleaned him up a bit! Ooooh I was laughing so hard!
What a bunch of dorks!
Sunday, August 28, 2011
animal bath day!
It was about a hundred degrees outside, and I was getting annoyed at being nagged to do things that I already know I need to do (OH I hate that! grr!), so I decided to go outside give all the 4-legged black animals baths today. They got real clean and I got real gross, but it was worth it!
Angus is fairly stoic about the whole thing.
Aaaack!
Sudsy Shylah!
Washing Shylah!
Washing Gwen!
Gwen, who actually enjoys baths, still manages to ALWAYS stand on the hose and reduce the water to a trickle...
Clean girls!
Pretty Shylah!
I had to put them in the shade to spend some time brushing out their manes and tails. Whew it was hot!
All done, Shylah says "I'm outta here!"
So long, horses!
So clean, it'll last for at least a few minutes, right?
Uh oh...
Aw heck...
Come on!
Oh well, it never lasts...
The end...
And Angus resumes his usual position...
Angus is fairly stoic about the whole thing.
Aaaack!
Sudsy Shylah!
Washing Shylah!
Washing Gwen!
Gwen, who actually enjoys baths, still manages to ALWAYS stand on the hose and reduce the water to a trickle...
Clean girls!
Pretty Shylah!
I had to put them in the shade to spend some time brushing out their manes and tails. Whew it was hot!
All done, Shylah says "I'm outta here!"
So long, horses!
So clean, it'll last for at least a few minutes, right?
Uh oh...
Aw heck...
Come on!
Oh well, it never lasts...
The end...
And Angus resumes his usual position...
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