Exciting News!

Again, I've slacked off on the whole blogging thing, but I have some news for you.. We're moving!
It's a big move, because we're going to the other side of the world. And from hot Australia to... England (I don't think I have to say much about their weather :P)
We are going to be moving around a bit for a while, but for now we know we're going to be around Northern England.
We are definitely taking the dogs with us! They're going to arrive a few days after us, though, so that we have time to get things organised before they arrive. We leave Australia on the 18th of May, which is quite sad, but exciting at the same time.
I hope I'm not a terrible blogger again, and I'm planning to post again before I leave, like a good little blogger :)

New Drawings

Also, in the time I've not been posting I've drawn two new drawings:

Declan:

And Max:

Hello Again

Well it seems that I haven't posted in ages...... I'm not going to do a gigantic post of everything that's happened, I'll just post the whole thing in a big load of photos. So, here's what I did...

Went to my friend's house and saw Max.. 

..and Rusty

Tried Dusty off leash in the paddock

And he discovered a snake.... Lovely...

That he was obsessed with, unfortunately

Had Christmas

Played with our toys a lot

Went to the same friend's house again, who has an awesome doormat

Went to the beach with Dusty, who hates waves

Lucy loved it though

And Jock

Around this time I got an underwater camera.... 

Went swimming in the river

Played with more toys

Went to the river again

Dusty got brave in the water.. He looks like he's drowning :P

Taught Dusty to bow

Had a visitor

Lazed around

Played with sticks

Took silly close ups of Dusty

Discovered the culprit of the mysterious hole in the backyard

Got flooded (it's up to 8m by the way)

Found a bat inside

Made Dusty obsessed with bubbles! :D

So that's pretty much it.... Sorry again for not posting for ages, it just got to that stage where I was scared to post because it had been so long.. :P

Walkies in the Paddock

Today we went for a little walk in the paddock with the dogs. I was thinking that Dusty was getting a bit better with sticking close to us, so I tried having him running semi-free. That is, the leash still attached but I'm not holding it. He did very well!
This meant that I could get better pictures of him and the other dogs. There's still the lead in the photos, but at least I can see his face, not just his butt! Here are a few of the doggies:

Jock had fun playing with sticks the whole time, as usual :)

I got a beautiful photo of him. It's probably the best photo I've ever taken of Jock. He looks like a real farm dog, with the cows in the background :)

And to finish up, before and after photos of Lucy Boosy.

Before (clean):

After (MUDDY!!):

It isn't the muddiest that she was on the walk. She dried off a bit before I took the photo.

Dusty's Stripped!

I didn't realise how long it's been since my last post until today. I was a bit disappointed in myself, so I hope now I'll be back and blogging regularly again. I will try and get to all of your blogs and comment soon, too.

So summer is upon us. It would be a bit mean to leave Dusty in his winter coat, because of the temperatures it can get to in summer. So I've stripped him. He looks so different!

Before:

After:

In the 'after' photo, his leg isn't quite done yet, but you can see the massive difference! He looks so tiny now, compared to before. He had a very fluffy butt for a while, but I eventually finished it off and he looks nice and smooth now.

I'm on holiday for a few days, in Hobart, Tasmania. So nothing exciting with the dogs is going to be happening in the next couple of days.

Dusty's Celebration Competition Winner!!

Hi everyone! Sorry I've not been blogging for so long, I decided I would have a break and forget about blogs and all for a while.
But now I'm back to announce the winner of Dusty's Celebration Competition! It was tough competition, let me tell you. Everyone's pictures were so amazing, some bloggers were finding it hard to choose just three pictures to vote for!
Here were all the pictures once again. But I've included the amount of votes to every picture.

1. Bella

2. Bert

1 vote

3. Bert

1 vote

4. Bert

4 votes

5. Allred

6. Allred

1 vote

7. Allred

1 vote

8. Allred

2 votes

9. Declan

8 votes

10. Dougall

4 votes

11. Dougall

12. Dougall

3 votes

13. Belle

1 vote

14. Goose

2 votes

15. Kort and Tate

1 vote

16. Lily Belle

1 vote

17. Lily Belle

3 votes

18. Lily Belle

19. Muffin

20. Muffin

21. Mango and Dexter

22. Marley

1 vote

23. Meatball

24. Molly

2 votes

25. Posie

1 vote

26. Posie

3 votes

27. Posie

28. Barnie

 29. Barnie

30. Barnie

31. Barnie 

32. Barnie

33. Barnie 

34. Barnie

1 vote

35. Barnie

36. Barnie

37. Barnie

1 vote

38. Barnie 

39. Barnie 

40. Barnie

41. Barnie

42.  Sarge

1 vote

43. Sasha

44. Carlos

3 votes

So now that you've seen them all again, it's time to reveal the winner....

It's....















DECLAN!!!!

He won with this strikingly handsome picture on a total of 8 votes!!!!
Congratulations Declan!!!
Your prize is a hand drawn picture of the photo you entered.

I would now like to thank EVERYONE that participated in this competition, be it voting, competing, or both voting and competing. It's made Dusty's 1st birthday that little bit more special for him.

Thank you everyone!!

This now concludes Dusty's Celebration Competition. It was loads of fun to see everyone's entries coming in and I hope you all enjoyed it as much as Dusty and I did!!