Selfie's!

Check us out! Mummy and I went to the marshes for our walk this morning. After chasing the tennis ball for a while, we sat down and took pictures of ourselves - 'selfies'!

How cute are we?!!

After the "selfies", mummy took photos of me. Personally, I think these are much cuter.

In this photo, the tennis ball and I are having a stare down. I'm waiting patiently for it to roll itself over to me....

 ...but no matter how long I wait, tennis balls never seem to roll themselves. So I have to help them.

Chocolate Chums!!

Look at me and my new friends!!! I'm hanging out with a different dog-walking crowd this week and I keeping seeing double...or triple! I can't tell where my head starts and my tail ends in this pack!!! It's a chocolate Fest!!

At least I can tell which one is my new pal, Chewy!! 

Oh What A Beautiful Morning!

Daddy and I got up early today and while everyone else stayed sleeping in bed, we took a stroll along the beach to watch the sun come up. 

I really love this place. Here I am thinking about all the fun things we did this week, but you know what I am thinking the most? 

Life in Carmel sure is good. 

Surfer Dawg

Today we went and explored another wonderful beach! 

It is called Monastery Beach and while I have no idea what that means, I think it must mean something good. Just look at this beautiful sand.

It's ideal for digging and hiding tennis balls so that I can re-discover them over and over and over again.

Best of all though, this beach is great for surfing!! 
Now surfing takes a lot of skill. 

First you have to time the entry, bounding over the incoming waves at just the right moment so that you can leap over it without getting a muzzle full of salt water.

Then you have to fetch the target. In this case it was one of mummy's flip flops. She lost the other one in the waves. She blamed it on me but really it was her fault as she just wasn't timing the waves properly.

Once you have the flip flop, you need to start cruising slowly into shore. Again, the timing is critical. You need to make sure you catch a wave at just the right moment.

If you catch it right, it will lift you up and carry you forward.

You will pick up speed and whoosh! You are carried safely into shore.

At this point, you can saunter out of the surf with all the swagger befitting a surfer dawg!

And because everyone loves a surfer dawg, you get to chill out afterwards with your groupies!

New Years Eve 2013

It is hard to believe that we are at the end of another year. As my memo's tell, it has been fun-packed!

We decided to celebrate New Year's Eve a little differently this year. We never make it to midnight anyway, so instead of welcoming in the new year, we said farewell to the old one. Down at the beach, daddy made a fire and we all sat around reminiscing. Everyone else had bubbles to toast the old year - I found a few bits of wood to chew on (until I got told off).

Mummy was concerned that I might wag my tail too close to the fire so we sat together and cuddled next to the flames. That way she could keep me out of harms way. 

Slowly the light faded and the glow of the flames lit us all up. It started to get a little chilly so I settled in closer to the fire as we watched the last rays of light from the old year disappear. 

Once the sun had set, we all headed back to the house for a wonderful dinner. Even I was allowed to have some steak. That's a great way to start the new year! Dinner lasted quite a while and there was a lot of laughing and talking. Finally everyone joined me in the lounge for some relaxation. 

It wasn't long before everyone fell asleep - including me! And guess what? We never did make it to midnight!!

Happy New Year Everyone!

Milo For Milo!!

It's official! I'm a canine super model!

Here's the final proof of the 40" x 30' poster that now has pride of place in the local Pet Food Express in Mill Valley, CA.

Thank You Pet Food Express and your My Mutt Program for helping me to support my favourite rescue organization:

The Milo Foundation!

Pet Friendly? Everyone Friendly!

Boy am I having a lot of fun!!!! This morning we all walked the entire length of Carmel beach and went into town for lunch...including me!!! This beach is the best beach ever. There are dogs running all over the place, chasing tennis balls and frisbees, and frolicking in the sea. The humans are running all over the beach too, chasing footballs and surfing in the sea. Just like us dogs!! 

Forget pet friendly - this place is everyone friendly!

Mummy and I played a great game all along the beach. She would throw the ball to me and then we would stare each other down to see who would run to try and get the ball first.

Sometimes mummy would cheat and throw two balls to confuse me. At least that gave her a better chance of getting at least one of them!

Playing at the beach is one of my favourite things. I love chasing the tennis balls across the wet sand and into the sea.

There's nothing quite like scampering through the salt water when it's hot and sunny....and it is hot and sunny! It's hard to believe that it's December and we are about to celebrate New Years Eve. This place really is a slice of heaven!

I love to pretend that the tennis ball is trying to get away from me. I have to pounce on it before it runs away! I never get tired of this game. Sometimes I get so excited about it that I start digging the sand all around the tennis ball until the ball is completely buried.

Then I will pretend that I don't know where the ball is. I'll look this way...

...and that....

Where is that ball, I wonder?! I'll sit and look innocent, wondering where it is. Sometimes I really do lose the ball because the waves break over where I was digging and I lose the scent. 

But magically, new tennis balls appear all the time on Carmel Beach!!