‘I never ask advice about growing,’ Alice said indignantly.

‘Too proud?’ the other inquired.

Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion. ‘I mean,’ she said, ‘that one can’t help growing older.’

‘ONE can’t, perhaps,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘but TWO can.’

My little badger is really busy in these days. She became the emblematic figure of MÁTSZ (Assotiation for Friends of Animals and Nature in Hungary ) It’s an umbrella  organization of more than 50 smaller foundations, animal shelters, etc, and they have programs all over the country. They have chosen Morgan because she is  from a shelter, and she could demonstrate that a rescued dog could learn everything that an expensive pure-breed can.  We had some funny moments, because Morgan is  the star and I’m just her secretary…  last week she had an invitation to a TV-show (one hour in live, it’s really long and there is no chance to take any mistake). At the entry gate a security guy stopped us and asked for our names. I said my own, but he said: ‘sorry, you are not on the list… HERE IS ONLY THE DOG’S NAME’ . It took almost ten minutes to explain why couldn’t I let Morgan in alone to a live TV-show

… for our guests who are coming to Hungary. Bring raincoat, warm clothes, rafting boats.  Some picture from all over the country:

Forecasts are  more optimistic: no rain,  but there will be 20 Celsius maximum during our disc dog week. Well, it’s ideal for  dogs…

Maybe you know that type of trainer who is working with the same method for twenty years, and if a dog doesn’t fit to it, it has to go,  and the next one is coming.  Some years ago it was a speciality of ‘hard’ dog sports, but now it popped up in the popular ‘soft’ sports also, especially in agility. Last night I read again some long discussion on a dogsport forum about character and anathomy, and I couldn’t resist: I put up some shots of Maty. There was a long silence J I hate when somebody has no success and a self-protecting program starts immediately, instead of a simple question: what should I change in my training method?  Anyway, I should be grateful for this point of view. Three of my dogs are with me because previous owners thought that they are bad dogs.

Would anybody ask this stupid volcano to stop every activities? Thank you.

First of all: I didn’t want to go to this trip. My mother broke her shoulder a month ago, and I was worrying that a whole day walk could be too much for her. But she is just like me… so finally I said yes. The route that was chosen finally was a short one, 25 km’s on plain field (I know, it sounds odd, but believe me, this is an easy one compared to our usual walks).

I wish I could write that we had to fight against elements of nature or dangerous beasts of the forest or something like that, but the truth is that my accident was another great example of my  self-destructivity. So imagine a totally empty road -  everything is calm, there is nobody just us and our dogs. And at this magical moment my old dog stopped suddenly, and I fell through of him. It was funny but nothing more, so we continued walking. After an hour I started to feel that there’s something wrong, and we reached the car finally in interesting statement: one of us with broken shoulder and the other is with double-sized knee. So I finished the day at the doctor… he said I have to stay home for ten days and I can forget every sport activity for this month. This means that I can’t compete at the end of the month,on our Qualifier. Of course I would to work on Thursday, I’ve never sit at home more than three days but we can’t compete without trainings in pairs freestyle. Of course I have a B-plan: Moss will compete with somebody else in D/A. They have the chance for the qualification, and I hope my dog will be nice to bring me to Chattanooga as a personal assistant.

I’m not an IPO fan, but if you have a talented pet, it’s worth starting  protecting trainings:

These are the last shots of our hedgie, we will let her go tonight, she is strong enough to live free.  I hope we will see her in the garden at nights.