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Picture page March 2010
This month started out with snow, and then about mid-month we're finally seeing and feeling the first of spring.
WARNING: Part of these pictures are of the girls doing the job, which this breed originally was bred to do. Catching and killing mice. In lack of a barn with hay, they dig them right out of the ground. On this occasion 7 big fat mice made the ultimate sacrifice.
To me it is not enough that a Danish/Swedish Farmdog can show to fine titles in the show ring, and race and win sports events all day long, if it can't do, what a Danish/Swedish Farmdog is really supposed to do. I find it very important, that the dogs can still pass the old "quality control" for a Danish/Swedish Farmdog, and show in practice, that they have the physical and mental ability, including (but not limited to) speed, instinct, prey drive, and jaws, to spontaneously - and at own initiative - pursue, catch, and kill vermin.
Our dogs live for this, it is what they want to do the very most, it is a strong instinct in their genes, it is their "business", and they take it very serious. So who am I to tell them no?!
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This is clean girls after a bath, which came after a 2 hour romp in mud and puddles
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It's dead instantly but she keeps holding it to make sure
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Sussi dives in again
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And there is another one
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Kikka actually took a swim
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"Ok, I'm coming back in now"
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