Hardy Bein' Hardy

Here's a clip of Hardy doing Hardy-things at home this weekend.

Hardy Goes Herding in the Sunshine

Hardy had fun herding. He also was terribly interested in a horse in the ring behind the herding area, and the dogs fighting on the other side of the fence, and the 11 week old puppy. I made a short movie with action clips, and here are some fun pictures from the morning.

Vodessa

Ah! I found a photo of another of Hardy's friends. Carlos shows this beautiful bloodhound, who is a great champion.

Family Afternoon

We had my sister, Janet, and brother-in-law and nephew here this weekend, and today had lunch with Janet's in-laws including her sister-in-law, Pam and daughter Donna. Here is a short video and some photos.

Grandparents

I fooled around on the web and tried to find photos of Tyler and Hailey and Tug (Hardy's grandparents) as young dogs/puppies. I successfully found Tug and Hailey, and though the photo of Tyler is not as a youngster, you can still see that Hardy has Tyler's eyes. The first photo is Tyler, then Hailey, then Tug. We loved seeing Tug's puppy photo, since we have so enjoyed him spending time with him as a big boy.

Hardy Gets Herding Practice with Jerome M. Stewart

Hardy absolutely loves his Thursday herding practice. David and Hardy drive out to Long Beach and Jerry works Hardy in the herding arena. Don't know why Hardy understands all those directions from Jerry, but he seems to. He drove us nuts this morning before I left for work. Jerry told David that Hardy knows when its herding day :) He was complimentary of Hardy's effort today, saying he worked hard.

Sunday at the Set Up

Here are some photos from the set up, with Hardy, Mica and Hector on the tables. Cassy is grooming Hector. Everyone is looking at something on the dam in the first photo. The sun was out, so the water was pretty.

Saturday in Irwindale

Another pretty show site at the Santa Fe Dam Recreational Area. Who knew that So. Cal had all these nice places? He was actually exceptionally perky in the ring, as a result of a lot of pent-up aggitation. He didn't want to be in his crate at Carlos's set up. That isn't like him! And I had to move away because Hardy was interested in me, at ringside, which is also unusual, and he even looked over at some random person during the down and back! What a funny day. He looked really nice went he went around.

We enjoyed seeing Nancy R.'s puppy compete in his first show. What a cutie pie. I'm going to put up a movie of him on YouTube tomorrow so Nancy will have it.

I can NOT be counted on to take the still photos. Not a single shot came out well today, so I stole some off the video camera. David will have to be in charge of the Nikon, because I am so unreliable!

Pro Shots from Lake Perris

Here are the 3 real photos from Hardy's big weekend at the Kennel Club of Riverside Show.