Jumping Jax!

On Saturday, Jax came over to visit!

We ran, played fetch, played chase, did training, and last, worked on teaching him to jump through a hoop (which was why I called this post "Jumping Jax").

In most of the pictures I took of Jax, he had one ear up, like this. This was one of the better pictures I got.

Waiting for us to throw the ball

Posing in front of an autumn tree

And finally, Jumping Jax

After trip animal update

Jax came over to play at our house twice since we got back. He's a little bit bigger than before. It was hot outside the first time, and he wanted to run and play fetch the whole day. The second time he came, it was still hot (It's been really hot around here lately). So our solution (we did this both times he came over) was spraying him with a hose. He ran from it, he ran to it, he several doggy shakes, he wiped the water off his fur and on our pants, and he ate the water. After spraying him, his fur was cold and it felt so good when he rubbed it on our legs.

Buddy is as friendly as ever (and when we returned from our trip, a little more clingy then normal). After two weeks in Europe, I had almost forgotten how much more friendly and tolerant Buddy was than other cats. Yesterday, he sat on my stomach while I did a bridge.

The horses have lately been overall good. My horse instructor is out of town for the week, so I'm helping take care of the horses.

One of the other people that helps with the horses sometimes braided Sedona'a mane about a week ago. Later that week, we round pinned all of the horses (Sedona, Wings, and Kona) together. Wings trotted and cantered a little, but when Sedona wanted to zoom past, she would stop and turn sideways so she blocked Sedona's path. We took Wings to the center of the ring and worked the other two. Kona cantered a bit, but Sedona blasted of and went Zoom. She ran (which is faster than gallop) at top speed, snorting as she went.

Here's Kona wanting to eat Wings' grain. This is one of my favorite pictures. She's been doing pretty good. Last week, we gave Sedona and Kona their baths on one of the hottest days. Earlier this morning, I round pinned her and Sedona. She ran around at full speed with her tail up and snorting. Sedona was not running or being helpful in any way, so I moved her to the center and tried to work her again later.

Lately, Kona and Wings have been becoming friends. Here's a picture of them eating together. When we returned them to pasture together at the same time, they walked over to the water together, crossed necks and drank together. Wings pulled back on her lead rope one day and got most of her back out of place. Two chiropractors came (two different times, her back was that bad), and now, she's better. We're walking and trotting her a bit each day to work her back up to lessons.

Motormouth and Sedona both explain to us very loudly how hungry they are until we feed them. When Motormouth sees the car, he crosses the street so he can tell us how hungry he is before Sedona gets the chance. I tried to get an audio of him when he was hungry, to help explain why his name is Motormouth, but it didn't work.

Teddy isn't at our house anymore. He left before we went to Europe, but we'll defiantly watch him sometime over the school year.

Visiting Jax

We visited Chelsea's dog Jax yesterday. He's slowed down on his growing, and he's turning more brown than black haired. We took him to the dog park where he played fetch and we met some of his doggie friends. After a while, Jax got tired and we dropped him off and went home. When we were dropping him off, he was sticking his tongue out while he panted. His tongue is huge!

We discovered that his tongue was long enough (and he was patient and good enough) for us to hold it. He's a silly dog. It was fun getting to see him again. 

To show how much he's grown, this is a puppy photo of him. He's sitting on Chelsea's lap. As you can see in the more recent picture, he doesn't fit in people's laps anymore.

Jax!

This is Jax, our nanny Chelsea's dog.