Vizsla - Teamwork!

Ralphie and Lucy so amuse me with their intelligence and on top of that make me laugh out loud.

Ralphie does not care for the pool.  Now he'll swim after a ball at the beach, but just not fond of the pool water.  In the past years he would fetch a ball that I throw in the pool, but this year he really doesn't even want to do that.
Lucy on the other hand is pool-crazed.  She loves the pool!  She'll swim and swim back and forth. However I do need to watch how much pool water she consumes as she pounces on the water catching the splash then swallowing the chlorinated water.  If she has too much, she gets a belly ache.

Anyways, it's been really hot here in FL and I wanted Ralphie to cool off yesterday.  I figured I can get him in the pool with a nice bright squeaky ball.  So I brought out two new balls, one for Lucy and one for Ralphie.  I tried so hard to get Ralphie to fetch to ball in the pool.  And this is what happened...

Can we call this "teamwork"?  LOL

Ralphie + Lucy Instagram

So Ralphie and Lucy ganged up on me and said, "Mom, why can't we have Instagram? All the fur kids have it!"

Soooo, Mom gave in and created: vizsla.ralphie.lucy on Instagram.  I'll be posting many, many pics of my fur babies!  Come follow us!

Rough Play = Injured V

Lucy was hurt about a week ago at the dog park.  She was rough playing with Ralphie and she whipped around hitting her hip on the bench.  She shrieked and cried on her back and wouldn't move.  All of the other dogs wanted to see what's going on and she was snarling at them to say, "leave me alone."  She settled down and finally let me touch and comfort her.  She actually walked out of the park with a slight limp.  At home I gave her a half of a pain pill I had from when she was spayed.  That evening she was calm, no whimpering.

This incident happened on a holiday weekend so my vet wasn't open, but nevertheless I wanted to keep an eye on her before going to the vet.  The next morning she seemed normal, no limping and eating well.  By Tuesday when the vet office was open, she was fine and I didn't feel I had the need to take her in.

But now Lucy is afraid of the dog park. -sigh- A couple of days ago I took them to the park and Lucy didn't even want to go in!  She had to be lured in with a treat.  Inside the park she hid under a bench.  Finally she came out from under the bench and ran a few laps with Ralphie, but no rough playing.  She mingled with the other dogs but mingled more with the humans.  Simply said, she wasn't herself.  I'm not so sure if that painful incident damaged her desire for the dog park.  I'm planning to take them today, so we will see...

Lucy did much better at the dog park...see the black pit...Lucy just doesn't like
him and he's so kind and friendly.

Ralphie and Lucy enjoying the pool. Oh oh, the pit is planning to join them...