Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!!

Over the weekend, we stumbled over a lovely surprise during our visit to the farmer's market in Steveston. Luckily Bailey was with us that day to say hello to the cows, goats, geese, swans, ducks and chickens!

When we approached the fence, we were immediately greeted by the two cows and one of the goats. I believe they were trying to entice Bailey to come closer as the cows followed her wherever she went and kept stomping their hooves on the ground (maybe I'm reading their behaviour signal wrong?). The goat on the other hand, climbed onto the fence to take a better sniff of Bailey which kind of spooked her out a bit. As soon as the farm animals grew bored of their visitor, that's when Bailey became interested in them (did I mention she's a bit socially awkward??).

I have to say, those ducks were very courageous! Some of them came as close as two feet from us to get a better look at the weird looking fluffy tri-coloured animal with the human.

Summer Picnic

A few days before school started, I basically took Bailey out and about Vancouver every single day. We had so much fun that by the time it was only a few days before school started, we wanted to do activities that were more relaxing. So I took Bailey to Queen Elizabeth Park and had a picnic (more like a Bailey picnic...)!

I had to take two large beach towels with me because Bailey insisted that she needed more than half of the covered area to lie down. Leaving me the edge of towel to sit on, and did I mention that she kept trying to push me off the towels? But no matter, because she didn't mind that I used her as a pillow as I read a book.

For Bailey's picnic, she had half of her dried food as an appetizer then for the main course she had a four inch rawhide. And no picnic would be complete without dessert!!! But dessert came after we visited the dog off leash area in Queen Elizabeth park (I had no idea there was a dog park at Queen E... and I've lived here my whole life! ha!).

This photo was taken soon after I gave Bailey her rawhide. As I said before she was so happy that she was trying to eat the rawhide on her back, but got caught up in the excitement that she forgot that she was about to tip over. When she realized this fact, it was oh too late...

Bury? Or not to bury?

It's a love-hate relationship with the toy ball. One minute she wants to bury it and the next, she seems to change her mind and wants it back!

Holes everywhere

Bailey and I spent most of our time hanging out at McDonald beach where we swam in the water, dug holes in the sand and enjoyed the beautiful weather. I've now discovered that Bailey will only start to swim once I've walked into the water with her. So I wonder if she thinks I'm like her...

Bailey's newest game is dig a hole!! The thing is, she won't just dig a random hole in the sand... no, there must be a ball present for her to dig around and this ball must be a toy that she really really likes. Sadly, I think she may have buried the ball somewhere on the beach because by the end of the day she was searching franticly along the water bank looking for her dearest toy ball.

She must really enjoy digging now because when we found an area on the beach just for the two of us with sand untouched, Bailey had dug at least 6 holes... All holes were as deep as the height of her front leg!

No, the picture above was not photo shopped. Bailey really had dug a hole that deep...

"I think I see Switzerland!!!!"

Bobbing For Apples

The title says it all...

Hockey Fever

"Who are these Canucks? I don't like them, they make you scream and it hurts my ears!"

As the playoffs start, we've noticed that Bailey dislikes the loud noises we make as we're watching our exciting game. To her dismay, I took her over to my sister's apartment to watch a game and the farthest part of the place was the shower... Poor baby, I won't be doing that to her anymore!!

Morning Closeup

So I got this new app for my phone and it has encouraged me to take more photos than before (for those of you who are interested, it's called Instagram!)! I absolutely love the filters they offer and Bailey is the best model I've encountered so far.

I envy the fact that she can wake up in the morning looking so cute.

Caught

One afternoon, as I walked through the door, I witnessed a sight that I have seen many times before. Only, that was three years ago... Bailey had found something within her reach and had destroyed it. Her signature is to leave all the evidence scattered around the room. Usually her targets are napkins, but this time she found a plastic bag that contained last nights take out. The motive behind this attack is the fact that she had not gone for a walk the day before.