Crag Puppies

Nothing defines an adventure dog quite like being able to chill at the bottom of a climb while your owners go off to climb rocks and then descend from the sky. This weekend Yishai and I set off to Las Vegas for a climbing trip. We met up with one of my best friends and her roommate (from Canada) and two of my friends, Eddie and Eric came up as well. We left Momma at home as managing puppies plus Fury would have just been too much. Fury got to hang out with Laura and get fat.

Well, adventure puppies did pretty good. They handled camping in style (though we're having enclosed-space sibling rivalry which means that certain things piss miss Rippa off and poor Daca gets into a fight with her. They don't do much other than chew on eachother's neck and get spitty, though it must hurt a bit. Why do I know this? Because when separating puppies in the heat of battle in the dark in the back of a pickup truck, one gets bitten. Ouch. Ouch ouch ouch. Our fault for not managing the girls better. We're all copacetic now that we have been giving them separate space and are back home again. I remember seeing two husky sisters come in every month or so when I worked at a vet for fights. Bitch fights suck. Sibling fights, yeah.

Anyway, here are some photos from the trip:

Daca's preferred riding spot - seriously. She does it all on her own. I would also like to comment that my puppies are suuuuuuuuper mellow. Seven hour drive to Vegas and back and not a peep. They just went to sleep and that was that. No potty breaks needed, even.

The boys roping up with Daca watching. It took a couple days of ignoring her, but then Daca got up in their laps and that was that -- friends!

So one of the funny things about the puppie is that Rippa HATES water, right? She will scale technical rock face before she will touch it. For instance, the rock in the foreground? She climbed up and down it to get to where I was. Daca, however, sensibly decided that swimming there was smarter.

While we were doing that, Alina was trying Moto out on sheep:

As I kind of suspected when I sent him to her, Alina is now hooked. He was the youngest dog at the fun day and it took a bit to get him going (see the border collie moving them for him?) but then it was on. She says there's another in two weeks and she is definitely going. She also reports that he is bored at puppy kindergarten because he knows everything. :)

Speaking of puppy kindergarten, here's our Hyper Piper - who is also the star (actually, all three puppies in kindergarten appear to be Best in Class -- not that I am surprised!):