Ellie and Baz

2011-04-04T11:34:00.004+08:00

Hi everyone, it's Bazzy here. It's a little bit lonely now that I am on my own. I have no one to play bitey face with anymore. Mum and Dad have decided not to get another dog. They want to start doing some travelling, and will take me with them. So it's just me for now. I'm still a little bit lost without my big sissy though. Mum thinks I have depression. I had a bit of fun yesterday though. Dad took me to the Dog Park and we met up with Sophie, she's an 11 year old Airedale that lives in the hills. So Sophie and I played bitey face and completed the whole walk around the park together. Sophie's mum was upset that Ellie has crossed the bridge, she liked old Ellie. It was so great to see Sophie and get to play Airedale style! No one plays bitey face like us Dales do! Baz.

A sad sad day

2011-03-25T11:36:00.006+08:00

On Wednesday March 23rd, we said goodbye to our sweet old Ellie.

She crossed the Rainbow Bridge, cradled in daddy's arms and with me stroking her face and telling her how much we love her, while the vet did what needed to be done.

Our hearts are broken.

Ellie was our first Airedale, she was Tim's first dog ever.

She taught us so so much, and we loved her fiesty, independant attitude - she had lots of it too!

But age was not being kind to our sweet baby girl. She was deteriorating quickly and in the early hours of Wednesday morning Tim was woken by the sounds of Ellie having a seizure. I tried doing everything the vet had said to do. This was the 3rd seizure over a 3 year period.

But Ellie was really distressed and as she also has a heart murmer we rushed her to the 24hr Emergency vet.

After long discussions with the 2 vets, it was decided that Ellie had had enough and could now longer fight back from this.

It tore our hearts out to see her lying in the vet office with no fight - I mean this is my strong FIESTY airegirl.

But we both knew in our hearts that the vets were right and it was time to let Ellie go.

Walking out of that vet office and leaving my little girl behind was one of the toughest things I have ever had to do.

Tim and I both had non stop tears pouring down our faces.

We drove home in silence, both in total shock.

We had 11 years and 3 months of love, devotion, laughter, despair, but best of all, the cheeky fiestiness that was Ellie.

We thank you sweetpea for all that you gave us and all that you taught us.

You have fulfilled your purpose on this earth - of being a GREAT dog!

Run Free baby girl, we will hold you in our hearts forever, until we are reunited once again.

We love you Miss Ellie.

Jo & Tim.

Merry Christmas

2010-12-24T13:26:00.004+08:00

We are wishing all our special DWB friends a very B'Airey Christmas.

We hope everyone has a day filled with love and laughter and lots of nose pokes and butt sniffs from big black wet noses.

Ho Ho Ho

Miss Ellie, BazzyMan and the pinkies xxx

Birthday times 3

2010-12-23T11:00:00.002+08:00

We have had lots of birthdays in our house this month.

Starting with daddy, he turned 39 on December 7th.

Then Miss Ellie turned 11 on December 10th

And then I turned 3 on December 16th.

Plus we have had our first anniversay of living in Perth - we have been here a year now!

Ellie and I both got a Pork Pie for breakfast on our Birthdays, daddy never got a Pork Pie.
We got some cool new toys too.

Birthday are great!

Mr B

Sad news

2010-12-23T10:56:00.002+08:00

Our much loved Nonno crossed the Rainbow Bridge on December 11th.
Mum was very upset and daddy had to give her lots of hugs.
Mum and Dad flew back to Melbourne to spend some time with mum's family and to attend Nonno's funeral.

We loved Nonno, and Nonno loved all animals. He is now is heaven with our Harley and his boy Alby the Rhodesian Ridgeback.

We will miss you Nonno, mummy says you loved us a lot.

Mummy loved you too, and she will miss you lots and lots.

Ellie and Baz

hellooooooo

2010-09-15T14:03:00.003+08:00

Hey everyone
Nonno is improving, his lungs are nw all better, but he still has a problem with his liver. he is at least able to walk around a little bit now using a frame. He is still in hospital and will be for a while.
Nanna is worried about him though, as we think he is suffering from dementia.
Poor Sam. We miss his giant cuddles.
Thanks to everyone that sent Aire-zen, we are sure it all helped.

We had a bit of a holiday last week.
We went to stay with a friend of mummy's that breeds Smooth Fox Terriers. her name is Shirley and she has 17 Foxies and 2 elderly Lakeland Terriers as well.

Our mum really loves Lakies, but these 2 were old and cranky and didn't want to play with us.

The pinkies went off on a driving holiday up the coast. They said that they missed us, but I think they had a good time without us....how can that be?
What could be better than having us with them on holiday?

We're all back to normal now and settled back into our routine.

Ellie and Baz

2010-08-26T12:09:00.005+08:00

Hey every doggie, it's me Baz.

We haven't done much blogging lately, it is hard to sneak onto the pc without mum helping us.

We have been having a blast, lots of long walks off lead at the park, playing with my mates Ben and Bandit - they both live in my street.

Sometimes when all the pinkies are out the front working in their garden, we all get to play out the front too.

We live at the end of a Cul-de-sac, so there are no cars to worry about, and we never run off.

So we play chasey and bitey face and do lots of running.

Sometimes the pinkies yell at us to get out of the garden beds, those little plant things get a bit trampled when we all run over the top of them, he he he.

Our Nonno (mummy's stepdad) back in Melbourne has been really ill, and has been in hospital for 7 weeks now.

We have been sending him ALL of our Aire-zen, but he needs more. So if you have some spare, can you send it to our Nonno Sam?

Our dad's Nanna has been in hospital too, she fell over and broke her hip. So we had to send lots of aire-zen to Nanna Peggy too!

So we've been pretty busy !

Here is a photo of me with nonno Sam, when we used to live in Melbourne. We always went with the pinkies to visit mum's parents. They love us.

Hope everyone is happy....just like me.

BazBoy

Roll over Rover

2010-07-02T13:03:00.002+08:00

There were three in the bed and the little one said,
Roll over, roll over.
So they all rolled over and one fell out.

Oooooops.......guess who rolled off the big bed last night?

Bazzy Bear!

hehehehehe.

2010-07-01T11:53:00.003+08:00

Will you take a look at us being quiet!

Mum gave us both Schmacko Chomp n Chew's.........

Miss Ellie, chowing down, notice the under over paw lock she has on her chomp n chew!

And Bazzy Bear, where there is food, there is Bazzy!

Tasty...... and it kept us out of mischief for a good 30 minutes!

2010-06-21T12:07:00.008+08:00

Hey, check out my brand spanking new Dale House!

Mum took us to Better Pets and gardens and let me choose it all by myself!

This is where I sleep now during the day while mum and dad are working.

Pretty comfy looking huh?

Who is the best tradies Dale in the world?

Baz, who else? Look at me sitting nicely and smiling for the camera. Notice the mess dad has made of the front garden.
They call it doing a total make-over. I call it making a huge mess!

But it is fun to help!

Bazzy Bear!

Bazzy's limpy leggie

2010-06-09T10:42:00.003+08:00

Hi ya everyone

Well most of you know that when I was a young pup I had a real sore leggie.
Our friend Steve the Vet diagnosed it as Panostietis (growing pains).

They took xray thingys to confirm it and I was kept confined for weeks and weeks.
I was just growing way too fast.

Well anyway, my leggie finally stopped growing and the pain went away.

But now every time we go for a mad run off lead, my limpy comes back.
Not as bad as it was before, but limpy just the same.

Mum and dad both think it is my shoulder and not my leggie. I think they are talking about taking me to see our new lady Vet, for more xray thingys.

I don't like being Limpy.

Miss Ellie doesn't care, she still wants to play bitey face with me and wrestle!

Oh and I got a hairecut on the weekend too, so I am looking all spiffy at the moment.
Dad says I am one handsome Aireboy!
Miss Ellie missed out on a Hairecut because she was being mighty cranky on the grooming table.
So she just got brushed and had her feet trimmed.

Mum was concerned at how frail old Miss Ellie is now.
She still has lots of spark, but is fragile. She made mum swear, because she so did NOT want to be groomed, mum ended up giving in to her. he he he

Cheeky old goat she is!

Love ya's
BAZBOY

Our new favourite park

2010-06-08T13:58:00.004+08:00

Yippeeeeeeeee

Mum and dad took us to a new park called Jorgensen Park in Kalamunda.

And it was super awesome!

We got to run off lead and play with lots of other doggies.

They didn't take the camera this time, but mum says she definately will next time, as it is very pretty there.

We think it used to be a golf course.

We can't wait to go back there!

Ellie and Baz

Airedale World

2010-06-04T13:43:00.004+08:00

Hi ya everyone

Mum says we have to tell you about a new Airedale forum on the magic internet.

It is called Airedale World and the address is:
www.airedaleworldonline.com

It is brand new and mum knows the 2 people that are running it, Zoe (who has 2 Airedales, Diggy and Womble) and Scott, (who has Famous Amos).

Please go and check it out, and if you like it....join up with us!

Miss Ellie and BazBoy

Bad Ass BazBoy

2010-05-31T11:07:00.005+08:00

Check me out will ya????

How cool am I.............oh yeah!

I was sleeping on mum's bed on top of her hoodie and so she decided to wake me up and play dress up with me while I was all sleepy.

I don't care that the hoodie is on me, but look at it.... it is PINK!

How bad ass is that.......... ha ha ha

Love ya's all.

BazBoy

thunder and lightning

2010-05-13T13:44:00.003+08:00

Gee, we didn't have a very good sleep last night.

There we were in the bedroom, all four of us, sleeping soundly when out of nowhere came this huge big BANG.
I jumped up off my bed, it was soooooo loud!
It woke mum and dad up too!
Then there were more big BANGS, and lots of flashing white lights, that lit up the whole dark bedroom!
I didn't like it - no not one bit!

Mum said it was just a thunderstorm and that it would be ok, but I was scared!
Baz was still on the bed, and not really too worried about it.

There were so many big bang noises that i jumped up onto the big bed with the others - there wasn't much room, what with mum and dad and big fat baz on the bed already.
But I made room for myself and snuggled next to my mum. She even turned the bedside lamp on for me, so that I wouldn't see the bright lightning stuff.
So I lay on the bed with mum and she rubbed my ears to keep me calm.

I don't like thunderstorms - uh-uh I don't like them.

Miss Ellie

Supervising the landscaping.

2010-04-25T19:30:00.004+08:00

Hey everydoggy, I have been a pretty busy little BazBoy this weekend.

Dad and I have been doing some landscaping in our back garden.
It's been pretty hard work, and dad has done a good job, under my watchful supervision of course!

First of all I got to go to dad's work with him to pick up the ute.
Look at me riding up front like a proper 'tradie's' dog!

I just love riding in the car, so being in the ute was no trouble. It means I get to sit on the front seat which is way too cool!

Dad and I went to pick up these huge limestone blocks from the garden supply place. I wasn't allowed out of the ute there, as there were heaps of big tractor things driving around loading up trucks and stuff. So I just sat in the ute and waited - like a good tradie's dog would.

When we got back home dad drove the ute all the way into our back yard. Then he had to unload all the huge blocks. I wasn't allowed to help, because the blocks weighed 55kgs each!

No wonder daddy was working up a sweat!

So once all the blocks were off the ute, I got up on the back to check it all out.

Great view from up here.

I had to watch dad carefully while he cemented the blocks in. Had to make sure they were straight! It took hours and hours, but I stayed around the garden with dad - see, just like a good tradie's dog, ey!

Today dad got two ute loads of native mix soil, so mum and dad shovelled it all into the new garden bed.

Mum says it was bloody hard work, dad says mum is a sook.

So here is the end result of all their hard work (under my close supervision).

We now have new raised garden bed, for mum to plant stuff in.

We think dad did a great job and mum had to give Ellie the "now don't you dig this up" talk.

Miss Ellie slept all day and missed all the action. She is a funny old girl, she wants to just sleep all the time now. So I just leave her and go off with dad and we do "boy stuff".

Tomorrow is a public holiday here, so both mum and dad will be home with us ALL day. Yippee.

I wonder what they have got planned? Hope it is something good!

BazBoy.

Our Easter Adventure

2010-04-07T16:07:00.009+08:00

Hello every doggy, gee did we have the BEST Easter holiday Ever?
I think we did, it was pawesome!
We went to this place called Margaret River, it is in the south west of WA. We stayed in this groovy little dog friendly cottage called Margaret House Cottage.
Here I am sitting on the front verandah, looking all relaxed because I am on holidays....wooo hoo.
My old sissy and I ran around like lunatics when we arrived, there were so many good things to smell and the yard was enormous!
Check out old Ellie having a bit of a lie down in the front garden.

I found the best thing ever, just on the other side of the fence.

At first the funny little things in there scared me, and I ran off barking at them.

Then old Ellie came to check to see what I was making all the noise about. She wasn't scared of the funny little creatures at all - so I went and had a closer look.

This is what I had found - 'CHOOKS'. Now I had never seen these little creatures before, but I soon learned that if I bark at them, they RUN.

So then the game was on! Woof woof woof, run run run.

Every time we went out, as soon as we got back to the cottage, I ran to the chook pen to make sure my new best game was still going. Woof woof woof, run run run - awesome!

The pinkies took us everywhere with them, we explored the whole southern area of the coast.

Here we are with our daddy at Cape Leeuwin, this is where the Indian Ocean meets the Southern Ocean (which goes all the way to Antartica)

We even got to go to a Winery with the pinkies, I mean look at all those grapes, they go on forever and ever.

Take a look at us, back in the car, ready for our next adventure! C'mon, let's GO!

We drove through this HUGE forest of Karri trees. Karri trees only grow in this one place in Australia, and in the old days the loggers used to chop them all down. The trees are all protected now though. They are beautiful. Look how small me and daddy look! The trees were BIG.

We got to go on some lovely bush walks, and stopped for a few photo opportunities occasionally too!

This is a native Grass Tree, locally known as a Black Boy. They take years and years to grow. The pinkies have just planted some of these in our garden at home.

Don't I look handsome sitting in front of the pretty tree?

On one of our bush walks daddy let me go off lead, and we saw kangaroos. 3 of them. Daddy tried to grab my collar, but I was off and running. Lucky those Roos are fast, otherwise they were MINE!

Daddy said they would have kicked my butt, but I don't think so. After all I am the BAZBOY!
I found this little track and convinced dad we needed to go down this way for a little look.

And it led us to the Margaret River! I had to dip my furry little toes in, so that I could have a drink. Yummo, nice clean water!

The next day we went up north of Margaret River and found this beautiful beach at Bunker Bay.

The pinkies say it is stunning, but they wouldn't let me off lead, so I couldn't play in the water.

Sissy lay on the sand for a little rest, while dad and I explored a bit.

It was a brilliant holiday, we also went to the Margaret River Chocolate factory, the MR Dairy, the MR Cheese Factory, the Olive Farm and the Providore. The pinkies brought so much food! And none of it for me and Ellie!

It was a long drive home (3 hours) so I took a bit of a nap on the back seat, I mean I can only ride with my head out the window for so long!

Hope you like our holiday snaps! And we hope all the other doggies had a Happy Easter!

Bazzy (and old Ellie too)

Bad boy Bazzy ate mums book!

2010-03-28T18:12:00.007+08:00

Well will you take a look at what my silly little brother got up to today?

The picture below is all that is left of mum's book.

The stoopid little fatboy saw it on the couch and decided he wanted a closer look.
Mum was in the study, playing on our computer and she heard this strange noise from the lounge.

A mess was all over the couch, and silly Baz still had the book in his big fat gob.

At least he had the grace to look forlorn and sorry after mum told him what a BAD Aire-boy he was!

He had already been in trouble with daddy today too!

They went for their special "boys walkies" this morning, while mum and I went our our special "gilrs walkies".

We get walked seperately most of the time now, as I can't walk as far as I used to now that I am a Senior Aire-lady of double digits! Yes I turned 10 on my last birthday.

Anyway, when out on his walk with dad this morning, Bazzy met another dog and rather than be a nice freindly Airedale, stoopid Bazzy growled at the other doggy - for no good reason. Dad says the other doggy was wagging his tail!

Daddy told Baz off, and said "NO" Baz. Baz sulked a bit after that - he doesn't like being told off. Uh-uh.

Here is a better picture of our friend Charlie, he came to stay with us recently.

Charlie got a nice surprise today - a new baby sister. Her name is Rose and she is an 8 week old Bichon Frise, just like him. Mum has seen photos of her, but none of us have met her yet.

Oh and here are the photos of our new next door neighbour, Big Ben. He comes over to our yard to play sometimes, and sometimes we go over to his yard to play.

Big Ben is a Labrador x German Shepherd. He plays rough just like Bazzy does.

Those boys are just lunatics when they get together.

Big Ben is even bigger than Baz. They are good mates. He even plays bitey face - even though he is not an Airedale!

And here is a photo of the naughty Aireboy taken at Dog Beach in Scarborough.

Sometimes the pinkies take us there early on a weekend morning, and we run and run and run - even me!

There are always soooooo many other doggies there to play chasey with. it is just pawesome!

Look at the big smiling dufus!

He thinks he is so handsome - just because mum tells him so. Fool!

Till next time........xxx

Miss Ellie, the Senior Aire-lady!

Blogging from the wild wild west of Australia

2010-03-27T12:21:00.012+08:00

Hi ya bloggy friends,

Geez we have been outta action for far too long, and SOOOOOOO much has happened too!

As some of you may already know, our daddy took a job in Perth, Western Australia.

Now this is a long long way from Melbourne, which is where we live.

So the pinkies in their wisdom decided we must all move to Perth.

And off on the BIG adventure we went.

Daddy left us in October, and mum started organising to rent out our house in Melbourne and to get removalists in to pack all our stuff (geez we had a lot of stuff?)

Daddy was in Perth working and looking for a new house for us.

So there was frantic packing and selling of stuff and organising and walks with just mum.

In December dad got the keys to the new house in Perth, so a BIG container came and a couple of big strong men came along and packed all our stuff into the back.

Gee there was still alot of stuff - even after mummy sold a lot of it.

Anyway, then mummy and us went and stayed at our grand-dad's empty house. That was good, because our friends Mr Periwinkle and Sam came over for a visit and to say goodbye!

Here we all are.......handsome lot aren't we???

Then one morning a big JetPets van came to the house and mummy took us out into the front garden on our leads.

Then it all happened so quickly - we were put into the back of the van in crates, the door was shut and off we drove - WITHOUT MUMMY!

Ellie and I had no idea what was going on, but I was quite excited because there was a big German Shepherd doggy in another crate, so I wanted to say hello to him!

Mum was flying to Perth that day. The big truck came and took her car, then she got a cab to the airport, and we were all supposed to fly off to Perth on the same flight!

BUT THEY LEFT ME BEHIND!!!!!!!!

Ellie got loaded onto the plane, mum was on the plane, but because the plane can only carry a certain amount of weight, and the flight was full, there was no room for me. And because I was the heaviest doggy, I got picked to miss the flight.

Waaaaaahhhaaaaaaaaa - I want my MUM. And I wanna be with my sissy!!!!

They took me back to the JetPets office and they rang Dad to say only one dog made the flight.

Daddy was furious, as they couldn't even tell him which one of us got left behind.

JetPets promised to get me onto a flight with Qantas that same day.

When mum arrived at Perth airport she had no idea I wasn't there.

Daddy had to give her the bad news once she was in the terminal.

She wasn't happy!

So the pinkies went to the freight terminal to pick up the one Airedale that did get shipped, not knowing which one of us they were picking up.

And there was Ellie sitting in her crate, quite happy.

She went nuts when she saw mum and dad.

She trotted off with dad and he took her outside to pee, while mum talked to the JetPets staff to find out where I was.

And I was still in Melbourne! All on my OWN.

Don't they know I am just a baby and that I have never been on my own before - NEVER?!

So mum and dad took Ellie to our new house, and later that night daddy and grand-dad went back to the airport to pick me up.

When they walked into the freight terminal I was standing in my crate with my ears back and my tail right down between my legs and I might even have been crying - just a little bit.

Daddy said it was terrible for him to see me like that.

I wasn't a happy Aire-boy.

So then daddy drove me home to our new house - and Ellie was there, nanna and grand-dad were there and best of all - my mummy was there.

I was a bit unsure at first and wouldn't leave mummy's side.

Ellie was as happy as larry, running around sniffing every thing.

I just wanted my mum!

But now that we have been living here for 3 months, life is wonderful.

We go to the best parks and get to run off lead.

There is a doggy beach, which is just awesome and I love all the other doggies to play with.

We have a new friend who lives next door named Big Ben.

And we have another friend named Charlie who came to stay with us while his dad was in hospital. Look at us both up on the couch together!

Life sure is good here, but geez it is HOT!

We will post some more on our bloggy soon.

Hope everyone is well and happy and has a full belly!

Baz and Ellie, from the Wild Wild West.

we're home!

2009-11-06T17:44:00.004+08:00

Hooray hooray hooray!

We are home - she did come back for us.
As soon as I got home I ran around the house for a sniff and a look to make sure everything was where I left it - especially all my toys.
Then I went out the back and checked my yard - yep all good out there as well.
But geez the grass is long!

Then I went and joined old Miss Ellie on the big bed for a giant sleepies.

Being in jail is tiring. But I did get to play with some other big doggies.
We ran - well I chased them and harrased them until they ran, then I ran after them some more!

But I am so glad to be home now.

Mum says Old Miss Ellie and I are just big sooks and that kennels are not like jail at all.

But it was my first time EVER!

Take a look at where we stayed -

Granite Hill Boarding Kennels offer 5 Star accommodation for your dog, located in Tynong, just 50 minutes drive from Melbourne CBD.

www.granitehillkennels.com.au

Mum knows Annette (she breeds Jack Russells and has Welsh Terriers) and Annette and all the girls sure took good care of us.
But it is not the same as being at home.

Mum says I am a big boy now. Woo hoo!

BazBoy

ps - our daddy is coming home for the weekend! Yay - we haven't seen daddy in weeks and weeks!

In jail

2009-11-03T16:05:00.002+08:00

Help us, help us, we need to escape!

We are in jail.....we don't even know why???

Mum left us here more than a week ago. Is she coming back?
Our daddy has been gone for ages, and now mum has left us too.

We all drove out to this place called Granite Hill.
I (Miss Ellie) vaguely remember being here a long, long time ago with my sissy Harley.
I didn't like it then, and I don't like it now!

Bazzy has been very brave (he didn't even realise mum had gone - he was far to excited seeing all the other doggies already in jail) He is such a silly little boy!

Will she come back soon?

I want to go home to the big bed.

Miss Ellie

Uh oh Ellie is in the Dog House

2009-10-27T07:47:00.004+08:00

Naughty big sissie is in BIG trouble!

She ripped up her bed on Sunday night, mum walked into the bedroom and found such a mess. Ellie and I just watched as mum cleaned it all up.

Then about an hour later, mum and I were in the lounge and we heard some noises coming from the bedroom, so we both ran down there, and whammo - we caught Ellie red handed - or should that be red-pawwed. Caught in the act.

So mum yelled at the old girl and she scurried off to the back door and out into her kennel, where she hid for a while.

I went back to the bedroom to check on the mess. Oh boy, it was even worse than the first time!
Of course I lay on the floor, smack bang in the middle of all the foam. So when mum came back in she yelled at me too. I ran off and hid, I don't like it when mum yells at me - she's scary!
Doesn't she know that I am a Sensative New Age Aireboy?

So poor mum had to clean up the mess for a second time.

And do you want to know something funny?
Old Ellie tried it again last night, but mum heard her thrashing the bed around and caught her before she ripped it.
Needless to say, old Miss Ellie spent the night locked out of the bedrooms.

Ha ha, silly old goat sissy is.

She needs to be a good Dale - just like me!

BazBoy

Mum won a prize!

2009-10-23T11:01:00.005+08:00

Wow oh wow, look at what our mum WON !!!!!

Our mum bought tickets in the ATRA Quilting Bee Raffle and won this beautiful quilt called 'For the Love of Chloe'.

It was the runner up prize in the raffle.

Isn't it just pawesome?

Our mum let us give it a good sniffing all over when she brought it home. It smells like it comes form somewhere that has Dales?
So we certainly gave it a good sniff.

Of course stoopid Bazzy tried to bite it and mum said NO BAZZY.
He sooks it up a treat if mum yells at him - the big baby.

Anyway, so now this beautiful quilt is hanging on the wall in our family room at home.

Mum loves it and we love it too.

Thanks to everyone involved in the quilting bee. It is all for such a great cause - Airedale Rescue!

Mum says some Australian lady friends of hers are plotting for an Aussie version quilt! Look out for that one ha ha.

Mum won't be involved because she can't draw or sew.

I'm sure it will be a beauty though!

Byeeeeeeeeeeeee

Miss Ellie

Baz the Saint

2009-09-06T17:10:00.005+08:00

Today I helped mum barrack for her team in the football.
My mum just loves footy, and barracks for a team called St Kilda.
Mum's whole family all barrack for St.Kilda, and today the Saints played in a finals match and WON !!!!! Yay!
Mum was very happy, and now her team get a rest next week then go straight into the Preliminary final to see who plays in the Grand Final. AWESOME !

Do you think I look handsome in my Members Scarf?
Mum tried to get me to wear her cap, but I wasn't having anything on my heads - no way!

There were lots of pinkies at the football today - 84,000. That is sooooo many people!
Mum was sad she couldn't go to the game, but it is Father's Day here and we all went to nanna's place to see dad's daddy!
So we got to play with the stupid poodles again.
All this footy stuff was a bit tiring though, so I needed a bit of a rest up on the couch when we got home.

Lucky the footy was on tv. At least mum could see the game.
She scared the crap outta me every time she cheered and clapped or yelled at the tv though.

Strange pinkie behaviour indeed. If Ellie or I bark at the tv, the pinkies tell us to be quiet!

Oh well, 2 weeks before I will have to help mum support her team again.
I better practice my footy skills!

Bazzy the Big Boy.

Ruffey Lake Park picnic

2009-09-03T17:51:00.011+08:00

Wooooooo hooooooo.......what a fun day I had!
Mum and I had a girls day out, no dad, and no Bazzy! Yay, just me and mum!
Sunday was the Airedale Club picnic at Ruffey Lake Park.
Baz didn't come because he hurt his leg chasing the stoopid poodles at nanna's house on Saturday.
Baz has no brakes when he is running downhill too fast and he had a bit of a crash landing - ouch!
He is such a silly young thing!

Anyway, mum and I went and met up with 19 other gorgeous Airedales and had a lovely time.
Here we are lined up and smiling for the camera - notice who is out front lying in a perfect drop stay?????? ME.....who else!

These two handsome fellows are my friends Cooper (the US Dale) and Fergus, who it turns out could be related to me. They are both Rescue Dales.
And this is our good friend Sam, he is also a Rescue Dale and a lovely old boy, he is just like me and wishes his little brother Mr P would just bugger off and leave him in peace.
Mr P and Baz are SO alike!

Oh and at the mention of the Airedorable Mr Perriwinkle - here he is.

This Aireboy is forever smiling. My mum just loves him to bits, and says he is alot like Bazzy.

Well she could be right, because they are both bratty little Aireboys!

Oooooh and check out this darling little Airegirl. She belongs to Di Barclay from YorkPark Kennels (where Baz and I are from).
Her name is Charley and she is already winning ribbons in the Show Ring - Best Puppy this year at our Club Show! Well done to a sweet little Airepup.

Miss Betty, With her fine beard!

What a beard to be proud of!

I want one like that, but mum keeps mine short....something about too much mess????

Another little YorkPark Airegirl, she is just a wee baby this one. Felicity cuddled her all day - much to Oscar's disgust. I think he was just a bit jealous, his mum was sharing cuddles.

Oh and meet my newest friend George. He is from Planet Airedale, like us.

His mum Cara just joined our Club too. Now he is a nice Aireboy (see Baz, Aireboys can be nice!)

Look at me, sprawled out on the nice grass, just having a bit of a lie down after all the social sniffing and other Airedale greetings.

Mum can't remember this Dales name (well she is getting on in years now y'know) but he was soooo fluffy. And nicely brushed ha ha.

Some of the Dales went for a play off lead - not me. Mum says I have recall deafness. But I really just want to go and check out what's way over there...........see mum, I can't hear you.....

After lunch there was a big walkies around the lake. Some off lead and some on. You can tell who the good Dales are can't you?

Some Dales even decided a swim was in order. Brrrr what were they thinking?

Don't they know it is winter and the water is cold?

The old Aireboy in the red bandanna is Chester - he is 11 and another Rescue. very sweet.

Yes a bit of a romp, a bit of chase me, chase you, and see who can sniff the most butts!

Looks like someone found something worth a closer look......I wonder what it was? Whatever it was they came out empty handed!

Gently wading in, just to check that it isn't too cold..........nah, it's ok.

We even met some non Airedale friends on our walkies. Time to say hello!

It really was a lovely day out, made even better by not having Baz annoying me.

This is our friend Felicity's mum, she is holding Oscar. He is a great Aireboy too!

Here are some of the boys.......Oscar, Jack and Curly.

Well, I must say we all had a nice lunch, some great fun, and a social romp. The pinkies held a raffle (mum donated some really cool Airedale stuff) and we raised $234 for our Club.

Julie had some nice stuff on sale too, so mum brought some Christmas Cards and notepaper.

Mum enjoying all the blah blah blah with the other pinkies. i wandered off and had a lie down once I had enough and just let her do her thing. Eventually she put me in the car and i slept all the way home.

The big bed was the first port of call - time for a sleepies.

Miss Ellie - the society queen of the ATCV (ha ha)

Calling all Aussie Dales

2009-08-23T11:43:00.002+08:00

Calling all Aussie Airedales.

Hmmm maybe that should be calling all Victorian Airedales?

Or really it should be calling all Melbourne Airedales -yes that is better.

The Airedale Terrier Club of Victoria is having a picnic day next Sunday August 30th
at Ruffey Lake Park in Doncaster.
Starting at 12 noon.
There are bbq facilities (byo everything) and there will be club merchandise for sale and a raffle and after lunch a big walkies around the lake with all the Dales.

So if you are not doing anything - COME ALONG.

It would be great to see more Dales!

We will be there - with our mum.

Hope to see some of you???

Ellie and Baz.

Strange smells

2009-08-16T08:23:00.004+08:00

Hi everyone,
Well mum has been home with us for a while now cause she has had a bad cough, a thing called bronchitis actually.
But today she disappeared ALL day and when she finally came home, she smelled of another doggie!
Now this is not so unusual, mum often smells of other doggies, but this smell was different.
It was the smell of a new puppy!
Now she certainly didn't bring any puppy home with her, so where did she get the smell from then???

Turns out that mum went for a drive with Brooke, out to a place called Romsey, right across the other side of town and out into the country side (she didn't take us with her for a ride????)
When they got there mum met a puppy named Benson J Puppypaws.
It seems Mr Puppypaws is gonna live with Greg and Brooke.
So mum got to cuddle him all the way home.
She says he is a sweet little puppy (even if he isn't an Airedale!) and that she hopes Opy is nice to him.
Opy was very good when they were first introduced, so hopefully the old Gruffpuppy will take a liking to the little bundle of puppyness and allow him to jump all over her.

Hmm Miss Ellie remembers when I did this to her - she did a fair amount of growling at me - actually she still does! But we be best buddies now.
Miss Ellie taught me how to be a good Aireboy!
Anyway, so when mum finally came home, my big black Aireboy nose went into overdrive.
Sniff sniff sniff ALL over my mum.
Hey, who is that puppy smell mum? Let me get another whiff!

Mum says Miss Ellie and i will get to play with Benson J Puppypaws - I can't wait.
Finally someone young to romp with and wrestle with - wooo hooooo!

There has also been some other strange goings on at our place lately too!
Mum and dad keep talking of this place called Perth. A lot!
now mum has told us that daddy is leaving us to go and live there. Oh nooooooooooooooo!

BUT we are going too, not all at the same time, but once daddy finds us a house in Perth, mum Ellie and I are going over to live there too.
It means that Miss Ellie and I have to fly in a great big aeroplane.
not sure that I like the sound of that.
Mum says I will have to be a big brave Aireboy.

So the pinkies are gonna be really busy now getting sorted and packed to move across to the opposite side of the country.

We hope we like it there? Mum and dad have been there already, but Ellie and I will know no other doggies.
Although mum tells us there are definatley Airedales in Perth, so we will have to track them down for play dates!

So much to do in so little time arghhhh.
I have to pack all my toys and blankies, and food and toys and sticks and toys and bones and toys....oh I don't know where to start.
Ellie better come and help me!

Daddy leaves in October, but we won't go until after Christmas.
hey mum, when is Christmas?

See ya :)

Bazzy

The Name Game

2009-08-11T17:09:00.005+08:00

hey everyone
We decided we are gonna play the Name Game too.
Miss Ellie fot her name because mum wanted a little girly Dale and had a list of girly names, but narrowed it down to Lilly or Ellie.
On her AKC papers her name is AliOnARole. The breeder thought mum was calling her Ali not Ellie.

Now my name is another story.

As most of you know I came along right after Harley crossed the Rainbow Bridge.
Harley was my great grandma, and I was born 4 days after she died.
Her full name was Harley IsaStar.
Mum wanted a name that had a connection to Harley somehow.
But mum and dad never called Harley by her name - she was always called Bear.
This is because she was always so affectionate with mum and loved to cuddle.

So while mum and dad were waiting for me to grow into a big strong Aireboy so they could bring me home, they started looking for a name.

Mum comes from an Irish background and decided she would like a Gaelic name, so she started researching boys names.
She chose the name Bearach (because it had bear in it lol).
So my name is full name Bearach StaShine.
Mum also wanted to keep the 'star' connection as it goes back to Ellie and Harley's mum whose name was IceAStar.
And my dad Elton is also Elton IsAStar too.

But the translation of the Gaelic "Bearach" into English is "Barry".
Now in Australia any man named Barry gets nicknamed Baz.
So that is why my name is "BAZ".

Cool huh?

Love ya
Bazzy & Ellie.

Uh oh, Ellie what have you done?

2009-08-06T13:31:00.007+08:00

Uh-oh, look what mum and dad found in their bedroom!
It looked like it had been snowing in there, but it was naughty old sissie.
She has a habit of playing 'shake and kill' with her bed. Mum says this is the 4th time in about 6 weeks old cranky pants Ellie has ripped her bed up.

Ellie came down to the lounge all puffing and panting, and dad wondered what is that stuff all over her back?
So he went up to the bedroom, Ellie had been asleep on the big bed for a while. And this is what he found.
Of course Ellie and I followed him and then romped around in the mess playing a good game of bitey face.
See it looks just liked snow - well except it was all different colours.
Mum wasn't very pleased because she says it is a bitch to clean up the mess.

Look at me sitting amongst Ellie's mayhem, like the good little Aireboy that I am, ha ha

The other exciting event to take place at our house is.........silly old Miss Ellie has FINALLY discovered the joys of sleeping on the couch.

Well it's about time silly old girl!

I have enjoyed the big blue couch since I was a wee puppy. There is nothing better than lounging around on the couch with my head resting on either mum or dad's lap.

And of course they just love it, and say, "oh you are such a good boy Bazzy"

Man do I lap it up - I rather like a bit of attention!

So this has become our new nightly habit - dinner, then a little nap on the big blue couch, then we start getting a bit restless because we know it is then time for our walkies.

Of course now the pinkies give old cranky pants Ellie lots of attention too. She doesn't lap it up like I do, but she is learning that it is nice to be up with the whole pack.

I even caught her resting her head on a cushion - just like I do!

Talk about making yourself comfy!

Life is good for us Airedales!

Bazzy XX

p.s: mum has been checking in on Brooke, just to make sure they are doing ok.

We are very sad for Charlie, but he is playing with Harley girl now.

Mum gave him a big kiss goodbye from all of us.

Shine on Charlie - The Big Dog.

Bikkies

2009-08-01T13:40:00.008+08:00

Hey everyone,

Guess what ????

We got a very very special delivery from the Postman,

addressed especially to US!

Not to the pinkies like most mail, but to US - me and Ellie!

How positively PAWESOME is that I ask?

See, here is the box.

Mum put the special Aire delivery on the floor so that I could check it right out and see that it was addressed to us Airedale's of the house.

Big sissie Ellie and I had a good look and a very good sniff.

Something about this special box smelt verrrrrrrrrry nice indeed!

Then mum took it off us and opened it....and look what was in there!

Bikkies, and not just any bikkies either, AIREDALE bikkies.

Whoa how brilliant do they look?

They were packaged up in nice little baggies, with Airedale lables telling us all about how good these special bikkies are. No need to tell us how good they are, we can see they are Brilliant!

And guess who made them??????

Our good Dale friends Inky and Molly's pinkie!

Woooooo hooooooo, she ROCKS.

Check out the lable, it says "Inky and Molly's Survival Pack".

Now isn't that just what every Airedale needs?

I mean what else could compare to our very own Survival Pack?

And take a look at these beautiful bikkies - they are shaped like Dales too. Almost too good to eat! (well I did say almost ha ha)

There are even special pusskie shaped bikkies, and for those of us Dales that just loooooovvvvveeee to chase pusskies, these are a real treat!

So here are the contents of one bag of bikkies....see how many there are? That will be a very special snack indeed.

So eventually after our silly pinkie finished taking photos of these wonderful bikkies, we actually got to try them and whoa are they yummy.

Fully organic and made with the most delicious ingredients Inky and Molly's pinkie could find.

Old Miss Ellie didn't even leave any crumbs for me!

Now look at that smile of true happiness on my gorgeous face (well I get told I am gorgeous so often that it just has to be true!)

So we just want to say a very special thank you to Elfie, Inky and Molly's pinkie for her wonderful efforts.

The Airedale bikkies were home baked and sold to raise funds for Airedale Rescue in Australia, with all proceeds going to the Airedale Terrier Club of Victoria.

Well done Inky, Molly and pinkies and to everyone that helped out.

We believe that hundreds of dollars $$$$$ have been raised already.

Great job!

So I can go to sleep tonight dreaming of more of these delicious treats that hopefully mum will let Ellie and I have more of tomorrow!

Cheers everyone

Love Baz.

Big day out in the Bush

2009-07-12T18:01:00.006+08:00

Hey blogging buddies, it's sure been a while since we updated our blog. We have had a word to our mum and told her to lift her game.

We had an AWESOME day today.

Today was the Bush Picnic for the Airedale Terrier Club of Victoria. Our mum is on the committee now and so we get to go to all the events.

Today we packed up the car and headed out to Old Iron Park in St Andrews.

You might remember the really terrible bush fires that we had here way back in February, well Old Iron Park burnt to the ground and the Sorraghan family only just made it out alive with their 11 Airedales and a litter of Dale pups.

But we all headed over to their place today to see the smazing landscape of burnt out bush that is slowly starting to regenerate.

Ron and Anne are living in a converted shed while the big clean was taking place and now they can start to rebuild.

This is me - Bazzy - checking out the bush tracks on the property.

Here are some of our Dales friends trying to score a bit of sausage from the bbq lunch.

Look at this pretty little Airegirl.....awwwwww she was a sweetie!

And here is Old Miss Ellie saying hello to some of the Old Iron Dales that were in their Dale pen.

We were all running around off lead, and we were very well behaved (of course we are Airedales after all). We all said hello to each other with the traditional greeting "here let me sniff your butt!"

This is Old Iron's little Airepup - cute or what!

We took a bit of a run down the drive, it was a great game of chasey, that's my cute butt at the end there!

This is the Old Iron Airedale at the gate to the property - awesome huh?

Here are some of us, just hanging around the pinkies hoping for a bit of bbq.

I was a happy Aireboy, that's for sure.

And Old Miss Ellie too, she had the time of her life. Mum was concerned about how she would go, she had had another seizure just last month, not as bad as the one last December, but mum thought it might be too big a day for her - but she went really well.

She just trotted around at her own pace, said hello to everyone, then just wandered around checking the place out. She was pretty happy.

Notice she has her Planet Airedale bandanna on? Snazzy sissy - snazzy. I had one too (Harley's old one) but I managed to get it off before we were even out of the car!

So we were two very tired Dales by the end of the afternoon, and slept nearly the whole way home - but gee we had a blast!

Thanks to Ron and Anne for letting us run amok at their place.

Thanks to all the other Airedales that played with us and ran with us.

Thanks to all the pinkies for making it all happen!

Special Airedale Days Out rock!

See ya real soon

BAZZY xxx

My Grand daddy Zorba

2009-04-25T19:04:00.003+08:00

Hey everyone guess what?

My grand-daddy won Best of Breed at the

Sydney Royal Easter Show.

How SUPER COOL is that ?????

Here he is....Aust CH York Park Zorba Zopoulos.

Can you see where I get my handsomeness from???

And for those of you who remember our Angel Harley, Zorba is her son.

How SUPER COOL !!!!!

Well done to Di & David Barclay, and Zorba!

Sending ya lots of Dale love

BAZZY

ATCV Beach day reminder

2009-04-17T18:54:00.001+08:00

Hey everyone!

Mum says we have to remind you that the Airedale Terrier Club of Victoria Beach Day is THIS Sunday, April 19th.

Keast Park, Carrum, Melbourne, from 11am.

Hope to see lots of you there!

Miss Ellie and Baz Boy

Calling all Victorian doggies

2009-04-16T17:57:00.004+08:00

Hey everyone

We have a special message for all doggies that live in Victoria Australia!
The Airedale Terrier Club of Victoria is doing a fundraiser, in conjunction with Wendy Mitchell Photography to raise funds for our Dog Club.
At the upcoming Championship & Open Shows at KCC Park, Westernport Hwy, Skye on Saturday June 6th, Wendy will have a studio set up to take professional photos of your doggies.
Wendy has donated her time and 20% from her profits on the day, as well as a gift certificate for an 8 x 12" photo for the ATCV to raffle.
This is open to all doggies, not just us handsome Daleys!

So if you are going to be at the Championship Show, or you know anyone that is, and they would like to get a photo session with Wendy....you have to book!

Each session will last 15 - 20 mins, all photos will be able to be viewed on computer and a disc of photos purchased will be given to each customer that places an order.

C'mon lets all get nice piccies taken!

We will be there, as well as all those other show dales too.

If anyone is interested please contact our mum by email:
jtemeny@virginbroadband.com.au
and she will organise to book a session for you.

It's for a great cause....The Airedale Terrier Club of Victoria! YAY!

Miss Ellie and Bazzy

Goodo Friday and Easter Sunday - Dale style!

2009-04-12T11:13:00.009+08:00

Hey there everyone

We have had the best Easter break with our pinkies.

On friday mum took me around to our friend Jane's house.

Jane has 2 Airedales - Mr Periwinkle and Sam (they have featured in our posts before, so you may remember them)

Anyway when mum and I got there I went into Dale overdrive, as there were lots of other Dales there too! It was positively PAWESOME!

All up there were 8 Airedales, 2 Pugs and 1 Westie.....yeah yeah I know they are not Dales, but they were still good fun! And we are not snobs ha ha.

Jane dressed Mr P up in a silly Bumble Bee outfit. He thought he looked rather cute, so did all the pinkies. Lucky for mum she doesn't put silly things like that on me!

The pinkies all sat around having afternoon tea (there were even special treats for us for legged guests as well) then we all went for a walk to the big park at the end of Jane's street.

We had a great time.

Then this morning mum and dad packed me and sissy intothe car and drove us off to the beach!

YAY YAY YAY.....Bazzy LOVES the beach!

Miss Ellie and I got to run and play and sniff washed up jelly fish, I even found a dead fish floating in the shallow water - daddy yelled "No Baz, Leave it" so I did....cause I really am a good boy!

There were lots of other doggies at the beach today too, it was lotsa fun.

Now we are both having a little afternoon siesta out on the back deck. Enjoying a sunny lazy Sunday afternoon.....while the pinkies get fat eating all those chocolate eggy things that they won't share with us.

What is all this "chocolate's not good for dogs" nonsense?

Bazzy wants some!

Hope you all had a lovely Easter everyone!

Mr B

Bazzy and the Giant Shredder

2009-03-22T17:05:00.006+09:00

Hey hey everyone it is the Bazzy man here. Don't you go listening to old Miss Ellie's complaints about me.

I am tryin' real hard to be a good Aireboy, but she never wants to play and I wanna play ALL the time!
Mum says I am getting better out on walkies, even though I almost knocked her off her feet last week. I didn't mean to, it just kinda happened!

We were pretty busy this weekend.

Daddy's dad Bill is in hospital.

They took out a big tumour and one of his kidney's. The tumour was a cancer, but the doctor says they got it all and he has a 95% chance of it not coming back - so we are all mighty happy about that. He might even be allowed to go home tomorrow.

We all went for a big car ride over to the granpoeple's place. When we got to their house, the stupid poodles Harry and Eddie were out in the garden yapping at the gate.

Miss Ellie and I were ready to GO! But cranky nanna scooped up the precious poodles and took them inside before we were allowed to get out of the car.

Miss Ellie and I zoomed all over the garden, running and sniffing all over the place.

The precious poodles were allowed out later but only into their penned off section of the back garden.

They aren't allowed to play with us - because cranky nanna is scared we will hurt them lol. As if we would!

Daddy picked up this huge big machine thing and put it in the trailer on the back of the car. it followed us all the way home.

When we got home dad put it into the garden shed, but not before i gave it a good sniffing all over.

Then today it came out. Daddy set it up under the gum trees down the back of our garden and started it up. I was a bit unsure at the beginning, but I watched mum and she wasn't scared so I was ok then.

Dad had cut down one of our trees and mum was shoving bits of tree into the giant machine shredder thing. it was noisy and all this green stuff started comin' out the bottom. So I thought I had better check that right out.

Here are the photos of me helping dad with the shredder!

Dad says I am a good helper - yay

See ya everyone - Mr BazzyNator

Bad boy Bazzy - the Dale from Hell

2009-03-11T19:20:00.003+09:00

Mum and I think Bazzy is heading the right way for "you're going back to the breeder".
He is sooooo naughty lately.
Daddy says Bazzy has A.D.D. as he constantly craves attention and is doing whatever he can to get it.
You should see how jealous he gets if mum or dad give me a cuddle - he is straight over trying to push me outta the way!
He won't let me play with any toys either.

So mum is plotting to "fix his little red wagon!"
Bazzy is back in training. Back on the correction chain when out on walkies, back to being put into "sit and STAY!" when mum says so.
On walkies lately Bazzy has been going balisitic whenever we see another dog. He almost pulls mum over! He sure is a big strong boy.
So now he is back on the chain on a short lead, mum makes him sit and stay, or drop and stay whenever someone with or without a dog walks towards us.
He also has to walk at "heel' whenever we walk past a house that has a dog.

It didn't help that mum and dad went away on a little holiday and Bazzy was running riot!
Poor Elizabeth just cannot control Bad Boy Bazzy at all!

To Bazzy the world is one giant game and he just wants to PLAY!

Ha ha not anymore Mr B.....

Maybe now I will get some peace?

Miss Ellie.

Farewell to Klaus

2009-03-03T05:06:00.002+09:00

We are saddened by the news of Klaus's passing.

We are sending our love to Lulu, Bogart and the kitties.

Sleep well Klaus and know that Bogie will look after his mamma.

There is a new star in the night sky.

Jo, Tim, Miss Ellie and Bazzy

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Bushfires

2009-02-26T18:25:00.006+09:00

This photo was taken on "Black Saturday" Feb 7th 2009.

It was taken from a large shopping centre rooftop carpark in Doncaster in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

You are looking towrds Kinglake, which is approxiamatley 40kms from where the photo was taken. The firefront was about 45kms wide at this point.

Today is the 26th of Feb 2009 and this fire is still burning. It has spread north now and is threatening the area around Lake Eildon.

This is where our family goes for holidays. Tim's parent have property up there and we store our ski boat, jet ski's and fishing boat in a shed up next to the lake.

From today all access to Eildon will be closed, as the conditions tomorrow will be terrible. Hot strong winds and temps of 38 - 40c expected.

There are still 6 major fires still burning, with the firefront on this fire now more than 100kms wide.

There are 5500 firefighters trying to work towards getting these fires under control.

These firefighters ar exhausted after working long shifts for days on end.

Heaven only knows when this will end.

God bless the CFA and everyone else helping them fight these fires.

Jo, Miss Ellie and Baz

Sending our love to Bogart

2009-02-21T08:41:00.004+09:00

What a sad time Bogie and his mama Lulu are having.
We are sending every single bit of our magical AIREZEN to Klaus - Bogie's daddy.

We are hoping and praying for a miricle right along with Bogie and his mama.

May modern medicine, Bogie's kisses and Lulu's love help Klaus get through this illness.

Although we live on the the other side of the world, they are our friends, and we share their pain.

We are keeping a vigil, and waiting for something good to happen.

Sending lots of love and all our healing AIREZEN..............watch out its comin'.......

Miss Ellie and The Bazzynator

State of Emergency

2009-02-10T18:09:00.004+09:00

Hi everyone, it's Jo here and sorry to Ellie and Bazzy baby, but I am hijacking your blog.

As most of you know we here in Victoria are currently experiencing the worst bushfires in Australia's histroy at the moment.

The heatwave of last week, where we had days and days of temps over 45c and the continuing drought have both contributed to the whole state of Victoria being so dry that it was inevitable that we were in for a bad bushfire season this summer.

February is the worst time for us, as the heat of summer is at it's hottest, and we have already had 2 months of summer sun, just enough to dry everything out even more.

The tragedy is not over, the fires are still raging and although we have had a cool change in the weather this week, the forecast is for it to get hot again by Friday and once again to have winds blowing from the north - this means hot desert winds.

The areas hit the worst are just out of Melbourne in the surrounding hills of the Yarra Valley and at the end of the Dandenong Ranges flowing into Gippsland.

These are beautiful bush areas that in parts have quite a lot of small towns, so there are a lot of people living amongst the bush.
And of course these areas are home to many many native animals.

The concern is that the fires of the Kinglake/Healesville area will join up with the fires of the Gippsland area - this would be terrible.
The fires are both already huge and burning out of control. There is no way of putting them out, just trying to put in firebreaks to control where they head.

We have more than 3000 volunteer firefighters in there, we have also had teams of firefighters come in from New Zealand, Tasmania, Canberra and South Australia to help. The army are also now helping out and doing what ever needs to be done to save the towns under the most threat.

It has been declared a National Disaster, and it is not over yet.

Please say a prayer for the families of the 173 confirmed dead, the 1000 that have already lost their homes and for the poor people doing everything they can to save lives and homes at threat.

There have been amazing stories of survival - including my husband Tim's cousin, who with her husband and daughter hid in a steel shed on their 10 acre property in Kinglake and huddled under wet blankets while the fire raged straight through their property destroying everything except the shed. We thank god they survived. They have said it happened so fast there was no time to get out.

We are safe and have not been in any threat of danger.
I am hoping & praying that the friends I have in high risk areas will remain safe.

As I said the fires are still a high danger to a lot of towns, the weather conditions are not going to help.

Please pray for those at risk. It is truly horrendous.

Anyone wanting to help can donate to the Red Cross - they have set up a Bushfire Appeal.

Sorry to hijack the Dales blog - they said it would be ok, but just this once :)

Jo

we're back in action

2009-01-27T17:34:00.005+09:00

Hi ya everyone, we're back....mum was a bit slack about letting us blog, but we are back in action now!
We had a really nice Christmas, I got a nice yellow duck with a squeaker in it (thanks G&B) and Ellie got a big pink octopus, but of course I stole it off her and she let me have it!

Ellie doesn't really play with toys much anymore, she spends alot of time just lazing about.
Every now and then she gives me a good game of bitey face and she will play shake 'n kill with a toy, but mostly I steal them all off her, so she doesn't bother.
Mum says I am a bully and that I should share - uh-uh, I don't think so mum.

Our mum got all adeventurous too and baked us some speacial doggy biscuits.She got a doggy cookbook for Christmas more than 2 years ago and has never ever used it - well she finally dragged it out and gave us a treat. Now our mum doesn't really like cooking all that much, so it was really nice of her to bake jsut for US!
Daddy says here is the evidence that mum does indeed know where the kitchen is in our house.

Ellie had a nice munch on hers, while I wolfed mine down real quick and went inside looking for more.

They were herb and garlic flavoured low fat dog biscuits, because mum has put me on a diet - geeeeeez, that is so not fair, mum knows I just LOVE food.

We had a big fright on New Years Eve with the kids from next door letting off fireworks right outside our house. Mum was over at the neighbours place but she came home to check on us and we were both very very scared. So she went and spoke to the people next door and they stopped all the awful noises.

Too late, we were already terrified, so mum stayed home with us and tried to keep us both calm.

It's summer here now and it is starting to get really hot. Mum has given us both hairecuts recently, so that we can cope better with the heat. Poor old miss Ellie struggles with the really hot days now.

Mum has been leaving us inside with the air con on whilst she goes off to the office all day.

Better go, I think she's coming and I am not supposed to be in the study on my own (I still chew things)

See ya ...............Bazzy

Baz's Big Adventure to the Blue Mountains

2008-12-24T13:27:00.012+09:00

Hey everyone, we're back and we had a blast visiting the Leura Dales!

Mum took lots of photos, so here is the pictorial story of

'Bazzy's BIG Adventure!'

We started off nice and early for a bit of a drive.....984kms from our house to Broomelea in Leura.
Geez that sounds like a lot of kms, so here I am asking daddy if he is sure he knows the way.

We roared down the highway in mum's Subaru turbo.........through the wonderful Australian bush.

There were some big yellow signs saying look out for Koala's but I looked and looked and never saw any!

We had to stop quite a few times, it was my first ever roadtrip so mum wasn't sure how long I could go without peeing. We stopped at a town called Gundagai (pronounced Gun-da-guy).

It has a very famous statue of a dog sitting on a tuckerbox (what they used before they had fridges). We stopped to have a look at it too.

Here's a nice photo mum and Ellie.

Ellie hurt her back leggie in Gundagai while she was jumping over a big log. So she was a bit limpy on our holiday, but she is ok now.

Then finally after 11 hours and 30 minutes we saw the big sign that says Welcome to Leura! .........................Yay!

.................................We're in Leura!

Here are mum and I at the Leura Dales place, outside the old Coach House that has been converted into a guest cottage. It's very pretty. We all got to sleep in there. I even slept on the big bed with the pinkies...ssshhhh don't tell Denise!

Look at me prancing around the huge gardens. The Leura dales and I got along famously (after a little getting to know you sniff and a couple of growls, but nothing serious)
Bryan was playing with us out in the garden. We all had a great time playing chasey round and round the garden.
Old Miss Ellie was checking out the big garden too. She didn't play chasey, and of course she has met all the Leura dales before, so they were ok with her from the start - no one growled at old Miss Ellie.

Look at Noah and I playing hidey in the garden bed. Noah dug out the biggest hole to lie in....geez if I had dug a hole like that at home mum would have said BAD BAZZY!

And this is what Noah looked like after all his digging.....geez Noah did you use your nose as a shovel??? Look at all that mud!

All the pinkies laughed at him.

Look who we got to meet...Colin Harries.

He came over for a visit with his mum, and we all played chasey - except Colin is way too fast for us!

The next morning we all went to a big lake in Wentworth Falls. Here I am looking like a pretty boy. Mum calls me her handsome boy.

We all went for a big walkies around the lake together - here I am with my sissy Ellie. Notice I am in front ha ha.

Those crazy Leura dales all went into the water. I watched them very closely and then decided hmmm maybe I can get my feet wet too, so I gave it a go. I splashed around and walked funny and daddy laughed at me.

And then I saw them....ducks.

Lots of them.

Ducks, on the water, but just out of my reach.

Too bad I was on my flexi lead, otherwise I reckon I could have got that ducky!

We walked around the lake some more and then the Leura dales all went in the water again.

So daddy coaxed me in too. He even got in with me.

I decided I liked it - I was closer to those ducks, and daddy took the lead off me, so I was FREE!

Look at me mum - I had to turn around and check that mum was watching me- see I am in the water with the Leura Dales!

I went out deeper and deeper until suddenly I couldn't reach the bottom with my paws - so I madly started paddling.

And Bazzy learnt to swim. Woooo hoooo.

Mum was SO excited. She was saying "go Bazzy go!" "Good boy Bazzy".

Wooo hooo Bazzy was having a great time!

Then we went back to the Leura Dales place and had a rest in the back garden after another big play session of chasey.

Denise came out with some treats and said "what do good dales get?" So of course I joined in too.

I always know to sit for treats. Leura Dales know this too.

It was a big 2 days of running and playing and by the second night I was conked out on the couch with my daddy. Gee I was a tired boy!

Then before we knew it we were back in the car for the long drive home.

The magic Tom Tom said we were halfway home, but still 489kms to go........sigh

So I did what any smart Dale would do and slept almost the whole way home. Mum had to wake me up each time we stopped.

Eventually we saw it.....the big "Welcome to Melbourne" sign.

Y'know it really should say 'Welcome BACK to Melbourne' ha ha.

It meant we were almost home......just another 1 1/2 hours to go.

Just when we had had enough of the car and I was starting to whine (well it was a LONG trip) there was the sign we had all been waiting for....the turn off for home.

Yay, yippee, we're home. Look at me so eager to get out of the car and check out my back garden.

It was a wonderful adventure, my first ever holiday with the pinkies and Ellie.

We drove almost 2000kms and I was a good boy the whole time (just ask mum- she said I was on my BEST behaviour wooo hoooo)

I can't wait till our next road trip.

Love ya all - Bazzy xxx

Our holiday roadtrip

2008-12-19T13:40:00.001+09:00

Wooo hooo......only one more sleep to go until our big adventure holiday roadtrip to Leura.

We can't wait.

Bazzy and Miss Ellie

Bazzy and the Tube

2008-12-14T12:25:00.007+09:00

Mum got this fantastic tube thingy in the mail this week. It had a lovely drawing inside from Linda at Planet Airedale. She had drawn a big montage of lots of the Airedale members. Harley and Ellie are in it.

Mum is going to get it framed and hang it on the wall.

Best of all though, I managed to steal the empty post tube and ran off to have a good chew on it.

Watch me in action!

Bazzy

Remembering Sweet Harley

2008-12-12T19:06:00.004+09:00

It is one year today that our sweet Harley crossed the rainbow bridge.

Her star is shining up in that great big sky.

We miss you sweetheart.

Santa Paws came to town

2008-12-11T17:09:00.005+09:00

Hey look who we went to visit!

Mum and dad took us for a drive down to the RSPCA to meet SANTA.........wooooohoooooooooo

We had a great time. Bazzy sniffed him all over (stuck his big furry nose straight down his crotch actually lol)

I climbed up onto the chair and had a good sniff of his big furry white beard. Last time I saw Santa I tried to play bitey face with him, but I got told off by my mum! Oooooops.

Bazzy is on the left (mum says doesn't he look just like Harley?) and of course I am on the right. Santa had to hang onto my collar because I kept getting up to go to my daddy!

I haven't been very well lately, I had a seizure a few weeks ago and mum and dad had to rush me to the emergency animal hospital in the middle of the night. It scared the crap outta all of us. I couldn't stand up and my eyes were rolling around in my head, even after the seizure stopped.

The nice lady Vet gave me valium to try and calm me down (I think they should have given some to mum too).

They kept me in the hospital overnight and stuck some great big needles in my leggies.

They found a great big lump (2cm wide) inside down near my bottom. They stuck a big needle into it to take a biopsy sample to send away for testing. They also took lots of my blood to send away for testing too.

They told mum and dad that it was a 50/50 chance the lump might be cancer.

BUT IT'S NOT !

Yay... all the test results are back and I am ok. It took 2 weeks for all the results to come back, and both mum and dad have been worried sick about me.....but it is all good now.

They still do not know what caused the seizure, but I haven't had anymore. But they did find that the calcium levels in my blood are too high.

So I go off to see Dr Steve our vet this Saturday for more blood tests and another Cartrophen injection.

I was a little bit distressed after the whole thing and spent a couple of days sleeping and not doing much else.

Then after about a week, I started to feel much better and now I am back to normal, wrestling with Bazzy and playing.

AND....yesterday was my 9th Barkday!

I got a nice new bed, and a special dinner and mum made Bazzy behave and leave me alone all night.

AND....because I am feeling better now, and so long as Dr Steve says ok, we are still all driving up to Leura next week to visit the Leura Dales before Christmas. Woooohoooooooooo.

Miss Ellie

2008-11-23T15:18:00.006+09:00

Hi everyone

We've been a bit quiet lately.

A few things have happened though. Some good some not so good.

The good stuff first:

Mummy and daddy both started new jobs, and daddy got a new car.

Miss Ellie got to have the very first ride in it too.

Not so good:

Poor old Miss Ellie had a seizure last Monday night. Mum and dad rushed her to the 24 hour animal hospital, which luckily for us is only about 10 minutes away from home.
She was so frightened that mum rode in the back holding on to her, as she couldn't stand up but kept trying to.

The lady vet that they saw was very nice according to mum.

They gave Miss Ellie valium to try and calm her down and then they did lots and lots of tests to see what was wrong with my big sissy, but they ended up keeping her in the hospital overnight to do more tests and to put her on a drip.

While they were looking at her they found a big lump inside near sissy's bottom.

The vet lady didn't like the look of it either so they did a biopsy of it.

The biospy test came back clear, but we are all waiting for the results of the blood tests to find out what 1: caused the seizure and 2: is the lump cancerous?

Old Miss Ellie is back home now, but she is very quiet and mum and dad wouldn't let me play with her for a few days.

Even now she never really wants to play - she just sleeps all the time.

But she is eating well and sleeping well and there have been no more seizures, so we are all happy about that.

We just have to wait for the test results to see what happens next.

Mum has been home with us cause she not been well either, so she took some photos of us. We haven't had any for a long time. Here is a nice shot of me waiting for Miss Ellie to come home from the hospital.

Here we are both of us just resting - no wrestling allowed now.

More of me - aren't I just too cute?

We will keep you all posted on Miss Ellie's progress.

See ya....Bazzy.

Dales in the Garden

2008-11-03T08:36:00.007+09:00

Hello everyone, it has been ages since we have been able to update our bloggie.

We haven't been up to much really, just the normal stuff of eating, sleeping, wrestling, going for walkies, you know how it is.

I (Miss Ellie) have been getting these great big Cartrophen injections each week for my arthritis.

They seem to have made a huge difference and I now like to play and run again like I used too. I still get a little bit of stiffness, but not much.

I went and had my yearly check up with the vet man, except it wasn't Steve my usual vet man...it was a lady vet named Leanne. She was really nice and very gentle with me, so I liked her alot. Plus she kept feeding me lots and lots of dried liver treats, so I really really liked her!

She says I am in great shape for an almost 9 year old Airegirl.

She checked my heart and my temperature (how rude) and my teethies and said it was all good.

She told mum I have very good teethies for a dale my age.Yay. Must be all those yummy bones mum gives us to chomp on.

It has started to warm up again now. We have had a few hot days already.

I have gone back to hiding in my secret place under the bushes down the back of the garden.

Only problem is that now Bazzy follows me so I get no peace at all.

Bazzy has been his normal bratty self. He is way bigger than me now, but I still show him who is boss.

He thinks it is him, but I just let him think that. He can have all the toys, push past to go out the door first, whatever.

But I still pin him to the floor by the throat whenever he gets outta line!

I get my food first and he has to wait. Mum makes him sit and wait while I eat, otherwise he would scoff all his food really fast then come over and push me out of my bowl and eat all my food too.

Fat little piggie boy. Here he is eating his chicken in the garden this morning.

Here I am eating my chicken. I like to keep my food clean, not roll it around in the grass.

Notice my new kennel? It was supposed to be for Bazzy, but the big baby was too scared of it.

Ha ha he won't go in it!

So now it is MINE! Daddy took my old Dale House away and now I get to have afternoon naps in peace in my new Dale House, because big sookie boy Bazzy leaves me alone now..... he is scared of the kennel. How funny is that!

We have both been helping daddy out in the garden. He has been busy building a new verandah along the back of the house.

It will keep the summer sun off all the big windows, so hopefully the house won't get so hot now.

It looks good - here is a photo mum took.

It isn't finished yet, but will be soon. Dad says mum doesn't paint the timber fast enough lol.

So that is pretty much all that has been happening at our place.

Bazzy is still growing and has now hit 30kg. He is taller than me now too, and as you can see in the photos he is much more solid than I am.

Mum says Baz is fat, ha ha.

She calls him her "fatboy". But it is only because he still limps and can't go walkies everyday like I do.

See ya

Miss Ellie

2008-10-23T17:13:00.006+08:00

Wow I had a great time visiting my nanna and Sam last Sunday.

Mum finally decided I was big enough and well behaved (ha ha) enough to be trusted to take on a visit to nanna's house.

Ellie has been many many times, but I have NEVER been before.

Old nanna is pretty frail after her heart operation in April, so mum kept me away from her.

But I finally got to go.....AND I was on my very best Bazzy behaviour too.

I climbed up onto the couch with them and smooched my way into their hearts......they LOVED me. True they did!

Ellie had a good time too, she just made herself right at home and I followed her all around the big back garden because she knew where all the best smells were.

Nanna's dog Dunstall wasn't there, Sam had taken him out for the afternoon, as he isn't very friendly.

And nanna's cat Ruby was tucked away safe and sound asleep on nanna's bed, and mum made sure the door was kept firmly closed.

I did manage to sneak in there just once, but I sure didn't see Ruby....I did stand on a lumpy thing on the bed that was under a blanket - I wonder if that was the cat? Mum shooed me out of the room pretty fast.

love Bazzy

2008-10-15T17:22:00.003+08:00

Well hello to everyone,
the saga of my bent tail continues. My pinkies decided to just leave it alone and see what happened.
Well not much has happened really.
They thought that it was starting to straighten out just a bit, but now it is still just as bent as it was.
Mum says she is gonna leave it as it is. Bazzy says YAY cause that means no vet man is gonna cut my tail off. Woo hooooo.

Now for some good news.....the pinkies and Ellie and I are going on a road trip......all the way to Leura....yippeeeeeeee.
We are gonna stay with Noah and Willow and Tess and Lucy....and of course D & B too.
Mum says it will be a test to see how well I behave, but I will be a big 1 year old by the time we go, as we are not going until just before Christmas.
But Bazzy is excited about going on holidays, as it will be my first time ever!
Now I have to count down the sleeps until we leave......only 66 sleeps to go.
Geez that seems like a long long time.

Ellie says hi to everyone too. She is feeling a bit better now that she is having the Cartrophen injections, not so stiff in the hip quite so much when she gets up. She has one more injection to go.

We went for big walkies tonight, and we are both happy dales now.
I am not limping much at the moment, so I have been on 3 walkies already this week.

Woo hoo life is good.

Bazzy.

Bazzy's bent tail

2008-09-30T18:03:00.003+08:00

Uh-oh.....I don't know how I did it, but my tail got all bent.

Mum and dad both had a poke around at it and moved it and stuff. It doesn't hurt me at all.

It just looks funny sticking out at 90 degrees. Mum thought it might be broken, but we went off to the vet and vet man says I have dislocated the joint at the tip of my Dale tail.

So now mum has to decide what we are gonna do about it. Bazzy says he don't care, cause it don't hurt.

Vet man says we can leave it alone (it may go back all on it own) or it may just stay bent forever.

The other option is to dock Bazzy's tail - oh noooooo, they gonna cut my tail off.

Mum says tail docking is illegal here in Australia, which is why Bazzy has a full tail.

But a vet will dock a tail for medical reasons. Looks like Bazzy has got good medical reasons.

Mum is gonna talk to daddy, see what he thinks........stay tuned.

Bazzy

Bazzy's Hairecut & sleeping on D's bed.

2008-09-25T07:07:00.004+08:00

While D was visiting us, mum gave Baz a hAirecut, so she could show D how easy it is to clip us Dales.

Bazzy was not too happy about it, it was only his 2nd hairecut and he wasn't happy about having his head done, but here he is looking all nicely groomed and Daleish. And as we said in our last post, we missed D as soon as she left, so that night Bazzy and I went and had a nice nap together on the bed in the guest room.
We even managed to share the bed without any fighting.

I don't like Baz getting too close to me, so I give him a bit of a telling off sometimes.

We have established some 'sharing the bed rules'.

I sleep at the top near the pillows.

Bazzy has to stay down the bottom.

He is getting smarter now and keeps his distance.

So life is back to normal now, except mum is still home from work.
Both mum and dad are ill with horrid colds. Daddy came home from work at lunch time yesterday and mum hasn't been back to work all week.
Daddy says mum's cough is back and she sounds like us - barking.

Her coughing is so bad that Daddy slept in the guest room last night - just so he could get some sleep.

He gave Bazzy a big fright in the middle of the night.
Bazzy wandered down to go find dad, just as daddy had got up to go to the toilet. They met each other in the doorway and Bazzy barked at daddy then ran off with his tail between his legs cowering.
Oh my, he sure ain't no guard dale like me! lol.
He then slept on the bed with dad for a little while.
Silly Bazzy.

bye now

Miss Ellie :)

Our visitor

2008-09-24T08:18:00.007+08:00

Hey hey, we finally had our special visitor come stay with us.....guess who it was?

DENISE from Leura Dales.

Too bad the Leura Dales couldn't come too, but we were very happy to see Denise again.

Baz hadn't met Denise yet, so they had fun getting to know each other. But sooky boy Baz who was allowed to sleep on the big bed with D, wouldn't. He ran back to mum and slept on his own bed in his pen!

What a silly boy! Fancy passing up the chance to sleep on the big bed with D.

And you know what....Bazzy and I both had a sleep on D's bed after she went home.
We missed her already.

We all went on some nice walkies....here is D walking with me in our favourite park in Beaconsfield.
Stupid Bazzy found the foot off a dead kangaroo. YUK Bazzy.

Mum and D also went to visit our friend Jane and her two Dales, Sam and Mr Perriwinkle.
So D got to meet Mr P and Sam at last. They are 2 lovely Aireboys.

This is Mr Perriwinkle, he's a bit cheeky.

And this is Sam, he's just lovely

AND mum, dad and D went to visit Brooke and Greg and see Charlie and Opy.
Mum said Charlie looks really good now, way better than last time she saw him.
He even broke into a run out in his garden. Woo hoo Charlie.......there is still lots of life in that old boy!
So all the pinkies had a really nice time catching up.

D even got to see our Dale friends Spot and Cino.

Here is Bazzy saying hello to Spottie and Cino through the fence.

Bazzy and Spottie giving Dale kisses.....

So D really got a huge Dale fix while she was in Melbourne. There are LOTS of Airedale's down here. And they are all our friends too!

D, has gone back to Leura dales now, we bet they are happy she is back home.
Come again soon D, and you can bring B next time too (lol).

See I am sad now you have gone home D.....

The pinkies are hatching up plans for us to ALL go away on holidays together - that includes all of us Dales - wooo hoooooooooo.

Bye now

Miss Ellie

Guess who is coming to stay

2008-09-18T18:20:00.005+08:00

Ooooh lots of things happening in our house this week.

Mum has been cleaning the guest room, getting it ready for our special visitor....we're not allowed in the guest room now, because we jump all over the bed and mum is trying to keep it clean.

Our visitor is coming to stay with us this weekend and we can't wait to see her again.

Bazzy hasn't met her yet - but he will soon

I think our visitor is planning to let Bazzy sleep on the big bed with her while she is here. He doesn't know that yet though.

Baz has grown heaps just recently and is now BIGGER than me.

He is 28.3kg at 9 months. No wonder the fat little muppet man is having growing pains!

And I am a BIG Airegirl, being 25.2kg with long leggies.

Bazzy is just a big BOOFA. Mum is scared he will keep growing and be a giant!

And the evidence below is what Boofa Boy Bazzy did to MY Dale house.

(mum finally got blogger working properly again and can upload piccies - yay)

Ruined it is what he did. But mum cleaned it all up and put my bed back inside and I still sleep in there during the afternoon while mum and dad are at work.

So hurry up weekend, so our special visitor arrives, we are gonna jump ALL OVER her.

ha ha and Bazzy will give her little Bazzy kisses - slobbery messy Bazzy kisses - YUK.

We'd like to thank Noah and the girlie Dales from Leura for our award - thanks maties......

We'd like to pass this award on to: All the doggies in bloggeer land.

Miss Ellie

The Dale House

2008-09-08T19:02:00.000+08:00

Stupid Bazzy is eating my Dale house.
I am so upset. I LOVE my Dale House. My daddy built it just for me when I was just a wee baby Dale way back in the year 2000 when the pinkies first got me.

Now Bazzy is ruining it. Stupid Bazzy. He is eating it....chomping away at the opening trying to make it bigger so that he can squeeze his big fat butt in there with me.
Go away Bazzy! I don't want you in MY Dale House - it is MINE.

He doesn't get it when I growl at him when he tries to get in the Dale House and I am already in there.
Bazzy - Newsflash - there isn't enough room for two of us - and I was there first.

Now stop trying to eat my House.

Catching Up

2008-09-07T18:12:00.002+08:00

Well it has been a little while since our last update - only because mum hasn't been very well since she came back from that USA place.
Daddy says when mum coughs it sounds like she is barking like a Dale! ha ha.
Poor mum. She is sick in her lungs again.

We spent a couple of days just trying to keep dry because it hasn't stopped freakin' raining.....although today was good.
Bazzy spent all day outside in the back garden with the pinkies. They did some gardening - all under Bazzy's supervision of course.
I spent most of the day inside my kennel, enjoying the peace of not having Bazzy constantly harrassing me. Gee it was nice to get some peace.

We haven't been able to get much PC time either....mum has joined stupid Facebook and hogs the office ALL the bloody time - get out mum so I can BLOG!

It's not like it is all about her - we ALL know it is all about us DOGS!

Ha ha

Hope everyone had a nice weekend.

Miss Ellie

Goodbye to our friend Charley

2008-08-28T16:25:00.005+08:00

We are all very very sad here today:

Our special Airedale friend Charley crossed the Rainbow Bridge late yesterday.

Our hearts go out to Jane, we know the pain she is feeling.

Charley lived a good life, starting out in Canada and he then moved to Australia with his human dad Peter. Sadly Peter passed away about 2 years ago and Charley and his Dale brother Sam moved in to Jane and Mr Periwinkle's home, as they were bestest friends already.

We know Jane and Mr P and Sam will miss Charley so very much.

There is a new star in the night sky - Shine on darling Charley.

Our hearts are heavy and our tears are falling.

Jo, Miss Ellie and Bazzy.

They are home

2008-08-28T07:46:00.000+08:00

Woo hoooooo, they are finally home.
Bazzy and I were so so happy to see them.
We jumped all over them - yes even me, Miss Ellie jumped for joy all over my mummy and daddy.
Then we followed them all over the house, every room they went in, we followed.
Now they are home we are not letting them out of our sight - just in case!
We got mega cuddles from mum, I think she must have really missed us.
Poor mum was really tired after such a long flight home from that USA place. She swears she is never ever doing a long flight like that again.
Mum, Bazzy and I all had a real nice sleepies together on the big bed in the afternoon.
Daddy slept too, but in his special daddy recliner chair in front of the big telly.
So life is all good now - our pinkies are home, we are happy and so far mum has not heard any bad stories from Elizabeth.
Although Elizabeth did dob on Bazzy.
Silly little muppett man ate one of daddy's slip on shoes. Chomped it to bits in fact.
Elizabeth left the remenants of the mangled shoe in a plastic bag for daddy. She is such a dobber LOL.

No doubt mum will ring her today to get all the info on what we got up to.
Lucky I was a good girl ey?

Miss Ellie.

The Suitcase

2008-08-10T10:59:00.004+08:00

Uh oh, the suitcase is back.
It hasn't been around for a while now, but all of a sudden it came back yesterday.
Mum had it on the bed and was happily putting clothes in there (stupid Bazzy just lay on the bed and watched her - he could have helped by taking everything out!)
Silly Bazzy doesn't know what the suitcase means.
But I DO.

It means the pinkies are leaving us. They haven't left us for ages and now they are. And it usually means we are not going with them.

Elizabeth is coming on Friday, she is looking after us while the pinkies go off on their big holiday to the USA.
I guess it will be ok, Elizabeth lets us get away with lots of stuff that mum tells us NO for.

Bazzy has never had the experience of the pinkies being gone for more than one night, so I bet the little monster cries up a storm once he realises his mum is gone for two whole weeks.
Geez he can still be a cry baby.
I will be ok. I know they always come back.

We will have to hatch up a plan to make them feel guilty for leaving us..........yes we will do that!

So we may not be able to post for a while.
Somehow I don't think Elizabeth will turn the laptop on for us like mum does.

Miss Ellie and Bazzy
(what does the suitcase mean big sissie??)

Walkies

2008-08-04T18:04:00.006+08:00

Woo hoo, Woo hoo, Bazzy got to go walkies.
2 times now Bazzy has been out with mum for little walkies.
1st time was with daddy and Miss Ellie too, that was a great walkies, Bazzy jumped all over the place, soooo excited to be out. And the best part of all was that all the houses had their junk out on the front lawn waiting for the council to come and take it away.
We got to sniff at everything and climb over piles of old furniture and junk. Bazzy even took some stuff and carried it off. It got a bit heavy so I dropped it, then daddy had to pick it up and put it on someone elses junk pile.
2nd walkies was just me and my mum. Bazzy likes those walkies best. Bazzy was very good boy.
A little boy that lives at the end of our street asked mum was Bazzy a Wire Fox Terrier - mum had to explain that I am indeed not, but a very special Airedale Terrior.
Little boy gave me a pat.....Bazzy likes that.

So Bazzy be a happy boy now. Still is limping sometimes, but not always. Dr Steve says mum can walk me on little walks every 3 days so long as limp doesn't get worse.
Bazzy weighed in with Dr Steve last Saturday at 25.9kg.
Dr Steve be happy with Bazzy, and gave Bazzy big cuddles, so Bazzy licked his nose.

Yay...

Bazzynator xxx

Bazzy's Hairecut

2008-07-27T16:58:00.006+08:00

Bazzy got his first real hairecut yesterday.....oh it took so long.

Here I am yesterday morning lying in the sun, chomping on a bone, before my hairecut. I was a bit woolly, wasn't I?

Mum made me stand up on the table in the garage for ages. I kept trying to lie down, but then she would make me stand up all over again.

But I must admit, it feels nice to be all clipped and handsome.

Mum now calls me her "gorgeous boy".....awwww.

Now I don't get so hot when I am inside the house.

I think the pinkies have the heating on 30c or something, gosh it gets warm in there.

Ellie and I sometimes go outside just to cool down!

Miss Ellie has a nice short coat at the moment too, she got clipped a few weeks ago.

Mum says I look all growed up now too.
Here I be looking in the study door, saying 'mum let me in'.
I be starting to look like my daddy Elton.
Mum says he is very handsome, so I don't mind that I look like him.

Hope everyone had a nice weekend.

Bazzy.

A Sunny Saturday Morning

2008-07-26T13:32:00.004+08:00

The pinkies put us outside really early this morning (then they snuck back to bed!) So Bazzy and I lay out on the deck in the nice morning sun.
Not too bad for winter ey?
We got a nice bone to chew on, so that was ok.................................... But have a look at what Bazzy has gone and done to his bed........Silly boy!
I thought I had better get a closer look at the damage. Oh dear, he has really wrecked his bed now!
He made a HUGE hole in his Snooza bed and he ripped up his mattress too.
I hope he doesn't think he can sleep in my bed now...I have got news for him!

It is bad enough that he goes into my Dale House!

Bye now
Miss Ellie.

Award

2008-07-25T18:02:00.002+08:00

Uh oh...we forgot to say....we passing this award on to......

Penny and Poppy and Patches

Silly Bazzy forgot to add that to his post. Boys huh?

Lucky I am here....Love Miss Ellie xx

Award

2008-07-25T17:46:00.002+08:00

Hey everyone

We would like to thank Noah, Willow, Tessy and Lucyloo for this super cool award......thanks Leura Dales, you Dales ROCK !!!!

There are a few rules and things that go with this award - so here they are........

:1) You have to pick FIVE blogs that you consider deserve this award for creativity, design, interesting material and also contribute to the blogger community regardless of language.

2) Each award has to have the name of the author and a link to his/her blog to be visited.

3) Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given him/her the award itself.

4) Award winners and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of the "Arte-y-Pico" blog so everyone will know the origin of the award.

5) In compliance with said RULES, the award winner must show the RULES.

Now back to bloggy business.....me Bazzy has been back to see Dr Steve....he be cool for a big man vet. He plays with Bazzy and gives Bazzy dried liver stick things....yummy.

Dr Steve says Bazzy has definately got Panosteitis. Dr Steve took xrays of Bazzy's bones.....he says Bazzy has good bones too!

So Bazzy is on a weight management plan.....not a DIET.

Bazzy not be fatboy...Dr Steve says so....see pinkies, I told you I wasn't a fatboy!

Weight management plan is to make sure me grows at a controlled rate and not too fast.

Dr Steve says Bazzy's body very good at converting food to growth...me has good genes....Bazzy thought jeans be what pinkies wear and me steals off bathroom floor?

So I not be limping today, Dr Steve says pano thingy may come back, because I haven't finished growing yet (mum says OMG he still gonna grow some more?)

Last weigh in me be 25.3kg. Bazzy lost some weight under stupid diet and was 24.9kg on Wednesday, but my best friend Dr Steve says me not have to lose any weight, just not grow too fast. NO MORE DIET.

But still no treats, and still no playing (ha ha we be already playing, but daddy says "Bazzy no rough stuff" but we not listen to daddy ha ha.)

Still no walkies yet, Dr Steve says maybe next week can do short walkies. YAY....Bazzy can't wait to get out.......wanna go back to dog club and see all my friends.

Old Ellie be good, she always the same, daddy's girl. Me get jealous sometimes when daddy gives Ellie cuddles, so me push her outta they way, so Bazzy gets cuddles, daddy tells me "no Bazzy, be nice to Ellie"

Ha ha daddy, you be silly.

See ya......Bazzy.

Boofa Boy Bazzy and the Dyson

2008-07-20T10:26:00.003+08:00

Hey everyone
It's me Bazzy.
Mum got the big noisy thing called the Dyson out again today and she took photos of me with it.
I LOVE the Dyson. I love to chase it while it goes backwards and forwards all over the floor. I run around it and try to bite it with my big Bazzy teeth.
Sometimes I go into the laundry where it lives and I just stare at it waiting to see if it is going to come out and play with me today. It doesn't come out to play all that often, usually just at weekends when the pinkies are home from work. They both love the Dyson too.
But not Ellie, she shows no interest in the Dyson at all. She just wants to sleep!

I went back to see Dr Steve yesterday. He says I am still growing too fast. When they made me sit on the big giant scales at the vet, I came in at a whopping 25.3kg.
I have gained 1.3kg in 7 days. Uh-oh, looks like the diet isn't working!

Dr Steve has stopped the Metacam, and mum has to watch to see if my limping gets worse now that I am not being medicated. (good I hate having the stupid syringe thingy stuck down my gob).

If the limp does get worse then Dr Steve is going to do Xrays straight away. Worst still is that he has told mum to give me even LESS food this week! OH NO!!!!!

I go back next Saturday for yet another weigh in. Geez, this is like being on The Biggest Loser!

So poor Bazzy is on scarce rations now! Well not really - I am still getting two bowls of food each day, but NO treats, or snacks or anything nice!

And I am still not allowed to go out on walkies.

I sat by the front door and CRIED my heart out yesterday when daddy took Ellie out. I lay by the front door looking out the window and cried and cried until they came back. I think poor mum felt really bad, cause she kept giving me cuddles.

But I know daddy has been sneaking out with Ellie every night when they think I am asleep. But I KNOW they are out walking - without me!

I miss going out, I miss going to see all my friends at Doggie Obedience school.

I just wanna PLAY!!!

Daddy came home with a big bag full of promotional goodies from one of his work suppliers. Ellie and I rummaged around in the bag to see if there was anything worth stealing - and we came out with these! 2 nice squishy stubbie holder things - perfect for us to have a nice chomp on.

Well it kept us amused for at least 10 minutes!

See ya......Love the Bazzynator!

Bazzy's leg

2008-07-14T17:04:00.003+08:00

Well I am still limping - the pinkies are even calling me Mr Limpy.
I went back to the vet (for the 3rd time) and saw Dr Steve (he is mum's favourite).
After much poking and pulling and pressing and making me cry, Dr Steve told mum I have something called Panosteitis (otherwise known as growing pains).

This is more common in bigger doggies, but is normally found in males, and usually at the age of 6 months.
Dr Steve says I am growing too fast and that is making my bones ache, which is why I am limping - my leggie be sore!
So I am taking more of the yukky medicine Metacam stuff, this is to help the pain (are you kidding me? I still be in pain)
Bazzy also gets locked up like I am in jail, and I haven't even been naughty!

Mum has now given me the rumpus room all to myself. She puts a barrier up to keep me in there, so that I can't run and play and chase Miss Ellie.
And worst of all - NO MORE WRESTLING.
Me and Ellie loves wrestling.

Old Miss Ellie keeps coming over to see me - she barks at me, then stamps her paws and does play bows trying to make me play, then I get in trouble and told to sit quietly. Bad Ellie.

Mum has also been told to keep me lean - and you know what that means don't you?
Bazzy is on a diet!
Oh My gawd!
Bazzy LOVES food, he wants food all the time.

Now mum just gives me my 2 meals a day and NO snacks or treats.

So no more piggies ears, no more cheese, no more kabana - no treats at all.

POOR BAZZY.

I think I need to run away and find a new place to live!

Somewhere where they will let me sleep on the couch and the big bed and give me lots of treats.

Does anyone know anywhere I can go?

Bazzy (Mr Limpy)

Ellie's Hairecut and Bazzy's sore leggie

2008-07-06T16:43:00.006+08:00

Hey everyone. It has been a while between bloggies, but only because the silly pinkie woman has been busy working far too hard.
Lots of news to catch up on too.

Silly Bazzy has gone and hurt himself - I swear I was not involved in any way - honest. I mean I would like to take credit for it but he managed it all on his own.

Mum took Bazzy to an ADT Club grooming day a few weekends ago and silly Bazzy jumped down off the grroming table and hurt his front leg. He was limping for a few days and the pinkies were keeping an eye on him, but it was getting worse, so mum took him off to the Vet.
The vet thinks Bazzy has pulled his shoulder muscle. So he gave him an injection of Rimadyl and some Rimadyl tablets to take home and mum was told to keep him quiet for a week and off his leg.
Ha ha what silly advise to give for a 6 month old Dale pup!
But anyway mum came home and put Bazzy straight into his pen, all set up in the lounge.
Well he cried, then barked (I didn't know he had it in him to bark so loud!) then when that didn't work he tried crying again. Eventually he just lay down and went to sleep - I think by then he was sulking BIG TIME.
He has been allowed out most of the day, because we go outside while the pinies go to work, but when they get home and we go inside Bazzy goes in his pen. Mum said something about the slippery floors not being good for Bazzy to run on. After a couple of nights mum caved in to his sulking and allowed him to lie up on the couch with her, so long as he stayed still and on the blanket.

Well he tries to stay on the blanket, but somehow manages to end up almost on mum's lap. Big baby.
He looks pretty comfy doesn't he?

So I have been getting lots of peace and quiet, but I do miss our wrestling sessions, and I do try to rev him up a bit, but both the pinkies tell me off for that!
On Saturday mum finally got around to giving me a Hairecut. It was long overdue, I was looking like a big woolly goat.
So now I am much happier being inside - it was far too hot for me before, I think the pinkies have the heating set on 30c - geez it gets warm!

As you can see the Brat still gets out and tries to play bitey face with me every now and then. And even though he is almost as big as me now (he is 23.3kg, and I am 26kg) I can still take him down!

Look how cheeky he is!

The pinkies went out for a very special lunch today to meet some very special Dogs.

Charlie and Opy - yes the pinkies drove out to Brooke and Greg's for lunch and didn't take us with them.

They did bring back pressies for us though - some nice piggies ears to munch on - Thanks Brooke and Greg we love piggies ears!

And you know what - they took the camera with them but never took any photo's - even Greg never took any photos. I think they were all too busy emptying the scotch bottle LOL.

We also want to send big wet beardie kisses and dale hugs to Denise and Bryan and the Leura Dales - D's daddy is really ill so we are sending all our good airezen up to Sydney. We are thinking of you.

Stay safe everyone.

Miss Ellie xxx

On the couch and Fireworks

2008-06-20T13:49:00.004+08:00

Bazzy had his first experience of fireworks last Saturday night.
It wasn't good!
He was outside on his own (sent out to do wee's) so when it happened he was terrified.
Dad went out to get him and couldn't find him. Mum went out and called him and he came running in from hiding behind the garden shed and had his tail right between his legs. He was shaking like a leaf.

He spent the night on the big bed, but didn't sleep (neither did the pinkies). I on the other hand was such a good girl.

Bazzy the brat has been skittish all week, but seems to be improving.
Although he won't let mum out of his sight.

And being Bazzy the big sook seems to be working a treat for the fat ball of fluff. All rules seem to have gone out the window.

It seems the Brat is now allowed up onto the couch to cuddle with mum.

You should see him up there snuggled in like a great big sooky baby. (oh yeah he is only 6 months old, so I guess technically he is still a baby)

Daddy thinks he shouldn't be up on the couch, but we all know that mum rules the house, so Bazzy is up on the couch and that is that!

At least now I get the big bed all to myself again.

I sure didn't like sharing it with Baz.

Baz is still scared of any loud noises. He was even scared of the tv last night.

I think both the pinkies are hoping he will grow out of it once he realises the noises are nothing.

Miss Ellie

Bazzy the Gardener

2008-06-09T13:21:00.005+08:00

Hey ho everyone
I survived my little visit to the Vet, it wasn't so bad.

I was a bit dopey on Friday night and mum kept me in my pen for a while and wouldn't let Ellie and I wrestle.

I had a bit if a bandage on my leg, but mummy cut it off. Now my leg is bald. Not a good look for a handsome boy like me!

But we were back to normal by Saturday.

Today I helped the pinkies out in the back garden. They are home from work today and we did some gardening out back.
I helped mum pick up all the doggie poop (she says it is her least favourite job lol).

Then we pulled a few weeds out of the garden - I was good at helping with that job.

Then daddy got this sensational noisy machine thingy called a lawn mower out from the big garden shed down the back of our garden.

I have seen it before, but today the pinkies actually let me chase it around the garden. Boy that was fun. It makes lots of noise and has big wheels to bite.

Mum and I played fetch with my new ball too. I can run and run and run in our back garden, there's plenty of room for Bazzy.

Old Miss Ellie just lay up on her bed on the deck. She has seen it all before and she doesn't do fetch.

She did join in on a game of chase daddy though, she barks at him, ha ha. He runs faster than us then he hides and jumps out to try and scare us - ha ha, we're Dales, we're not scared of him.

Bazzy got to meet Smokey and Milo who live in the house behind us yesterday. We were out walking with the pinkies and Smokey and Milo were out front of their house with their daddy.

Smokey is old and she barked at me. Milo barks at me all the time through the back fence, but it is just play. We both run up and down chasing each other along the back fence all the time.

It is raining here this afternoon, so not much is happening now. The pinkies are watching dvd's - something about Sweeney Todd, mum says there was lots of blood - yuk.

Lucky we had our big walkies this morning.

See ya

Bazzy

Poor Bazzy No Balls

2008-06-07T14:03:00.003+08:00

Oh dear, mum took off early yesterday morning with Bazzy in tow. I was quite upset at being left at home whilst everyone else was out, I don't mind saying.
But when I found out later just where mum took Bazzy, I must admit I had a little bit of a giggle.
Poor Bazzy was dragged off to the vet to be castrated!
Argh, poor little muppet man.
Mum brought him home at 6pm last night and he wouldn't get out of the car. He eventually came inside the house and mum told me I had to be a good girl and look after baby Baz.
He was looking rather pathetic I must say.
Mum put Bazzy in his pen out in the family room, so he could see everyone. He just lay on his bed very placidly - not like the Bazzy we know ey?
He ate his dinner - scoffed it down actually. Then mum let him out of his pen for a little while, but he was still very quiet.
I left him alone, he obviously wasn't up to playing wrestlemania with me.
He cried a little bit through the night, but I think it was just to get some attention rather than anything else.
The vet gave him an injection of pain killers, so he should have been ok.
At 3am mum got up to take him out for a weewee, then he got up on the pinkies big bed with them and slept up there.
Now that is a bit rude I thought. The big bed is my domain not Bazzy's. But I left him alone, at least he was quiet up there.

Today he seems fine. Mum has been watching him all day and making sure I am not too rough with him. We have had a little session of wrestlemania, so that was good.
This afternoon the pinkies took us for a nice long walk all around our estate.
Silly Bazzy picks up stuff he finds on our walks and carries it around with him. Mum says Bazzy is a rubbish collector.

It has been raining and cold here for a few days now, luckily it is the weekend and those pinkies are home.

Bye now
Miss Ellie xxx

Mr obedience

2008-05-31T14:15:00.003+08:00

Hey hey everyone,
It has been a funny time at our place. Mum disappeared for a few days. Miss Ellie and I looked all over for her, but she wasn't to be found. She went off to work earlier this week like normal but just never came home - until late last night. Woooo hooo she's back. We jumped all over her when she walked in the front door.
It seems mum has been over in some place called Adelaide working. Bazzy didn't like this at all, cause it was the first time mum has left me. I follow mum everywhere and she was GONE. Daddy looked after me though, but I missed my mum.
And we were supposed to be practising all my training because we had the big obedience Test today.
But guess what???

I took the test anyway, even with no practice all week, and me Super Bazzy has passed his basic obedience test.
I even get a certificate to show the whole wide world what a clever Dale I am.
Woooooo Hoooooooooooooooooooooooo

I now go up into Yellow class with all the big doggies.
There were some doggies in my red class that have been there 2 whole years. Bazzy only did 4 classes and now he is a Yellow Bazzy. Yay. Mum is sooo impressed with me.
The trainer told mum I am very focused LOL. Mum laughed cause she knows it is only because of the cheese she uses to bribe me ha ha. Bazzy is still a monster at home.

Lots of my little puppy teeth have fallen out now, we had a few days where there was heaps of blood, my favourite mousey toy (left over from my great granny Harley - it was her last birthday pressie, but now is my most favourite toy) is covered in blood stains from my bleeding gums. Mum had to wash it for me.
Airley wasn't at doggy school today so we never got to play with him. Mum took the camera just i ncase he was there so she could get some pics of us playing like mad Dale pups do.

There is no class next week because it is some Queen's birthday or something. I don't know who this Queen is, maybe she is related to Miss Ellie, mum calls her princess?
Anyway because of Queen's birthday it is a long weekend so no school. I wouldn't have been going anyway because mum has done the worst thing she could possibly do to poor Bazzy.
Bazzy is going to the vet on Friday to get "the snip"

OMG poor me. Daddy doesn't want mum to do it, but she says it is for the best. I am on daddy's side - don't do it mum Please!!!!
So I get dropped off on friday morning.......waaaaaahhhhh.

The pinkies weighed me last Monday - guess how heavy bazzy is now?
19kgs. I am a BIG Boy Bazzy.
I am not 6 months old yet (soon though - June 16th)

Bazzy is still growing like a weed mum says.

I have done lots of things for the first time now too.

Bazzy had his first pee in public. (only took 5 1/2 months)
Bazzy jumped out of the back of the car all on his own (I have watched Miss Ellie do it plenty of times)
Bazzy barked at a visitor at our front door (just like great granny Harley always did)

See I am getting to do lots of grown up Dale things now.
bazzy is a big boy - yay.

See ya :)

Bazzy (or "Yorkpark Bearach StarShine" offically lol)

Fun and games with us Dales

2008-05-25T12:16:00.004+08:00

Woo hoooo, look at me down at the beach with my new friend Angus. The pinkies took Ellie and I to the beach this morning so we could have a run around "off Lead" yes that's right, they finally let us both go off lead to play and run and be free Dales.We went to the beach where the ADT Club hold their Beach Day, so we had a bit of a ride in the car too.When we got there we met Angus, and he decided to play with us. At first I was kept on lead, as mum didn't think she could trust me. Very sad.But daddy let Ellie off lead and then mum let me go too. Off I ran, chasing Angus and Ellie. Angus ran straight into the cold water and I followed him in and then suddenly realised "hey it's cold in there" and quickly ran out again. Angus didn't care. It is a nice safe beach, as there is a fence stopping us from running into the houses that live along the beach there, so the pinkies decided we could be trusted not to run off. Mum had cheese in her pockets too, so she called me back to her lots of times and gave me a treat of nice tasty cheese everytime I came back.
She says I need to practice my recall because we have our first Obedience Test at Dog School next week. I am doing really well at Doggy School, everyone thinks I am adorable and calm - ha ha they wouldn't say that if they saw me at home LOL.

Look at us in the car after our run on the beach. Two very tired Dales.

I like to hang over the back seat so that I can see everything that is going on.
I am a bit of a sticky beak.....

Old Miss Ellie loves the car and sometimes jumps in when the car is parked in the garage, and then she won't get out.
Pinkies have to bribe her to get out of the car. She wants to go for a ride.

Check out the nice excavation work I have been doing in my garden.Daddy has started calling me "Bazzy the Bobcat", I am not sure what that is, but apparently they dig really well.
I love digging in the garden and the pinkies have even stopped filling my holes in. I guess they have resigned themselves to the fact that the lawn is GONE now. Ellie used to dig but not anymore, she just sleeps alot. She never dug up the lawn though, she preferred to dig out the garden beds and rip out the plants. Daddy says he is glad I don't do that.
We had some visitors that stayed over for the weekend at our house and they had these funny little people with them that made lots of squawky noises and ran around. SO I chased them. Woo hoo that was fun too. I jumped all over them and grabbed their clothes in my mouth and dragged them around the garden. Ellie and I had a grand time with these strange little things called "boys". Mum had to tell them off though, cause the biggest one tried to smack me for jumping on him. I think he learnt not to be naughty cause he ran inside sooking LOL.
Ellie and I are glad we don't get too many of these little boys at our house very often.We like it just with our pinkies.The strange little boys even had some stuffies with them, but they got upset when we played with their stuffies.But it was ok for them to play with our stuffies and balls and things. Not fair ey?They've gone home now, so it's back to just us and our pinkies.Peace again.

Oh and I forgot to tell you about my new best friend Airley.
He is a DALE and he goes to my Dog School. He is a little bit older than me - he is 9 months, and his pinkies say he is naughty LOL of course he is, he's a Dale!
We got to have a great time playing after class yesterday. His pinkies live not far from us, so we are going to get together and play again. Airley is fun.I must get mum to take a photo of Airley and me playing next week at school. He just has his first Airecut too so he looks like a real Dale and not a scruffy pup like me.Hey mum do I need a Airecut yet?

Bazzy.

Stuffies, Baz's newest game, cuddles with dad

2008-05-09T19:19:00.009+08:00

Hi everyone, Happy weekend to you.....yay we love the weekends. Lots of good things happen on weekends.

Guess what? I am going to my very first PARTY ! yippeeeeeeee
Ellie and Bazzy are going to Willow and Putter's party. We can't wait to see everyone there.
We hope there are lots of good things to eat at the party. Hmmmm nice dried liver and cheese and roast chicken with yummy gravy yummmmm, we are getting hungry just thinking about it.
Daddy and Bazzy got to spend some "quiet time" together this week. Mum was busy on the computer and Bazzy goes in to check on her regularly - just to make sure she doesn't forget about me. Daddy came in to the study too and we had a bit of a cuddle on the floor while mum worked.
Mum is studing at the moment and spends way too much time working on assignements and not enough time cuddling Bazzy, so daddy helped out.

Happy Stuffie day everyone........we have a few stuffies, but they don't let us play with any of them....not fair at all!

This is mum's WFT handbag stuffie - he has a handle on his back and a zipper. He doesn't have a name though - poor stuffie.
And this is one of many of mum's Airedale stuffie's - he came from Mc Donalds and he really doesn't look like a Dale, but he is suppossed to be one. We are yet to decide if he is or not.
Ellie and I have both managed to get him into our gobs a couple of times, but mum rescues him from us.

This is mum's favourite stuffie - he is a Kipper Airedale, but mum named him Douglas. When Bazzy was just a weeny puppy baby, mum used to put kipper in my crate with me at night time so I wouldn't get lonely. So his beard has been sucked on a little bit.
Meet Fergus, he is another Dale stuffie (see told ya there was a few of them) He is cute. I have slept with him in my crate too, but I bit his nose off, so no more sleeping with Bazzy.

Mummy fixed his nose.

Meow.........meet Cheeky Puss. That's his name. Daddy brought Cheeky Puss for mum a long time ago on holiday in Perth, Western Australia. Mum likes cats (I don't know why???) Notice there are more Airedale's in the background????
Oh and dear dear Nelson. Bazzy really really wants to play with Nelson, but mum says "No Bazzy". Nelson came from Sea World on the Gold Coast in Queensland. Daddy proposed to mum at Sea World. Mum loves polar bears and the real Nelson lives at Sea World.

Uh-oh, Bazzy got caught red handed.

Bazzy has a new game......stealing the toilet roll out of the ensuite bathroom........yay such fun to be had with it.

Mum was in the shower getting ready for work. Daddy was in the kitchen eating breakfast...so the coast was clear, no one to stop Bazzy.........woo hoo grab it and run Bazzy run.

Out into the bedroom and play time!

Old Miss Ellie just lay up on the pinkies big bed watching, but when dad came into the bedroom she looked at daddy like Miss Innocent so daddy would know it wasn't her.

Daddy called mum to look at my game. She just shook her head and said "Bazzy is a devil"

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

I don't often get to grab the toilet roll, cause mum puts it where Bazzy can't reach, but Bazzy got lucky this week!

Bazzy School tomorrow - mum and I have been practising.

Have a nice weekend everyone.

Charlie - we hope you feel better soon matey. We know your mum is looking after you. xxx

Bazzy :)

& Miss Ellie xx

Surfer boy Baz and Baz's new bed

2008-05-02T17:48:00.008+08:00

Hey there every doggie
Not much has been happening here with us this week. It has been pretty quiet.
Winter is not far away now and it has been quite cool, especially in the early mornings.
I don't wake up anywhere near as early as I used to.

My pinky got me a nice new bed this week......and take a close look at the packaging........the label has got an Airedale on it!

My pinky was very happy when she saw that.
It is quite a nice bed too, I rather like it, as it is very comfy indeed.

I have grown a fair bit recently. Pinky says I am not a baby anymore, I am a young Dale now.
Daddy says I am a juvenile delinquent (but I'm not sure what that means?)

I have grown so much that I can now reach the kitchen counter top......YAY
I know that ALL good things come from up there.

I used the handles on the kitchen drawers for a while to help me climb up to see what was going on up there, but now I don't need the handles anymore - I CAN REACH ALL BY MYSELF !!!!

Wooooooo Hoooooooooooooo

It is the best thing I have learnt yet.

And of course I have learnt the special skill of Airedale deafness, so when my pinky says

"get down Bazzy"

I totally don't hear her........LOL.

Pinky and I are off to Bazzy School tomorrow. Pinky took me for a nice long walk ALL BY MYSELF tonight.....wooo hoooo.

BUT it was only so she could practice walking at "heel" and getting me to behave myself nicely whilst on the lead.

Stop, sit, let's go, heel, stop, sit, blah blah blah.....can't she tell I just wanna PLAY????

I much prefer when I get to roam around all over the place sniffing than walking at heel.

And she put this awful thing called a correction collar on me...what was that about? What's wrong with my gorgeous yellow Airedale's running free collar?????

Geez ......I just wanna PLAY !!!!!

Outta here....love Bazzy.

Anzac Day, Black and Tan Beer

2008-04-25T15:07:00.008+08:00

It is ANZAC Day here in Australia today - April 25th.

There were special memorial services for all the Service Men and Women that have served our country.

Lest we forget.

Daddy's Grand-dad was a gunner in the Royal Australian Air Force and served in New Guinea in WW2.

Rest in peace grand-dad.

So today the pinkies and us Dales had a special walk through our favourite bush park out in Beaconsfield.

It is nice and quiet out there and Bazzy even got to walk on the flexi lead

(he has Harley's old blue one now).

We met quite a few other doggies out on their walkies and got to say hello and have a little bit of a play.

Ha ha silly Bazzy has to learn that not all other doggies are as friendly as us Dales.
A cranky old black dog growled at Bazzy and said "back off puppy".
Bazzy ran and hid behind daddy.

Look at this awesome beer that Daddy got.

It is from a Boutique Brewery called Grand Ridge out in Gippsland, Victoria.

It is called Black and Tan - just like us Airedale's ha ha.

Pinky snuck up on us while we were napping on our beds outside on the deck.......

Bazzy was sprawled out on his back snoring his little puppy head off.

Enjoy your weekend everyone.

Love Miss Ellie

Our big day out at the ADT Club Beach Picnic

2008-04-22T16:31:00.005+08:00

Well woooo hoooooooooooo and yippeeeeeee,

Here are the photos that Brooke has taken at the

Airedale Terrier Club of Victoria Annual beach picnic.

Thank you Brooke - you did a great job.

Bazzy meeting Mr Perriwinkle and Sam....hello boys!
Me, Bazzy begging daddy to please please please give me some of his sausage in bread.
Old Miss Ellie......ready to go home.
Some tiny weeny baby Dale pups....gee was I ever that little???
Chasing my brother Morris along the beach....woo hoo that was awesome fun.
My gorgeous daddy Dale - Yorkpark Elton Isa Star.....pinky thinks he is soooo handsome.
Ron with Elton, Daddy with me and mum with Ellie......smile!
Look at my ears flapping as I run, Morris runs just like me too....ears flapping.
Do you like me new collar? Pinky says I stood out on the beach and they could find me easily by my bright yellow Dale collar. Pinky got it from Annette's Airelooms.
They have awesome Dale stuff!

Uh oh....Di Barclay (our breeder mum from Yorkpark) managed to get me up on the picnic table for a bit of a tidy up. She said mum had done a great job getting rid of my puppy fluff, but Di just cleaned me up a bit more and made me look all grown up. I was pretty tired from running all over the place with Morris, so I couldn't put up much of a fight!

Here I am ready to play with anyone I could find to play with. I'm havin' a great time.....
Some Dales even went into the water....brrr it was pretty cold. I got my leggies wet but then ran back out again.
Look at me launching after Morris....he is fast, but I managed to get him.....then we had a great game of bitey face. He looks bigger than me, but he is still all puppy fluff.

And this lovely lady is Jaffa. She was a rescue dale that has a wonderful new forever home with Hazel. It was the first time we met Jaffa and she was a real sweetie.

So that was our big adventure......it was a brilliant day out, and I can't wait till the next one.

Baz

With my Daddy

2008-04-21T13:39:00.005+08:00

Look at me with my daddy.......two daddy's actually. My pinky daddy Tim is holding me, and my Dale daddy 'Yorkpark Elton Isa Star' is with Ron.
Notice all the other Dales in the background? Dales were everywhere. Pinky says it was heaven.

I hope I grow up to be as handsome as Elton, he charms all the Airegirls.
He's a bit of an old smoothy. He is in good shape for a 10 year old Dale daddy. He let me jump all over him and we had a little play. I think he knew I was his boy - we connected.

You can't see it very well in these pics but I even got to wear my brand new collar to the Beach Picnic.

Pinky ordered it all the way from the USA (ADT rescue actually) and now I have a lovely yellow collar with running Airedales on it just like my big sissy Ellie's (except hers is red)

Now this was a very exciting time for Bazzy................................................

There I was just moochin around minding my own business then whammo outta nowhere jumps this black hoppy thing (pinky called it a cricket) I called it MINE!

Wooo hooo what a great time I had with my own black hoppy thing. He got well and truly stomped on by my giant Dale paw. Somehow one of his legs fell off, so he didn't jump too well after that. I tried to eat it, but pinky squealed at me "no Bazzy leave it" like a mad woman. I am sure it would have tasted ok you know.
For some reason Miss Ellie got a new bed this week. Not me, just Ellie. Now that seems a bit like favouritism if you ask me. But anyway I got to try it out eventually. Old Ellie went off to the big bed and I thought it would be a good time to try out her new bed. It was all still warm where she had been lying too - nice.

Pinky thinks us Dales are strange because we always have our heads hanging off the bed on the hard floor. We both like to sleep like that.

Daddy took this pic of me while I was in my crate at night time sleeping. I bang around all night in there trying to get comfy. I like to lie up against the side. And I love to lie on my back.

Sometimes the pinkies will tickle my belly while I am sleeping - I don't mind that either.

Lucky I am not shy ey?

Pinky has been home with us all day today - she is off work with a virus and has been sleeping all day, we don't mind cause we have been sleeping with her. I wonder if we all snore together? She tells me off for trying to eat her dirty tissues LOL.

Daddy is away on business and won't be home for a few days, so Ellie and I are in charge of looking after pinky! Or maybe it is the other way round?

She gave us lamb shanks this morning so we were quite happy lying out in the morning sun chewing away on our bones....yum.

Till next time

BAZZY

ADT Club beach picnic

2008-04-17T19:45:00.005+08:00

Wow what a great time we had on Sunday.
The Airedale Terrier Club of Victoria held their annual Beach Picnic. They didn't have one last year (because where they hold it was being renovated)
But this year it was HUGE.
There were Dales running EVERYWHERE.
It was AWESOME.

Brooke came with us too........woo hooo. I think she was impressed at the sight of all us gorgeous Airedales lol.

We got to meet up with our Dale friends Mr Periwinkle, Sam and Charlie and their pinky Jane. We got to see Lou Lou and Sue Forrester, (Sue runs Dale rescue in Aust). We saw Jaffa and Hazel (Jaffa is a princess rescued from hell). And we saw Curly and Tzara from our breeders "Yorkpark".
We met lots of new dales too.

But very best of all - my daddy Elton was there AND my brother Morris was there too!
Morris and I had a wonderful reunion on the beach.
We were both allowed off lead (thank you pinkies, it was my first time off lead in public)
We ran and ran and jumped on each other and ran between all the big Dales and played bitey face. I even put my paws in the bay.
It was my very first time at the beach. I think pinky wanted to see if I would go into the water.
I did, but only up to my knees (do Dales have knees?)

We guess that there were about 40 Airedales at the picnic, there were many more pinkies, but us Dales were the important focus of the day (and rightly so too).
It was a great turnout, especially as it had been raining on Sunday morning and we weren't sure it would still be on. But the weather held off and it wasn't too bad - it didn't rain on us.

Pinky was far too busy yak yak yakking to take many photos. But Brooke took lots and she is going to put them on a disk for pinky.
So photos will be posted soon.

Miss Ellie was a big sookie baby on the day. She was as happy as larry to be there for the first 10 minutes, but once she had said hello to all the other dales and their pinkies she was ready to go home. Silly old girl.
She needs to learn how to PARTY like me and Morris. We had fun.

Thanks ADT Club - it was a great afternoon.
I flaked out and slept in the car all the way home.

Bazzy