“A Spot on Roo”

Dear Diary,
It snowed last night. YEA!!  It’s been quite a while since we had wonderful fresh snow.  You know I love snow and you know that I love to play disk dog. Snow Disk Dog – well, that’s the best of both.

We watch the Incredible Dog Challenge on television.  They say that the dogs come up with their own names for some of their moves.  So that’s what I’ve decided to do.  We also watch snowboarding, so we know that they name their moves REALLY crazy things.(“Chicken Salad air” and “Eggflip”).  I’m called an Australian Shepherd (even though I’m not from Australia), so I thought it would be fun to come up with “Aussie” names for my moves.

I call the move  I’m doing below a“Joey”,for  baby kangaroo. I caught the disk but no  “sky”.

This is a “Roo”.   “short for Kangaroo-  moves around by bounding and leaping”.

A “Back of Bourke” is a catch where I have to really chase it down heading away.(It means “a long way away from wherever you are, specifically inland and away from civilization.”)

Well, this morning I did a “spot on Roo”.   Dad could see the marks in the snow where I had taken off and where I had landed. Mom measured how far I had gone in the air.  I was in the air for 11 feet and I wasn’t  even trying.  Maybe I could try diving dog next – oh wait I don’t like to swim.

Signed, Tucker (owner of this Dog Diary)
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PS

“Legend has it that when the white man first came to Australia he asked an Aboriginal the name for the funny looking creature bounding in the distance. Apparently the Aborigine replied “Kangaroo” which in the Aborigine language means “I don’t understand you”. So now we have an animal called “I don’t understand you”. Dinkum? Dunno, but an amusing story nonetheless.” (From the Aussie slang site.)

PPS I do hope my “real” Aussie friends understand that  I’m just having fun. Please tell me if I said anything wrong.

In the “Dog House”

Dear Diary,

Mom is sort of upset with me right now.  She says that I was irre-   something.  And now she’s irri – something.  I was irresponsible and she is irritated.

We were playing  disk-dog as we usually do in the morning when we go out to feed the horses.   I chased my  Ruff Wear Hover Craft out into the snow.
But wait. What’s that?

Deer tracks. Deer had been dancing  in the yard last night.  Tracks were everywhere.  I just had to show Mom where they had been -over  here and over  here and then down there over the stone wall toward the pond.

Mom called me back to her.  I went to her  right away – but without my disk.

She sent me back into the yard to find my disk.  I looked and looked.  But I had been so many places – over here and over here and down  there.  I couldn’t find  it.

It’s snowing again right now.  She says that we probably won’t it find it again until spring.

Good thing that she always has a backup disk!!  We didn’t play anymore today – but I know we will tomorrow.
And it’s also a good thing that she never stays upset with me for very long.

Signed, Tucker (owner of this Dog Diary)
If you enjoyed this dog blog, you can read more about me
at The Sensible Dog or follow my dog tweets on Twitter as sensibledog.

PS I was never  really outside in a dog house.