Whippet Snippets

Whippet meetup this Sunday

Attention all whippets - meet-up this Sunday 10am at Mystic Vale - UVic. Ribsy hopes you can join him!

Scooter Boy

Ribsy watches Boy zoom off in his new Honda Ruckus scooter, then in hot pursuit rushes after the peppy rider, with Girl in leashed tow.

   

More pictures to come. Experience the power first with a movie or two.

Young pups

Talk about swag! Ribsy came back home yesterday night, all pooped out from his whirlwind weekend in Maple Ridge at the Oceanside Kennel Club dog show. He earned a couple of Best Puppy in Group rosettes, plus one for Fourth in Group. It was all very nice, but the nicest part of all was being back home with the pack and snuggling in between those two warm bodies.

Boy and Girl just got back yesterday, too, visiting friends and family in Vancouver - including Girl's fast-crawlin' nephew.

A new standard

Ribsy celebrated Boy's birthday by patiently waiting at home while he and Girl went to their favourite restaurant in Victoria - Tamami Sushi - where fresh oysters don't run out by 6pm, the Asahi is served in cold, frosty mugs and a picture of patron Jason Priestley proudly adorns the wall. And might Boy add, it's the place where "dining for one can be fun." Anyway, Tamami sets a local standard in Sushi.

Speaking of standard, Boy enjoyed hearning of his present - a one-hour standard driving lesson with Ian Weighton Driving School. Ribsy's all perturbed over the news, as it means he will no longer be able to sit on Boy's comfy lap during car rides.

Speaking of car rides, Ribsy's off to a dog show tomorrow morning in Maple Ridge. Good luck Ribsy!

Rosy Weekend

Despite the rain, Ribsy had a howl this weekend hanging out with a few people pals from Vancouver and Melbourne, Australia. Thanks for those nice plates, thought Ribsy. I licked them clean after Boy and Girl's dinner tonight.

   

Plus, he still managed to squeeze in a quick visit with the Whippet Gang. This time, James and Otto came out for some rip roarin' action in the drizzle.

For more pictures from the meetup, click here to see Heather's photos.

Next weekend's Whippet Meetup will be on Easter Sunday at noon at Mystic Vale - UVic. Ribsy's sorry to report that he won't be attending due to a prior dogshow commitment, but Max & Millie  - pictured at left with Ribsy - will be leading the charge quite capably.

Whippet meetups truckin' along

Boy's got the dirt...and the garbage. Garbage compost that is. The pungent scent of an alley dumpster greeted Girl upon her return home from work yesterday.

A couple of truckloads of landscapin' goodness from Trio Ready-Mix, hauled in the back of a rental truck, had Ribsy living his fantasy of being a real trucker dog. Up high, riding with his Boy, listening to the random tunes of college radio, with the wind in his ears - oh yeah!

It was fun. Speaking of fun, tomorrow's whippet meetup time again. 9am at Mystic Vale - UVic. Hope to see you hounds out there!

The Ribsy of cameras

Girl came across the Whippet of digital cameras - the incredibly cute yet functional HP Harajuku Lover Digital Camera, designed by Gwen Stefani as homage to her fascination with the infamous Tokyo fashion district. Sleek. Attention grabbing. Lovable. Available in May, Ribsy may soon find himself on the receiving end of this very hip accessory many, many times over.

Gone to the Dogs

Ribsy knows he's a whippet. But if Girl was a dog what kind of dog would she be? He found the perfect way to find out. A game for the British comedy film Gone to the Dogs, lets you find out what kind of dog you really are. Click on the Games link on the left hand side, answer a ten question quiz, and presto! You will see what you could one day be reincarnated as.

Girl found out that she's an Italian Greyhound. Why she'd be a cousin of Ribsy.

Gone to the Dogs, by the way, seems like a really funny movie. An old man dies and comes back to life as a stray dog, only to be adopted by the wife he left behind.

Blind Ambition

Aside from running amuck at the dog park, the rest of the time was spent observing Boy and Girl as they struggled (Girl) and cussed (Boy) their way to getting chores done around the house.

Painful highlights included the installation of a single faux wooden blind that ended up taking 3 hours to put up due to a series of unexpected catastrophes (needing to buy a drill, splitting the wood of the window casing, shortening the blinds unevenly, snapping off a screw). Now that it's up, it is quite lovely. Ribsy can't wait to get his chompers on the wood, faux or not. It will be awhile before the rest of the house is adorned in the same fashion, though, as Boy and Girl need to find a blinds installer to do it for them. Thirteen more blinds x 3 hours = a full work week! Nuh-uh.

After the torture that was the blinds installation, Boy and Girl also worked on Boy's Landscaping Master Plan, weeding and planting a section of the garden adjacent to the waterless rock feature.

 

Ribsy yawned as they toiled, content to lie lazily in the sunshine. Hmm. Gotta speak to Girl about the possibility of getting him an adirondack chair or a hammock for the deck. His pet bed's not providing enough neck support - and these fence posts aren't doing the job either.

      

The weekend wrapped up nicely, as always, with dinner at Linda's house. Here Ribsy and Girl enjoy a post-dinner read - perhaps the latest issue of Modern Dog?

The Whippet Gang

Weekends go by so quickly for a whippet who is having fun. Ribsy met up with Max, Millie and Bobby at the UVic dog park yesterday. Together the four of them attempted to rule the park as their own. A Whippet Gang. Here they are trying to turf a chocolate lab. Those sneaky whippets.

Check out all of Heather's pictures here.