Whippet Snippets

Simply Sunshine

Ribsy will let the pictures tell the story of the weekend.

First up, East Sooke Regional Park pictures from Saturday:

 

 

    

And a few shots from playtime at the park Sunday morning:

Today at ten

Sunlight is streaming into the house, invading Ribsy's eyes. Looks like it's going to be a hot time at the UVic dog park this morning. Hope to see some of you whippets there at 10am!

Here's to Scott

Hooray for Scott! He's now a Canadian champion, thanks to his great showing at the Vancouver Island Dog Fanciers Association show yesterday. Despite the hot sun and the even hotter competition, Scott earned his required points. His family was especially proud to watch him in action.

The Joy of Dogbloggin'

From The Joy of Tech comes this hilarious cartoon. Ribsy guffaws at the rudimentary language and crude sentence structure employed by his canine colleague. Ribsy snickers even harder at the rotund cat.

May days

Ribsy yawned. He sure was spent from the weekend's activities. Yesterday alone he met up with his whippet pals Max, Millie, James and Otto. Sped up with Kooter and Jackson. Wagged hi to Sophie his best Pointer girl. Chased squirrels. Sniffed Diesel. Raided the bulk snack bins at Bosley's. Lazed in the sun.

Every weekend should be a long weekend. Speaking of weekends, this one coming up features a dog show. Actually the action begins on Thursday, all at the Saanich Fairgrounds. Girl reckons that she and Boy will be checking out the action on Sunday. The whippets will be struttin' their stuff at 11:30 that morning.

Barking up the wrong whippetree

Ribsy bared his teeth in reaction to the sketchy SFU server which delayed a message notifying him of the lure practice cancellation. He didn't see the message until late this afternoon, upon his return home from Duncan.

   

Here's the field where all the whippets would have been running, had the rain not soaked the course. Anyway, he's much excited about the next time.

 

 

The trio decided to poke around the area while they were there, and stopped off in Lake Cowichan and then rustled up lunch at the Whippletree Junction, a charming restored village comprised of specialty shops and services, including a lively, packed Sunday auction.

Sorry to have missed out at the regular 10am Mystic Vale festivities this morning. Ribsy will be out around 10am tomorrow for a May Day Dog Park special, so he hopes to see some of you there...weather permitting of course.

The lure of the lure

See you in Duncan at the lure coursing field at 11am today!

Off to the races, Ribsy

What's your Whippet Name?

Ribsy ran randomly across the Web today, pawing in "Whippet" and sniffed out whippet, a good-looking, well-designed marketing and creative services company. Ribsy was entranced by the cute whippet chasing the mechanical bunny, and simply had to click on every link to see more whippet pics and references throughout the site.

Classically hip, unique, beautiful. The whippet as a brand works!  It really does. This website is proof positive.

Ribsy really wants to meet this Willy the Whippet (looks quite like him actually). He's invented this really cool Whippet Name Generator. Try it! Click on Willy's World at the top, and then select the Name Generator. You can find out what your name is in Whippet -- or is that Whippet-ese?

Girl's name is Flaming Galah. Boy's name is Aussie Aswell. And Ribsy's new whippet name is Willy Bob Bill.

What's your Whippet name?

PS - Click on his "where's willy" link too! He's quite the traveller but he doesn't always like to reveal himself too easily. Brilliant, creative marketing indeed.

Spare some change?

A way-back when puppy picture of Ribsy. How fast they grow. He went to greet Boy at work this evening, and when he did a few folks who hadn't seen him in a while remarked how much he had grown. To Girl, he still looks the same, although his ribs aren't poking out as much. And his eyes seem to have gotten bigger, if that's possible. And his fascination with those tempting, teasing, taunting squirrels is as great as it's ever been.  So what makes for change anyway? Getting older and maturing, most certainly. But it's those endearing, houndy instincts of Ribsy that remain a constant. And it's those traits that Girl hopes will never go away. Even when he's fifteen, gray and fat.

Funny Tummy Times

Other than whooping it up at Sunday's Whoop Up Ribsy stuck stubbornly by Boy's side as he struggled through a nasty, sudden, miserable case of the stomach flu. Poor Boy. He just got over one illness and now he's gotten struck by a second. Ribsy can't wait until he's back on his feet and chasing rubber drumsticks with him in the backyard.