Max had a friend over. A kind of cousin really, by the name of Argyle Braveheart.
He goes by “Argie” and is a Cairn terrier. (Max is a West Highland White terrier.)
It took a couple of days for Max and Argie to kind of get acquainted.
Max talks to Argie a lot about how much fun it is to chase a ball, but Argie prefers to chase Max chasing a ball than to chase the actual ball. Max is still trying.
At home Argie has his own urban apartment but he’s had no problem spending a few days in a wilder part of the wild west.
With two dogs it’s not breakfast no it’s some kind of empty-the-bowl race.
Max and Argie like to inspect all around outdoors for tracks left in the night by tigers and bears and squirrels.
Between the two of them…
…they don’t miss much.
But after a while they get tired.
Argie has to go home today. We’ll miss him and we’ve asked him to email us now and then. He says he’ll be back to visit soon.
Argie is ADORABLE and I love the new banner at the top of the page. Very nice. I’ll bet those two were busy, they don’t look like they could sit still for too long. Max looks so happy in the 3rd photo down. How good of you to host an extra pooch.
Oh ‘berta you do so get it about dogs. I wish you could have seen how Max & Argie chased each other in mad circles all around the yard one evening. It was really fun and exhausted them both nicely for bedtime.
One time a friend of mine told me (I’m not making this up) that the neighbor’s dog was her dog’s “best friend.” I thought it was funny that dogs could have “best friends” but this post drives the point home beautifully.
Oh I think dogs definitely have friends, human and otherwise. They also have enemies–Max hates the vacuum cleaner. You should see the teeth marks on the hardwood floor attachment.
Argie is very cute. Charlie the Wonder Poodle says that he absolutely agrees with Argie that chasing the dog that’s chasing the ball is the most fun. Although he and the vacuum cleaner now seem to have reached a state of detente, he feels that, like bears and tigers, they can never be completely trusted and you should never turn your back on one. And giving it the occasional bite helps to keep it in line in case it’s plotting something.
I will be watching for an image of Charlie the Wonder Poodle so I can show it to Max.
Charlie and Max KNOW that vacuum cleaners are possessed by evil spirits and need stopping.
Brave dogs! Is it your geranium that is huge or the dogs that are the size of a teaspoon? Rudy doesn’t like to chase the ball either but he likes to chase Mina that chases the ball. It’s nice to have more than one dog, you should get another friend for max… Maybe one of Mina’s puppies?
Nice try on the puppies Alberto but no.
Please congratulate Mina for me!
Congratulate? She’s grounded for 10.000 years. She can watch telly and use the sofa though.
Well I was going to suggest something about an earlier curfew, and good fences…
How gorgeous – you don’t want another cairn do you? Haggis, the puppy is being rather boysterious and a long walk and a swim over to you might just do him the power of good.
After I retreave the coal he’s currently chewing.
Its how they get that mottled colour I hear, by eating coal, and the recycling, and cats, and mud and plants.
I think your white version is much more sensible!
Coal? And cats? Really? I wonder where Argyle found coal… Still, I will alert his owners since Zeke the Cat might be at risk. No terriers are awfully sensible, including the whites, but they are quite devoted and fun and only dig up plants if there happens to be a mole tunnel below. Or anyway that’s the excuse Max always uses. Send terriers here for vacation anytime Fay, but do use a cruise ship, it’s a long swim.