Westminster Pulik

I was lucky enough to be at Westminster this Spring. Here come the Pulik.

It's Spring

 

It's springtime in the Rockies

Group Win!!!!!

oh oh oh oh my oh my oh my!

The Puli won. The Puli won. The Puli won. (Group- now we're all on the edge of our seats for BIS)

Ch. Cordmaker Field Of Dreams won Group 1st for owners Sue Huebner and Jackie Beaudoin, and his talented handler Linda Pitts.



He just owns the ring. Look at that jump!

http://video.westminsterkennelclub.org/player/?id=1004081

For the Corgi fans... fluffy butts... many fluffy butts....

http://video.westminsterkennelclub.org/player/?id=1004081#videoid=1004161

Morning romp

Blue Pulik (see? two noses?)



Backlit Pulik (still two of them- really even though all you see is 4 feet) They will be 2 years old next month and the dreads are getting longer and longer....

Running up to the Studio- cold this morning... Duff keeps up with the hell boyz just fine thanks.

froggie

What's that you got boyz?





Duff thinks it might be something he wants too...



Purple Froggie- a present from Sadie.


Haha, Pulik win...

Boxing Day?

It's way past boxing day..


But the Pulik don't know that...


Duff is a little skeptical about this early morning play time...



It might be fun..


Or not...


In the end the Puli Bros. keep the game to themselves.

Spring has sprung

We get a lot of wind in the Spring and Summer (actually we get a lot of wind year round). That's a profile shot BTW.

The Indian Paintbrush is finally in bloom.

and the cactus....

and here's BB sniffing the false dandelion. At least he didn't sniff the cactus.

Squeaky balloon snow

It will come as no surprise that yesterday we got more snow. It's cold enough to sound like rubbing the outside of a balloon when you walk on it. It's light and dry and gives that silky swish swish sound under skis.


Just a little 1-2" dusting as you can see by Ginny's roll in the new stuff. It doesn't seem like anyone minds being outside in the stuff except me? I have shoes and I get cold feet- they have paws and don't seem to mind in the least. In fact they like eating snow more than drinking from the water bowl. I think Ginny got into this habit at the Puppy mill and she'll just push along rubbing the side of her face through the powder with her mouth open scooping up snow, licking snow, eating snow.


That doesn't account for the wind however, the drifts can be 3-4x as high. We get a lot of wind up here.


The sunset was crisp and beautiful as usual.

It's supposed to get warmer over the weekend- into the 30's. We'll see if that actually happens.

Snowshoe

Yesterday the sun was out in the afternoon. The snow was a sugary powder so I decided to take a little snowshoe walk out in the meadow.

Luverboy was the only one who wanted to come with me. He seemed to enjoy it.


The elk were there in the night. As you can see elk tracks in the snow are quite different than deer tracks. They sashay through the snow instead of dragging their hooves.


Here are a couple of elk sitzmarks where they spent the night.

These are tracks with an elk moving slightly faster. That's about an 8 foot stride.


Luverboy's stride is considerably shorter. He finally decided to catch up to me.

So that I could break trail for him.

Ginny looked like she'd been having her own brand of fun while we'd been out on our walk.

Bearded Puli

Puli basics

No, it's not a cross with a poodle... yes they can see... yes they can break glass with that bark.

There's an old Hungarian saying "If you're hungry steal your neighbors' chicken, unless your neighbor has a puli".



They are bred to herd sheep. Racka Sheep- not for the faint hearted...






They are also trained to move bulls around. Traditionally they work in teams of 3- one jumps up grabs the bull's nose and hangs on while the other two bark and nip at the hooves. This takes a certain amount of brashness in their personality. They're great jumpers.




Border Collies win herding trails, Pulik do not. It's not that Pulik don't listen they just have different ways of accomplishing goals other than "way to me" and "lie down!" A Puli will likely herd sheep by spinning like an electic blender with a short circuit and barking with a sound only equalled by fingernails on a chalkboard. What sheep wouldn't run away from that? If that's your tactic the only crucial thing is where you position yourself when you start to spin and scream. This is a maximum result for a minimum of effort.

It's never dull.