Kona, Skip, and Me

We welcomed Kona to the Canine Energy family today - he is a lovely boy, Husky cross and a real gentleman. We think approx 11 years old as he is from a rescue centre and he came up to visit while his mom and dad had their own Whistler adventure! Skip was his chaperone and did a great job in welcoming him to our forests and lakes. I love watching new dogs - they always start off bright eyed and interested but alert and not quite ready to relax....that all lasts about 2 minutes, and you can literally see them relax, trot next to their new buddies and in Kona's case swing the tail and flap the ears in time with his gliding gait. He really came alive at lake and stick play time, and was stoked to run around the twisting trails with us around Lost Lake. Here are the shots!

Pleased to meet you Kona!!

It started with a sniff and a pee!

New buddies at the dog beach, and with Skipper supervising we let loose for a drink then a play!

Kona says 'this is fun....lets keep going!!!' Look at those ears! I LOVE him already...yes I am a suck, but that's why I also LOVE my job, arOOOOoooOO!

Swinging tails and flapping ears the new buddies trot into the sunshine. 

Ha! A squirrel was yelling at us, then stopped as I held up the camera, and must have resumed just as I clicked the shutter as Skip had been giving me a classic Skip style dog calendar face, then it made him jump! He's like 'Huh?!'

..guess I was running at this point with them, it wasn't too much coffee honest!!!

Aw look at that little face!!! We had a another dip in the creek before heading to the truck - it was lovely and luckily only shin-deep for me as it was freezing glacial run-off...brrrrr!

Back on leash by Lot 5 we had another intensive sniff at a probably much peed on rock! They were literally forensic sniffing for a good few minutes...I got bored so took a photo! Another awesome day in dog land...it was nice to mosey round the local trails for a change - we ran into Briggy and Spy and their person, a couple of my human pals, and LOADS of dogs...we did take off to the further afield trails to get some peace and share some zen forest moments...I also wanted to get to know Kona better, but it was nice to mix it up a bit. Gold star to Skip for welcoming Kona to our doggy family, atta boy!

See you all tomorrow - AROOOOOOOOO!