12.29.10
Posted in News at 19:41 by nikki
Better hurry if I’m gonna get one more update in this year!
Yes, I have been a bit depressed lately and not been doing much of anything except playing Facebook games over Xmas…I hate that. I have so much I should be doing but the mind and body just don’t agree with each other sometimes. Christmas is always my least favourite time of year just because I never get to be with my family and I think it’s about 10 years or so (possibly more) since I’ve actually been with them for Xmas. We once had Xmas in July just so we could pretend we were together for Xmas but even that was I think 6 years ago.
I’m not going to say I’ve not been busy doing some stuff during the time I last updated and now because we’ve been in Reykjavík so much that we were hardly ever at home for a couple weeks and man the money we’ve spent on gas is horrendous but the trips were pretty much necessary and we always try to do as much as we can in the same trip to save money on gas…worst thing though it makes the trips at least 6-7 hours each day. It was so tiring and I think the stress and traveling just plain wore me out, that’s why I’m just plain not up to anything now. So why so many trips to town, you may ask. At least one of them was a total surprise that we definitely wouldn’t mind repeating…we had not planned going that day but got a call the night before and were asked to come in the morning and we said YES. It was a photo shoot and I’ll get back to that later.
We were of course shopping for Xmas presents a few times then we had to drive all the presents (ours and his sister’s who lives in our town) to the family the day before Xmas, also finishing our clicker courses which were fun but a bit disappointing that at the last class (Dec.19th) only two showed up. We did realize that being so close to Xmas would have an effect but it was sad anyway because we had a little Xmas celebration and some presents that we had made for them. Speaking of presents my Dad was so kind to send me some money and we decided that although he probably wanted us to pay our bills with it that we wanted to at least buy something for some of it that would be from him and Donna. So since we are trying to do some crafts lately that we can hopefully sell, we decided that a sewing machine was exactly what we needed. It’s my first ever sewing machine and I’m so happy…I’ve wanted one for years just to be able to hem clothes and stuff. I actually used to work at a sewing factory and loved that work. Hems was the main idea but this one is awesome (it was on sale so we got a good deal) with lots of extra types of stitches. It’ll take some practice and reading to be able to figure it all out I’m sure. Rúnar has actually been sewing a bit on it already so no doubt he can teach me how to use it if I get stuck.
We got some other great gifts for Xmas like a salt crystal lamp and a big salt crystal candle holder. I love those things and they help keep the air in the house clean. Some gifts were handcrafted beautiful items from Rúnar’s family and I had no idea everyone was so talented, we feel bad that we didn’t get many cards out this year and the gifts we gave were not all that spectacular. We just had a very very quiet Xmas this year and to tell the truth neither of us bothered to get dressed up, we stayed in our PJ’s ALL weekend and loved it. The weather wasn’t anything special, it did snow for a few hours and was so pretty but then of course when we think wouldn’t it be nice to take the dogs for a walk in the new fallen snow then it started raining and hasn’t really stopped since. 
Another thing keeping us at home these past few days is the girls are all in heat, Klói is not eating poor guy. I’m just feeling BLAH so it’s fine to just try and rest up until Rúnar goes back to work. Also we have one dinner invitation on the 2nd of January in Reykjavík so that means more travel so gotta rest up for that.
I’m thinking Sheila Bell has definitely been watching over her little guy for us our little redhead Pési (he is just unbelievable with his temperament and calmness for a pup his age) just might have found his forever home with someone that I’d be thrilled with as his owner. A fellow Icelandic clicker trainer and holistic/reiki practitioner living in Norway. I so hope it works out and that she will like him when she meets him or her friend will who is going to meet him for her very soon. I’ve known her for years and as is often the way she actually wasn’t actively looking for a puppy but he “catch her eye” and she’s finding that he just might be the one she is meant to have. She has one dog and has wanted a second one for quite awhile and always liked the ISD. He will be with us a bit longer though so I’m hoping to do a little more training with him. He is a great subject for training since he makes it all seem so easy. hehe I got him a small dummy for Xmas so it’s about time to teach him some assistance dogs tricks like hold and give. He has been stealing the mail from Klói and giving it to me, he wants to do everything Klói does so it shouldn’t be hard to put things on cue.
He made us so proud a couple days before Xmas and modeled for an advertisement that can be seen here. Here is the photo itself.
And here is the older ad that they have used every year. It’s a very old greeting card and they decided they wanted to bring it to life this year! Lucky us! 
Not bad eh? I don’t think they could have chosen a more similar dog or people actually (except for the lady they used instead of a man in the middle of the photo but hey…I guess they wanted to add a bit more spice). They did a great job. Only problem is that we didn’t have time to actually train him for this particular pose and even though some photos of him he did have his little paws out of the box and the boy was actually petting his head (we clicked him for that a few minutes before the photo shoot started), those photos the boy didn’t have the correct position in his body or was too far forward or too far back etc. Many of the photos Pési was sitting so to be fair they didn’t say they actually wanted the photo to be exactly as the drawing, just said they wanted him to be in the box. I so wanted to tag teach the boy because the poor photographer wasn’t all that great at giving instructions. Hehe It all worked out well though and the shoot itself didn’t take long, it was the waiting for them to get things ready that took the longest. We are so happy it turned out great! The photographer loved Pési and wanted to take him home. His assistant said that Pési was awesome, they had a full grown dog for an ad once that was supposed to be obedient and they had so much more trouble with him. Here are a few photos from the shoot that I took.
Pési gave us a new goal…we’d love to be able to train animals for ads, TV or movies. Seriously though, it would be fun and very fulfilling for our egos although I really and truly want to train assistance dogs or something a bit more rewarding for the owners, ads and TV might be a neat place to spread the clicker message. Just wish they all had Pési’s temperament. I tell you if he doesn’t go to Norway to my friend then I certainly am tempted to just keep him myself. I’ve grown so fond of him and he is so perfect (apart from his undescended testicle) he fits our family like a glove to a hand.
What else is new? Well, it seems our little teenager hooligan Tinni who immigrated to Canada decided that he wanted to be a daddy right away, much to the dismay of his owners but it would seem that sometimes nature has plans we just don’t agree with but figure out later that “hey that was a good idea” The Christmas surprises were born on the 27th and are wonderful. You can watch them live on webcam. The owner’s website blog has a link to Justin TV and also some new photos up. I am totally smitten with their markings and their mom is so awesome I’m convinced her and Tinni just knew exactly what they were doing. Hehe Go take a peek we are so proud of our grandpuppies and it’s funny to think that Klói is a grandpa and Birta a greatgrandma, they sure don’t act like it.
We decided no more puppies for Birta, I know I’ve talked about it before and was still humming and hawing and thinking MAYBE. It was a hard decision powers that be made for us in a sense because we couldn’t afford to update her eye test to be able to try again now and the mating we did try didn’t work. I say fate has given us the answer. Her progeny will carry on her line and their progeny after that, I’m seeing some lovely dogs from her sons already. I really and truly hope that one day someone might want Klói for a litter so that he can have at least one more (I am very happy with his only litter) and maybe I can keep back in future something from him. That would be the nicest for me in terms of keeping Birta and Freyja alive and not having to have alot of dogs at any one time. I’d love to give the dogs I have right now alot more quality time for awhile. Frigg is doing really well apart from being almost deaf and having very bad eyesight but she’s a bit of a youngster in her own mind which is good. Birta is in good health and Hófi and Klói still young so it would seem that for the time being I have more than enough dogs to keep me busy. I really want to start to take part more in dog stuff here like the Rally which is just starting out. It was supposed to be one of our “babies” here in Iceland but with living so far from Reykjavík a couple of our fellow trainers have started it on their own and we are hoping it will take off and become popular. I’d love to be able to take part one day just for fun.
Have a bunch of projects eating at my brain at the moment, including books (a few more ideas have surfaced and still haven’t finished the first ones!) and hoping to do those as a joint project with my brother’s girlfriend in Canada, making dog leashes and some other small things. I’m hoping that these blah days will end soon and I can actually get something done! We have plans for a couple courses starting Feb.-March and I’m supposed to judge an obedience trial for the German Shepherd club in March. Hopefully 2011 will be a more successful year in terms of paying off our bills. :-Þ Should be a bit easier since we have no plans for litters (that always hits our pocket book hard and my health) but who knows what the future holds we’ll just have to wait and see. I’m thinking just buy regular lottery tickets sooner or later we have to win, right? I’m going to try to stay more positive this year at least. I’m hoping my sister’s plans of coming to Iceland next Christmas with her girls will come true and that will be the most awesome thing to look forward to.
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12.05.10
Posted in News at 22:56 by nikki
We got very sad news that Pési’s owner in Scotland passed away suddenly in November. She had been in a car accident the last time we heard from her and as the days and then weeks past without an email and without her answering her phone we got very nervous and feared the worst. It was a few days ago that we finally got a hold of a family member who told us the horrible news. She sadly had some complications that lead to her death. She was found unconscious and never recovered so could not speak to anyone before she died a few days later, the lady told me she had heard about the “little dog” but didn’t know anymore about how to contact us.
Sheila had been so excited about her little Pési, she had fallen in love with him from his photos and the emails from her were wonderful. We were so looking forward to letting her dream of getting an Icelandic sheepdog puppy come true. We were shocked and devastated to hear the news and our thoughts went to poor Pési and what is now in store for him, at the same time with a thankful heart that he had indeed still been here with us waiting for his blood test next week. Had he been in Scotland already then we don’t know what would have become of him.
We are still pretty shook up and trying to get our thoughts together about the reality, since we had planned on having him until 10 months because of the importation rules in Scotland anyway, we’re not in a big hurry to get rid of him but at the same time we think for him it would be better to find a family very soon. Thankfully for us we were able to get a dispensation to the rules here in Iceland because according to law dogs that get rabies shots and do not leave the country are to be put down. This because it is against the law to administer the rabies vaccine in Iceland and the vet (and us) had to get special permission to do so. For the first little while we thought that Pési would have to be put down if we don’t find a new home abroad but after speaking to the Ministry of Agriculture Rúnar told me that they said it would not be carried out. The relief is huge! Now our efforts can be put into finding him the family he is meant to be with. We are happy about making the decision at the time for Sheila to get him because it meant we got to know a very special lady a little bit better and we made her very happy for a few weeks, but obviously it wasn’t meant to be in the long run.
I am very tired after the weekend and not feeling too well today but I thought I MUST update ASAP so that if his owner is out there that they will know he is searching for them! I will try to update soon with some other news and photos. Hopefully Rúnar will get a bit of extra time after work sometime next week to update the puppy page so people will know he is available, if they don’t read the blog but for now this will have to do.
Rest in peace Sheila Bell, you were a special lady and left the world a truly better place. The love and hard work you put into the project that is your legacy, I hope one day I may be able to visit the Wildlife Haven you created on the land of Glenlude hill on the Scottish Borders but if I never do I will keep the photos you sent as a reminder of you as a remarkable human being. You can read a little bit about Sheila on page 8 of this journal.
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11.24.10
Posted in News at 16:31 by nikki
Time just flew and I realized that it’s been a coon’s age since I wrote anything. Of course with my goldfish memory I can’t remember what happened during that time so that means you won’t get all the news if you haven’t followed me on Facebook. Hehe I know it’s bad I’m much better at using Facebook than updating this blog. I’m thinking though that since I’ve been spending way too much time on Facebook at the cost of time spent training or knitting or other things more important, that I’m going to cut down the Facebook drastically…or at least try. I’m so bad at becoming addicted to it, I have lately noticed that keeping up with the news of all my friends on Facebook is IMPOSSIBLE (I miss alot of the important happenings) and it’s just causing me anxiety and stress trying! It’s quite a while since I was forced to stop following all the email lists I subscribe to including all the Icelandic sheepdog ones. It seems they are endless once you start trying to keep up then you get nothing else done and new ones are cropping up all the time. I can’t for the life of me figure out how people are able to keep up with all the lists, Facebook, updating the blog, website (which is separate), emails, visiting friends and family, caring for multiple dogs, housework AND rest and relaxation, not to mention how can you give some time to your significant other when you are always on the computer? I know just say it I’m a basket case! I’m quite aware of that. Hehe
Sadly Rúnar’s mobile phone gave up completely a few days ago and he was forced to get a new phone. He said he wanted a specific one and that it could be for his birthday. It has a keyboard and everything so he’s starting to spend even more time on his phone than he did his computer. He loves it of course and I’m hoping the novelty will wear off in a little bit, men and their toys!!! But it has helped him to keep up with his emails a bit since he can just sit on the couch and read them on the little screen. It got me to thinking though that I was spending way too much time on the computer and I decided to nip it in the bud and try to “get a life”. Hehehe My dogs need to be trained and I’ve seen such a great change in Klói lately since I’ve done a little bit of training with him, he loves the attention and was getting a bit depressed (it seemed) at little Pési being the only one to get attention around here besides the computer stealing me the rest of the time.
Speaking of spending time doing other things, we had the wonderful opportunity to babysit little Tumi for a few days, he got here last Thursday and left again on Monday. I had been a bit stressed as to how I would handle having 6 dogs in the house again but was so surprised that a puppy of 9 months (almost 10) was so calm and easy to care for. Of course he loved to play with Pési and the two of them kept each other busy so that in itself let me off the hook a little in having to keep Pési entertained. Boy, can I feel after he left how much Tumi actually helped out, Pési has had the zoomies like crazy, hardly a moments rest. Hehe
What a darling dog Tumi is and the spitting image character wise of his mother Skella. It was like having her here with us again, and with his looks so much like his dad and grandma it was so funny to see the three of them together. Boy I wish Freyja and Skella had of still been here, how I would have loved to see them all together. Anyway, we tried to get a few family photos with the three musketeers and I think a couple of them aren’t all that bad. But being a puppy and a goofball just like his mom there was always someone making a face or climbing off the couch with their butt up in the air (yes, of course that would be Tumi doing something like that).
Here is the one I think is probably the best of the bunch. Talk about his silly little Skella smile and character shining through! He has such gorgeous black pigment and eyes that they look rounder than they actually are and it seems he is similar to Klói in that when he is excited they are round like saucers.
What an improvement on his Dad (bone, head, pigment, length, height and tail) and his mom (look at those nice small ears and better front along with the tail and slightly shorter back), he doesn’t even look gangly. Reminds me of Birta and Freyja, neither of them were ever gangly looking as youngsters. We were actually a bit upset that we didn’t think to take him to the show on the weekend. But to be fair none of us knew he would be coming down that exact weekend, not even his owner had decided on the date to come to Reykjavík. They came to hear their son hold a concert in town and do some Xmas shopping I believe so it was a bit of a spur of the moment thing. We aren’t complaining because in truth it really doesn’t matter what the judges think, we see a promising young dog and can’t wait to see what he looks like when full grown. Our fingers are crossed for his health results in future because he is a co-own and from what we’ve been able to see of temperament as well as everything else he is definitely a dog we want to use.
He is a very good height not a small dog at all, already a tiny bit taller than his Dad who is just under standard, an awesome short coat, he’s not a barker, he is quick to calm down when stressed, he is extremely strong and powerful (like his mom) as you would expect an Icelandic sheepdog to be. No wind going to blow him over on a mountain cliff. He is a very happy go lucky guy like his mom and can be a handful so would make a good working dog but he is also calm and manageable in the house. He gets along with all other dogs. He has a nice sturdy body with wide front, good bone, slight hook in tail, double dews and gorgeous head and wow the jet blackness of his pigment and eyes…long time since I’ve seen such dark pigment in the Iceland dog but his mom was like that too. His paws are absolutely gorgeous they are so compact. Tumi reminds me a lot of the old type of dog, the sturdy ones that haven’t turned into a tiny ball of fur lacking substance and weight. He is masculine which is something hard to find these days, even Klói is a bit feminine although he is more masculine than many.
We are thinking that Klói has given us some awesome progeny with Skella (a pure act of fate it must be said) and I so hope he will be able to have another litter sometime. After seeing Tumi we decided that Birta does not have to be used again (we don’t want to take a chance with her health). Besides the fact that we didn’t have the money to get her eye test updated (it was last weekend at the show) and now she is too old to wait until the next eye test to be used. She has such a nice group of grandpuppies (all over the world mind you) and a couple of her own progeny (we can just hope that people will want to use the males since it’s the bitch owner’s who choose) so it means her blood is available in “better individuals” than she is herself and to us that is the most important. We just want her line to be preserved, we are sad of course that she only had the one litter but the quality of that litter seems to be a good legacy to her and to my beloved Freyja and we will hopefully in future be able to get either something out of Klói (with a bitch someone else owns) or out of Tumi.
The dogs LOVED having Tumi here and I think especially Klói. He seemed so proud of his boy and Tumi was so happy to be with Dad even if he was a bit bigger than him he would roll right over on his back if Klói told him he was being too rambuntious. Wonderful visit that we will treasure the memories of for a while (until next time). Photos tell a thousand words.
On the subject of puppies, Pési has had his rabies vaccine and now we continue to wait to be able to take the blood test in a month. The vet seems to think there is still hope his testicle might drop since she actually felt it low down in his abdomen at his Parvo vaccinations on Monday.
We are a bit stressed out lately, my anxiety is at a bit of a high level these days as is the dizziness, I guess one of the reasons it has taken me so long to update. I’m especially bad today with feeling like I’m going to fall over, maybe it’s from knitting so much, my shoulders and neck are swollen.
We have been holding 3 clicker courses, one on Saturdays for advanced students, it’s fun but we are wondering if we might need to have an intermediate level next time. Sundays we have two classes both for beginners but the later class is more private lessons for a disabled lady in a wheelchair. It is going pretty well and her puppy is starting to calm down a bit with the help of doggie zen. Definitely not the dog that should be used for service dog work temperament wise but this dog was just chosen like a pet. Too bad but we will try to do our best to help her to channel the energy. We are learning quite a bit from this case as it calls for alot of out of the box thinking since she is unable to do things herself but is insistent that she wants to train her dog herself. We have an interpreter (sign language) as well as her assistant and her husband so we have been teaching them all as well so it’s helping spread the interest of clicker training to people who might never have known what it was without the initial interest of this disabled lady. It goes to show you never know where “ambassadors” of clicker training may appear.
I guess that’s about all for the moment. Like I said I’m trying to spend more time doing other things than being on the computer, have a little bit of arthritis from the cold these days. We still don’t have snow here but it’s reallllllly cold…brrrrrrrrrr I found a nice cause on Facebook where a lady decided (after having experienced the situation herself) to knit cotton hats for premature babies. She invited others to knit (with a special type of wool) and send the hats to her where she will take them to deliver them on the 23rd of December to the maternity ward of the hospital. Of course I thought that is something I can do and I just happened to have the exact wool so didn’t need to buy anything (good since we are broke). I’ve so far made 4 that I’m going to send. I’m not sure if I will have time to knit more because Rúnar’s sister is pregnant and should have her little boy in December so I also want to knit something for him.
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10.30.10
Posted in News at 20:23 by nikki
Well I thought I should at least let everyone know things are going okay since I haven’t updated for so long. Prúð went home with her wonderful owner Scotti to Bainbridge Island to live with Töfra Kelikátur. She left on the 24th and we had some photos from Scotti’s stay here but I haven’t gotten them all ready for the internet yet. Been really busy.
Rúnar went to Finland with Patti to the ISIC meeting (where his one owner is also attending) on Friday morning really early, around 4 in the morning as a matter of fact. That meant we didn’t get much sleep and I really felt that last night and went to bed a bit early, of course I woke up to a swimming pool in Pési’s puppy pen because I forgot to take the water bowl out before going to bed. I tried to have him in a crate but when I saw he was getting anxious and barking I figured I didn’t want to ruin a lesson Scotti had taught them while she was here (she shaped them to go into the crate) so I decided he would be more relaxed in the surroundings he was raised in even though he is alone in there. He really isn’t liking being alone but he is getting lots of play with Hófi and Klói not to the liking of poor Birta who is not happy when they play in the house.
I’ll have to update a little bit more later, everything crazy here as usual. With Rúnar away it’s quite a job to take care of 5 dogs and now Pési is having the evening zoomies! Geesh I am glad I have Skype to be able to talk to Rúnar each evening but can’t wait til he gets back home on Monday evening.
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10.15.10
Posted in News at 11:10 by nikki
Just a quick note since I’ve been really bad at updating. I’m busy trying to create a slideshow for our advanced clicker course right from scratch and my brain is so empty these days, totally lacking imagination, and that course will be starting in November running for 6 weeks on Saturdays. We’ll also be holding a beginners course in November on Sundays so it will be a very busy month. Not to mention I’m supposed to judge an obedience trial as well. I tell ya I should have been done preparing LONG ago but we’ve been running through our minds what we want to include in the advanced course, going back and forth, brainstorming and finally we settled on some exercises and lessons yesterday so now I can put it into action. Of course it’s typical of me to leave things to the last minute. Grrrrr
The pups are soooooo rambuntious these days and taking a bunch of our time as well, I’ll just get into the mood to do some work on the course (between doing housework) and then the pups will be awake again and ready for some attention. They don’t sleep more than a couple hours at a time if I’m lucky these days so it really is hard to concentrate and get anything done. I will however say that they are letting us sleep around 6 hours at night with just the occasional “accident” when we wake up. We will have all three for a couple weeks yet but next week we will be splitting them up into different crates for the night to get them used to that since they are already almost 9 weeks we should have done that this week. Scotti is coming on Tuesday and staying for a few days and that will be great fun, I’m going to be picking her brain since she has been to a Ken Ramirez seminar as well as she is a “chicken trainer” (as well as many other animals and school kids too). We’ve got a few visits planned and one is to see Prins so I’m sure she will be happy with that! I’m looking forward to her visit but at the same time quite stressed that my dogs will misbehave and that the house is a mess, yes I’m a worry wart and can’t do anything about it, my eczema is back the past couple weeks especially bad the last couple days because of my getting stressed out. One of the reasons my slide show is not getting done is my hands are bothering me. I haven’t been cheating on the gluten so I know it’s got to be stress this time. I always get it just before the clicker courses as well, stress, stress, stress.
Pési still only has one testicle so we are looking for a pet home for him and Iceland is not the place to find PET homes, those who want pets usually will get a mixed breed. And I think by now most households already have at least one dog! It is not uncommon for people to have 5-6 dogs or even more just because the market is small and people want show dogs! I am a bit worried that we will end up having 5 dogs again not that Pési isn’t a wonderful puppy (we are in love with him for his sweet calm temperament) and he is just the absolute cutest puppy with his huge coat. We have realized after losing Skella that my health wasn’t handling so many dogs and we were going to try to let them live out their lives without adding new dogs and hopefully ending up with 2 well trained dogs in the future. I know it’s a very ambitious goal to cut down to two dogs since Lord knows we will probably be looking at a breeding female in future too. I have a hard time thinking of never breeding another litter despite all the work and stress around it.
Can’t resist Pési though and he melts us more every day…I mean look at this guy! This photo was taken by my ex-brother in law Árni Stefán Árnason when we went to visit him last Saturday.
Problem is that despite advertising him in the paper yesterday only one person called and it was a girl who had yet to speak to her parents. We have an add running all this week on the internet so fingers crossed for Pési. I wish he could be a therapy dog or something useful because he is sweet and smart like his mom and what a character. He often runs in the house now while the others are outside and finds a toy to take out with him so that everyone will want to play with him. We are going to pick the home very carefully as we have made mistakes in placing dogs before (sometimes circumstances change but you always hope the pups find their forever home right away). Iceland is so not a pet oriented nation, they don’t spay or neuter and everybody wants to show and have puppies (even people with mixed breeds want one or two litters from their dogs and sell pups) sometimes I wish that we had a more dog friendly country in the sense that people buy dogs as companions first not just to be able to produce pups or win ribbons and I wish people were more active in dog sports where it doesn’t matter if the dogs are neutered and spayed or if they are “perfect” or not.
I really don’t know for example IF I will be judging the obedience trial that I am booked for since although the kennel club was going to be very active this year and hold a number of trials they were ALL canceled due to lack of interest except for one that was in Akureyri (held there for the first time). This November trial is the last one on the agenda and I’m curious to see if anyone will show up. But that being said it just makes my point even clearer how can I find a good training home for a dog in Iceland when the interest is ZERO for actual dog training with a purpose. We are even having trouble filling a beginner’s course and we only take 6 students (in each class), what’s up with that? True we did hold quite a few courses in a short period of time last spring but I don’t want to believe that those were the only ones interested in clicker training, but like Rúnar says it’s probably the economy, both the lack of interest in pups and in courses.
When the economy is as it is and everyone has new courses the market is just dried up before it starts and people are starting to pinch their pennies too. The country is in such turmoil and this is a bad time of year for holding courses anyway but of course we couldn’t hold any while we had the pups at home. Who knows maybe our next courses won’t be until February or something like that when people are getting over the Christmas expenses. We have been thinking of maybe putting our energy into writing books or articles so we can at least keep busy and in the training spirit. It’s actually fine with me if we don’t hold many courses as I’m really not up to it much with my health but I feel sorry for Rúnar not being able to get more chances to work hands-on with people and their dogs.
Little bit sad to think though that if poor little Pési had been a bitch (in the physical sense I mean, hehe) then he’d have a few homes to choose from, life is not fair sometimes. But his home is out there somewhere and we’ll find it. 
Anyway, I should get back to doing the slide show, haven’t gotten started yet…geesh keep getting side tracked (on purpose I think). Here are a few cute photos of the pups taken last night while they were chewing on bones.
And one of Klói getting cuddles last night, I think he feels a bit left out lately.
We’ve been visiting people, had Prins’ owner come to see the pups, taken the pups out a bit and probably a bunch more I’ve forgotten but for now this will have to do. Hope at least you have fun looking at the photos.
And WOW before I quit I got some new photos of Tásla Björg in Denmark, she is GORGEOUS just like her mom, dad and grandma. Please go take a look at their website. We forgot to post a link to their site under links so when we get around to that we will add it but until then here it is.
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