Vigo and Hamish on holiday and scientific data....

luckily all the years of saving paid off....several hours later we felt rich again...
Vigo and Hamish traded their car for a bicycle...struggling on who is riding it most, though Hamish is winning (for now)
a few weeks in the past: vigo on holiday at ross and stevens....how much sweeter can this possibly get?
back to today: hamish on holiday at ours...august (cat) has those robot eyes charlie morph perfected....
our neighbor is three years old, so apparently the same age as dogs mature to (in human terms)...interesting....but lucky for us, vigo will stay that way and we wont have to worry about school and teenage years and all that....and soon Vigo will perfect the skill of how to ride a bicycle, Hamish is already such a champ....

A velcro Vizsla panic during the england match.....

Coco the menace came and will stay for a few months, she rules the roost and Vigo and August find it all a bit confusing, they are really trying hard to become her friend...Coco usually hides under a couch or bed when she stays elsewhere, but not here, so she must know this lot are an easy push over....
then of course, the england match...arent they playing germany soon? better hide then....or the sun tabloid will be drawing us with moustaches again and make some comparisons to some time in the past that charlie chaplin made a film about....this is why we hid along the beaches of the southbank in the middle of london [bet you had no idea that this exists...] and we got a rustic tan...and we got back in time to warm the legs of our editor....just in case he gets a chill. this position had to be negotiated over the last month...originally the attempt was to sit on the lap and have the head on the shoulder, but that kind a worked against his being able to move and use the computer....also the constant licks and stuff were a bit weird he felt. then there was the "no feet on me" phase, and this was tough as Vigo needs her feet to communicate....this though seems a healthy compromise, and it is functional...could put this in a new advertisment campaign to help with the influx of rescue Vizslas maybe? headline: "are you struggling with your heating system? are you suffering from cold leg syndrome? one or two vizslak come cheaper than renovating your house, they are known velcro dogs so you can wear them on you at most times..."

vizslas and unordinary habits amongst perfect humans

is this puppy a vizsla in a jacket? or a man who gave birth to a puppy?
and is that someone kissing that suspected vizsla puppy in a coat? a perfect family? Ross as the perfect human, if one were a Vizsla, [Joergen Seth ought to have looked to the UK not Denmark...]

hamish wonders why the cat stopped licking his ears....which he did for absolute ages, until i took the camera, and well, we all know how the observer changes the observed...
a mini whiz viz in victoria park [aparently voctoria never made it to the opening of the park, even though it was named after her by the east enders...the east end was less trendy then i gather.....shame on you vic!]this is Kaffee Mathews, my dear friend of many years and a musician...and there i found her, recording the sound of the canal! she records everything unordinary....should do vigo snoring ...

puppy LOVE

we know the vizsla community will be up in arms but can you imagine how we feel? their first love child, vigo and hamish and their now 3 month old little sandy...but...our breeders told us that these were pure bread vizslas .... i think the white spot in her chest is too big to make it into the show ring.... will she loose points because of the black muzzle too? should we be outraged???? after all, its not like john lewis where you can take them back...

Famous already? (happy to be recognised for doing all these great things for the people and the animals and the bees and the world)

Versatile Vizsla: new hunting definitions

Vigo went to Hastings to enter the annual dogfish trials competition. the fishermen were a bit upset because a gallery called Jerwood wants to build a new place where they are and they say that there are so many beautiful old buildings around that could be regenerated so why build a new building? and this is why this Vizsla will vote not Labour but Vizsla for president at the next election.
ok, this is the boring bit. Bring back the dogfish. In normal field trials the dog flushes, points, the food gets shot and then the dog retrieves it. here it is the same....well almost....let me explain...
Vizslas are called versatile as they do all three: point, flush, retrieve. They point differently at feathers than at fur. one is more front leg and the other more back leg, sometimes a combination of both. now, scale [as in fish scale] pointing is really rare and quite difficult and quite advanced, for instance a dog can't point with three legs for scales as it would fall, etc. so what Vizslas do when they scent scale they frown and stand still, their head looking in the direction of scale.
when the fish is retrieved it is brought to the owner. without teeth marks and no damage to the scale, just like with feather and fur.
this must be a nightmare, the scale ghosts or fish souls or whatever...!!!!!....this scale has a face!

a successful retrieve, scale after scale, and there were plenty for supper for everyone.
after a hard days work most dogs would curl up in front of the fire as they have manners and aren't thinking they are human or somethin' [i.e. sleep in the bed like Hamish, or the redgirls].....but ever the good learner she is, and with Hamish being her best friend, Vigo tries a "hamish" and pretends to be invisible, aka "i can't see you so you can't see me"...sneaking under the blanket...

Vigo super super star [diva]

Vigo went to see some film and music and it took sooooo long to start. so snoozing was an option [of course, has anyone ever seen Vigo NOT snooze?]
finally some action!
hang on a minute, they are great, really, but they could do with a singer...?
Vigo knows many Vizslas 'sing' [or whatever their owners call it], but Vigo claims to be the first singing Vizsla super star diva!!!!
gosh, all that attention meant that the lady even got up from her seat to let the diva rest after her performance [no, Vigo didn't squeeze her out of it, no!]

Vigo - the dog that fell on earth

there was a lion, and the lion fell in love with a lamb. The lion was big and strong and scared the lamb. the lamb was brave and courageous and didn't really grow up with a flock of sheep so didn't think that that a lion may not be able to mend his ways.....
and the sheep was cute and fluffy...[costumes fitted edit out]
and the lion mean and fierce...so the lion came up with a great idea: lets pretend he is a Vizsla. the sheep followed suit and shaved and became a Vizsla too.
and they fell in love and they were inseperable.
day in and day out
on holiday in st tropez
and even their entourage could not fret their sweet love affair

they were one, not two, in soul....

but then....the sheep that was really a Vizsla who wasn't really a Vizsla...but
a sea monster.....will the lion cope? or will he leave? stay tuned for the next episode...

i am here

Vigo makes sure that all goes to plan, for today is the day when we started installing the public art work 'i am here'. if all goes to plan it'll be finished by the end of the week.
it better be finished as the opening is on sunday....better have a nap then...
but then again, sometimes builders tell you anything to keep you hapy, even that they are boxers, when it is quite clear that this boxer has neither fur nor four legs....
but luckily Hamish rescued Vigo in the end...

New Love

Redgirls, note that pink is still in fashion...especially when shivering after falling into the canal.
Vigo got a new kitten. It never worked out with Patch as his owner Max could not part with him after all...so we were lucky when we found August who grew up with two big dogs so was not at all scared of Vigo. Vigo had been heavily phantom pregnant and even lactated, so when August came along last week she adopted him right away.
We think she was quite surprised what motherhood means - constant sharing of food, bed, attention....
not only when she chooses but ALL times...they really are totally adorable together.

Hunting and pointing amongst memories young and old ...

This is Trigger, Trigger, yes, that's his name. You may remember him form the canine ballet he used to perform with Radio. But these are other times and ballet is no longer his thing, so he has to be on a lead now, because he started more masculine sports which resulted in him becoming a bit of a hooligan....
this is Patch, our new kitten, well, Patch will be our new kitten for at the moment he is still with Max as our block of flats has a few unwanted residents, rats, and until we are sure that they have moved out again Patch can't move in....the traps are the size of Patch...
Vigo is scanning the environment. We discovered a new part to the marshes today, a stone henge look alike kind a place, hidden behind wild bushes and trees...
in fact, looks like a giant chair to me....maybe its art?
Vigo points at a stick - Helen the clicker gundog trainer taught us to channel Vigo's focus towards all sorts of things, and this is one Vigo mastered right away. She can point at plastic bags, sticks, and socks. Sometimes also at a cat, but not too often.
Where, oh where, is the stick? boat? wot?

Basel, can't you help? when Basel was young, he was Radio's mate, not a herb, but well, you see what he is. now Basel is getting old and a bit slow. But still, he swims much more than Vigo.
Ruby joined us for a visit to the pub. this was a while ago, maybe a year now. just found it on Lasse's phone. Ruby loved it here because the people working there kept giving her treats all evening and she was allowed to sit on the bench...well, she soon fell asleep. and here, at first i wasn't sure who that was, and it turns out that two images exist - one of Hamish ...and one of Vigo, at the same location, not same level tide....