Who Pees in the Woods?

Truth be told - everyone pees in the woods.

When you gotta go - you gotta go....

Dogs

Time for some dog pics.

Our graying, elderly Lab - demure and stoic.

And the goofy, blonde Lab - smart and affable. 

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Her Highess

Lest the other Lab have her delicate feelings hurt by the attention lavished on her older auntie I present Her Highness - Der schlafende Hund...

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Poetry in Motion

I dunno about you but I can never get enough of the fluid motion of a Labrador retriever on a joyous romp in the snow...

Poetry in motion you know.

 

Schlafender Hund

The blonde Lab is a contortionist when she's on the rotisserie in front of the wood stove...

 

Schneehunde

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The girls absolutely love the freshly fallen snow.  Next to muddy puddles there probably isn't anything better to a Labrador retriever.

Blonde Dog

Same Camera - Same place.

Nothing more uplifting than the joy of a Labrador Retriever out for a run.

Alternately wet, muddy or covered in something she's rolled-in Blonde Lab is having a blast.

These two trail camera photos were taken six days apart.

What evidence is there of that?

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Poetry In Motion

I cannot help myself.

Another three shot burst series of photos of blonde dog in motion.

You can almost see the glee in her face as she bounds through the slop and the mud southbound on the main trail and headed to the swollen creek for a dip.

Poetry in motion.

Now excuse me.  I have a mountain of dog towels to launder.

Schlafenhund

Nothing more needs to be said.

Circuit Rider

Traveling the circuit to monitor the trail cameras.  

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Two of them got new sets of batteries, found out one of them has a corrupted SD card and I couldn't retrieve the photos from it.  That's shame since it was a cameral located next to a big and fresh buck rub.

The dogs get some exercise too.

Me and the Girls

Just me and my girls...

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Me and the Girls

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Not much escapes the patient vigil of a trail camera.  Are these dogs happy or what?

Dogpatch

Tired Labrador retrievers.  Must've been that busy afternoon chasing-up birds...

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Crazy Labs

Oftentimes when I run the dogs with the four wheeler they'll grab a stick and run together with it like a team of horses.  Side by side, full-tilt with neither relinquishing control of the stick.  They are crazy dogs.

On rare occasions I've managed to stop and after fishing-out my smart phone take some video of this behavior while navigating the trails one-handed.  More often than not it is precisely at this moment that the dogs stop, drop the stick and look at me for direction.  

This afternoon I ran the dogs with the Polaris and sure as shit they grabbed a stick and did their team of horses shtick.  I momentarily thought of pausing and fetching the phone from my pocket to shoot some video but decided against it.  I figured they'd drop the stick as soon as I paused to do so.

Today they ran with their stick side by side for almost a half mile before giving-up on the game.  Fortunately one of the trail cameras caught an action shot...

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Scale

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The only reason I posted this photo is for purposes of scale.  It would appear that the digital images of the coyote from yesterday's post correspond nicely with this image.  Same camera and same location - taken one day apart.

The yote is about the same size as our blonde Lab.

Taken earlier you can see in this photo that the black Lab is a tad bigger and bulkier than the predator.

That said - now you know why I never walk the dogs off lead without a sidearm strapped to my hip.

Commit the Crime ....do the Time

Or as we like to say...

If you roll in the deer poo in the path...you get a bath.

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Very undignified for a Lab - but there are consequences for certain actions.

Poetry in Motion

Blonde dog loving a romp in the snow.

Burst setting on the trail camera got a three shot sequence of poetry in motion...

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Charge!

Labrador retriever dogs loving the winter weather.

Impossible for them to do anything slowly.

Charge!

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Dawgs

No week is complete without some pics of the four-legged members of the family.  The Labs totally embrace winter.  They love absolutely nothing more than running, mousing, chasing, snuffling and romping in the snow.

Captured on one of the trail cameras Sister and Girlfriend...

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Huntn'

Out for a fall walk with the gilrs to see if we might kick-up some birds and find dinner.

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Not happening.  All the flushes we're too far and too furious.

Need more practice.

Sigh...