Our Visit Home

Levi and I had a wonderful time at home this weekend spending time with the family.  It was so relaxing to not study for 3 days, I only wish it could have lasted longer.

Thankfully the weather was nice on Saturday morning and Mom, Levi, and I headed to Avila to go for a walk on the Bob Jones Trail.  It has become a favorite walk of ours at home.  I can't believe how much more grown up Levi looks now compared to the other 2 times we walked on this trail over summer (posted here and here).

(Our failed attempt at a group shot)

One thing that I found pretty funny at home was that Levi couldn't figure out how to get on the bed.  He is used to having a step to climb up so he doesn't really know how to "jump" onto the bed.  I thought it would just be intuitive for a dog, especially since he loves trying to jump onto everything else, but even after a day he was still trying to climb onto the bed rather than jump.  I wish I could have gotten it on video because it was pretty funny.  He would get his front end up and then try to step up with his back legs but it was too high of a step up.  I ended up having to help lift his butt onto the bed.  Finally on the second day I got him to jump up there on his own.  He was so proud of himself after that.

Tomorrow morning we are driving back to Davis where real life awaits us. Only 4 weeks until we are off for Thanksgiving break (we get a whole week off of school!).  We also don't start classes until 11am for the rest of the quarter (except days when we have exams), so I can't complain too much.  That gives us lots of time for walks, playing fetch, and riding Gypsy in the mornings.

Halloween from the Past

I was just going through some old pictures and thought i would post Kobe's 1st Halloween Pictures. He was 7.5 months old.

Finally a Break

I just finished a few weeks of never ending tests and now have a little break for a few days before the studying starts up again.  Nothing too exciting has been going on with Levi and me lately, but we are going home to Templeton this weekend to visit Mom, Dad, and Melissa which will be a nice little vacation.  Hopefully the weather will be nice enough that we can go for a hike or something while we're there.  I know Levi will love all the extra attention!

His Halloween costume arrived today and I already tried it on him.  He looks so cute!  I'm sure he probably hates me for making him wear it. :-)  There is a dog costume contest at the vet school TG (bbq) tomorrow evening that I was going to enter him in but I didn't realize it was the Friday that I was going home so now it looks like he is just going to have his costume for fun/pictures.  I think I'm going to keep it a surprise for now, but there will likely be pictures posted next week sometime.  I know I won't be able to keep it a secret for very long. :-)

I ordered a Perla bed for Levi a little while and it was on backorder at the time but it was supposed to get in the next week.  Well, it's been over a month now and it is still on backorder. :-(  Levi is hoping that the bed will hurry up and be in stock soon so we don't have this old blanket sitting in the corner by itself anymore.  It really wants a bed to go in.

 

Here Levi is trying to decide which Everlasting Treat Ball to play with.  The medium sized one was good when he was a puppy, but he recently graduated to the large sized one.  He still likes to play with the empty medium one though for whatever reason.  He really loves these chew toys but he can occasionally pop the chew part out of the blue holder and then I have to try to squeeze it back in when it's all slimy which is pretty difficult. 

Sorry for the lame blog posts lately...hopefully we will have something more exciting to talk about soon.

Intro to agility class

I am obviously slacking on blogging lately.  School is getting a lot more intense so my free time for blogging is limited.  I have Pharmacology and Bacteriology tests this coming week and then Virology and another Oncology test the week after. 

Levi and I started an intro to agility class last weekend, so today was our second time going.  It is a lot of fun and I am learning so much.  It's nice that it is really low key and there are only 4 of us in the class.  The class is through Precision Chaos in Dixon which is only about 10 minutes away.  Levi seems to really enjoy it as well.  I can't wait until he is full grown and can start doing real agility training. 

No pictures from our doggy class, but here are a couple random pictures from my phone that I thought were funny.

Levi decided he wanted to shield his eyes from the light when I was studying past his bedtime.

My crate that was in the car is really dirty and needing cleaning so Levi has been getting to ride loose in the back of the jeep.  Most of the time he lays down but occasionaly he likes to rest his head on the seats in front of him.