Water is un-herd-able.

Today I was conned. Yes, me, the ever smarter-than-smart Border Collie. How sad. Life's an ongoing lesson they say. Well, lesson learnt. Don't, I repeat, EVER trust EVERY word that comes out from your hoomans lips. They are at best, suspicious, at worse, you will find yourself struggling to get out of a sea of blue. (Tris is just being his usual dramatic self. Ignore him)

The day started innocently enough. The hoomans were busy frapping around.. (Yes, they frap, just like us Border Collies. Only difference is we do it faster and more stylish-ish :)) I kept hearing the word "Swimming. Swimming" spoken with so much enthusiam that I almost had a spontaneous combustion right there and then! Talk about excitement x100 and square that! Me being the ever trusting me just couldn't stop drooling. Something unfathomably exciting must be coming my way! Today is my big day!

So after much ado about nothing, of which I spend most of my time herding my frapping hoomans from one room to another while they stuff towels, clothes, water bottles - the usual prelude accompaniments to PLAY - into bags, my mind went bonkers! So much stuff! Surely today will be the mother of all play days! Woo hoo! I can't wait!

So off we went! This is how excited I was! I even did a Tristan-rear-dashboard-sit-stay special in the car just to commemorate this event!


So we got to our destination. It's a place called Mutts and Mittens. I am already loving this place. So spacious! I can smell grass! I can see so many dogs. I met a huge lab called Yellow. He seems to be the resident tough guy here. He IS HUGE I'm telling you. Unfortunately Mommy did not have her camera with her, so sorry peeps, no pictures of the handsome boy. I also met some cats! And guess what? I even met one of my kind. Kingsley the BC! I heard his mommy adopted him from this very place! Awesome or what?!?

Anyhow. Whatever. Ok, back to PLAAAAAAAAAAAY! Where art thou, PLAY?

This is IT? Hmmm... Suspicious...


Hey! What are you doing? I can get in on my own!


What's happening here...?


Nothing! Kena conned!!


Let me out!!


Stop being a wuss, Tris! Come back in! Water is fun! *evil grins*


Noooooo!!


See? It's not THAT bad.......... (Just look @Tris' tortured face!)


If you swim hard enough, you might meet............... a friend that looks ALMOST exactly like you! (That's Tris' elder brother, Momo Taro)


Do we look like twins?!?





Ok, this is a clearer picture of him. Hmm... I get the feeling he doesn't like this water thingy too. Great Border Collie minds think alike!


I'm not going in anymore. Thank you very much. (Yuki :"Tris is such a wuss!")


"Into the water, you 2 wussies!"


"Come ON!"


Conclusion. I don't like H2O, no matter what the hoomans say. Water is un-herd-able so it's not my type! (excuses! excuses!) I don't care if Yuki jie jie is the reigning swim champion of the day. She is still one good wrestle on dear old beloved land!