LUSI GOOSEY'S WALK BY THE RIVER

 Lusi loves to go for walks down by the river. Even when she was a small  pup at ten weeks old she liked to lie in the long cool grass after surfing through it at high speed. Now she is a lot bigger and stronger she will leap from one spot to another whenever there is a small hillock. She will create her own course in the grass and run it several times in rapid succession. If she hears a noise  like the train approaching she will jump into the air for a better view. She did the same high jumping when I threw her a frisbee to retrieve from the long grass. As the frisbee has a particularly unpredictable landing spot Lusi quickly deduced that she could get a much better idea of its landing location by jumping to see where the frisbee was coming down.

Lusi surveys the landscape from her vantage point

Since we have been going to puppy agility classes we take every opportunity to find unusual surfaces to walk or climb onto while we are out on our walks. Lusi will now "look" for boulders and tree stumps to climb onto. The tree trunk was a little trickier at first but she soon got used to the texture of the bark and the curved and narrowing dimensions of the trunk where it divides into two branches at one end. We decided that this photo looked like a painting by the nineteenth century English painter, George STUBBS.