Spring - rest

Yes, SPRING is here :)

Spring is really here. Although it is still lots of snow around, some early birds have started to sing, there are small rivers everywhere, we soon have a privare swimming pool from melted snow in our garden, and it smells earth. We feel it, and Maja feels it too - she is so wagging and energetic and full of life when we go outside. And so happily tired when we come home. We went out for two hours today, and the result afterwards was this:

 

Back! And new bed routines :)

Oh, it has been shamefully long since this blog was last updated, but it has been a busy time, and I have been away for more than a month. Let's not dwell on that, but make sure that the frequence get's a little bit higher in the future :)

Maja's sleeping habits have changed recently, in a very practical and charming way. When she was small, she preferred to sleep in her bed beside our bed. Then she started to come into our bed in the morning. Then it was a period - maybe starting after a holiday last summer brought us some bad habits - when she would prefer to sleep in our bed with us the whole night. In some way it was very cute, but also now and then a bit disturbing - Maja does after all take some space, and some nights I would wake up either finding that a furry creature had taken most of my blanket, or I would wake up with my butt outside the bed. Hip and back pains became a part of everyday life :)

Now new phase :) When we go to the bedroom at night, Maja has usually already fallen asleep in her own bed in the living room. Oh, and she loves the bed. It is round and s soft, but with quite sturdy wakks,

Holy Christmas

It is Christmas :) Christmas, with all the wonderful things that come with it - good food, cakes and cookies, candles, decorated trees, gifts.. But the nicest thing of all is to be together with family. This year we are celebrating with Jurgita's parents - a part of Maja's "extended family". And Maja loves it: We are out a couple of hours every day, the rest of the time we are relaxing indoors. For Maja it is heaven on earth - everyone is collected more or less in the same room, no need to check where someone is, nothing to worry about, just relax and enjoy long, joyous, calm evenings in front of the fire place :)

The Armani Dog

I wish I was there to see this :)
Jurgita was out walking in town with Maja the other day. Maja loves these walks - it's a lot of things to sniff, a lot of people around, maybe even some compliments and some scratches to get. And there are lots of huge shop windows to look at and to see reflections in. This time she stopped by an Armani shop (sic) to look at either her own reflection or something in the window. Amazingly; the women working in the shop saw Maja through the window and fell so for her that she invited Maja and Jurgita in to the shop to cuddle Maja and show her to her colleagues. So, while the woman and Jurgita was talking, Maja was walking around and sniffing Armani shoes. Now.. I dare to bet a LOT that she is the only dog in Vilnius that has ever done THAT :D

And who says dogs and cats can't get along?

Just had to show you all this. It's not Maja, but I am sure she wouldn't mind a cat :)

A dead mouse

Me and Maja were out walking in the weekend when she suddenly fell behind a bit. I didn't pay very much attention to it - it was a "free" walk in nature, so she ran around as she wanted to herself. But suddenly I heard her bark - not the "boff-ing" that she usually makes, but some very high yelping. When I came to her, she was standing totally transfixed, staring at a dead mouse. I could see that mouses hole in the ground, and it seemed like it was a little bit dug, so maybe Maja had dug it up and caught her? Even so, she was really not happy about her catch; this was not at all things were supposed to be like. The mouse was supposed to breathe, and run, and play, not lie like that, not moving. I tried to call Maja to come, but she kept on staring and very carefully sniffing. When I pulled her away, she followed me for some steps, and then went back again. When I finally made her come, she was really not in the mood for any playing or wagging at all - she seemed quite upset, and it took me a minute or two and a snack to make her the usually happy dog.

Off, little naive Maja :) Really not a hunter and really not very used to the harsh realities of life..