The World According to Pia: All about the dogs

Yesterday we visited friends who live about two hours drive from us. Malte doesn't always come with us when we're out driving or visiting, he has a tendency to making the day revolving around him, like a little annoying, spoilt child who hasn't gotten any rules to live by...

Partly due to his breed, partly his personality, partly perhaps, just maybe, the owner - I'm not sure who that is... - didn't set completely strict bounderies and rules for him when a pup. He just bounced out of the transportation-box when moving in and became a cat. Sort of. He thinks so, the cats don't.

The puppy-school I enrolled us in when he was a pup was just a complete joke - Malte thought so too. He behaved really well, did every exercise right the first time, then thought it was utterly boring and acted all can't-we-play-now-please.

I love him dearly, he's all happy and playful, and a complete cuddly charmer. I don't think there's a mean bone in that little cobby body of his. But he also demands so very much more than a cat, and he mostly has less patience than a sewing needle "I want that, and I want it NOW!".

And even though I guess he's far from being a really pestilent terrier kind of dog, all yappy and tiresome and superenergetic, the energy is still constantly there, and in the right kind of company he gets all hyper and winded, and more than difficult to get to calm down.

Yes, of course he can be ignored when away visiting, and then he'll mostly just settle down on a blanket and fall asleep. But since he's a little herding dog - at least he thinks so - he always want to feel he has control over the whole herd, so noone can leave the room, or the path when out walking, without him being upset and irritated over the lapse in the herd.

So, well, sometimes it's just much more rewarding and restful for everyone that he stays at home, watching and guarding "his" herd of cats and the house.

But this time, since he has really been pleading and nagging us for ages to go and visit his friends Isak and Herta, two lovely brown labradors, he came along. On a wonderful sunny day in late May. And as the title reads, this entry will be all about the dogs and their funfilled day. Here comes a little cavalcade of pictures;