Dog Quotes

Thank you Grandpa Hal for the great book of dog quotes. The boys are interested in testing out the following quote.

Happy Mother's Day

We wish Erin and Siren a happy Mother's Day.
Although Erin is no longer with us, she has left a few Angel kisses (freckles) on her son's nose.

Rudy is looking forward to playing with his Mom and half-brother Owe'n in June. Rudy was just able to get in the following picture with his Mom.

Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there ... those that are two-legged and four-legged!!

Happy Birthday Brisztow

Here is our first video for the blog (after many purchases, i.e. $$). Check out Rudy working on Jump Grids! This is our attempt to keep up with the Jones's.

Happy Birthday to Brisztow Jones!

NC Mountains

We drove to the NC Mountains last weekend and stayed in a small log cabin. Polo and Rudy loved the cabin and the trails. They even visited another cabin (called Hound Heaven) that happened to have people cooking sausage on the grill.

After the rain let up, we went on a hike and Dad let Polo and Rudy go into the river thinking that he could hold onto them from the shore.

So much for keeping his feet dry, Rudy and Polo thought it would be more fun to play with Dad in the river, so they pulled him in!

We found a stack of rocks as we continued on the trail. The stack was about 1 foot higher, but Rudy decided to check the structures stability and the top came tumbling down (Dad's an Engineer). The remaining stack is shown below with the wet boys.

Our Favorite Vizsla Blog

The boys love to read their favorite Vizsla blog and even got mentioned by Brisztow Jones in a recent entry!


Brisztow is Rudy's half sister on his mothers side (refer to Tivoliz.com, Aunt Debbie's website for the family tree). A picture of Mommy Siren, she is sure pretty.


Polo and Rudy do not know how to tpe and spel. They are into sports and not school, but love to help Mom and Dad with the stories and picture selection.

We are trying to work on adding some agility action films and it may take some time to figure out how to do it on a PC. We guessed that Brisztow had a Mac since her blog is so great.

Seeing Progress

The Novice Agility Class finished up this week. We learned a lot and saw progress for both Polo and Rudy and the handlers (aka Mom and Dad). Polo still is Mr. Confident on the course and had his best performance at a run through. He loves to run the course with Mom, but is not in too much of a hurry and stops for a smell occasionally (bird poop on the dog walk). Rudy spent the first few lessons running off to see Mom and Polo during his turn while Dad was running around like crazy to encourage him back. We think he won the "Most Improved" award since he ended the class by racing around the course with great enthusiasm and skill. We took a family photo after the last class.

Getting in Shape

After reading about Brisztow Jones getting into shape (http://www.urbanmutt.blogspot.com/) and an upcoming show we have started running again. We do not want to get in trouble with Aunt Debbie for having an overly soft and rounded Rudy. For us, running is a 90/10 split between walking and running. Rudy would rather have it 100 percent running, while Polo would take the opposite, and Mom and Dad need help with any running.