wonderful life with greyhounds

NEW BLOG

2009-06-30T14:22:00.000-07:00

Well, the title says it all!

Our life has taken a new turn and we have decided to start a new blog.

go to:

www.trendybluetiger.blogspot.com

for updates from now on

meeting a new greyhound

2009-06-27T06:56:00.000-07:00

This morning we drove out to our regular playground on Tananger, and offcourse I thought I was meeting my favourite brother, Sisco. But a big red greyhound jumped out of a car instead.... And according to my mum it was my uncle. His name is Iggy and he is exactly one month younger than me.

Lettie, Iggy and myself had a great time, even though it was very hot outside. Luckely we had the sea and we spent most of the time bathing and splashing around.

Gaby and Svale

2009-06-26T09:36:00.000-07:00

My mum looked closer at the pictures from our beachtrip with Gaby, Svale and Elisabeth yesterday, and noticed that so many funny and beautiful details got lost in the big pictures. So here's a closer look on some of them.

starting the day at the beach

2009-06-25T01:08:00.000-07:00

yesterday my mum got a wonderful telephone from Elisabeth, the owner of Lunduki Salukis.

She came up with this great idea of us meeting on the beach this morning.

We met this morning at 8 am and I was full of pride having not just Lettie, but two other charming girls together with me.

Gaby and Svale was two very polite proper girls, and we had a great time.

our special place

2009-06-23T16:29:00.000-07:00

This evening we went down to our special place down by the sea in Kvernevik.

finally an update

2009-06-22T13:47:00.000-07:00

lots of things have happend in our lifes latey, so therefor our mum have been on the lazy side when it comes to updates on us. But finally we can put in some summerpictures.

In May we visited Lifjell after being abscent for over a year, and it was great fun to be able to run on the lovely mountains, looking down on Stavanger and Sandnes.

And on Monday we went to the beach where we met several dogs, including two whippets. Two cute little charming girls, and I was very fascinated by the two mini-me.

one of our daily walks in Kvernevik

2009-04-23T11:30:00.000-07:00

Even though we live in Kvernevik we have some beautiful nature, so God didnt forget us completely! (local humor)

I managed to get Lettie to play with me today, to my delight!

"Lets Play!"
"I'll catch you if you run past me Tiger"

"Tigers can jump"
One going up and one going down
"No! I am not taking a dump, I'm turning in high speed"

fun in the holidays

2009-04-15T15:26:00.000-07:00

Easter-vacation in Leikanger

2009-04-14T06:06:00.000-07:00

two very good friends

2009-04-06T10:39:00.001-07:00

Caroline and I are cousins and very good friends. Both me and Lettie love her to bits, as she always have gentle hands that pets and scratch us on the right places.

our favourite cousin/halfbrother Sisco

2009-04-05T06:03:00.000-07:00

Sisco is Tigers "bestest" friend EVER and Lettie's gentle companion.

He will always have a special place in Anja's and Helge's hearts, and everytime he sleep over at our house he blend in and it is very obvious that both Tiger and Lettie see him as one of the pack, with no problems sharing their food-bowls or beds with this little man in white and black.

He will always be remembered as a polite little gentleman, who doesnt make much of a fuzz when he stay over, and sometimes he is so quiet that we almost forget our little house-guest.

Trendy Arrival aka Sisco, aka the Pooch, aka Sis, Snasco and so on is a very dear friend of both the dogs and humans of this household, and will always be!

Lettie

2009-04-05T06:01:00.001-07:00

playing in the sun part two

2009-03-17T07:52:00.000-07:00

playing in the sun

2009-03-17T07:35:00.000-07:00

after work today we went down on our very own little "mountain" and played for an hour, Lettie is a little bit stiff after I crashed into her on Sunday, in high speed might I add. So she wasnt into playing today, but I am very good at entertaining myself.

water-boy

2009-03-15T11:17:00.000-07:00

"trying to catch the water is hard work"

a Tiger-montage

2009-03-15T11:09:00.000-07:00

discovery of new land in Kvernevik

2009-03-15T11:06:00.000-07:00

"Lettie seem to have found a new path where no dog have set their paw before"

"Are you coming?"

Me and Lettie looking for potentional prey

2009-03-15T10:55:00.000-07:00

"no Tigger like this Tiger..."

"attacking branches are fun"

"Lettie use a more dignified style of hunting"
"boooring"

"but Lettie finds that smell very interesting"

walking around doing nothing special

2009-03-11T13:35:00.000-07:00

mum and Marie is around somewhere...

life-long friendship

2009-03-11T13:23:00.000-07:00

Sisco is my best friend. Lettie is offcourse also high up on the bestfriend-list, but she is a girl....

Sisco is special, we share the same mother and we have a very special bond, even though we are two very strong personalities.

You could almost think we are litter-mates because of our many similarities both in bodylanguage and way of being.

(Minus my continuous "walking-around in my house" mission.)

2009-03-08T05:04:00.000-07:00

Her majesty, Princess Lettie

2009-03-08T04:34:00.000-07:00

something in this picture just isn't right.....

2009-03-08T04:26:00.000-07:00

Lettie is back home

2009-02-14T01:42:00.000-08:00

Lettie is back home. I think its great, I send her off. She is plain old Lettie.

When I get her back from Sisco she is in heat. WOW. I must do this more often!

She is hopeless UNcrazy about me, and because I she shows no interest in me I dont bother showing her interest either. To our parents delight.

(no worries, we dont share beds at night)

Besides, I have my pink "diper" on because of my wound, so.... no need to say more.

Here's a picture taken by Marie when Lettie stayed with her and Sisco. This time she Marie managed to snap a picture of her before she made that "I hate that camera"face she usually puts up.

Gorgeous princess-Lettie

december 2008

2009-02-12T15:34:00.001-08:00

taken on 25th of December.

Sunde at Night. View from Tananger

Me-update

2009-02-12T14:56:00.001-08:00

an update on little me who was finished with my pain-killers today only to take a new visit to the vet because I got an infection in my wound and get some new pills.
So now my behind is dressed in an old pink t-shirt my mom owned. It is wrapped around me like a diper and cover my stitches.
I look really silly and even though my mum was tempted to put in a pic of little sorry me with my new "diper" my dad came to the rescue and said that would be to cruel.

other than that I am doing just fine, and tomorrow Lettie will be back home, I can't wait to become her annoying little-brother again

me, sick

2009-02-07T13:43:00.000-08:00

I had surgery on Friday, and now I am relaxing at home recovering from that awful operation I really can't remember much of. I got a shot of sedative, then the vet thought I fell a sleep, but I tricked them all, even my mum. And when she was going and the vet came to check me out I lifted my head up and laughed (silently). So then they had to give me more.

Because mummy and daddy wanted to take good care of me after the surgery, and at the same time wanting to give Lettie the treatment she deserves, Sisco was so nice to invite her into his home. You can visit his blog to check out the temporarily luxury life she is living right now. Marie is treating her like one of her own and Lettie wouldnt prefer staying anywhere else.

Me on the other hand is on strong medication and not the eager

Tiger-Diger I usually am. Allthough I wanted to go with mum today when she dressed into her "dog-walk" pants and shoes. When se came back she smelt like Sisco and Lettie and just because she said she went for a walk alone doesnt mean I have to believe her.

Here's what I looked like when I came back from the vet. I am still heavily sedated and had a shot of something that made me paralyzed in my backlegs. I couldnt walk for several hours.

And here I am the next day. I get to lay in the sofa and eat yummie stuff like sausages. My dad even bought me my own pack I keep in the fridge, he even wrote "Tiger's sausages" on it. In case someone else wanted to steal them from me.

having a conversation with my best-bud Sisco

2009-02-01T06:02:00.000-08:00

(Planning their next run)

"Should we run up the hill or down?"

(Dogs look like this when they gossip)
"You say what???? I didnt know they were moving!!"

(Dogs CAN act in front of the camera)
"Look into the camera, I know they love that"

(Smalltalk)
"The weather is great today"

Someone turned 8 last monday

2009-01-26T06:51:00.000-08:00

but some very bad owners completely forgot Lettie's birthday.

"what? did you forget my birthday????"

Waiting for Tiger to fall down

Looking a little bit like a Sloughi

Chasing after Tiger

There really is a sun

2009-01-26T06:42:00.001-08:00

we just didnt see any of it most of January...... But today she gave us some great weather to take pictures in!

"You see mummy, I CAN jump..... sometimes... "

"Goofying around is my speciality"

Relaxed Tiger

Eager Tiger

present from Sweden

2009-01-12T08:07:00.000-08:00

Thank you Hanna, Eric, Sabrina and Tigo!!!

Tiger-Diger (in good sogning)

2009-01-03T13:51:00.000-08:00

this is what my daddy calls me. I have been feeling a little bit left out after new-years eve. Because Lettie is so scared of fireworks I think my mum and dad completely forgot me!

So today I climbed up in my fathers lap. When I use the word climb this is the correct word. I climb up in the sofa like only Tiger's can do. I am a dog that can't jump and proud of it.

what would todays youth do without the tv

2009-01-02T12:34:00.000-08:00

more teddybear-pictures

2009-01-02T12:32:00.000-08:00

big strong men also need their teddybears

nice to have a teddybear to lean on after....

2009-01-02T10:32:00.000-08:00

..... a very noisy new-years eve.
Lettie is frightened to death when it comes to firecrackers, and on the 1st of January poor girl started shivering every time the sentence "Going out" was mentioned.

Tough times like that make it even better to have a big ol'e teddybear in the shape of a shar-pei to cuddle with.

enjoying our christmas-presents

2008-12-27T14:12:00.000-08:00

Lettie, our little princess

2008-12-25T06:03:00.000-08:00

almost 8 year old and still jumping around like a pup

Me, goofy wonderful, happy ME

2008-12-25T05:54:00.000-08:00

what happend to my ears???

Big lips? Me?

Merry Christmas

2008-12-25T05:51:00.000-08:00

Mom got a new objektive for christmas, and how great for us, now we get to spend the day running around on our little "mountain" down by the sea.

guess which dog loves the camera, and which dog doesnt

2008-12-08T13:14:00.000-08:00

...notice the tongue.... no need to say more. Two seconds before, she put up her beautiful Lettie-look, all alert looking queen-ish.

And me.... everytime I hear the "click" when my mum turn on the camera I put up my best pose...

The reason why Tiger doesnt have a mirror.... He just can't get enough of himself, and even pictures on the computer get carefully checked out. Checking out himself and Lettie on the background-pictures is more fun than tv.... sometimes.

aaand, more fish...

2008-11-27T13:04:00.001-08:00

and no, not the one we can eat.... so it's boring boring boring. What mum really doesnt understand is that no-one, and I mean NO-ONE is interested in her fish. And everytime she ask me for my permission to put out pictures of her fish, she promise me its the last time. But, some weeks later, she comes home with more fish and just HAVE to put them on my blog.

messing around on the computer

2008-11-27T12:57:00.000-08:00

On a thursday evening, more exactly at 10 pm, this is what we do when nothing good is on tv

a five year age-difference? Can YOU believe it?

2008-11-25T11:25:00.000-08:00

Lettie is acting like a pup again. Mum and dad just love to watch her jump around.

Who could believe she will turn 8 in January and is 5 years older than me.

playing in the snow

2008-11-23T12:56:00.001-08:00

not often do we see snow in Stavanger, but when it comes Sisco quickly give me a call to ask if we want to come out to play.

someone loves the camera

2008-11-22T09:43:00.000-08:00

mummy tried to take pictures of Lettie after she was done with me

this is what usually happends

Snow

2008-11-22T09:36:00.000-08:00

quote Tiger: "mmmm snow!"

photo-montage

2008-11-22T09:20:00.000-08:00

Sisco on a short visit

2008-11-11T10:33:00.000-08:00

Sisco's mum went on a concert tonight, and guess who came to stay with us

fathersday?

2008-11-11T09:19:00.000-08:00

on sunday, my mum made something that smelled delicious in the kitchen. I thought it might be my birthday-cake,.. never too late I said to myself.

But what did she write on the cake?!! Happy fathersday??? whats this....

it turned out to be a cake for my daddy Helge, my grandpa and my "uncle" Trond. Appearantly theres a special celebration for all the men named "dad"...

what a bummer.....

beautiful fall

2008-11-03T08:45:00.000-08:00

the fall has arrived, and on Sunday it amazed mum and Marie with all its beautiful colors. The three of us (us=dogs) was affected by the nice weather and the fact that there were leaf everywhere we turned our heads or butts.

Weither it was the leaf or the nice cool weather, we all went crazy, and when our mummies wished for a nice calm walk in the park, three greyhounds with more energy than 10 wild horses was a bit too much for our owners...

But offcourse we just shook our cute booties and looked at them with greyhound-eyes and they forgave us really quick.

ancistrus

2008-10-28T15:40:00.001-07:00

mum really needs to calm down her geeky hobby, but some new "family-members" moved in during the weekend. Two of this funny little guy.

Ancistrus is their name... "hello.......boooooring"...

Lettie

2008-10-24T11:40:00.000-07:00

the most beautiful girl in the world

playtime with my favourite-cousin

2008-10-19T12:44:00.000-07:00

Caroline, our almost 10 year old cousin came on a short visit today.

We both love her, and today she took out all of our toys, made a mess on the living-room floor, but I LOVED it. We played and had fun and she is so nice to both me and Lettie.

playing, no age-limit

2008-10-13T05:36:00.000-07:00

When Lettie first came to live with us (over a year ago now) she didnt know what playing was, other than running really fast.

Now, a year later, I can get her to play almost everytime I try. Mum and dad just love watching us when we play tug with one of our many hundred thousands stuffed toys...

Can't believe this happend to me

2008-10-11T14:59:00.000-07:00

but my parents forgot my birthday!

The 10th of October 2005 the most amazing thing happend. One small bluebrindle nose smelled the air for the first time.

So on Friday I was 3 years old, and waited the whole day for cake and presents...... but no presents came...no birthday-cake came... nothing at all, not even a hug.

I was crushed, and on saturday I decided to take it out on Lettie and became the annoying little brother. Every time I want to play I pull the rug from underneath her... she hates it, but I get her attention, tehe...

men on sofas

2008-10-10T10:41:00.000-07:00

after a hard week of work, we "men" have the right to relax on the sofa. Lettie and mum usually make dinner when this takes place.

Watching Tv

2008-10-03T13:17:00.001-07:00

I am addicted to all kinds of animal-shows. Love all animals, and this friday evening its a program about seals and polar-bears.

Lettie, Scrat, Scrat or Lettie?

2008-10-03T13:10:00.000-07:00

see the resemblance....?

and why do we always get our will?

2008-10-03T13:01:00.001-07:00

Because we are experts on putting up these really cute innocent faces. Again, if we do this together the effect will be twice as strong.

If they still wont listen

2008-10-03T12:56:00.000-07:00

If nothing else work, we start screaming and shouting on dog-language. I doubt our mum and dad understand us though....

need something you say?

2008-10-03T12:50:00.000-07:00

When we want/need something we have learnt that two faces makes a stronger impression than one. So we are good at synchronising our every need.

This is what we look like when we want to go out. If the humans sits in the sofa you have to almost walk on top of them.

Notice my face in the background on this picture. Hiding behind another dog when you know you do something humans doesnt think much of is very smart. You may think its a covincidence but its not, and I always send out Lettie first.

the wonderful beings, us,

2008-10-03T12:48:00.001-07:00

Sometimes we sleep quietly

Moon

2008-09-14T14:38:00.001-07:00

the whole gang

2008-09-12T10:58:00.001-07:00

BFF

2008-09-12T10:55:00.000-07:00

BFF = Best Friends Forever

Out for a walk

2008-09-12T10:52:00.000-07:00

Today we met Sisco for some play-time, and here we are waiting for him

shrimps? in my blog?

2008-08-23T01:47:00.000-07:00

My mum is a fish-nerd. She loves her fish-tanks, and her recently buy got her 11 shrimps from Sogn and Fjordane.

She is so proud of these Crystal Red Shrimps and guard them like crazy.

I like them too. Another tank I can lick on, who can say no to that!

fun in the sun

2008-07-19T10:39:00.000-07:00

it was very hot yesterday, but Marie came out together with Sisco-bro for a play and a dip in the water. Lettie is our little red pig, and whenever she gets the chance she throws herself into the water/mud and lay down.

Kill the Tiger

2008-07-19T10:37:00.000-07:00

The picture says it all

Sisco, here? in our livingroom?

2008-07-11T11:38:00.001-07:00

yepp, Sisco stayed with us from Sunday to Friday. Me and Lettie had no problem accepting him in our little flock, and Sisco had no problems adjusting to our daily routines.

We had a wonderful week and Sisco will always be welcome here, with or without his mum.

Following are two pictures of me, Lettie and our wonderful cousin/half-brother Sisco, a very polite little gentleman who smiled the most amazing smile to Helge every day when he came home from work.

A big happy family on four legs

Relaxing in the shadow in the hot summer-weather. Notice little Sisco-man who didnt want to lay in the gras ;-)

roadtrip

2008-07-09T12:41:00.000-07:00

last week-end we decided to take a trip to Kristansand. It was very hot but the drive went just fine, we had plenty of water and lots of air-cooling.

Offcourse our behaviour was perfect as always and me and Lettie spent two nights at a hotel and was even left alone when our parents went out for dinner and stuff like that. We didnt make a sound when they were gone, and mum and dad was really proud of us, we also met a busload of american tourists who loved our pretty faces and charming good nature.

See, I can jump, just not on command....

My weapon

Talking about life while we enjoy the beautiful surroundings

This greyhound looks really weird, I dont know why this picture is here, I have never met this dog before..

two greyhounds and a deerhound

2008-07-03T12:43:00.000-07:00

Snorre's mum invited us to the beach yesterday, and offcourse we couldn't say no, she sun was shining, and we (well, me) have been missing Snorre since his visit here.

"Ready to rumble"

"Stay...."

"Attack of the Tiger"

"Hello Fishy"

"Fresh water, straight from the bottle"

"The Prince from the Scottish Highland"

"Never too old to hug"

"Jumpin' Tiger"

"sunbathing, one word, several interpretations"

"almost too deep to walk in, wish I had Snorre's legs"

summer and posing-time

2008-06-27T06:19:00.000-07:00

after several days of bad unpredictable weather the sun decided to come out, what a great start on our week-end.

Visit by lovely Snorre

2008-06-20T16:41:00.000-07:00

This week-end we were lucky enough to have Snorre for a visit. His mum was going away on business, so we got to spend five wonderful days with him. Hopefully we will get some nice pictures with all three of us, but because of the awful rain, it has been impossible to bring along the camera when we was outside.

But here's a picture of him and my mum, Anja.

beautiful evening

2008-06-05T02:57:00.000-07:00

like hand in glove

2008-06-03T14:20:00.000-07:00

Lettie and her dad, special friendship

And, who is most difficult to take pictures of?

2008-06-03T14:13:00.001-07:00

Bleh, this is boring....

Say aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Who always get me laughing? Lettie offcourse.

...and then the doctor said......

who said dogs can't make plans

2008-06-03T14:10:00.000-07:00

When the fotographer gets too close, Lettie get these great ideas

Did you notice that fotographer over there?

Turn away from her, like this. Its the head they want

What Lettie would say....

2008-06-03T13:59:00.000-07:00

if she could talk

Dont do that Tiger

I said, DONT DO THAT

Quit it, I'm serious

meeting the wonderful Snorre

2008-05-15T05:10:00.000-07:00

Yesterday mummy took us to the beach. It was a long time since we last felt sand between our feet because Lettie got in heat four weeks ago.

We waited on the parking-lot, and thought we were meeting our favourite relative, Sisco. But another car came driving up to us. A small yellow car, a Ford Ka.

We didnt know this car, but out of this small car came a large dog. I have only seen him once before, on a dog-show. According to my mum it was a Scottish Deerhound. Appearantly one of my mums big favourite-breeds. (and I thought greyhounds and greyhounds only were found in her heart)

We had a lot of fun running around on the beach, and Snorre was really fun to play with. He was a gentle giant, and had the most beautiful side-gait you can imagine.

visit of my cousins

2008-05-03T13:53:00.000-07:00

my "cousins" Sebastian and Tobias was visiting our garden today.

They are very sweet and gave me and Lettie pig-tails *yammie*

not a show-dog you say?

2008-04-20T15:05:00.000-07:00

just because I can't be showed on dog-shows doesnt mean I can't act like a show-dog

Once upon a time

2008-03-25T08:52:00.000-07:00

This beautiful girl

And this silly, but oh so handsome boy

Got out in the backyard together with their dad, and noticed something weird.

There was actually SNOW in Stavanger.... Tiger dug out his sticks, which was covered with snow.

And Lettie, who always get pushed around by Tiger, took advantage of the snow and took the first opportunity she had to trip Tiger off his feet.

They played all day

Tiger tried to eat the snow

While Lettie loved the cool snow against her warm body after running around with Tiger.

They both agreed it had been great fun, and tonight when they go to bed they cross all their four paws that there will be more snow tomorrow.

zoom?

2008-03-22T15:08:00.001-07:00

the photographer was busy being scared of this "innocent" swan.

But her guardian and bestfriend acted like a greyhound is expected to act.

Calm, graceful and dignified

picture of me, Lettie and mummy

2008-03-22T14:58:00.000-07:00

but did the photographer forget to zoom us in?

play play play

2008-03-04T11:56:00.000-08:00

what is the meaning of life if we can't play and have fun

sleepy sunday

2008-02-23T07:30:00.000-08:00

or saturday...we dogs have no clue when it comes to dates...

After a busy week for our parents it looks like we caught the Great Sleep as well. This is how we spent the afternoon...dreaming about our play with Sisco the day before.

spoiled? Me?

2008-02-16T12:53:00.000-08:00

Today mum took Lettie for a play-date with Sisco, and daddy took me out for a trip in the car. He bought me some snack and also two hides made of sheep for me and Lettie.

Spoiled? who? us?

Take picture of me now mum

ooh, hold on, my ear is itching

hmmm, I think I got something stuck in my teeth

there, I think I got it

mmm, my foot actually taste quite good

Best friends for life

2008-02-15T12:59:00.000-08:00

camera-posing, again

2008-02-11T08:04:00.000-08:00

again, pics from our daily walks

2008-02-11T07:45:00.000-08:00

I can't say it enough how lucky we are to have the nature right outside our door (almost)

The sun took all four of us + camera out in the sunshine.

hehe......

hmmm......

Beautiful me

stupid boys....

2008-02-03T03:31:00.000-08:00

is what Lettie must be thinking when "sitting on the bench" watching me and Sisco having fun.

"are they coming over here??!!?!"

"They are, they are, Lets PLAY"

"and they are gone....."

the gang

2008-02-03T03:23:00.000-08:00

sometimes my mum meet up with Sisco's mum and talk alot. We dont care about the talking but are happy we get to play together. Sisco is just the coolest bigbrother and I tend to forget Lettie when playing with him.

Just LOVE LIFE

Lettie tries her best to be included into the game

But we boys forget about place and time when running together

finally some sun

2008-01-27T10:41:00.001-08:00

after many days of rain the sun came out today. We didnt waste much time before heading outside to have some fun.

Happy Birthday Lettie

2008-01-19T12:32:00.000-08:00

Lettie is celebrating her 7th birthday today!
Thank you for being the "bestest" friend in the whole wide world, best playmate on the beach, and wonderful room-mate when we are left alone without our parents.

cold but fun

2008-01-12T11:54:00.000-08:00

we had a fun day at the beach. It was freezing cold, but nothing could stop us from entering the water.

(who said Greyhounds can't swim?) (and a note for Sisco, this was last week-end, not this one ;-)

Happy New Year

2008-01-01T16:46:00.000-08:00

1st of January, couldnt been a better start of the new year with a great long walk in the sunshine and a great opportunity for my mummy to try out her new camera outside.

It was freezing cold so nice to have my coat on. If you are wondering where Lettie is, she got to stay at home relaxing. Stupid people sent up firecrackers all day long, and because poor Lettie is afraid of them, long walks with her was out of the question.

Mum need to learn how to focus properly though.... (my fault? no way...)

Life is gggggggreat!

"umpf" hard landing

New camera

2007-12-27T12:19:00.000-08:00

My mum got a new camera for christmas. A Nikon D80 with a 18-135mm lens. So here are the first pictures taken.

daily rutines

2007-12-19T14:44:00.000-08:00

nice times with daddy

2007-12-19T14:25:00.001-08:00

Our dad likes to take time with us individually. I usually get to take some long walks with him, usually jogging or cycling. Lettie has some time-outs with him inside. In the evenings they like to curl up beside each other, usually on the floor, but this time my mum decided not to say anything when dad took her up in the sofa.

But offcourse he often play with the both of us

Not always a kodac-moment....