Having Fun in the Sun....

Blimey - it's been hot hasn't it?  A lot of people are walking in the hills and getting ill - so as ususal the mountain rescue teams have been pretty busy - especially Wasdale and Langdale - my friends searchdogs Rosie, Ollie and Pippi on Wasdale team have been helping out whenever they can and so has searchdog Ted over at Langdale.  Remember if you go on the hills and it's hot you need to drink at least 1.5litres of water to make up for all the sweating - if you dont you could get headaches and be sick - and dont forget your dogs - we need water too!! Kaz always carries about a litre for us and she tops it up from streams - she has even taught us all a command called 'drink drink' which means we need to take some water up from puddles or streams.

I went with Kaz the other day to see handler Mick Guy and my big sis searchdog Ginny.  While we were there it was great to see our friend and ex Lakes dogsbody Dave Lewis - it was his birthday and he'd come up for a week to see everyone. Here's me and Dave having a great time playing

and here's one of me and my sis Ginny and Dave's dog Merlin in Mick's garden...

Kaz and Daryl have been working with Angus and Dram dogs on their trailing thingy - they both seem to be doing really well and Kaz thinks that they may even start taking their exams at the end of the year or early next year.

I went with Angus and Dram on Saturady morning to Red Screes to do some training - it was really nice.  Phil and his trainee dog Crag were there and they did really well - she is very quick and barks loudly which is great - here's Crag

We also saw Roger and Ted, Andy and Corrie, Ian and Keppi and John with Isla and Skye...here's a coouple of pics of Roger and Ted and Andy and Corrie...

I got to have a go and searched up the crags and found Jane on a very steep slope which was a bit tricky for Kaz to come down. After Jane had played with me, I went across the big boulder field and suddently realised that there was someone below me, so I shot down the slope and found body Steve and lay next to him panting (cos it was really hot).....after a couple of seconds tho, I remembered that I was suposed to let Kaz know, so I barked 3 times and ran back to her and barked just the once.  Then I went to Karen and barked a lot a her and got a great big fuss.  It was really nice to play with the bodies - sometimes I wish it was just me and Kaz again and I didnt have brothers cos then I'd get her all to myself!  But I suppose it's a good idea she's got Angus and Dram, cos I wont always be here to look after her.

On Saturday, just as we were all about to get our tea, Kaz and Daryl got a callout with their team to help someone on the Lakeland 100 race - he had got into difficulties about 70 miles in and was dehydrated and exhausted somewhere near Haweswater.  It was sunny when they left but as soon as they got going, Kaz said that the heavens opened up and they got drenched - the man was taken to hospital via the air ambulance.  This is the team back at the vehicles getting a quick cuppa and biscuit before going home.

On Thursday this week we are all going down to Dartmoor to do some training with the lovely people from SARDA England - Kaz and Daryl will be concentrating on training Angus and Dram, but I'm hoping I'll be getting some fun too!!  I'll let you know how it all goes.