About Jake
Jake is a black & tan lurcher, adopted from Edinburgh Dog & Cat Home in August 2004. He now lives the life of Riley in a leafy suburb of Edinburgh. His interests include agility, running like the wind, enticing other dogs to chase him, fellow sighthounds Molly & Steve, squirrels, swans, plush swans, swans on telly, Portobello beach, the Edinburgh hills, sofas, & snoozing.
Jake wears Earth Dog hemp collars from Mango Mutt. His collar tag (compliant with KC agility regs) is from the excellent Indigo Collar Tags.
Other (agility) blogs we read
- The days of Johann
- Pacco de Mongrel
- Agility Nerd
- Team Small Dog
- Agility beagle Xsara
- Lucy's agility journal
- Walter's agility journal
- Tip Tail
- dog-li-ness
- Resq Tails
- Days of speed and slowtime Mondays
- Ben McFuzzylugs
Other dog blogs we read
- Coldwetnose - campaigning for dogs in the UK
- The Corgi Lounge
- Daily Coyote
- Life is better with Sheltie hair
- Out with Ari - the caninaturalist
- Popdogblog
- With love, Madison
- Snoutbeagle
- Life with Penny
- Whippet snippets
Jake's Links
- Lurcher Link The best lurcher site going
- A Greyhound or Lurcher in the Family - article by Gwen Bailey
- Greyhound Awareness League - and lurchers too. Scottish!
- Kitsch Collars. Groovy...
- K9 knitters hand-knitted dog coats, all proceeds to dog rescue.
- Learning About Dogs with Kay Laurence, clicker training guru
- Training Lines: for portable agility equipment, fab neon collars of the nite, flash-in-the-dark balls etc
- AgilityNet UK agility info.
- Lurcher Agility League
- Dogcast Radio A twice monthly radio show all about dogs
- This standard Scottish life By our pal.
Jake's Library
Previously on Jake's Progress
- Agility
- Agility shows
- Allotment
- Family
- Health
- Mischief
- Outfits
- Park life
- Scotland
- Training
- Travel
- Whimsy
- Wordless Wednesday
The mists of time
- August 2004
- September 2004
- December 2004
- January 2005
- February 2005
- March 2005
- April 2005
- August 2005
- September 2005
- October 2005
- November 2005
- December 2005
- January 2006
- February 2006
- March 2006
- April 2006
- May 2006
- June 2006
- July 2006
- August 2006
- September 2006
- October 2006
- November 2006
- December 2006
- January 2007
- February 2007
- March 2007
- April 2007
- May 2007
- June 2007
- July 2007
- September 2007
- November 2007
- December 2007
- January 2008
- February 2008
- March 2008
- April 2008
- May 2008
- June 2008
- July 2008
- August 2008
- September 2008
- October 2008
- November 2008
- December 2008
- January 2009
- February 2009
- March 2009
Credits
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And finally...
Why don't you switch off the computer and play with me instead?
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BOL, we love it!!!
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M & I
Wait! Coonhounds CAN climb trees! If there is a raccoon up there, we will go right up after it, balancing on one limb after another, until the 'coon hits the ground ... I told a friend at the dogpark, "Booker will go right up that tree ..." to which he scoffed, "right ..."
A few minutes later, he said, "I don't Booker teaching my dogs THAT trick ... that's all I need!"
Wow Booker, we're impressed. So do coonhounds have to learn how to climb trees or is it instinct?
One coonhound in the park spreading the word and next time the people look up the dogs are hiding in the branches ...