Nala, the First of Our Pups

Nala is Kelly's puppy. Nala is one of the strangest dogs I have ever met. She came under our protection when she was 6 weeks old, which in hindsight was way too young and we could have avoided a lot of stress had we waited until she was even 7 weeks old. That being said, she is a great dog and does not lack in personality one bit. Nala is a blue merle Miniature Australian Shepherd, and an insane one at that. Since a young age, Nala and I have been practicing frisbee, she finally caught the frisbee when she was 11-weeks old, which in my opinion is pretty damn good. Now, her playing with the frisbee has become somewhat of an obsession with her. Kelly calls it her border collie obsession, even though she is not in fact a border collie or even a mix. Nala has beautiful iridescent blue eyes, which means that her eyes are light blue on the outside, and a deep dark blue just around the pupil. This makes it look like her pupils are huge all the time. Her eyes are also wide open the majority of the time, it seems - which in my opinion adds to her looking insane. Even though I go on and on about her looking and acting insane, she really is a great dog and would be very lost without her. Here is a video of her catching her frisbee for the first time, at 11-weeks old.



Nala is just over a year now, so this video was taken at the end of last summer (2013). I'll upload more videos in more blog posts of both the dogs.

Two Halves Become a Whole

I still remember the day that I first saw Suna-bear. It was a relatively normal day. I worked, came home, rested and recollected a little bit. One thing was slightly off though, my girlfriend, Kelly, was a tad more excited than usual. Right as I was settling down to have some R & R, she came into our room and excitedly said that I needed to come to the office. I stood and followed her to the office to see what she was so excited about. On my computer screen were beautiful green piercing eyes. I fell in love at once. Those green eyes belonged to none other than my future dog, Suna. Suna is a red-tri male Miniature Australian Shepherd. Two weeks after Kelly showed me his picture, Suna was on a plane from St. Louis to Reno. The day I met Suna was extremely hectic. Aside from the fact that we were bringing yet another puppy into the house, it was the day of the LAX Shootings on November 1st, 2013. Unluckily for us and Suna, he was to fly through LAX that day. Luckily for us and Suna the flight he was on was diverted to Ontario. Suna finally arrived in Reno at 9:00 PM. When we finally met him, he was too scared to come out of his shipping crate. I reached in, pulled him out, hooked him up to a leash, set him down and he proceeded to wiggle like I have never seen anything wiggle before. I say wiggle and not wag, because in the United States Miniature Australian Shepherds have their tails docked. So Suna starts wiggling around and jumping like he was at a rodeo. The second thing I noticed about Suna was that he looked just like a tiny black bear cub! This is, of course where he gets his name Suna-bear.