Please vote for Falkor!!!

Last weekend I entered Falkor in a casting call of sorts to be a cover dog on the promotional materials for a great local pet expo we have here on an annual basis called the Great Iowa Pet Expo. There are 25 dogs entered and Falkor would love to represent the amazing Great Dane and be on the cover! The winning dog will be the model on the cover of the Great Iowa Pet Expo program and featured in Welcome Home Des Moines magazine.

Falkor had a blast at the casting call and made many quick friends and fans. Unfortunately, the photo they put up on the website is not great AND they spelled his name wrong (LOL), but you can still clearly see how cute he is. ;) The voting will be open until August 19th and I believe you can vote as many times as you want.

Here is the website where you can vote:

http://www.greatiowapetexpo.com/coverdog.html

His pic is the 6th from the bottom and they have his name listed at Valcor instead of Falkor. LOL

Thank you all SO much and Falkor sends his love along with big Dane kisses!!

Whheeeeee Recall!!!

Falkor has always had a very, very...did I mention VERY... enthusiastic recall, which makes me really happy. I love seeing his big smiley face racing toward me. We have to work on him being able to put his brakes on and front without bumping me or blowing past me. We are in advance obedience class now and last week during our recalls Falkor got the SUPER zoomies and flew around the ring like a crazy man. I have never seen zoomies like that before...they were so impressive that everyone in the training club building (3 rings of people!!) stopped to watch. :) It was the only the 2nd time he ever had the zoomies in the building and we've been training there since he was 8 weeks old...so I suppose he had to make them extra impressive. I admit it was quite funny to watch.

I tried to snap a few pics of Falkor doing a recall last night in the backyard. I used the "action" button on my camera but they still are blurry. But that facial expression on the first pic is priceless.

Love this dog!

Growing up ...but still such a puppy!

When I look at Falkor now I catch glimpses of a real grown up dog. Especially when looking at that big ol' head. But then I'll see him flail around with spaghetti legs and it's still so obvious that he's such a baby yet. It's so funny to watch a giant dog mature because their body is so far ahead of their brain. We just got back from a trip to visit family in Michigan and Falkor did AMAZING during the trip. It was a 12 hour drive and he literally slept the entire time unless we were stopped. We made lots of stops so he and Jackson could stretch their legs and run around a bit. He loved all the attention he got at the rest stops.

They have a fantastic outdoor mall called Partridge Creek about 5 miutes from my Mom's house. Dogs are welcome in all the outdoor areas of the mall and a good marjority of the stores allow you to bring your dog in! It was such a blast walking around with Falkor in Macy's, Forever 21, Sur La Table, etc. And seeing people's reactions is even more fun. Anyone with a Dane knows that people always have questions about them and want to know things like how much they eat and if they live in the house. Hehe Falkor even had some people that wanted to take pics of them with their cell phones. I SO wish we had something like Partridge Creek in Iowa. Poor

Falkor was a total weenie boy when I would leave him at my Mom's while we were there. It was actually surprised because he knows my Mom and he doesn't worry when I leave him home. So we have some separation anxiety stuff to work on. I plan to start working on kenneling him at the obedience club so he can get used to that, espcially since I plan on doing obedience and agility someday. He has to be comfortable with me crating him and not being right by his side.