Sparky

Blue Merle • Mini Australian Shepherd • Male 04/28/2017 https://www.instagram.com/miniaussiesparky/

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12/29/2017

There’s finally enough snow for it to stay and for me to take pics with, yay.

I know I’m a bit late, but I hope y'all had a nice Christmas and Happy Holidays. c: It’s been Sparky’s first Christmas and Santa put him some treats and a new leash under the Christmas tree 🎄 (pic 5). Apparently he mistook my sock for another present (pic 4). Oh well.. 🙈

Before Christmas and pre snowy days, I took the boys for a walk, where I took the first two pics and I’m so in love with them. The third pic is them being sleepy after the walk. :’D

You know that face you make, when you’re really tired and your human just won’t turn off the lights? That’s gotta be exact the face he does in the 6th picture. 😂

The other day we took a walk during the sunset, where the setting sun painted the sky in beautiful colors, so I just couldn’t resist taking pic 7 and 8.

And today we’ve been to a park, which turned into a Winter Wonderland over night (pic 9 + 10). Sparky enjoys the snow and I enjoy seeing him having fun in it. I hope I get some more pics of him in the snow ❄️

I wish all of you a good start in the new year. We see you there. 🐾

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12/12/2017

First of all, thank you so much for all the love on the last post.

Second, we also have Instagram now, if you want to take a look: https://www.instagram.com/miniaussiesparky/ I guess I’ll upload pics on their own there and collect them for here, as usual with a summery of them or the progress we made/make (:

By now he’s still trying to befriend the cat (pic 2), but Mr. Cat is more about personal space and shows that to Sparky every now and then, when he has to test his limits again. :’D

When there’s something soft around, like a teddy, he often falls asleep with it in his mouth. But before that happens, he sucks on it and kneads it for a while and whimpers a little. I think the soft thing reminds him of his mother’s belly and when he doesn’t get milk out of it, he starts to whimper. (pic 1) If anyone has any advice about how to handle such a situation, please let me know ^^’

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11/27/2017

It’s been a while again

We’re still learning some tricks (pic 2), and he’s still a sleepyhead (pic 3) but he wants to help with everything. And his understanding of helping is to lay on whatever I’m working on, or put his head between me and the material, to show me that I should pet him instead (pic 4).

The days started to get more rainy (pic 5) and now fall (pic 1 and 6) slowly turns into winter. So it happened to snow here for the first time in his life this evening. He’s really excited about it, but it’s too dark to take pics now. I don’t know if the snow will stay already, but I will take snow pics as soon as it’s possible.

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10/18/2017

Some new pics of Sparky, because I haven’t uploaded in a while and he got that red neckerchief in pic 3 today, which I think is damn cute, so I had to upload it. :’D

In pic 1 is just a king laying in his big comfortable bed and pic 2 Sparky and Wasti are patiently waiting and playing extra cute for a treat. 🙈

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10/04/2017

Sparky had some dirt on his paws and didn’t quite like the idea of me cleaning them (with a scenentles kitchen paper roll in the first pic, since normal tissues have perfume in them, that can irritate or destroy the sense of smell of a dog). :’D

He also likes bananas pretty much and got a new big treat to chew on for his itching teeth.

Then also ate the full package of cat food the other day and had a really big belly afterwards. (5)

And I’m still in love with his sleeping positions. Whether he’s right next to me (4), or on the other side of the couch(6), he’s so cute when he sleeps.

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09/27/2017 Uuuh, a package. Let me help you unpack it.

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09/26/2017 He loves apples. I gave him a whole one, so that he has a little work to do, to be able to eat it. After a while he had enough, so I helped him getting it into pieces. The following times I cut it into two half's before I gave it to him (and also removed the middle part, when I was cutting it already), which was a bit easier for him. He also gets along pretty well with the cat, tho the cat is a little loner and doesn't appreciate the appearance of other pets that much. :'D In pic 3 he's being a good boy, waiting for permission to eat.

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09/15/2017 Started practicing this stuff with my furball today 😊 He also lost 2 teeth the other day and being very nervous about it. More pics to come ^^

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09/10/2017

We’re back from Italy for a couple of days now. Sparky once again slept the whole way. :’D

Pics 1-3 are again from Italy Pics 4-6 are from home again

In pic 2 Sparky met a Swan and wanted to become friends with him, but I guess the Swan had other plans, Sparky didn’t quite understand. 😂

On Pic 3 he’s taking care of our apartment, like a big boy.

When we got home I took Wasti for a shower and Sparky took care of him afterwards (pic 4)

In pic 5 he was really cute. I sat on that office chair and he just jumped up and curled into a ball to take a nap on my legs.

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08/02/2017 We're in Italy right now. The car drive was really good. Sparky slept pretty much the whole way (pics 1-3), and there were no little accidents. We're enjoying the view of the lake (4+5) and also walks on the beach (6+7). We also met his sister (8), who coincidentally was just a few minutes away from where we stay. In the evening Sparky and I watched the beautiful sunset over the hills on the other side of the lake, which made the ninth and tenth pic happen. I'm so in love with them. We're here for a couple more days, so there are more pics to come I guess (:

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08/31/2017

Here are the pics of August.

We went to see a firework(, which was far in the distance, so you heard barely anything. A fallen spoon would be louder.) (pic 2)

He doesn’t really want to go on walks, the garden would be enough for him. Every time he realizes I’m getting ready for a walk, he hides somewhere (pic 4)

But he loves to sleep on my pillow over my head (pic 3)

Pic 5 is just a relatable representation of me getting out of bed every morning. 😂🙈

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08/14/2017 We've been to the beach again today and I'm so in love with that first pic. Sparky went into the water and then on that stone in it.. And he didn't want to get into the water again, so he just laid down on it and put his paws in the water. After some time it got too warm for Sparky in the sun and he searched for some shadow.. The only one he could find was underneath the tent we brought (pic 2 + 3). He's pretty damn clever, he knew exactly what he was doing. Now he's pretty exhausted and sleeping and snoring right next to me.

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08/07/2017 Applause for Sparky, who caught his tail 👏👏👏😂 Some pics from yesterday 😊

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08/06/2017 Just two real quick pics of this cutie. The last few days he barely bit in arms or legs, neither did he bite on something he wasn't allowed to bite on.. And he became more cuddly because of that. He used to bite in the hands when he got pet a lot, and couldn't really enjoy it, because he wanted to play instead. But now he really can enjoy it and relax, so cuddling is better now c:

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08/04/2017 I just realized I forgot to upload these pics 🙈 The first one was from the 4th of July and the second one is from yesterday 😊

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08/03/2017

My two boys went to the lake todaaay c:

It was the first time Sparky went really into the water and even swimmed a bit. On the way home they were pretty exhausted and fell asleep next to each other. x3

After a lot of sleep and by the time they were dry again, they begged for a treat together.

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07/31/2017

Some new piiiics.

Aren’t his sleeping positions just gold? :’D He was pretty tired in pic 3 apparently.

In pic 4, he was doing something, he wasn’t allowed to so I called him, and in the midway, he realized that what he did wasn’t okay, so he just flopped to the floor and decided he couldn’t keep going at this point. :’D

Pic 7 was during a car drive. That got a lot better. He can actually relax and sleep during those now. We also drove with the underground a few times (only 1-2 stations) already, which was not a big problem.

I’m really gonna try to upload the pics on the day I took them from now on.