So ... he is now 5 years old and maybe, just maybe, he is beginning to grow up.
This is his serious pose... windblown and looking like any other spaniel really.....
This is the Jaunty I see quite regularly - looking up and saying "What was it you wanted me to do?" It is not unusual for us to have a break-down in communication - I say something and he does something else..... and then he looks at me all innocence as if to say: "Well, I thought I had understood perfectly!"
And then there is the wet Jaunty: he can't resist getting wet. It doesn't matter what the 'wet' is in - bucket, river, trough, dirty pond, puddle, tin bath, any bath - he just jumps straight in (yes, even in a bucket!). He'll drop his (hard) ball in the water container for the sheer pleasure of having to retrieve it from the bottom - he doesn't mind going right underwater. Perhaps he's half fish.... it wouldn't surprise me. Come to think of it, maybe that is why his ears are always so smelly....
Last, but by no means least, there is the crazy Jaunty. He jumps for fun...... up and down, up and down, up and down without halt until he starts doing something that seriously requires forward movement - like running for instance. In mid-air he squizzles round 360 degrees, or almost, and lands only to jump again. This is why he now does agility; it gives him plenty of opportunity to jump but with a purpose!
Happy 5th Birthday to my crazy, happy jaunty Jaunty xxx
