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Today, June 24th, Piacere celebrated 6-month old. According to the book by Mr. Hayakawa, which I referred to in one of my previous posts, 6-month old of terriers is equivalent to 9 years old of human beings. It corresponds to third or fourth grade of elementary school, but Piacere's behavior still smacks of kindergarden kids. She has had been more
disciplined, though.
Shown here are some photos taken today.
While her whiskers are yet to be recognized, her eyebrow has become fairly Scottie-like.
Her face viewed from front is still infant and looks dumb!
The opposite side of her face to the first photo. This photo shows her eyebrow better.
Piacere lays herself to be petted by her mom, Pieta, while Gramma Leeds and Gramma Pizzicato watch from the background. Pieta, although she would not play with Piacere proactively yet, has become less repellent to her daughter.
Chilwell also has become less irritated by Piacere, and a kind of family mood among all the five terriers has been developed.
The temperature of Nagasaka Highland, where my second house is located, is low in the early time of the rainy season. Even so, trimming of our terriers can be carried out in the garden being blown by the comfortable highland breeze during the short sunny moments between the rains.
Not too hot, nor too cold, this time of the year may be a suitful season for outdoor trimming along with the seasons of tender green and colored leaves, except for rather high humidity.
In the garden of my second house, roses entertain us with successive flowers of the season. I have 8 rose trees, and when I visited there this weekend, all the roses were blooming.
"Princess of Wales"
In 1997 just before the passing of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II a rose grower to name a new white rose "Princess of Wales", admiring Princess Diana's activities on British Lung Foundation over ten years, under the condition that a portion of the revenue from the new rose be donated to the Foundation. As this episode happened close to the tragedic death of the Princess Diana, many people would misunderstand that the rose was created after her death as a commemoration.
Although there must have been many flowers blooming before our arrival to the second house, only one greeted us showing faded flowers and fallen petals on the ground.
Pink rose, the name of which is not known to me. Until last year, the rose would show more whitish flowers, but this year as it was better fertilized the color of the flowers got much better.
I do not know the name of this rose either, or I should say that I do not know the names of all the roses in my garden except for "Princess of Wales", which I bought myself. This rose is one of the oldest in my garden blooming since I built the second house ten years ago. Every year I feel scared if this rose has die down, but it revives like this.
This rose also has existed since the building of the second house. As Annabelle has expanded to the original location of this rose and has spoiled the sun shine, I replanted it to the current location, where the rose can enjoy plenty of the touch of the sun.
There are two trailing roses in the garden. This photo shows one of them, which is located in the middle of the garden. The first wooden frame has decayed down and I placed a frame of a rack for flower pots to entwine the rose shoots.
Another trailing rose in front of the wood deck of the house. It blows lovely tiny flowers.
There are two more mini roses in the garden, of which the photos are skipped.
As we visit the second house on the every other week basis, the roses shown above should look ill-treated, but even the neglected roses try hard on their own ability to bloom beautifully.
On Sunday, June 14th, I brought Pieta to JKC-certified Gumma Central Community Dog Club Show held
in Takasaki City. As Pieta has already obtained three Challenge Certificates including a major
certificate, it was a challenge for the fourth card.
The show was held in a sketing rink, and it was Pieta's first experience of indoor show.
It was a fairly big show as a one in non-Metropolitan areas with the total entry of 629 dogs. The
bleed and group judge for Group 3 (Terrier Group) was Mr. Gerald Penta from US.
The entries to female Scottish Terrier to the Championship Show were Pieta and another in the
junior class only, and Challenge Certificate would be given only by being selected as one of
Excellents in the group.
The examination by Mr. Penta was very careful spending much time for each dog, just like Mr. Green,
who judeged a couple of shows in Yokohama in May. This may be a difference to JKC judges.
Despite her first experience of indoor show, Pieta walked cheerfully. When the show is held indoor,
many dogs feel scared and put their tails down between rear legs as the barks and other noise
resonate in the hall. Pieta is most impervious among my terriers, and this very character of her
was helpful in the situation.
After obtaining BOB (Best of Breed) in female Scottie, Pieta proceeded to the group match, in which
she competeted against different breeds of terriers.
The group match started after all the breed matches were over, and it started at 2:00pm. The group
matches were held in two rings, and the Terrier Group was the first group in one of the rings.
The result of the group match was; 1st: West Highland White Terrier, 2nd: Wire Fox Terrier, 3rd:
Bedlington Terrier. Pieta, again, lost her group match. She made four consecutive defeats following
Tokyo North Terrier Group Club Show on April 25, two shows in Yokohama on May 1st and 3rd.
The participating dogs and handlers have to wait for considerably long time between the stage of
the breed match and the beginning of the group match, and Pieta looked tired during the long
waiting time. Pieta walked less cheerfully in the group match, and lost calmness during the
examination as she no longer stayed stand and looked up at me. In fact, we arrived at the site at
6:30am, the show started at 9:00am, the breed match of Scotties started at 11:30am, and the group
match of the terrier group started at 2:30pm.
It seems that Challenge Certificate for Pieta should be won in the breed matches.
While I have been lazy in updating my blog, Piacere is growing day by day.
Piacere is now left free out of cage while somebody is in the home. Although someone is in the home, it does not necessarily mean that he or she is always watching Piacere. When Piacere was still younger, she was too gay to attack Leeds and Chilwell and adult terriers occasionally got too high to bite Piacere severely, so we were not able to leave Piacere out of the cage unless she is always being watched.
As the time for Piacere playing outside of the cage without being watched becomes longer, her caper escalates.
These are the results.
The left photo shows bundled cables between set top box and LCD TV. Since we move and rotate the TV to watch it from our dining room and from the sofa in the living room, fairly long cables are laid on the floor. When we bought a new LCD TV, I added two HDMI cables which were placed outside of a spiral tube, which had protected existing cables, and the new cables were the victims of Piacere.
The right photo shows a LAN cable for my wife's PC. When she uses her mobile PC, she connect it to the net using a long cable from a corner of the room, and it was destroyed during a short absence.
I, then, had to buy new HDMI cables again, and set a new spiral tube to enclose all the cables.
This photo shows the wiring work in process.
Piacere, the perpetrator of the happenings, looks unhappy as she was scolded.
