One month with Vojak

Lively, unafraid, mischievous, hungry, friendly, beautiful, playful and with razor sharp teeth - we have a new carnivore in the house!
Vojak has done wonders for us after he moved into our flat. Days seem lighter, moods are better, but...well, nights seem shorter, for some reason!?
Vojak is just a big ball of energy. He's already faster than we are, and he takes every obstacle around the house as a challenge. He'll be opening doors as soon as he's tall enough, and I'm sure he'll be able to open the cupbord door to where his food is in not very long now..
He really loves to eat, and in the morning when we've been out for the first pee and poop and me and Halldor really would like to stay in bed just one hour more, Vojak has no mercy on us. It's food time, and he's ready!
We've been busy with socializing him this past month, and he really has gotten a lot of friends both on four legs and on two. The children in the building are all very fond of him, and they often come to the garden whenever we're out to play, just to have a cuddle! And guess who loves the attention!? We've also worked on getting him used to different environments; he's been to vet school and charmed all my teachers, he's also been with us to the city, to the clinic, in the park, the forest, the hills, the noisy guard-dog neighbourhoods...you name it! And he's dealing well with all of it.
In a couple of days we'll be going to the clinic again to get him his rabies vaccine, which he can only get after the age of 3 months. I'm hoping he'll be as easy going then as he was for his last vaccine. If all goes as planned, we can take him to Norway in July - fingers crossed!

The vaccination nightmare

More than four months ago, I took Liska to the vet to get her the rabies vaccination. Before this weekend I got notice from the lab that she hasn't developed antibodies against the disease, meaning I'm not going to be able to bring her to Norway for Christmas this year.
Luckily, I have to stay in Slovakia most of the time anyway - there's this huge exam in February that I have to study for. What I'm really worried about is the fact that Liska didn't just not have a high enough level of antibodies - she didn't have any at all! I've never heard of such a case before. I guess we'll just have to do the vaccination again (maybe two times now instead of one), and cross our fingers for next summer. I know that most vets in Norway recommend a double vaccination. There seems to be good reason for that.
I do have some good news too, though; I've signed Liska up for her first dog show. I'm not completely sure it's a good thing. The whole idea of putting your dog on show seems a little shallow and not very interesting, but I suppose it's nice to have a go at it, and that's why we're stuffing a car full of Hundeklubben members and taking a road trip to Nitra the first weekend in November. Liska's friend Angel has already won some titles, so she and her owner Anniken is going to teach us all the secrets of the trade! I'm looking forward to going to Nitra, but I must say my mind is more strongly focused on other goals for me and my dog companion - like the day we're gonna win our first agility competition. I can't wait to start training. She's one year old the 10th of January. Guess where we're celebrating it!?