Tails from the Pack | The adventures of "The Pack" living in the Alpujarras, the foothills of Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains, Andalucia

Skiing, ice and then soft snow

We went with the humans again, we have to look after them, we are working breeds after all! Basically, we dogs bailed out because of ice, we sat with hu’mum whilst the others went on uphill. Turns out they didn’t go much further either because of the ice, should have listened to us. Oh and [...]

A boys day out ski touring

Wooo I got to have a boys day out. Whilst hu’mum was stuck at home working and with a beautiful day on us Hu’dad decided me and him and Pepe would go ski touring. It was such a boys day that I even got to ride in the back of the pick up rather than [...]

A slip sliding crazy morning

We have been having some pretty wild weather these last few weeks, wind, rain and snow. Wind speeds in the mountains of over 140 km/h and at home we had a max wind gust of 69.2 km/h. As you can imagine we have not been getting out into the mountains to much. But with a break [...]

Something is watching us

Wooo what a walk we had today. Full of fun. We could hear barking dogs, hu’mum was trying to take my photo as she says I was looking good whilst listening to them. She put my lead between her legs to take a photo, then a dog appeared behind us, that was it, challenge was [...]

Playtime

Me and Kyra have a new game we play, she is learning to play husky style. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Cloudy wet walkies

We have had a lot of rain recently, which was needed but seriously enough is enough. If it was falling as snow it wouldnt have been so bad but all its done is wash the snow that had fallen away! Not the most exciting walk for you humans but we enjoyed it, the rain makes [...]

Kyra’s 1st birthday

It was Kyras birthday last Wednesday (31st October) as usual we are late posting. So what did Kyra do, pretty much the same as she does most other days, just with the odd treat thrown in. Here are some pictures from our walk on her birthday. Well we hope you enjoyed Kyras birthday walk. [...]

Thelazia = eyeworms

Thelazia is a type of roundworm, this particular type parasitise the eye. They come from a non biting fly which feeds on tears. In Europe it has been narrowed down to the fruit fly and this one in-particular the Drosophilidae. The first case of canine Thelazia in Spain was recorded in June 2010 in Central [...]

Is Kyra the devil dog?

So what are your thoughts on this? Here is an old picture of me, Bruno and Tapa doing our best robot impressions. And here is Kyra, yikes is there something she is not telling us, it would explain alot of goings on around the place. Does anyone else have this problem??