a dog sees the changeover from cricket to footy

Penny and I strolled down to the Yarra River at Warringal today, for her usual swim...

...a beautiful walk in the cool of a summer evening.

Then we headed back, towards the sports oval, and found a scene of exciting change. It's time for the footy season!

Go Hawks!

It was amusing to see the cricketers were sticking to their guns - or wickets - and continued to practise bowling and batting in the cricket nets, ignoring the hordes of footballers running around beside them.

Three cricketers - but dozens of footballers, from lots of different clubs. I think the footy is going to win the battle for space. Seeing the news cameras were there in force, I guess it was some special introduction to the start of the 2015 football season.

a dog plays soccer

Walking in the park, on Monday, I saw a dog playing soccer (or, as the rest of the world calls it, 'football'). I whipped out my phone and made a short video of it. I'm sorry the clip is so small, but if I went closer the dog stopped playing. You can see that she looks over at me quite a few times.

dogs having fun during a soccer game

Slavenka has posted a link to this funny clip of two dogs romping around during a soccer match (football match).






I love the joyful dogs and I love the way they are treated by the players. I wonder what happened afterwards? I presume the voice speaking is Turkish.