Arko

We had excellent spring weather this Saturday - cold, clear sky, and a bright sun. Traditionally, Saturdays are doggie-walk days, se there we are: Toby, Dréke, Arko - with attached people. For Toby and Dréke, see my previous posts, my photo page and my wife's blog. As almost always we were walked in Bergerven, a local nature reserve. It's a man-made lake (+ surrounding shrub/forest area), created by dredging for pebbles and gravel (see this, a fine example nearby). Bergerven has drinkable water (only place in Belgium afaik!), and the best still-water trout flyfishing on this side of the Channel. 60 cm rainbow and brown trout are no exception...

Enough on Bergerven for now - this is supposed to be Arko's post. Arko is a fine American Staffordshire bullterrier (sometimes also called a pitbull). Very calm, exceptionally well trained, and not aggressive at all (unlike Toby, mentioned above). Arko is in fact the exact opposite of the scary pitbull stories that pop up from time to time.

Arko often combines work-outs and his love for water by dragging a watersoaked log almost his own size out of the water, and then proceeding to the destruction of the poor log. See for yourself...

FYI: I will try to make a small quicktime film on Arko available tomorrow evening.