Atia on the hay wagon.  She can see across the road where Bagari is.  They are rivals.  Both seriously enjoy making the other quite jealous. During the Moth of May when the hoses were over on this side, Bagari got on this wagon a lot. Atia noticed bagari's "scent" and had to make an impression on Bagari in case she watches.  Bagari is watching right now.

Atia meets Vicki in the kitchen.  Thereafter Vicki was ordered to keep giving ear scratches by Atia.

This is a fill-in picture until I get more Atia pix. After getting him saddled, we spent a long time out in the fields.  Bagari,  as seen here, "Alerts" at any strange smells or noises and lets us know she is checking it out. Bless her heart,  the little "Bag Lady" has been following me out here on horses for a few years making sure no one sneaks up on "we two",  horse and rider,  as we train.  Good Ovcharka!!

Today I gave Atia her morning meat/bone. She turned left and went , I thought, into the back-yard. I let Zakat through the garage towards the "Leroy Barn".  Zakat will usually just wander around right there,  seen in the background. I am worried that the two, given the case of no human supervision, will take off wandering far from this spot.  Hence, I never leave them alone in this area. Well, I went back to the house to get something, got way-laid for twenty minutes, and came back. It seems that Atia had not gone into the backyard but went towards the leroy-Barn by way of the backside of the farm truck .. and thus out of my sight. When I cam back,  much o my surprise, the two of them lay there in the morning shade, looking at me like I was lost and LATE! It was nice for me to be able to raise the level-of-trust for Atia.

Been using Atia to act as "Auntie Atia" to new Puppy, Vorenus. If it works out,  she will guide him on correct terrain analysis and negotiation as well as picking out potential predators.  While we are doing this, little Vorenus is having a total Blast attacking the fluffy tail of Atia..

It's December, a snowy day. It's also the annual time to assemble the Secret Russian Health Elixir.  Atia has designated herself as supreme guard of the Russian Vodka with chopped cranberries.  There's a gallon of it in just this container. We'll need to fill a few more in order to handle the contingent of Soldiers from St. Petersburg, Russia. The Red Army Choir is playing in the background 'Farewell to Slavianka' ..The mood setting is correct and Atia says it all right there.

It's another December snowy evening. It's not terribly cold and it's not very warm either. After being out in the winter-weather for a few hours, it is nice to return to my warm fireplace and sit around with some companions. Though, I'm not certain what Master will be doing to get warm.  Maybe humans don't need a warm fireplace. ... Anyway, I think I left enough room for him. Don't you??
----Atia of the Julii dec26th

January and Atia is following me around in the upper paddock. When I was at the bottom,  near the Leroy barn,  Lilly (seen here lying down) and Cato met me.  I handed them each a bone with meat on it. I gave a large one to Atia.  I walked up the steep incline in the forest. Halfway I was met by Atia,  who clearly did not eat her breakfast. When we got to the upper barn,  I dropped some more bones by Lilly, at the time she was laying under the hay-wagon to our left here (unseen). I turned around and suddenly I see Lilly is miraculously now under the gate and inside the corn crib.  She abandoned all but one bone and was eating it. It can be seen by her leg and next to a dark rubber bowl. Then I notice that Atia is coming into the barn. So, as I see it, Lilly gets out of town when Atia comes around ... likely stemming from a fight where she was excessively rude to Atia,  for the Nth time, and Atia did some damage to lilly's rear-end. NOTE that Atia, in this and other pictures does not ever seem to "See" Lilly no matter how close Lilly is to Atia.