Ditty that sounds ten times harder than waiting for Xmas!!!!!!!!!! It must have been so hard to not charge in like an excited banshee when you finally got to go collect him! I love that he settled right in i really hope my dog settles well, especially when I need to bring her to work with me

To be absolutely honest with you Summer..    even though I had grown up with a dog, I was completely unprepared for the puppy experience.

 

It was like I had a baby.... no, it was like I had a newborn Toddler in the house.    The first two weeks were exhausting.

 

You may need to book a couple of weeks leave for the initial settling in period 

And buy a couple of stairgates (you can get special ones for dogs..  but tbh, the ones for babies work just as well)

I love terriers..    I love all dogs, but terriers are my fave.     I love them because of their character, but the downside of that is, that they are not the easiest dogs in the world. 

 

Ain't that the truth.....Ruby is a little shit in some ways...cannot be let of the lead, escapes etc...but in other ways is good as gold....she's never snarled or growled ever at anyone and wonlt touch asny food int he house unless she is expressly told she can....my daughter spilled gravy earlier and put her dinner down right next to the dog while she got a cloth to clean it and the dog didn;t even sniff it let alone steal any,

yeah..   Rubes is way better behaved than AJ 

 

We can't let AJ off the lead either...   despite puppy school (where he passed the recall training, with no problems)..     its not a case of him not understanding recall...   its more that he chooses to disagree to being recalled when he thinks there are better things to do 

Yeah she is the same...she knows exactly what we want and but gets too easily distracted. The only place we can safely let her off is on the beach where there is only a couple of exits that we can cover....though she never tries to get off the beach cos she loves the sea too much and the rolling in seaweed.

we used to let AJ off on the beach..   but he can be a bit of a bugger with other dogs..   so we only do it when the beach is absolutely deserted. 

 

& he rolls in the seaweed too..    then we have to travel back in the car with a dog that stinks to high heaven

I have to say Ruby is brilliant with other dogs even though patterdales have got a bit of a reputation for always wanting to be top dog....

the two patterdales I see out & about around here are fab dogs too..     they never start the trouble (AJ does!)..   

 

One of them is called Mutley...  and he is fab looking dog...  you can tell he kinda wants to put my gobby dog in his place..  but he has the sense to hold back & come away from it looking like the better dog 

We saw a lovely Miniture Pinscher yesterday when we were walking Ruby...called Coco...they had a nice play...or as much of a nice one as they can when one is on a lead and the other is running round like a nutter.

If the mating works this time, then between us we can take 2 weeks off when the pup first comes home, it would then have to come to work with me for 4 days and mr summer will be off for 2 weeks over Xmas.. Which would be great, so keeping those fingers crossed! Stream certainly does whatever she wants, but was pretty good when I walked her off the lead. She's a farm dog and has never been trained to do anything, since moving in, my SIL has finally got her to sit, but she doesn't do it all the time

one of my first attempts of getting a picture of jade when she was a puppy, she would never stay still

just realised her eye is jade coloured on that pic

this attempt was a bit more successful

 

2 years later, and our "small dog" we chose from Dogs Trust has turned into ......

 

 

 

she is very proud of herself having dug a big muddy hole at the edge of a football playing field in the park

 

 

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

I love smiley dogs!!!    

how did you do that

 

i think she looks quite sly on that pic, but she isnt really, she is a sweetheart and has fallen in love with my cat at the moment she is obsessed with the new baby bunnies too

aww jade looks gorjuss just tired - lovely pic of her as a puppy -  bunnies are cuddly and lubbly as well

I just right clicked on the pic (when I had got it up big) & copied image.... then pasted it 

 

& she doesn't look sly...   she looks bloody lovely & very very pleased with herself! 

Tell AJ to keep his paws off - Jade is Milo's long distance girlfriend  

sorry Milo her heart belongs to the puddy tat

ty, will have a go x

squiggle

 

reminds me, jade was recently looking very sheepish as she walked back into the living room, my mum said "what have you done", she looked up at her (sideways, you know the way they do that when they know they have done something wrong!!), and she had my mums false teeth in her mouth, the right way round too, my mum said she looked like something off that Dentastix advert

 

wish i had seen it, even more wish i had filmed it for you've been framed

PMSL 

One lap of the park.

 

I was the jockey.

Bump

squiggle that is such a funny story! Last night I dreamt that stream was pregnant and an ultrasound at the vets revealed 6 puppies! Definitely wishful thinking on my part, and likely triggered by lots of baby news among my friends (lots of girls due). Wouldn't it be nice though?!

Also, I got talking to a neighbours friend with dogs last night, he's training his Rottweilers for crufts! Not my favourite breed I must admit, but they were stunning dogs. One of them had caught a burglar the night before too; he was walking in the park and the police appeared, chasing a burglar! When it became apparent that they weren't close enough to catch him, the dog owner set his dog away. Not knowing what she would actually do, he watched as she charged ahead and pounded her paws into the burglars legs, knocking him to the ground and allowing the police to catch up, and arrest him They wanted to do a piece for the newspaper but the dog owner declined, for their own safety.

It would be great, Summer. When will you find out if Stream is pregnant?

Well done to your neighbour's Rottie.

Posting this for Rawky, who said he wants to have a labrador wearing a bandana round its neck. This my golden retriever with my son's labrador - the bandana was my DiL's idea.

I don't have the original photo, so I had to scan the calendar my DiL made for me, hence the 2010 sign.

awwww yogi cuteness

 

 

another pic of Jade, looking cute

Barney, Jade is gorgeous. What a lovely glossy coat she has.

awww thanks yogi - i put her in a fun dog show last year and she won first prize for shiniest coat, she went on to win best in show

 

she went to the dog groomers for the first time on Saturday - she is really fluffy and soft at the moment  

Aww, I love when Keira comes back from the groomers, smelling beautiful and all soft and fluffy.

Awwwwwwwwww from me as well

awww shucks thanks

Aww Yogi, would love to see your Golden Retriever. 

 

 

I tried very unsuccessfully to post a photo of Marley the other day, but will try with the add attachment.