Happy Birthday Blue
You arrived unexpectedly – a large dollop of a bear-puppy, all tummy and feet and soft nuzzly nose. You have wormed your way into the hearts of us all, with your reckless joy, your infectious endless enthusiasm, your unending need for affection, your constant happy presence and your still, calm, reassuring watchfulness of us all. You steal food, you eat the wallpaper, you are constantly broken, you sleep upside down, you refuse to learn to walk in a dignified manner, and you snore louder than a dwarf with a cold… what on earth did we do without...
Pink and Blue – the romance continues
I expected No.1 to love Blue, to welcome her into the family the way he has all his siblings with love, tolerance, and making sure they have a healthy respect for his No.1 status. And so it was – though I hadn’t quite expected him to fall so in love with her so fast. But he spends long hours talking, training and playing, and is happy to take on the chores of feeding, cleaning up and walking her too. He is also quick to reprimand her, and has no qualms with putting her in her crate when she’s being a nuisance. I expected Boy to fall madly in love with her. It has his been never-ending wish for years on end to have a puppy, a friend in canine form to run jump and play with. But the reality of a puppy, the chewing, the unwanted energy, the...
Blue finally gets to meet The Big Outside – Win Green
(I know, I know, something other than puppy-posts soon, I promise. She’s a bit all-consuming at the moment!) So, finally, Blue has had her second injection and we can take her to meet the Big Outside. Where did we walk her for this landmark event? There was never any doubt – we didn’t even need to talk about it. Win Green. Oh, how we love that place! It’s not much – just a hill top. The highest hill top for miles, from which there is a 360º view of the chalk downlands surround the Cranborne Chase. Tis magic I tell you. The tip of the hill has a small clump of trees standing on a Bronze Age Barrow, always a very special place to stand and just… be still… and breathe…and listen. It’s the very first place my...
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