Dog Tails

France

2007-06-30T09:42:00.000+01:00

Hi Everyone,

Just thought I'd drop you a quick note to tell you how nice these French lands are. We have been here for a few weeks now - came on a ferry but didn't get to see anymore than the car boot. That was the boring bit.

We camped in a few different places and now are staying in a fantastic place called "Pete's House" in Lascabanes. Andy lets us wander around and do whatever we like (although Lottie is a bit of a wimp and usually stays by the house then just follows Andy around). We have been playing football in the field and swimming in le lac. It's just great!

Instructions for cleaning the toilet

2007-05-14T12:33:00.000+01:00

It's been a great weekend. Rosie and Jez have both been to visit.

I have stolen this from Rosie's friend Alex - hope he doesn't mind.

1. Lift the lid on the toilet and fill it with 1/8 cup of animal shampoo.

2. Take the cat in your arms and stroke it gently while slowly moving in the direction of the toilet.

3. At a suitable moment, throw the cat into the toilet bowl and close the lid quickly and either stand or sit on the lid.

4. The cat will now start the cleaning process and will generate plenty of foam. Do not be concerned about the loud noises coming from the toilet; your cat is enjoying himself.

5. After several minutes flush the toilet to start the Power-wash pre-wash and then flush again for the main wash cycle.

6. Ask someone to open the front door and ensure that no-one is between the toilet and the front door.

7. Get off the toilet seat and from a safe distance open the toilet lid quickly. The cat will dry off naturally due to the high speed he will be moving from the toilet to the front door.

8. The toilet and the cat are now both clean.

With best wishes,
Peggy-Sue (The Dog)

Excited

2007-05-10T22:08:00.000+01:00

My sister is coming to visit me tommorrow :)

PS

Getting To Grips with Computers

2007-03-19T18:21:00.000Z

Since my big sister messed up her blog and managed to steel my identity she has fixed her own but left me with no profile :(

I have tried to fix my side bar to let my readers know who I am. Andy wanted to send an e-mail and as Top Dog he gets priority access to the computer so I didn't have long enough on the computer to tidy it up properly.

PS

Happy Christmas!

2006-12-25T23:34:00.000Z

Sorry I haven't blogged for a while. I've not been very well recently. Have been very thirsty and weeing a lot. I was taken to see a nice new vet who put a device over my nose so I couldn't defend myself then stuck a horrible sharp needle in me. He needed my blood for some tests. He managed to rule out diabetes or Addison's disease but it appears that I have rather poorly kidneys. Also, in keeping with numerous other members of my family, I have inherited hypothyroidism.

But enough of that, I am feeling quite spritely at the moment and have enjoyed Christmas. My friends gave me some fun new toys (although Lottie keeps stealing them) and yummy treats (special fishy ones that are good for me). The rest of the family had fun too. I was quite dissapointed that the turkey didn't get thrown onto the carpet like last year though.

Happy New Year!

2006-01-14T21:09:00.000Z

Hello Readers,

I know it's a bit late to be wishing you a Happy New Year, but I'm afraid since Rosie left home I have struggled to find people willing to help me to update it. It isn't that I'm not a clever enough dog to use a computer properly, it's just that we don't have a dog-friendly keyboard and typing is quite tricky with paws.

Amy requested that I update my blog, so here you go.

I have added some photos from Christmas and New Year. Christmas was lovely because Rosie and Joe were both home to play with me. Was very disappointed that I was shut away outside when grandma threw the turkey down the stairs though! After Christmas, Jane and Andy took us to the Lake District. That was fun, although they were a bit lazy and didn't take us up mountains every day.

I've got lodgers

2005-06-12T22:47:00.000+01:00

Now it's not only Lottie who I have to share my house with!

About time I posted!

2005-06-04T13:22:00.000+01:00

Sorry I've been so bad at keeping my blog up to date recently. Rosie has been getting cross with me, so I had better start to make more of an effort.

I had a fun holiday in Scotland - although that was quite a long time ago now! It wasn't too bad having to share my space in the back of the car with Lottie & I got to spend some time with my good friend Barry.

I have been putting some effort into training Lottie. She is now fully aware of my status as Top Dog - acquired through such training routines as me sitting with her bone & not letting her anywhere near it. Sometimes she appears to be quite a clever dog, but others she is just plain stupid.

It's a bit strange at home these days as neither my big sister or big brother are around anymore.

I think we are having some kind of a party tonight. Hope my dog friends are coming.

Lottie pics, strange goings on & snowballs

2005-03-04T17:42:00.000Z

I said I'd show you a picture of Lottie when I could, so here you are:

Strange things are happening at the moment. Lottie & I had to spend 2 days shut in the boot of the car while Rosie & Jane kept going into houses & coming out again after not very long. Not sure where we were, but didn't get the usual standard of walks that follow spending 3 hours getting somewhere. The other thing that's a bit odd is that Rosie has been at home during the day time when Andy & Jane are at work.

We had fun this afternoon. Barry turned up & we went for a walk up stoodley pike. Discovered Lottie was not very good at catching snowballs. Think she might have some kind of spatial awareness problem.

Lottie

2005-02-24T22:49:00.000Z

I mentioned meeting Lottie in my last post. She did come to stay last weekend, and never went home. It seems she is staying here for ever.

I'm not sure that I like not being the only dog in the house. It's always fun when my friend JW comes to visit, but he goes home after - it's different when they aren't just visiting. Having said that, Lottie is a nice dog & when I stop sulking I do find it quite fun having someone to play with. Tonight was good - Andy was hiding toys for us to find. Lottie wasn't as good at it as me, even when she tried peeping.

I'll show you some photos soon, but Andy won't let me use his camera at the moment - I think he doesn't trust me not to wipe off the pictures that are already on it.

Hope you've all been having fun in the snow.

A great week

2005-02-15T21:25:00.000Z

I'm not doing very well keeping this blog up to date - must try harder!

I felt very sad last Saturday - my family all left with suitcases & I thought I was being abandoned. But Rosie came back after a couple of hours & the week became far better after that. I got to go and stay with Jez for a couple of days, and go to work with him & play with his boys. I also spent 2 days with Chris - he wanted someone to keep him company for his 'reading week' - whatever one of those is.

I met a new dog today. She's called Lottie and is very young. She reminds me a bit of myself when I was her age. Mum & dad say she's going to come and stay with us this weekend. That will be fun, as long as she doesn't pester me too much - will have to show her who is boss.

Back to normal

2005-01-10T22:59:00.000Z

My first post of 2005 - Happy not-so-new year everyone.

I enjoyed the Christmas holidays, but now Joe's disappeared again & Rosie, Jane & Andy are back at work. Andy took me with him today, so it wasn't too bad. Even got to go for a walk with my friend Bentley at lunch time.

When Rosie came to pick me up on her way home from work I put on my 'I've had a terribly boring day' act. It worked - we got to play ball on the moor (always good fun in the dark).

Have to go now, Rosie wants to use her computer.

Christmas

2004-12-28T11:55:00.000Z

Christmas has been fun this year. Grandma & Grandpa and Grandma Biscuit all spent Christmas day with us. I got some lovely presents - things to eat & things to play with. My best friend gave me a squeeky humbug.

The only bad thing about Christmas was that I ate too much. It made me feel a bit horrid in the evening, so I just wanted to curl up in my bed & not play with my new toys.

I've been taken out on lots of nice walks in the snow - the photo is of our walk in Sowerby on Boxing Day.

The visitors have been stealing my toys!

2004-12-18T01:28:00.000Z

Hello readers (supposing any of you are out there)

I'm sorry it's been so long since my last post- over a month now. I'm ashamed of myself! Should try harder to keep this up to date. Thing is, Rosie seems to have been really busy lately & I'm can't manage very well without her help.

Nevermind, here's a picture taken last week when my friends Jeremy Wolf & Bentley came to visit. It's always nice to have visitors, but I have to say I was a little overwhelmed having 2 big dogs here. Especially as they don't even let me play with my own toys.

Jez's Visit

2004-11-15T22:02:00.000Z

Jez came for a long weekend. As usual he has juggled, tossed and chewed all my toys. We had a wild party on Saturday night when Andy and Jane went out – instigated by Jez of course. How we cleared up in time I just don’t know! But during the night Jez was very ill – what a mess!! Why does he always have to over-do things? He’s a great one for the night shift guard duty – much at the expense of every ones sleep. This was so bad that A & J were threatening to give him one of my valium tablets last night but they didn’t. The threat alone was sufficient to give us a peaceful night.
We went to watch Rosie play football yesterday. She did a lot of running but not much ball kicking. Certainly no competition to my prowess at dribbling.

Grace's visit & horrid bangs

2004-10-31T18:50:00.000Z

My friend Grace came to visit last weekend. I used not to like Grace very much, because once she arrived at Andy's work people started to fuss her as well as me. But I've decided jealousy is a poor virtue, and found that she's actually quite good fun.

Here's a photo of Grace & I, when Rosie took us for a walk on Norland Moor:

Click here if you want to see the rest of the photos from Grace's visit.

The horrid bangs haven't got any better since my last post - in fact, it's been worse. They've sent me into such a state that I've started feeling terrible all the time, not just when they're happening. It got so bad that I couldn't eat anything for 2 whole days - not even my gravy bones. Of course, this made my humans very worried & they took me off to that place I hate going to - the vets. I hate the poking & prodding I get everytime I go there, but when I try to tell them to stop they put this thing around my head - think it's called a mussel - & keep on doing it. The vet's given me some medicine (Andy thinks I don't know I'm taking it, because he hides it in cheese - but I'm not that stupid!) and I think it's helping me a bit. I did enjoy my dinner last night - Jane cooked some proper human food for me :)

I hate this time of year

2004-10-23T22:07:00.000+01:00

Tonight Rosie took me with her to walk grandma home after dinner. We almost made it, but then there were some of those horrid loud bangs and flashes that keep happening at the moment. They were really close & in the direction we were heading. It was very scary. Rosie didn't seem to understand how bad it was so I had to pull incredibly hard to drag her back home to safety.

Reply To Winston

2004-10-14T16:06:00.000+01:00

Hi Winston

In reply to your comment on my earlier post:

No, Andy is not a bird - he's a man (at least I think he is, he does some very strange things sometimes that would suggest otherwise). Jane sent him on a gliding lesson for his birthday present.

This is Andy & the boys (Matthew, James & Andrew):

Recognise them?

As for Jeremy Woolf; as I've said before, he's my best friend. He's not really a woolf, just looks like one (something to do with his big ears).

Me with JW

It's My Birthday!

2004-10-14T09:21:00.000+01:00

I'm 10 today!!

Lots of Fuss

2004-10-08T22:40:00.000+01:00

Today has been fantastic. This morning we had 2 visitors - both of them pretended they wanted to talk to Jane, but it was obvious it was me who they came to see really.

This afternoon I was taken to visit Terri. Got very excited because I love going to see her, always get tons of attention. I was, understandably - I'm sure you'll agree, upset to realise when the door opened that she already had a dog there. I know it's not right to be jealous, but it's very difficult not to be sometimes.

My Friend Jez

2004-09-26T10:09:00.000+01:00

Last night Rosie took me to visit my best friend - Jeremy Woolf.
Thanks Rosie, it was great fun. Especially as the boys were there to play with as well.

Interestingly, when I was talking to the boys I discovered that they once had a dog called Winston - I know it's a long shot, but I wonder if that could be the same Winston who commented to my earlier post on this site?

Muddy Puddles

2004-09-23T23:24:00.000+01:00

I've not posted for a while - that's because I was taken away to a place of the old days. No broadband, not even any mobile signal (not that I have a phone - but I did notice a lack of beep beeping)

We went to Keld. Last weekend there were lots of people there. Something to do with Andy being 50. Lots of dogs too, it was great. Of course, I was the best behaved dog :) Didn't go off chasing sheep, or choo up the insides of the car.

On Sunday most of the others went home, but I stayed until today with my mum and dad. It was a nice place to be, when we went to the pub & I could sit in front of the fire. Wasn't all that great on the campsite though. Was very windy - thought the canvas house thingy we were in was going to collapse - & the rain made a horrible muddy puddle right outside our front door.

I didn't think I was meant to come home until tomorrow, but we've come back today. Something to do with Andy going flying?!

Well Done Joe!

2004-09-14T18:12:00.000+01:00

Just wanted to say well done to Joe for passing his exams :)

Feeling a bit sad now though, because he's talking about going back to uni again soon. I don't like it when my humans go away.

All the wrong way around

2004-09-11T18:20:00.000+01:00

My big sister has been teaching me about computers this afternoon and helped me to make this blog. She said I can write things on here to let all my friends know what I've been doing. It's a good idea I suppose, but I think talking to my friends when I see them is better than having them read about it. I'm not sure how much chance I will get to update this anyway, because it's difficult to find a time when I can use the computer - my sister is always on it. It can't be a healthy addiction!

I've spent most of the day waiting for Rosie to take me to the woods. I knew she would do it eventually, but it does get very frustrating having to wait so long. It was lovely and sunny earlier - when we were inside learning how to use computers - but as soon as we went for our walk it started raining. Surely it would have been more sensible to go out while it was nice? Humans are very daft sometimes!