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The online diary
started life as a blog of my strange 'other life' with the dog. I
wanted to record some of the experiences that I had as a first-time dog
owner. To access the archive, click on the appropriate month.
The most recent articles are listed
separately.
You are most
welcome to send comments about any of the articles. Record your
comments via the Contact Me page.
STRANGE PRESENTS!
Wed 06 Feb 2008
The
postman knocked on the door with a parcel for
Beattie. This was very surprising
since it wasn’t Christmas or Beattie’s
birthday. The parcel was from AB and
contained a black coloured doggy T shirt which was ‘decorated' with a
skull and crossbones fashioned from ‘fake’ diamonds. Sounds just
like the sort of thing every girl should be wearing this year! Photo
Beattie was completely unimpressed
with her present and totally unenthusiastic about being made to wear
her new apparel! Her expression was eloquent. ‘I hope you’re not
going to take me out in this ‘thing’? Do you want me to be the
laughing stock of doggy society? YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!!’
‘Don’t
worry, Beattie’, I assured her. ‘As
your official dog walker, I wouldn’t be seen dead with you dressed
like this!’
And
this incident came hard on the heels of another strange gift from
JT at Christmas, namely, doggy
legwarmers! The disconcerting thing was that these were also black
with white spots. The two items could have been made as a pair!
Photo
When
we put on the legwarmers, they caused her such distress that she had
removed all four of them in two shakes of a dog’s tail! Photo
‘They’re so 1980’s!’ was all Beattie
could say! Back
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THE RETURN OF BLACK SHUCK!
Mon 18 Feb 2008
We had a
week’s holiday in the Lake District, staying in a cottage at Matterdale
End. It was perfectly situated for an early morning walk on the fells.
Each day, we would venture up the rough track to a metalled road, which led
up to the lower slopes of Great Dodd.
Coming back
down this road one frosty morning, Beattie
became very excited when she barked at something and a few seconds later she
was answered by another dog a distance away. Beattie barked in reply and,
once again, another canine answered her excitedly. It sounded as if the
other dog was in a coniferous wood bordering the road. As we approached the
wood, the responses became louder and more insistent as Beattie barked away!
Finally, the
penny dropped. It was the echo of Beattie
we could hear as her excited yapping bounced off the trees in the wood! It
certainly had me fooled for a minute. I thought that Black Shuck, the
scourge of East Anglia, had returned! Back
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FOOD THROWING PARTY
Mon 25 Feb 2008
The other day
I had overdone the rice and saved some in a dish for
Beattie to eat. The next day I spooned
some of the rice into her food dish mixing it with some cooked carrot and
her dried food. She would enjoy that, I thought. I had no trouble with the
rice and carrot, but as I bent down to put a scoop of her dried food into
her bowl, I lost my balance and her bowl went flying complete with its
contents of rice, carrot and dog pellets!
Beattie
was waiting expectantly and was amazed when the food came to her instead of
the other way round! It was all over the kitchen carpet. OK, Beattie,
there’s your tea,’ I told her! She needed no second bidding but was so
excited she didn’t know where to start! Afterwards, there was no need for
the Dyson! Beattie had ‘cleaned up’!
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