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started life as a blog of my strange 'other life' with the dog. I
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FINNINGHAM
Tue 05 May 2009
We spent May Bank
Holiday weekend at Finningham in Suffolk. We were here last year and I took
some photos
of a walk I had with Beattie.
This same walk was a
regular fixture for our morning stroll. The trouble was that Beattie still
has not learnt to tell the time and she had me up at various unsocial hours
of the day. On Saturday it was 5.20 a.m. The next day, she improved
slightly when we went out at 6.40. I did draw the line on Monday, however,
when she expected me to turn out at 4.30!! It was just beginning to get
light and even the birds had not emerged from their roosts! That day she
was taken outside for the toilet, but no walk until much later!
Our Saturday walk was
the most interesting for Beattie. It was early enough for wild animals to
be about and in addition to the ubiquitous rabbits; we saw a fox and a
deer! Luckily, Beattie was on her lead when I spotted the fox just about to
disappear into the hedgerow. Beattie was not so observant, but I knew all
about it a few seconds later when she caught the scent of the departed fox
and went mad, barking in excitement and peering into the hedge to see if the
animal with the strange scent was still in the neighbourhood! Any
self-respecting fox would have been well clear of that racket! That’s the
trouble with Beattie. She lets excitement get the better of her. She will
never catch anything with that technique!
But she did spot the
deer from afar. It was standing in a wheat field and Beattie hared off at
the double when she clocked it. This time she was not barking madly, but
the ending was the same as the deer soon realised it was being stalked and
made off at once. Having a head start on the dog, there was no contest.
Beattie plunged into the wheat and was halfway across the field when she
must have realised she had no hope of catching the deer, which, by now, was
nearly through the next field and into a bright yellow field of rape.
When Beattie had made
her way back to me she was completely sodden with the early morning dew on
the growing wheat. She shook herself vigorously and trotted on quite
unconcerned that she had been completely outpaced by the deer. For her, the
chase was the thing. And she was well content with her morning’s work.
She’s an easy dog to
please – thank goodness!
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