Random thoughts of an AF.

I took the dog to the beach early in the week before the holiday crowds arrived. He came out of the sea p.d.q. when a wave overtook him. There was definitely a look close to panic in his eyes as he clawed himself up the shingle. I have to ask myself would I have gone in to save him if he had got into real trouble. A dog owner's nightmare.

This morning, instead of his usual cuddle up to me on the settee, he was really 'antsy' and wouldn't settle. Eventually he went into the garden to deposit three lots of poo. Nice one, two or three. Typical male behaviour spending hours in the loo.

There was a cock up on the catering front this week as I forgot to buy more dog food. The dog had to exist on biscuits, eggs and sausages for a day. He was not impressed!!

Is it worth sitting and waiting for??



Learning to be a scent hound in the woods at Lamberts Castle.

The dog had his face bitten by another dog today because he didn't read the signs properly. The adult dog was saying "Go away puppy." The puppy wouldn't,so he had another of life's lessons administered.
"Don't mess with the big boys."

He's learning a lot of 'stuff'. 

He's trying very hard to be good and is a 'quick study' as the Americans say.

When we got him friends said it would be hard work but we had forgotten just how demanding it is training a puppy. 

The extra mess around the house is difficult to keep on top of so I have to, shock horror, do housework!!! Clearing up the water slopped all over the kitchen floor from his ears and beard as well as vacuuming up the bits of garden all over the carpet from his fur.

I didn't think this kind of 'hard work' was part of the deal!!

He already knows how to be a couch potato. He's a lot of fun.