TG continues to wend his merry way through life. He accepts the ups and downs of it all, just enjoying each day as it comes.
AF can make TG tremble by showing him the comb - an essential part of our daily life. PL and AF have an agreement with TG that if he is in his crate then we can't get him so at the first hint of a grooming session he dives in there with a 'na na na na naaa' look. No ill will on his part just a clear statement that he does not want to be 'messed about' with.
TG has found a new wonderful game. It has all the advantages of being messy, quiet and very annoying to AF and PL as he systematically empties boxes of tissues. He's like a child. Each tissue is a new and wonderful thing that pops up demanding to be plucked delicately from the box, torn up, then hey presto there's another one. Endless fun.
AF and PL are fighting a losing battle with 'THE NOSE' at the moment.
Up the hill from the house there is a delightful walk through woods, fields, the odd stream and winding paths. The deer like it also. Just the place to hide in until flushed out by a rushing scent hound who has, foolishly, been let off his lead. No amount of whistling will break TG's concentration as he finds the deer and gives chase.
Most of the time when PL or AF takes TG up there we keep him on the lead but occasionally TG looks beseechingly at one and he's away.
Last weekend there was such an occurrence leading to TG being left on the hill, to all intents and purposes, never to be seen again chasing deer into the sunset. After much to-ing, fro-ing and searching by PL, TG turned up in the garden.
Suddenly there was an angry knocking on the door with a VERY ANGRY, previously friendly, woman demanding that TG be severly beaten and locked away for ever. "Had she had a gun to hand" she said "she would have shot him!!!". Oh dear!!
For her it had been the 'Bambi' memory I guess. When Bambi's mummy is shot, then brought down by a pack of dogs leaving little Bambi all alone. Many, many apologies later she left. Difficult to explain that TG is flushing out the game so that the person with the gun can take a pot shot at the deer helpfully 'scented' out by the scent hound.
It will be some time before TG is let loose again on that particularly stretch of local countryside. Shame it's a lovely walk.
TG is committed to digging holes in the flower beds, veggie patch and precious lawn at the moment. AG has re-barked large areas of flower bed and pathway in the vain hope that TG will be deterred. LOL as they say.
Enough complaining already. TG is great fun and we enjoy having him around the place. He has been hors de combat recently as we have had him castrated. A week later, with the lampshade round his head removed, he appears to be the same old TG. AF hopes it will stop TG chasing women, PL and our neighbour are rather more sympathetic.
