Well I promised I would follow up on my previous post I wrote just over a week ago about the Dogs on furniture. I had decided that the Doggie Monsters were simply becoming too used to more or less living off the ground and on the furniture. Not to mention the extra work involved in scooping up the mountains of Dog hairs that seem to get sucked down the sides of the sofa like some kind of Dog hair magnet. So to recap the new regime was to be as follows: No dogs on the sofa No dogs on […]
Just How Much #%$*$£% Exercise Does A Dog Need?
After finally getting my head around Twitter and really starting to enjoy the interaction there I realised this morning that I had already spent an hour adding people and replying to @s. If you haven’t yet joined I now, finally, can recommend it. It just takes some time to get in to the swing of it. Follow me if you want to see what I am up to. Anyway, I digress. I decided it was time to spend some quality time away from the mysterious world inside my laptop and take some of my own advice on how to […]
27 Ways To A Better Behaved Dog And A Happier Life For You And Your Dog
If you have been reading this blog then you know I am no Dog Training Uber Master, but I think that overall we have fairly well rounded and definitely extremely happy dogs. Although they do still misbehave at times, for the most part they will do as they are told and are becoming quite well trained. We have owned Dogs previously for over sixteen years and have learnt a few things along the way. I have never trained our dogs to do tricks or agility just trained them to learn the basics and to be relatively well behaved. Dogs […]
If Dogs Could Talk…
“Faye, what are you doing?” “What do you mean Daisy?” “You know we’re not allowed on the big squishy, comfy, lovely (GROAN) soft big cushions any more” “Yeah but the big shouty person is taking a big sleepie at the moment” “But what if he wakes up and finds you there?” “Have you seen how BIG my ears are. I will hear him before he sees me” “I don’t think you should risk it Faye. He won’t be happy we broke the new rules……..Faye?” “Snnnnnnnnnoooooreeeeeeee” Some time later…. FAYE. Faye. Wake Up. What did I tell you? Get DOWNNNN!!!
The (not so) Mysterious Case Of The Missing Laundry
Just recently I keep seeming to find odd socks and various other pieces of washing all around our land. This is washing that has been pegged out to dry on the line. A few items have totally gone missing whilst others I find on the ground. I assumed it was the very strong gusts of wind that we get on occasion blowing the laundry so hard that it was no match for the pegs. Well today I found out what has REALLY been happening. I wanted to take some photos of the pesky pooches so I opened the front […]
You Dirty Dogs
or How Dirty Are YOUR Dogs? With the new no dogs on furniture rules in place and the dogs now migrating to claiming anything outside that is off the ground it had been decided that a thorough cleaning of the furniture was again due. The leather sofa was thoroughly cleaned only a few weeks ago at the sime time as the pesky pooches. What I can’t believe is how dirty they can make everything. In just a few weeks the gaps between the sofa cushions have again turned into some kind of black hole that defies nature by sucking […]
Are You Too Soft With Your Dog?
I seem to be letting the dogs get away with more the older I get. There was a time when our little beasties were absolutely NOT allowed on anything that us humans used to either sit or sleep on. No getting on the bed, no getting on the sofa. In fact the upstairs of the house was strictly off limits (in an effort to have at least a few rooms devoid of doggie hairs)! Over time these very good intentions seem to have gone out the window. It is becoming a bit of a free for all. If I […]