In the forest

Today I was very brave,

I sat in the front of the car with Mark on the way to the forest.

He’s my New Friend.

He knows where the Bonios are kept.

Mark was most impressed with how good I was and said Good Things to me.

Lizzie and Mutley came too, and so we had a great time

Mutley was creating destruction and mayhem, so I took notice so that I might learn from him.

He had found a branch so long that he could hit both Helen and Mark with it at the same time.

He did it several times and then when Mark tried to take it off him he ran off with it and chewed it up into tiny pieces.

Although I want a Biting Mask like Mutley’s, I also want a Special Collar like Mutley’s too

Mark says I have to try to get the collar first.

He says if I get the mask first I’ll lose any chance of ever getting the collar, and that is An Important Thing To Remember.

I know Mark is trying to help me to get a Special Collar so I licked his arm until he mentioned my collar to Helen.

Helen laughed.

I ran off and played with Lizzie instead.

Signed framed portrait of famous dog for sale

Rocco’s been in the local paper.

I’ve been concentrating on other things instead.

It doesn’t bother me at all.

Not even the slightest bit.

I’ve not given it a single thought.

I’ve far more important things to think about, and I’m sure everyone else has too.

I’m ignoring it completely.

I don’t think it’s such a big deal anyway.

Even if he did get a big full page spread with colour photos.

I’m not jealous in the slightest.

I’m not going to think about it even for one second.

I’d not have given them such a cheesy grin.

I didn’t ask him to sign my copy, he just accidentally must have stepped on it leaving his pawprint behind.

I’m certainly not going to frame it.

I’m so pleased that I now know someone Famous

Spider

A lurcher pup which a member of the public brought into the rescue

after persuading some travellers to let her have him.

Spider was packed full of worms, had mange and was skeletal.

He went to live with a local vet.

Goldie (1) and her pups

Goldie’s pups were born in a rat infested hedge in someones garden.

They were brought to the rescue by the Dog Warden when 2 days old.

It took another 5 weeks to catch Goldie the mum and re-unite her with her pups.

Goldie’s pup’s first Ready Brek meal !

Goldie (2) and her pups

Goldie was brought into the rescue with 11 pups that were only a day old.

This was her third litter and she was very thin.

One of the pups was quite weak and we had to make sure that she was
able to feed from Mum on her own.

She survived but was always smaller than the others.

All the pups were homed and the smallest girl went to
live with a family who loved her very much.

Sadly she became ill one night when she was two years old and died.

The vet thought that she was just not as strong as her siblings.

In her short life she was loved and had long walks in the forest,

living life to the fullest capacity.

The Silence of the Sheep

I’m afraid to say that I’ve been in such disgrace lately that I’ve not even been allowed onto the computer to put my entries up.

I’ve committed a Deed so Dastardly that I’ve even since been blamed for the Business Over Helen’s Wellies.

I’ll explain once I’m not in such trouble.

In the meantime, I shall catch up with some earlier stuff.

Here are some pictures of My Good Self and Mutley at the field near the river.

The long grass has recently been mown and now we can race around as fast as we like.

Mutley is my Hero, have I mentioned that before?

You can see Mutley wearing his special mask to stop him biting.

I think it makes him look like a superhero,

I’d like a mask like that so that I could fly and jump tall fences in a single bound

Sometimes I wonder if I should bite more things so that I can get a mask.
I asked Mutley about it, thinking that he’d be pleased that I wanted to be like him and hoping that he’d have me as his superhero sidekick.

He said I was daft.

I think he must have just been a bit hot after all the running and swimming,

really we are great mates !

Rocco says Mutley in his mask looks like Hannibal.

Rocco says those sorts of things because when he spent months running wild in Ireland he says he absorbed a lot of knowledge of popular culture. Anyone would think he spent months watching DVDs to hear him going on and on. I’ve no idea who Hannibal is. Rocco said something about The Silence of the Sheep, but I’m a sheepdog and one thing I do know is the only way to get sheep to be silent is to bark at them.

One day I’d like to have Lots of Sheep To Bark At !

Bruce

Bruce came to us from Ireland where he had been living with a family
who didn’t have the time for his needs.
He had spent a lot of time tied up in the garden and as a result of this was not sociable with
other dogs.
He loved adults and children and his ball.
He fostered with Jane, one of our dedicated foster mums for three months.
Lots of people went to see him but as he was very strong they felt they wouldn’t be
able to cope with him.
Eventually he went to live with a couple who 12 years earlier had adopted a dog called Ben from us who had sadly died.
Bruce settled in the minute he went there as if he had lived with them all his life and has helped to get them ovet the loss of Ben.
He is very much loved.