Tuesday 20 December 2011

Will We Have Snow for Christmas


This is a picture of Molly last March in Scotland in deep deep snow. This is the front garden normally a tatty lawn but after several feet of snow Moll was puzzled and sank up to her tum in the soft bits.

Mind you lucky thing was light enough to skate across most of this. I on the other hand got stuck after two strides.

We are spending Christmas Day with friends who also have dogs so it will be a dog friendly day. Unfortunately, they are mainly greedy labradours and you have to watch the food on various tables as it does go missing however hard you shout to "leave".

Mind you after several glasses of The Widow Cliquot you don't actually care what the dogs do.

The next day clearing up you certainly mind. A whole ham went last year. Sadly, it was the ham I'd brought to the feast and although I haven't said anything I think it was Molly who brought it down off the kitchen table when we were all slurping and munching in the dinning room with the log fire roaring.

Quite a fun Christmas.

On Boxing Day we are entertaining here with non-doggy cousins. They love Moll but don't like it when she jumps up or retrieves something from a present heap.

A Happy Christmas to all who read this blog - precisely no-one at the moment. I wonder what you have to do to get a blog following. I am not going down the shock horror secret expose route - although I did use to work in the film industry and often thought of writing my memoirs and to blow the lid open on several scandals!!! Perhaps that's for another blog.

I like my dog blog.

Thursday 1 December 2011

Who is Fenton?


Everyone who owns a black labrador is in on this! Who is Fenton? The black labradour with a suffering "posh" owner who screamed "Jesus Christ" when it was obvious his dog was going to not only round up the deer in Richmond Park but he was going to chase them to the end.

My suggestion for what its worth is that they don't live in the park area. If they did someone would have earned a fortune from the press by naming them. By now probably the poor dog has had a name change. Mind you its earned the bright young man who took the film lots of dosh through YouTube.

Molly often chases deer when she gets the scent (see those above who she did go after when we surprised them) but she is so well behaved that when I shout at her - very loudly as she was in the zone - she stops and comes back.

You have to be on the ball as when a dog gets "in the zone" its totally deaf to any shouting, calling, or entreaties so you have to keep an eye out and as soon as they get into "chase mode" you have to know your dog to spot it - AND STOP IT.

Did you live nearish to Richmond Park? Did you have a visitor that weekend with a black lab?