Well we've been up to The Highlands and luckily back before the really awful weather kicked in. But this is a bit of snow and Molly in the garden and its a Christmasey scene.
There is now no excuse for having Christmas decs up collecting dust. They should by now all be down. Perhaps at a stretch this weekend is downing time if you are working hard and have had no time to get the job done beforehand.
How many people did the idiot dog thing of wrapping up presents to go under or on the tree AT DOG REACHING HEIGHT containing edible stuff? A couple of newspapers ran a couple of stories about cute pooches who had destroyed their owners Christmas tree/presents/room simply because they'd left presents of tins of biscuits, sweets, and chocolate, under their tree at dog height? And left their dogs at home alone. Serve these idiot people right.
Dogs have the most brilliant noses and can sniff out anything foodie miles away so the temptation of being left in charge of a house with a Christmas tree full of tempting treats, is simply unresistable to ANY DOG.
Come on you guys realise that your dog has been programmed for thousands of years to both get along with we humans and to realise that to dogs we humans mean food and shelter! Dogs don't realise that those lovely smellie wrapped presents under the tree aren't for them - as far as they are concerned it is for them. Its been programmed into their genes to eat when there is food wherever it is. And they then tuck in? Why not? And then are bewildered when their owners get cross with them.
Its not their fault. If you are one of those owners who have been angry at your dog for this then shame on you. You should be cross with yourself. Its not the dog's fault. Its yours.
Even the Carnavon's at Highclere House (aka Downton Abbey) made this mistake of leaving stuff under their Christmas Tree and returned to find their dogs had ripped open and eaten most of the contents of presents ready to go to friends and family. But only those containing food.
Over Christmas I spent a fortune on some speciality cheeses and after one gathering left them all on a plate in the kitchen. Someone also left Molly in the kitchen. I came through and she had a white ball in her mouth and was trying desperately, as she saw me, to swallow it whole in one gulp but it was too big. She rather choked on it and dropped it on the floor. She'd snaffled the entire wedge of goats cheese. She looked guilty with those doe eyes but that reaction was due to my reaction. My sharp intake of breath and a grap for the mushy, slobbery, goats cheese. Who left the dog in the kitchen? My son. It was his fault. Not Molly's.
DON'T LEAVE ANYTHING FOODIE WITHIN REACH OF ANY DOG AS YOU CAN'T BLAME THE DOG IF IT SCOFFS THE LOT- YOU HAVE TO BLAME YOURSELF FOR LEAVING IT THERE.
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