Me … A Tease?

When I was a little puppy, I used to try and play with the big dogs.

It was pawsome, everyone loved it. I’d jump all over them, chew their ears, climb on top of them, pin them down, grrrr in their faces and they ALL loved it.

I think something happened when I changed from a puppy collar to a dog’s collar. I was told that I had something called a puppy license … and it’s gone now.

I’ve looked everywhere for it. In the park, in the woods even in the car – it was nowhere to be found.

I had to do something. I was in trouble, I wasn’t allowed to bite the big dogs ears anymore. I don’t understand, because when I was a real little puppy and used to bite their ears, they used to yelp and say ‘get off me Bella’. Now I don’t even get close to the ears, the big dogs know what I’m about to do and they give me ‘the look’ and say ‘Don’t even think about it Bella’.

So I had to learn another way to play.

When I was little, I wasn’t that fast. And I wasn’t that clever. My legs didn’t really do what I wanted them to do all the time and the big dogs could ALWAYS take my toys and play with them.

Now, I’m super fast. I’m super clever and my legs listen to me all the time. So now, the big dogs can’t catch me.

 

My brother Alfie thinks I’m a thief.

Alfie’s the fastest Entlebucher in the UK, but you know what – I’ve been practising. I say, I’m not a thief, it’s just getting harder to catch me and I’m going to be the fastest one day. 

What do you think? Am I a toy thief or am I just super fast?

Snow Joke

My first snow!

2013 has started in the most amazing way!

As you know, I live in England. I’ve found out that there’s one thing England has a lot of … RAIN. Especially when it’s time to go for a walk. I don’t mind and luckily for me, neither does my human.

On the weekend, she came home from work and was being silly. She climbed the ladder to the roof and brought down a huge plastic toy.

‘You wait Bella’ she kept saying. ‘You wait until tomorrow, I can’t wait Bella’

Honestly. Humans have NO control. She makes ME wait ALL the time. I don’t mind in class, but she does it EVERYWHERE. When we’re coming into the house, when I’m in the car and she’s putting her wellies on. She even does it just to practise. Now she’s telling me she can’t wait. What a joke.

I didn’t see any treats, so I wasn’t taking her that seriously.

Next morning … something had happened to my territory. Something strange and cold and white. It was everywhere and my human had gone crazy!

‘Bella, it’s here – look outside, it’s so beauuuuutiful … LETSGOPLAY’.

Now that’s one instruction I always follow first time.

I ran out into the garden and the white stuff was right up to my tan! ‘Where’s your toy Bella, FIND IT’ … so I started looking … I knew I’d left it out here but .. where? Soon I had my paws on it, and just needed to dig it out.

Where’s my toy?

Once I’d found it, I had a pawsome time shaking it around the garden. Every time I shook, the white stuff flew around and crunched under my feet.

Shake it!

Then she said one of my favourite things. ‘Bella, you wanna go see ALFIE’

My ears pricked up. ALFIE? OF COURSE I WANNA GO SEE ALFIE …

You see, Me and Alfie have got a bet on. He started it. It’s ALL his fault.

He said he was the coolest.
He said he was the coolest over and over and over and over again. He said he started all this mischief stuff and I would NEVER be as fast or as clever as him to get away with as much mischief.

So we started a bet. Every time he’s at mine he has to do something naughty. And it’s the same if I’m at his place. I told him we better leave the rabbits out of it for now.

The Bet.

We’ve started Agility classes together. Once a week, Alfie brings his human to my place. (He actually does, SHE doesn’t know the way from the train station, but Alfie does, so he tells her where to walk) A couple of weeks ago it was supposed to be OUR first lesson. Alfie had other ideas. The other idea ended up with him having stitches to his head!

As I was separated and Alfie was taken to the vets, he looked over his shoulder … and gave me a wink.

I knew what that wink meant. Attention from the humans. Silly Alfie didn’t care that his brains could have fallen out, he was too busy gloating that I was being left indoors on my own, he even bragged that he was going to see MY vet!!

I’d been trying to think of a way to get my own back when I remembered. Alfie had a new den. I was BOUND to find something.

We got to his new place, he showed me around quickly then the humans took us off for some mischief of their own!

We had a pawsome time playing, running and pulling the humans on a sledge! Snow is definitely more fun with an Alfie!

Alfie! Stop messing around – you made me jump!

When we got back to his den, Alfie’s human started cooking and I was trying to work out how to get the food. It wasn’t going to happen so I kept running off into the other rooms when I got a chance. Firstly to investigate, secondly to see what things of Alfie’s I could steal.

My human was there straight away, being bossy. ‘Bella, come out of there’. ‘Bella, come back’ … I could see this was going to be harder than I thought, so I pretended to be good and played with Alfie in the room with no table.

Gimme the toy

Then it hit me. I KNEW what to do.

I waited and waited. Waited until Alfie, his human AND my human were all looking at me. And you know what I did?

PEED.

Right there, on his rug, right next to his bed.

As I was taken to the garden, amongst human cries of ‘Bella, I can’t believe it’ … I looked over my shoulder … and gave Alfie a wink.

Sledging

Over the weekend, one of the things I did, being an Entlebucher Mountain Dog in her first snow, was get aquainted with something that the humans call a sledge. I had a go at pulling my human, Alfie pulled his human and I had a go pulling the human’s bags with Alfie. It was pretty pawsome.

GUESS WHAT I’VE LEARNT?

Pulling a sledge is NO WAY more fun than riding down a hill in one!

2012 – Review of the Year

2012 … It’s been a BIG year for me, my first one.

It started like this. On 30th March 2012 I was born. The first B pup in the whole of our Kingdom.

Puppy Pile

After a few weeks, we were all given our humans. My girl and man came to visit me when I was 4 weeks old, which looked like this.

4 weeks, first meeting

It was my human’s birthday weekend and she said it was the BEST birthday she’d ever had. Everyone was asking her what she was doing and she told them ”I’m going to meet my puppy”.

At 8 weeks, then the end of May, I went to my humans. It was a bit scary at first and I spent most of my first day like this.

A little worried about the new home

After a while, I realised that the people were really nice, that I liked them A LOT. It wasn’t going to be bad at all.

We’ve actually had A LOT of fun together.

I started school and have done some training. All the way from Puppy Play Group to Level 2 Obedience. This year I get to start Agility and I’m going to school with my big brother Alfie. I can’t wait, I’m so excited to be in class with him, the FASTEST Entlebucher in the UK. I can’t wait to show him off to all my friends. I’m going to introduce him to Ozzy, because Ozzy sniffs my bum WAY too much and maybe Alfie will have a word with him. That’s what big brothers are for, right? Ozzy will have to concentrate on Cara from now on, but Cara will probably like Alfie too. *wag wag wag*

I’m also starting my Level 3 Obedience, which is when I get to work off lead. I’ve learnt to play up in the class but still pass my test. My human says I’m just like her.

Christmas was PAWSOME!!

Alfie had told me a few things, he said it was fun and the best bit was that humans didn’t go to work for a while, which meant I had two people to play with ALL DAY.

HE didn’t tell me about the Santa Paws (not a burglar)

He didn’t tell me about the reindeer poo (tastes good!!)

He didn’t tell me there’d be a tree in my house. (with BALLS on)

He didn’t tell me I’d get an AMAZING roast dinner on Christmas Day (with sausage and bacon and beef and gammon and turkey and pigs … wearing blankets)

He didn’t tell me that Sprout Farts can clear a whole room (for quick treat stealing)

He didn’t tell me that the humans would drink funny drinks (and love me even more than usual)

I’m glad he kept it all as a suprise. I’ve been giddy from all the fun, sometimes I just had to stand in the middle of the room and BARK because I was so happy.

When the year ended, my humans took me on a special midnight walk. We went on top of a big hill that looked right out over London. There were lots of people walking with us. We got to the top and we all stopped and waited. Then all the humans were shouting. 10 – 9 – 8 – 7 …

I got excited at this point and decided to join them … 3 Roooooooooo, 2 Roooooooooo, 1 ROOOOOOOOOOOOO ROO ROOO ROOO ROOOOOOO. Everyone liked my roo’ing and I didn’t get told to quiet once.

This is me and my human, celebrating the New Year together. She said it was hard to get a photo with fireworks, Bella & herself, because the person with the camera was drunk.

Celebrating together

I don’t know what 2013 will bring.

My human says it’s an important year for me. I have to have lots of tests to see if one day, I’ll be able to have puppies of my own, that’s a long way off though. She just wants me to have fun for now.

Talking of puppies. My friend Shadow had her puppies and they’re now almost ready to go to their new humans. They have been live on a website since they were a day old. This is the last week that they’re on the camera, and I have to say, they’re looking pawsome. I can’t wait to meet them and tell them all the secrets to training a human.

You can catch their last few days with their mum here

PUPPY CAM

They’re really fun to watch at this age and full of mischief.

And you can read all about their last week with their mum here, on my other friend Alfie’s blog.

It’s a new year and the puppies will soon have new homes.
Every night this year, I’ve been wishing on a star (Sirius, the Dog Star of course) … here are my wishes for the new puppies

I wish you not to be scared when you leave your home.

I wish you to have safe and happy journeys to your new home.

I wish you LOVE and CUDDLES like you’ve never had before.

I wish you patient humans, who understand that you are young and will make mistakes.

But most of all, I wish you sausages.

LOTS AND LOTS OF SAUSAGES.

Wordless Wednesday : Christmas Fancy Dress Party

Christmas Fancy Dress Party 2012

I joined the Wordless Wednesday blog hop this week.
I have NOTHING to say about this one.

*embarassed dog*

The Big One

A few weeks ago I had my first experience being a herder when I found a big horse and man in Alfie’s common. I had a pawsome time barking, nipping and trying to make it move.

I was SO lucky. Do you know why?

I was lucky because I got another chance a few days later *wag wag wag*

I was in the park and someone had tied a horse to a tree. OH WOWEE! I was off lead at the time and I ran over as fast as my puppy legs would carry me. I had a big bark at this one too. The horse was kicking and dancing and I was dodging and barking. I was doing a pawsome job. A man walking past even said so!

I had to concentrate on the horses legs. I was trying to make it move and I also had to dodge one of my humans who was trying to put me back on the lead. He caught me eventually but only because I got bored and let him. I was feeling really proud and I couldn’t wait to tell all my friends how brave I’d been … AGAIN *wag wag wag*

A few days later my other human sat me down and explained something to me. She said she understands that I want to chase big animals, I’m an Entlebucher and that’s what Entlebucher’s do. She said because I’m a puppy I don’t understand all of the rules yet. Especially when it comes to big animals. She told me that it’s ok, everyone has to learn the rules someday and she could teach me. After all, that’s what humans are for. She said we have to go for a special walk and I needed to listen to everything that she says.

When we got there, all I could smell was horse. Soon I could see them. Lots of them. We were at a horse village! It was so exciting I couldn’t help having a whine and a yip. I was tied to a fence and watched as my human set out some cones.

I have to weave through cones all the time when I’m at school and it’s easy. My human walked me around the edge of what’s called the ‘Sand School’ so that I could get my focus and get used to some of the smells. It was really hard because there was lots of horse poo and it’s one of my favourite treats. And a horse from next door had come to watch us. Eventually, my human managed to get my attention and we started our weave.

I heard her shout that we were ready while we were weaving. I went in and out till I got to the end and we turned round. I was busy going in and out when all of a sudden, my nose picked up the smell of horse. It was really strong! I glanced behind me and I couldn’t believe my nose. My human was laughing saying … oh, she noticed then. Of course I noticed!

Look what had come into our area! While we were practising with walking.

I tried to concentrate on walking round the cones but it was all too much. I HAD to get to the horse. It was walking round and round and herding ME! THAT is not the way it’s supposed to be. I let my human know that she was concentrating on cones while an intruder was in the sand school … if she let me go, I’d take care of it and then we can get right back to the cones.

She said NO and carried on trying to get my attention. By this point I had totally lost it with her. She wouldn’t let me off and wanted me to walk round BORING cones while there was MUCH more fun to be had. So I did what any dog would do. I went into full alert, IGNORED the food and CONCENTRATED on the horse. I even tried to break the lead.

Do you know what. My human thought that would happen. She is one sneaky human, I’ll give her that. Do you know what she did? She put the chicken back in the treat bag and then I heard her run away. I could have ignored that, but you know what she had in her hand? A squeaky toy!

I LOVE squeaky toy’s. I’m not usually allowed to play with them. OH man. Before I could even think, I was running after my human and the squeak.

Soon, we were weaving nicely and the horse was going round and round nicely too.

Suddenly, I understood. Every time I tried to get near to the horse and wasn’t calm, my human was taking me further away. Every time I was calm, I got to go nearer. Ok, I can do this. I really wanted to say hello.

She asked for my attention and told her friend that it’s time to meet. I lunged a few times on the way there because I was super excited, but my human made me lay down and get into my wait position. Then the horse came over. It was actually much better, I got a chance to say hello. I’ve never actually spoken to a horse before.

He plodded over, bent down, looked me right in the eyes and said ‘well done girl, now we can be friends. I’m Paz, nice to meet’cha’

The human said she was very happy. It had taken us about 40 minutes to get to this point, so she said she thinks it should end here. On a good note, while everyone is calm. Paz and I were so calm, we decided to give eachother a kiss.

We all walked out of the sand school together. It was SO pawsome to walk with a horse.

Afterwards, Paz & I hung out while the humans played the moving mouth game. They said we should do it again some time, that it would be good for Bella.

I can’t wait to see Paz again. I wonder when we’ll be allowed to go in the field together *wag wag wag*

I also want to say a special Thank You. To Jo for letting me come to her horse village and for bringing Paz out to play and to Vanessa, for waking up early on a bright sunny day, with a hangover, to come and take pictures for us.

 

 

Horsing Around

Growing Up

 

It’s been a whole six months since I was given some humans of my own to train.

At first, I didn’t know what they would be like, so I decided to be really good and learn all about them. After that, we started training together and we’ve learnt A LOT.

One of the really important things that I’ve taught them is lead training.  Being an Entlebucher, I always like my humans close by so that I can keep an eye on them. It’s really important that they keep an eye on me too, in case I want to change direction or there’s something important to see or sniff.

 

Anyone for Pulled Pork?

 

Of course, I understand the difference between them walking nicely and being pulled, but there’s a time an a place for both.

I’m allowed off the lead a lot. My human said that she thought it was important from my very first walk. When they let me off the lead they say to me ”go play” or ”be a dog” and that means I can do whatever I want to do. She often calls me back and I always come, because she’s trained to give me a treat if she wants to walk with me.

Recently, the humans have been doing this thing called ‘phase out’. They’re trying to phase out my treats. So you know what I say?

 

I say it’s time to ”phase out” my good behaviour *wag wag wag*

 

Horsing Around

I live in Kent, in England.

Kent means Fields. Fields mean Mud. Mud mean Farms. And Farms mean Animals.

Being a working dog, farm animals are something I really like. They live in the best place. They smell good and EVEN their poo tastes good.

My human is always very careful to make sure that I’m on the lead while she’s walking through the farms … ”just in case”.

We’ve met lots of animals on our walks. I’m always chasing pheasants, squirrels, mice and birds through the woods and the long grass. But there are bigger animals too.

Kiss?

 

It was nice to get up close to a Pony and have a good sniff. But it’s the big ones that I really want to sniff.

 

Can’t get close enough

 

There’s always a fence in between and I’m always on the lead … Until yesterday.

I had SUCH a PAWSOME experience and now I feel like a proper Entlebucher Mountain Dog. My brother Alfie said he thought I was REALLY brave. He also said he thought that my human was a bit stupid, but I shouldn’t worry … you can’t chose your humans.

Alfie had invited me over to his common for a bit of chase and fetch. He said it was wet and muddy so we could get ourselves covered in dirt and stink while we were there.  He lives in London, so I wasn’t really expecting to see many animals.

We were running around, ”being a dog” when all of a sudden, Alfie’s human shouted …

ALFIE. COME.

And then she ran off into the bushes.

Alfie quickly sprung into Entlebucher action, always at the ready to protect the pack and, worried that  there was an emergency and she needed help, he ran over to her to make sure that she was ok.

My human just stood there thinking  … why did they both just run off?

I wasn’t confused. I saw it.

It was a giant horse and he was carrying a man too.

Then something happened inside me. I felt a big brave feeling in my belly. I felt my blood rush round and go to my feet and I felt the wind in my fur as I ran as fast as I could.

I don’t know what happened inside. All I know is that I HAD to make it move. I HAD to protect the pack. Alfie’s human saved my furry little life once. Now I had to save hers.

My hair went up all by itself and my legs started running. I ran as fast as I could and when I got as close as I could, I told it to move.

WOOF WOOF WOOF.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOF. WOOOOOOOOOOOF. WOOOOOOOOF.

Alfie said my human called ”OH SHIT”  and then called ”BELLA – LEAVE IT”. And she started running as fast as she could too. He said it was the funniest thing he’d seen for a long time. Humans are NOT fast.

But I couldn’t hear her. I was busy.

I got close to the horse, and the park ranger who was riding the horse – and I told them..

MOVE. MOOOOOOOOVE. MOOOOOOOVE. MOVE MOVE MOVE.

And guess what! The horse started moving. It started dancing and it’s feet were going up and down, up and down.

It was REALLY exciting *wag wag wag*

So I said again.

MOVE. MOVE MOVE MOVE. MOOOOOOVE. I got near it’s back feet and went closer. I decided to aim my mouth at its back feet …  MOVE MOVE MOVE.

Then I saw my human coming.

She didn’t look happy. She looked REALLY scared. Which made me bark even more, MOVE MOVE MOVE. YOU’RE SCARING MY HUMAN. MOVE.

She said that she was sorry to the ranger. At the same time as shouting ”Bella, come here … BELLA”

Do you know what the ranger told her? He told her ”GO AWAY and CALM DOWN”.

My human was making the horse dance even more! She could be an Entlebucher too! *wag wag wag*

My human knew that she needed to go in a different direction, but she didn’t want it too look like she was letting me bark at the horse.

She walked off and she let me carry on barking at the horse and making it dance about on the spot. I caught a whiff of her and she smelt VERY strange. I never smelt her like that before. Something was happening inside HER too.

After a little while, I realised that I couldn’t see my human. Or Alfie. Or Alfie’s human. So I legged it. The horse legged it too, in the other direction.

I legged it until I found them and I was very waggy, telling Alfie all about what I’d just done. He just stared at me, shook his head and said ‘Oh Bella! You are such a stupid puppy girl sometimes. You’ll learn one day’.

I think my human was pleased with me because she told me she loved me and that she never wanted anything to happen to me. And she mentioned something to Alfie’s human about recalls and disctractions.

But I wasn’t listening. I was looking for another horse to chase off.

Good job I was around to save everyone’s life, don’t you think?

I’m proud of being a herder. *wag wag wag*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Girls With No Name

It’s been quite a while since my last post.

It’s not because I’ve been naughty and on a computer ban. No No No.

It’s because my human has had a lot of things to sort out. She may be busy, but she still remembers that I need to have fun too. She’s good like that.  SO many things have been happening and there are SO many things to tell you.  It’s all really exciting for a puppy and I don’t know where to start!!

Eiger

I met my brother Eiger for a play the other week. It was only the third time that I’ve seen him since we left the litter and it was totally pawsome! He’s growing up really well and listening to his humans to … I try to listen, but there’s so much happening that I find it hard sometimes.

Eiger with full attention on his human, I’m listening in …

Eiger’s very handsome, of course!

We were very good on our day out. We played, drank in the river and covered ourselves in mud and stink. It was great fun.

My human says that she has a bet with another Entlebucher owner, Alfie’s human’s. The bet is this … there is NO WAY that at 2 years old, I will sleep in a pub while we’re all having a meal.

My human thinks it’s ‘possible’ … and she’s very stubborn, so she’s on a mission to prove that I will, which means she goes to the pub a lot as a ‘training session’ for me. I told Eiger all about it and he agreed. He said he thinks it’s important that we learn to behave ourselves in the pub and act like the English do, so we had a practise together.

GOTCHA!!!

Something tells me, I’m going to do just fine and win this bet!!! *wag wag wag*

Fizz

I met a friend through blogging. She’s called Fizz and is a Bernese Mountain Dog, which technically makes us cousins. Her human recognised my park on my blog and the humans arranged for us to have a play together. THAT was Pawsome too. Most of my friends are boys, so it was really nice to meet a girl for once. My human says that  it’s good to have girlfriends because there will be some time soon that I won’t be allowed to play with the boys. I don’t know why.

Swiss Mountain Dogs RULE

Fizz was very funny. She told me that she liked the water too. This is the difference between boys and girls. My big brother Alfie tries to push me in, so does my brother Bertie. They both say I’m a silly girl. Marvel races and races around in the water to try and show me how fun it is. But Fizz, Fizz plods into the water and asks if I’m coming … when I said no, she said it’s ok, I’m only a baby and soon it will seem fun and not scary … but she had to go, because she had some ducks to catch.

She took a last look at the grass and walked into the water. She didn’t catch a duck … and then she realised something quite important … When you’re a big Bernese Mountain Dog, you should always check BEFORE you get in the water that there is somewhere to get out.

Fizz needs a little help.

All in all, it was a PAWSOME day and I can’t wait to meet up with Fizz again.

PAWSOME

Talking of Pawsome … there is something AMAZINGLY PAWSOME happening in the Entlebucher world in the UK.  My friend Shadow had a romantic weekend away in Switzerland just before our Fun Day.

Guess what ?

THERE ARE 5 MORE B PUPPIES!!!

Told you it was Pawsome!!

Britannia, the first born ‘B’ girl (just like me) was born at 7:30am on Monday morning last week. Followed by her brother Beethoven, then another sister Bodicea, then two more boys Bossonova and Bumble, who popped out after 5pm that day. It was a long day for Shadow.

They’re totally PAWSOME. Shadow is a very good mum and I’m watching her all the time and the puppies. I think I love them a little bit. If you want to love them a little bit too, you can see them here

PUPPY CAM !!!  – just follow the link to the PuppyCam Live.

There is a puppy-cam on their box 24/7 and it’s LIVE. You can see them all wriggling about and feeding. Soon they’ll open their eyes and that’s when the fun will REALLY start.  I can’t wait. *wag wag wag*

You can check out what they’re all up to and follow the story of their birth on my friend Alfie’s blog. He’s the puppies Uncle and lives in their house with 3 other grown up Entlebuchers. It really is very special.  I can’t wait until they’re all grown up and we can make friends.

Salvador & The Girls With No Name

There’s been a bit of a change in our house. If you read my last blog post, you’ll have seen that unfortunately, we lost ‘Dinner’ the other week because of the fireworks. Her ticker stopped tocking and we had to say goodbye. Her real name was Belle, but my big brother Alfie and I used to joke and call them both Breakfast & Dinner.

Alfie was really upset when I told him Dinner was dead.

That just left Breakfast. His real name is Salvador.

He’s got a whole rabbit palace to himself and unfortunately, in the week that his wife died, he just got more and more sad.

First he was just sad. Then he went crazy because whenever I went into the garden he ran out to say hello to me! Then after that, he just sat there. Staring at the fence, not moving, his head hanging to the floor. Even I felt bad.

My human is a real softie. She gets very upset if an animal looks sad or hurt. Even insects. That’s why I love her. I can get what I want if I just look a bit sad. *wag wag wag*

She said that she had better find Salvador a new wife. He’s VERY handsome and thinks he’s the Rabbit King. Lots of ladies would fall for him. She said that it was important that he had a friend and wasn’t sad any more. So she started calling around the rescues.

Salvador, Rabbit King in his favourite spot in the garden

She visited a few to see if she could find a suitable girlfriend for him. No joy. Everyone was already paired up. She was worried that she was going to have to get a baby and bring it up to be a nice animal. Then last Saturday, she got a phone call. The rescue had something that they wanted her to come and see.

And BOY OH BOY, is Salvador a lucky, lucky rabbit.

The Girls With No Name

TOLD you she was a big softie.

So now we have Breakfast, Lunch AND Dinner … I CAN’T WAIT to show my big brother Alfie, he’s going to go all silly and waggy!!

My human is now socialising them together. She needs to make sure that they don’t fight. And of course, she needs some names. She says that Lunch and Dinner aren’t proper names for rabbits. I think they really look like a Lunch and Dinner.

What do you think?

Running Shoes

Last week, I called mischief on Guy Fawkes.

He deserved it.

Monday was the real night for celebrating but all of the public displays had been on the weekend. My human helped me write my blog post and then after that she went to feed her rabbits.

I’m not sure what happened. One moment she was happy with arms full of carrots and lettuce, the next moment I was being locked in the house and she had wet stuff on her face and her mouth had gone very straight.

She explained to me that I had to stay inside as something bad had happened to one of the rabbits and she needed to sort it out.

 

I don’t know what happened to the rabbit, but before Bonfire Night there were two rabbits and after that there has only been one. AND a big hole has been dug in the garden then covered over. I could have helped with that but my human said it was important that she did it.

I was locked in the house for a long time but I have never seen her face like that before, so I waited patiently, like a good girl.

When she came back she was quiet. She sat on the kitchen floor and gave me a huge cuddle. I’m not really a cuddly girl but I think she needed to just sit there for a minute.

A minute was long enough for me. I’d been very good. For a long time. Probably a whole hour and I needed my human to be happy again. You see, us dogs, we’d love to talk sometimes. Sometimes we just want to tell you that it’s all ok. Bad things happen but as long as you have a puppy in your life you won’t stay sad for long.

I had a little bark but she didn’t understand. So I thought I’d have to show her.

I took the shoes out for a run. *wag wag wag* It’s not mischief though. It’s called cheering up. *wag wag wag*

Don’t you think I did a good job of cheering her up?

Remember, Remember, the 5th of November

 

Explosions and Bangs

 

 

There’s been WAY too much mischief from the humans this weekend.

WAY too much. Almost too much for a puppy to handle.

Last week, in the night time when I have my walk, something strange has been happening. Explosions. I thought my world was going to end. It’s been very confusing for a puppy. The sky has been exlpoding in colours and lots of bangs. They’re so bright that they light up the street. It’s so loud that it makes my feet run all by themselves. And the smell … there’s such a funny smell in the air.

My human had to sit down and explain something to me. It went like this …

 

Remember, Remember,

The fifth of November,

Gunpowder, Treason & Plot.

We see no reason,

Why Gunpowder Treason,

Should ever be forgot. 

 

She said that there was more to explain, but it was a lot for a puppy to understand. Especially when they’re being distracted by explosions. But that it was VERY mischeivious.

She said that a long time ago, a man called Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the King and the rulers of England. Guy Fawkes and his friends got some barrels of gunpowder, bought a house next door to the Houses of Parliament and filled up their cellar with the barrels. Guy Fawkes had an important job because his job was to set the barrels on fire. He was a true mischief maker.

Guy Fawkes was caught by soldiers in the cellar with the barrels of gunpowder and was taken to the Tower of London where he was tortured, probably by not having any treats and getting a big TIME-OUT in a boring room. To start with he didn’t tell anything and kept the mischief all to himself, but eventually, with ‘reward based training’ they managed to get the truth out of Guy Fawkes and he told EVERYTHING.

Every year, everyone in England celebrates because the Houses of Parliament were not blown up and The King was not killed. They celebrate by making a ‘Guy’ and burning him on top of a fire. After that there’s a big pawty and all of the humans set off gunpowder into the sky and then sticks fall out of the sky into the park – but I’m not allowed to play with them.

Helping to set up the big rockets at the park

 

 

In the morning, my human took me to the park so that I could inspect the fireworks before they were set alight. She told me that EVERYONE from my world would be there that night. That all the dogs would be left at home and they were just supposed to sleep through all the banging. She said it was nothing to worry about, that the Queen is alive and that I could have a walk afterwards.

 

Inspecting the fireworks going onto the lake

 

So they left me.

Indoors.

By myself.

Alone.

Lonely.

Listening to Explosions

And seeing flashes.

 

When they came home, my human took me for a walk. There were so many people on the streets! It was all very exciting for a puppy. It was so exciting that I forgot to cause mischief of my own like I had planned.

When everyone was back home. Every time an explosion went off, I jumped up, ran to the door and BARKEDASLOUDASICAN to let the humans know that everyone was still having the paw-ty and they were missing out.

As you can see, NO mischief from me this weekend.

 

I’m calling Mischief on Guy Fawkes!!!

 

Danson Firework Night 2012

 

Sticky Business

On the weekend, I got to meet up with 2 of my brothers, Alfie & Bertie.

Alfie’s got the same mum as me, but Bertie was ACTUALLY in my litter. We used to roll all over each other fighting for the milk. When my human told me we were going to see him, my wagger just wouldn’t stop. I hadn’t seen him since the day I met my new human and couldn’t wait to find out all about his new home and how he’s getting on training his humans.

Alfie came along because he’s ”been there and done that” and always has special tricks up his tri-coloured socks to teach us puppies. I couldn’t wait for Bertie to see what a cool big brother we have.

I arrived first and was made to wait in the car until the others arrived. I wanted to play but my human said I had to save all of my energy for later.

Practising my ‘wait’ in the car

 

Once the boys had arrived and we’d all had a good run around to determine who was fastest, Alfie shouted to us puppies to follow him. He said he could smell some stinky water and he just HAD to see if either of us were proper dogs yet, or if we were still babies.

I have to be honest, I thought Bertie was going to show me up here because it looked like he was going to jump in the water too … but he’s just as ‘ready’ as me to go in there.  It made me feel better because we both WANT to go in the water but neither of us is brave enough to just jump in.  Bertie ate some mud while we were thinking about it and he looked like he was striking a thoughtful pose, so I copied him, hoping that the mud would give me some braveness.

While we were munching on the mud and having a think about the water, Alfie said he had something to show us …

What’s going on down there?

 

Then Alfie bought us something … A HUGE STICK … WOW, what a cool brother …

Alfie brings us puppies a HUGE stick

 

 

Being a professional toy stealer myself, I jumped over the water, careful not to slip and grabbed the stick … Bertie stayed behind to grab the other end.

 

You grab that end, I’ll get this one …

 

But Alfie said that we’re stupid puppies. He’s not showing us a stick. He’s pretty sure that we’ve seen plenty of those before … he was just clearing the way for  …. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH, BERTIE!!!! …. RUUUUUUN …

 

And then I saw a flying Entlebucher.

 

Alfie shows us how to enter the water if we’re scared

 

Our brother is VERY VERY cool, but he is also a bit of a show off.

We got the last laugh, because after that, none of the other dogs wanted to sniff Alfie … he stank !!

It was a great day and good fun hanging out with my brothers. We spent a lot of time running around and it was pawsome to see Bertie again.

On the way home, I felt a little bit muddy in the car. I’m sure you other puppies know this one. First you look up, then there’s a funny taste and then … UH OH …

But it’s ok, although I ate so much mud that I was sick … I was very thoughtful and instead of sicking ALL OVER the car, I just did it right on my humans coat.

Bullseye!