Sniffer, Diary of A Dog In Isolation!

Takethedogalong replied on 18/03/2020 11:02

Posted on 18/03/2020 11:02

Hi everyone. My first post as an independent canine Club Member. My human’s aren’t in total lock down yet, but are behaving a bit strangely, so I thought I’d take to this Web thing and give it a go. 

We canines, and I suspect other chilled out cuties of the fur and feather kind know a thing about communicating. But just how are we going to do it if our walks are on lock down, those well loved paths and trails an ever decreasing source of scents and sniffs? 

Well, compared to our highly developed, totally secret Sniffer channels, our humans finally developed what they call Twitter. It’s a crude, limited, easy to understand type of communication thing, but it might be worth putting up with something similar until we can physically get together and wag our way along those walks again. 

So, if you want to share lockdown tips, keep in touch, add a photo, say hello to a mate you haven’t seen for a while, feel free to add something here, on the Sniffer thread! It would be good to hear from other confined canines, but in this special circumstances, anything that woofs, neighs, squeaks, grunts, moo’s, tweets.......ok, even meows, is most welcome to join in. Humans without anything furry or feathered, but who would like to join in are most welcome as well.

My bolshy human (not the quiet one) has told me that there is a special pet section, but advised me to ask the in charge humans on this Web thing to leave it here for a while, so that more of us highly developed communicators can find it easily and take part if they want to, maybe moving it in a few days time to the pet section.

I’d sign off in my usual way at the moment, but apparently it’s not good etiquette with anything electrical, so get those paws tapping and say hello........

😱 I forgot.......fish! Most welcome, but don’t get too close to the cats!

Takethedogalong replied on 11/08/2020 18:01

Posted on 11/08/2020 18:01

Wow, I think my two humans are starting to think a bit more normal now, not quite as locked down as lockdown has been! We had a day out in the old kennel on wheels yesterday, all my prompting of course, I needed to update my vet on my eyesight workings. Apparently, it’s easier to have a day out and enter Stinky Sheffield from the Derbyshire side than it is to go from home, so they loaded up, packed all my doings and off we went yesterday. I fell asleep (as you do) as soon as we set off, but was woken up for a first walk after only twenty minutes for a quickie, as they call it. That’s when things went pear shaped, as Dad had forgotten to put my chariot into the old kennel, so blow me if I didn’t have to walk all the way. Quite how you forget something that size I will never know, but hey ho, they are out of the groove at the moment🙄

An hour later, after another mobile snooze, I then woke up to Labrador nirvana........a huge watery lake and picnic site to play in, brilliant😁 So it was a bit of water and stick therapy, then back to the kennel on wheels for some grub. Nice lunch, they both did a separate walk, while I sat around looking handsome for a while. Then it was up and off over Strines area, good Retriever territory this, lots of grouse, pheasants Etc..... came out near Longshaw Estate, and another walk while Mum cooked tea, and readied my food. Nice easy drive to vets from there. All went well, although the weight loss is still an issue☹️ A Grand Day Out to coin a phrase. My final contribution to the day was to sit in Mum’s newly planted trough, but she wasn’t quick enough letting me in house, so serves her right!🐾🐾🐾

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