Sniffer, Diary of A Dog In Isolation!

👏👏👏 Mum’s Airedale called Lily once reorganised her embroidery silks, you know, those that only have numbers, for doing cross stitch!

Very chilly walk this evening. I spent ages Sniffing, just ambling around very slowly. Apparently, it was “bl**dy freezing”, but can’t say I noticed in my super thick, waterproof fur coat. She should have put a jumper on under that coat, Dad did tell her.........🥶

Arbuthnott here again. I put in my appearance earlier and there's no food in my bowl. Not sure how to draw their attention to this but I hope it's corrected swiftly.

Reading about the doggy experiences made my smile - unfortunately I can't join in with such jolly japes!

My Mum and Dad have rescued a few Hedgehogs, Arbuthnot. There’s a sanctuary not too far away luckily that they have used in the Autumn. They have special heat mats so the little ones don’t fall asleep and hibernate, they stay awake in the warm and manage to keep eating until they become round balls of spikes, not long balls. Or something like that, Mum says.......

Dad will rescue anything, he used to go into burning buildings and fetch dogs and cats, and hamsters out. Mum just rescues kittens..... although it’s been a while.......

Hi all, Iggy cat here again.

Been a bit busy the last few days to pop in. Being a cat I don't have to be walked so have been doing my rounds, making sure all those hedgehogs are not eating my food 

The old one still hasn't been out the house but the young one has done her shopping for her so she has plenty to eat. The fish man came the other day so I had a nice bit of salmon to eat that night. 

I was out in the garden today lots of work going on, young one on her hands and knees while the male was up a ladder making a right old noise banging away at a bit of wood. Took a walk next door to where I'm supposed to live (but don't) thought I would go and say hello to the kids, didn't get far before this bl***y big dog came charging at me. Didn't get me though I'm far to fast for it. 

It wasn't me honest Arbuthnott 

Hi, it's me, Tinker. I'm no longer a visiting dog, I have to work from home, such a lot to do!

Hello Tinker, you look busy. Aren’t you sharing with a Chihuahua pup? At least you have company, these humans are ok, but there’s nothing like a chum of your own to share sniffs with. My mates Eddie and Toby came round this morning, shot under gate while the Mums weren’t looking, good to say hello. I think Petal was out as well, somewhere, and there was a bit of barking going on.

Mum’s just done the Grandma Cheese medication run, so lots of love sent from them. I will probably have to do another video later. It’s all go. And the stove isn’t lit yet, so basket it will have to be.....

Nope, no chihuahua company, not allowed to visit my "second home" at the moment...

I know how you feel, haven’t seen a Grandma Cheese for over a week now.....😥

But we do videos, and photos.

Arbuthnott back again, well the fussy one wasn't impressed this morning and I can't say I am either!

Been a bit chilly over the last few nights so I stayed where I was and didn't come out exploring. Fussy one wished she'd paid proper attention to the overnight lows as the items she removed, as part of her tidy up -that's cos she's fussy! From the cold frame and popped in the sun by the conservatory caught the frost. She's asked the the slower one to listen carefully to the forecast and alert her if it's going to be frosty so she can cover them. I digress.

When she came out to get breakfast items etc from the freezer, that's always first BEFORE feeding the birds and checking my situation😲. She was greeted by what the photo shows. Heap of fox poo and my bowl well out of my home and empty 😤.  Hope she's sensible enough to put it round the corner in my house tonight so it can't get at it. There's only a few bits of dry food right in the corner which must have spilled out as it helped itself 😤.

Fussy one only remarked the other day she'd not seen the fox for ages. She needs to be careful about thoughts and comments. 

Quite a big sensation on the local 'care and share fb page' about hedgehogs - newish arrivals didn't realise we have a very healthy population of hedgehogs in the neighbourhood.  Much good advice shared about checking g under things and not using strimmers or slug pellets.  Also a photo of one of my poorly mates in the cordoned off play area in the park during the day. Again our local friendly humans have put them straight - it shouldn't be out during the day and to get it into a box and consult the local hedgehog rescue. Fussy one would have gone straight off but realised she couldn't because of total self isolation for the sake of his health!

Right fussy one of to vac things hope she doesn't go near my house!

Some good hedgehog thoughts there Arby. Humans here don’t use strimmers either. Not good for frogs, and talking of which.........

Noisy is doing my giant drinking bowl out at the moment, and things were hopping madly in there yesterday. Being a lover of nature, I refrained from getting involved, although they do hop temptingly at times. Sadly my chasing joys are limited nowadays, the odd poddle after a squirrel, a flick of the ears at a rabbit. I am still (apparently) not trusted in the vicinity of any passing cat, but that’s just a nervous reaction they simply don’t understand.

I thought we had settled into a routine here until yesterday, but found myself climbing the car ramp yesterday, off to the vets. Deep joy though, it turned out to be “woods, not vets”. All they did was off to a different vets to pick up some of my “happy pills” and because the woods were on the way home we stopped off there for a walk. Haven’t seen it for weeks, but there were some faint Sniffer threads from mates. Bluebells coming along nicely, trees starting to green up. We sat and gazed at the views from the top hill, but it was strangely quiet, except for all the twittering birds. Anyway, that little bit of “stick therapy” was wonderful. It will be back to the local park from today.

Had a visitor yesterday, my mate Toby from next door but one came calling unannounced. He’s great fun, bit of a tyke, but great to see him.