I love Dogs me...

You, too, Nevers. Nice you see you looking in😀

Thanks for the reminder Nevs👍🏻, one of my faves is that WH Davies verse. You too mucker-may all your woes be small🤙🏻🤟

We have just had a lovely surprise. Our new next door neighbours have just come home with a gorgeous rehomed........Rottweiler! Fabulous looking dog, only around 13 months old, has been very well looked after and trained, but previous owner is very ill and cannot look after it how she wants to any more. So it now has a new dream home, big house, big garden, a couple with experience of Rottweilers. Plenty of local walks.

Our first pooch was a rescued Rottie, she was petrol bombed when guarding a warehouse in Mossside, Manchester. She was lovely, took some retraining, but that pull on the heartstrings has never broken🥰

Hi TDA hope you’re keeping well, it’s good to hear you have nice next door neighbours who have taken in a rescue Rottie. They are smashing dogs, I suppose like most dogs if treated well.

If you remember we had a Rottie X Staffie, he had a fantastic temperament, so gentle but would have gone through hell to please you. We had a special bond and I still miss him today, even though our Tess is a loving loyal companion.

I wish them all the best with the new member of their family.  

Yes, Nevers very well thank you, as is our Choccy Lab. He’s an old boy now, but still full of fun. I recall your Rottie/ Staffie cross, and of course remember you getting Tess. You had quite a time finding her I do remember.

We have pondered on another dog, but given what our old lad requires in terms of time, effort and dare I say expense at the moment, we are holding out. We would have to walk him and a pup separately.

This was our lovely Rottie, had many happy hours with her down in Cornwall.

Lovely to hear about all your walks, your loves both current and sadly departed and your general dog love and appreciation! 

There's nothing like a walk with your pooch to clear your mind and relax you...unless of course you have a fear aggressive Dachsie like me    Just gearing up for the nightmare that is Bonfire night, or should I say Bonfire fortnight!  Keep your pooches safe everyone! 

Daughters dog stopping with us for a few days. She is a springer/cocker/beagle cross. She is quite good and lovely. Except at night, when she refuses to sleep downstairs alone,  so I’m not getting much sleep. She is now sleeping on the sofa next to me, having been out for a game of ball on our green. Good job it’s leather, I can wipe it down as she now has a rather wet dog smell. Daughter phoned, ‘ is she missing me’, I doubt it, three good walks a day and she has just eaten all the pickings from a cooked chicken left over from last nights dinner.

11 years old and 11 weeks old now best of friends and shattered

Great to see!😊

We set off around 07:10hrs, walking into a superb red & deep orange dome glowing  over the East’Sou’East, the sunrise still a ways off, around 08:00hrs I think but looking mesmerising as it always does. It was breezy but very mild for near November. Young un & her Mum just behind me peeling off in unison to check the scents left by nature’s night shift & there’s always plenty of them.  My head torch was catching the many rabbits on the newly growing crops in the distance. Ive gone back to my old route from years ago-along the field margins heading due East towards the many copse I worked in over time. Heading for one of my sitting stumps. I can almost guarantee a front row seat for the winter migrants. As it happened they were flying South to North in 3 super big skeins, they were low, straggly without the easily recognisable V formation told me they had arrived before now & were flying from their safe roosts onto coastal pastures for breakfast. There were 3 whooper swans amongst them I heard them prior to seeing them, it’s a total joy to be able to share a few minutes of their world. We 3 sat(1 sat 2 snoozing by then) I was in total thrall to them as I watched what I estimated as at least 400 low flying winter visitors a sweet sounding cacophony. I was immediately taken back years when this was my ritual & it felt so good. I was leaning forward securing my contented friends on my lap, warm-damp dog smell it has to be said but a total joy. It’s mornings like this that I never want to end but it does have to end. I could hear the fly past had landed way to my left. With sadness I woke my warm sleepy companions I nearly put my back out slowly lowering young un & her mum as they tried the-‘just a bit longer’ trick. . .Alas no I had things to do, the dreamy semi dark had given way to the harsher light. As we walked back I spotted two of this years fox Cubs at a distance together-very sleek as they were caught in the rising sun. Have a great day.