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Bobby’s mutters and moans, cheerful musings for Mondays

Terrier Tourettes!

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“What!” we hear you cry …. “Terrier Tourettes. What do you mean?”

Well, They have decided that Bobby has Tourettes. On Walks. Only on walks. On minute he’s a perfectly normal Scottie (ha! ha! really ….?) then when he see’s another dog, he begins to shake and tremble, then surges towards poor dog … then barks like mad! After about 20 seconds, its all over and they are best of fur-ends … sniffing bums and stuff, chasing and generally just being nice dogs!

She doesn’t like it ‘cos Bobby sounds crazy. He just wants to play and run, but doesn’t know how to ask nicely. We, Fin and Gus, we are gentlemen. Politely waiting for others to approach, or we calmly walk up to them and introduce ourselves. Meanwhile, Bobby is either back on his lead, or being carried passed “the problem” till he’s calmed down, then he’s allowed to play.

The most weird thing of all though, is that Bobby has obtained his Gold Obedience Training award, and has given Obedience demonstrations including one to a Scottie Breed Club!

Does anyone else have a weird scottie fur-end out there? If so, why not tell us about them. The more funny stories the better.

Tuesday Tantrum!

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Sparhawks at the pub

There will be if we don’t get to go out!

Dad came home from work extra early yesterday, and so we thought we’d take Them to the pub across the fields.

We had a lovely couple of hours all in all. The weather was just perfect. And soon after we got back home, we had our dinner – yummy!

However, this morning there’s talk about NOT GOING OUT TODAY! Just because we went on two walks yesterday does not mean we don’t get to go out the next day!

We’ve told her how unfair that is. Soooooooo ……. she said we would go out later.

As it happens, we always go out much later on a Tuesday ….. so it’s win win for everyone and Tuesday Tantrum is kicked into touch.

Do your Peeps make up these silly rules?

Monday Madness

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Yap! Another week starts.

Mum says we are maddening on a Monday. Apparently we act as if we’ve NEVER been out on a walk EVER  … so She says!

What she doesn’t realise is that on a Friday when we read and write Peemail, we expect to visit there again on the Saturday – but this isn’t always the case. More often than not we go elsewhere for walks at the weekend.

Soooo ….. Madness on a Monday is only to be expected … there’s a lot of peemail to read that’s been left for us over the weekend and we are desperate to get to it!

However, She says that we are like this EVERY day. Acting as if we’ve never been out. We don’t actually believe that. We are just a happy little pack of very well behaved Scotties. (If you believe the bit about well behaved …… well poetic license and all that, plus we like to make you guys believe we are good little boys! She will tell you a different story)

Anyway all back home now. Half baths completed; carrots eaten; now time for a lovely afternoon snooooooze. See Fin already assuming the position!!!

How was the start to your week?

Happy Monday!

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Happy Finlay

Well …. you wouldn’t have thought that earlier this morning. Mama was in a very moany mood. It didn’t help with the arrival of a neighbours grandchildren for the day – who thought shouting and racing their scooters down our very quiet cul-de-sac was some form of fun! Nor the fact that another neighbour whose property borders the back of ours is having building work done – and we all know how quiet builders work!!

Anyway, Fin restored Mama’s mood by being his usual happy self and posing for this picture during our morning walk – and as is usual with Fin you’ll notice “no ears” !!!! Helps with all those befunky creations of ours; easier to put hats and stuff on him!

We hope that all our friends out there have had a better start to Monday than we.

Rooodles!

Scotties Against Grooming!

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Finlay with grass seed on head

Yesterday we decided that we would put our paws down with determination!

We  launched a “campaign” last night on Twitter, called Scotties Against Grooming [#scottiesagainstgrooming for Tweeters].

We’ve had some little success, but we need more paws to the pumps!

We know it won’t last ‘cos our Peeps will eventually find the time to get out the Grooming Bag but whilst They are distracted, we Sparhawks want to know how many Scotties out there dislike grooming. In fact, all and any dog breed can join in the fun.

Also, to be completely fair, let us know how many of you ACTUALLY LIKE BEING GROOMED. We bet there’s not a lot!

So come and join in this little bit of arroooing, yapping and woofing fun, and make the most of it whilst it lasts!

Rooooodles!

Tangled Tuesdays!

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WE HATES TUESDAYS !

Finlay with grass seed on head

Well ….. not ALL of Tuesdays. We don’t hate the bits of Tuesdays when we go for our morning walks … all those sniffs … yummy. We don’t even hate the bits of Tuesdays when we have to sit in the baby bath and get our legs and bits cleaned off. And we certainly don’t hate the bits of Tuesdays when we get carrots after the baby bath thingy!

What we do hate is the bits of Tuesdays that involve the Grooming Bag. It lurks in a corner, all dark and brooding, with its zippered mouth wide open, and those implements of torture spilling out around it! She does try to zip it up, but its grown sooooo fat over the years, that it would need to go on a crash diet to  get anywhere near being fastened. Even though the grooming bag is a Radley bag, WE STILL HATES IT!

Fin in the baby bath

However, as we were all rather mucky and muddy from our walk this morning,  we’ve not quite dried out enough for her to use one of the brushes. We’ve all been rather desperately trying to rid ourselves of all the sticky bud balls that are clinging to our skirts, but we too, are struggling.

There’s always the hope that another chore will take her mind off the Grooming Bag … but if we don’t get “done” today, it’ll be Woeful Wednesday (tomorrow) for us Sparhawk lads!

Think about us ….. please!