Rosie gets a paddling lesson

First approach the water jump...















No really come on in, the water is lovely...















Then keep going as fast as you can...















Now shake.















But whatever you do, don't go in the dirty puddle
with Auntie Dizzy.















Uh oh, hosepipe lesson next!

NEWS FLASH - labrador turns down food!

Hudson finished his puppy classes tonight and graduated with flying colours. He and his buddy Dustin caused havoc and much entertainment - not even handfuls of food could split these two up.

Amber (border terrier) and Gandolph (miniature schnauzer) got the right idea about puppy parties.

Having a snooze

Caught in the act!

Dexter. 4 weeks on

Now Dexter's jabs have kicked in, he's been for a few walks. Firstly, the canal. We didn't want him to go in the water, he's a bit too young yet.

He sat and looked at the water but we didn't think he'd go in.

Action shot. Running away from the water. Obviously not bothered about going for a swim. Well he jumped in later anyway, swam round a bit and we had to drag him out by his collar. No photos of that, unfortunately.

But here he is later, in repose, in a very un-natural looking position.

Here he is back at the office, taking Hudson for a walk.

That was then, this is now

Looking through the camera I found some photos taken at the beginning of July.

Not sure who this one is - but sooooo cute!

Fast forward to last weekend and Hudson's out and about and wanting to be everyone's friend, including Geoffrey! Geoffrey, on the other hand, prefers a quiet life.

Hudson's not amused

Check out Hudson's raincoat and one seriously not amused puppy. I, on the other hand, was killing myself laughing...

Hudson's first bath

Given we'd rolled in poo, I decided that Hudson needed a bath this morning. And Hudson decided that I needed a bath too!

The hair dryer was a bit scary but after I coaxed him out from under the bed we had success, which largely involved him clinging to me for dear life and then chilling and seeming to fall asleep on my lap!

Check out this brave puppy!

Hello from Dusty

Just a few lines to say that Dusty has settled in and i'm glad its not just mayhem at my house!! She has certainly made it quite plain that she is boss and Ella (my 4yr old black lab) is trying really hard to get back to being top dog! We've had a few technical problems with uploading but hope to soon have some pictures of Dusty on the blog. We went for our second jabs on Friday and she didn't murmur, weighed in at just under 8kg and the vet says she is a very 'pretty' puppy. Anyway we are just settling down now for a good nights sleep (i hope).

Hudson's puppy party

Hudson went to his first puppy party tonight and was exremely vocal about the whole thing! He made loads of new friends of the human and canine variety and was spoilt rotten.


This was shortly after all the puppies had been released and guess who's in the middle of this lot with a little spaniel pinned to the floor?

An action shot - going for Dustin!

He was so fast that all the other photos are too blury!

Still not bored of those plant pots!

It's a hard life coming to work with me every day!

Unfortunately Dexter hasn't got bored of biting Hudson's legs, tail, face, ears and pulling his collar yet. Not sure how long Hudson will put up with that for!

No matter how many toys we buy for Dexter he still goes back to his good old plant pot. He has taken to brooms and mops recently, it is difficult to get any cleaning done when he's awake!

Today's excitement!

Hudson has discovered the stairs - darn it - and I'm currently hunting around for something to block the stairs that Noughts can still navigate.

Speak of the devil, here he is checking out a snoozing Hudson this afternoon.

It's in here somewhere!

Daft ole Hudson had a great game of chucking his new toys around (I know, I know, I got carried away in the pet shop this morning) until one of them went missing. But just look at the desperate plea written across his face in the last picture!