Attempted Drowning.

This morning I took Rafi to the dog swimming pool again. We arrived just in time for our session, having been stuck behind a slow moving vehicle all the way there.
This is Rafi's second session and he remembered it very well hardly waiting for me to take his harness off and give him a shower. Once he was in he swam brilliantly. jumping from the side and walking down the steps, all to fetch his turtle toy.
Then in comes a golden retriever puppy with only one thought on its mind..... Dum Dum Duuummmm!! Murder!
Whilst Rafi was swimming the retriever lept off the side of the pool straight on to Rafi, it then twice tried to climb onto his back  pushing poor Rafi right under the water. It was decided to get the retriever out to let Rafi have one more swim before we got out for the end of our session.
Please note:
 1)Rafi was unharmed and unphased by the events.
2) The retriever was not being nasty it merely wanted to play, but was twice the size of Rafi.
3) I was very traumatised by the whole situation, my poor Rafi!!

Meet and Greet

Its not often I get to the stables and am met at the farm gate by my horse. Clearly she had been practicing her Houdini act again.
After putting her back where she should be I drove into town bought a new battery and some more extra tall fence posts then went back to the farm to sort out my perimeter fence. Hopefully she should stay where she is supposed to be now.
Little Minx. I have staggered the taller posts untill I can get enough to

Deflated

Today the boy managed to pop his favorite toy, at first he seemed a bit put out as he likes to actually roll over it and now he can't, but then he discovered he could actually carry it around with him. That was a whole new 'ball game!'

Unless he completely trashes it, he can keep tha burst one, I shall however have to get him another one as watching him play with it makes everyone smile.

Houdini

It has come to my notice that I called my dog by the wrong name! He should have been called Harry Houdini! At least twice today he managed to escape his harness, I was, at the time in a working lunch at a rather nice Inn, fortunately my friend who was working on the 'project' with me is extremely sharp witted and has a car full of .. well everything really. She managed to catch Rafi and then had a second harness collar and lead that we were able to put on him.
Harness shopping monday then.
Once we had eaten and had a rough idea what it is we want to produce, we decided that both our dogs could do with a walk, we took them to a harbour where Rafi promptly followed my friends dog into the water. A lucky tennis ball find meant that she could throw a toy for her dog right out in the water and Rafi could swim for one much closer, he loved every minute and had about four retrieves which he had to swim for.  On the way back to the cars he walked perfectly behaved beside the other dog not once did he do his tail biting over zealous behaviour, I am sure he was probably shattered but he was still excellently behaved.

The things we do for animals!

This post is completely true, I write that because my day sounds as if I have made it up!
On Sunday the fox man came to our house with a fox trap as we have a very mangy dog fox resident in our garden which is looking very ill.

The plan is to catch him in the trap and remove him to our local vets who, once treated will take him to the wildlife hospital just down the road to recover then he will be released back into our garden.

Sunday night was windy, so Monday morning when I got up to look in the trap I found it closed and empty, the mechanism must have been triggered by the wind. I reset it Monday evening then went to bed as usual.
This morning my husband brought a cup of tea up to me in bed and said "You caught something in your fox trap last night!"
Grabbing my dressing gown I ran down stairs and carefully opened the front door walking to the trap I saw a petite tabby cat, Meowing sadly at me.
I don't know when he got trapped but he had eaten all the food we put out for the fox and had managed to vandalise the trip mechanism haha. I made a fuss of him as I let him out, he didn't blot just walked sedately out of the garden as if to say "Nothing to see here"!

Back indoors, tea finished animals fed and watered and the gardener arrives to mow the grass.
I went out to do my horse, when I came back I look out at the lovely tidy grass and notice a hedgehog snuffling about, they shouldn't be around during the day and her body seemed to be an odd shape so I went to take a look.. Poor thing had either a huge tumour or an abscess, it was half her body size!
Finding the pet carrier I stick her in it and drive down the the Wildlife hospital, who say she has to go straight to the vets to be operated on, then they will take her for her recovery and then she can be returned to the garden again.
Do wild animals come into our garden when they are sick because they know I am a soft touch and will take them to the vet or what!?

Today

Today's bloods were mainly taken thanks to Douwe Egberts and Malteser mini reindeer, I am now out of mini reindeer so watch yourself tomorrow people!

Aaaagggghhhhh!

I have a shiny new laptop!
It is very shiny and it is very new!
Its also very different from any laptop I have ever had before, to the extent I nearly launched it through the nearest window!
Grateful for litlun coming round in her lunch break to pick up her post, she managed to show me how to do a few things!
Now all I have to do is remember all my log ins and pass words which were automatically saved to my old laptop which has died and gone to cyber heaven!

Unsolicited

So far today we have had three phone calls and when the post dropped through the door there was just one letter, and that was junk mail.. Oh wait there's the phone again, I'll let it off that one!

Why do companies insist in sending rubbish through the post? Lets face it 99% of people throw it in the bin without reading it what an absolute waste of paper!

We had so much come through the door at one point that I let my Godson play with it, he started opening it and pretending to read it then he put all the things that came out of the letters into the free post envelopes and stuck them down, When we went to walk the dog later on in the day he posted all his letters... (Naughty Godmother!) Well lets give these companies a taste of their own medicine that's what I say, plus I was re using their paper so no more trees were chopped down, the postman was kept in business delivering the letters back to them and their post room was kept in business as they had to open the letters and yep my recycling bin didn't get filled up with their rubbish, but oooh look! Theirs did!

As for the phone calls well the people on the other end of the phone seem to be trained in 

A) Calling just on dinner time, and 

B) Talking non stop from the minute you pick up the phone.

So I just put the phone in the draw shut the draw and carry on eating my dinner, by the time we have finished eating they have usually gone and I can put the phone back on the hook.

A road trip

Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday I was away with my Mum visiting my aunt, her sister. Unfortunately I can't get Internet connection while I am there so for the three days I was away there were no posts sorry.