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And baby makes three!

MegF. said:
BTW: That second picture looks like you caught them in a compromising position! LOL!
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Hahah! It really does! Took the dogs out to the reservoir for the day on Sunday. Started off raining hard then dried out so it was a mudfest. Like last week, let 'em run around while we set up, then made a cosy den under a fishing umbrella. Luckily the rain stopped because they just kept tangling up around the pole. Then when I let them off again, Bertie put up a fox and took off after it. He just couldn't/wouldn't stop. I got him back after half an hour when he'd chased it to a den. So back a step on his free-running time!
Hot bacon rolls and sausages thanks to taking a portable barbecue along!
 

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I should add, the mess around where the dogs were wasn't ours. Unfortunately other anglers are getting in the habit of leaving huge amounts of mess behind them. Every time we go now we spend time picking up line, rigs, cans, bottles and rubbish. There's a bin at the start of the track so no excuse for it at all.
 
We have a new winter sport to enjoy! It's been raining heavily, so the park is turning into a sea of mud. Well, if you take 3 excited dogs, say 'ready, steady, go!' and let them pull like crazy at top speed, you get to play mud-running. The challenge is to stay on your feet so it doesn't turn into dog-powered luge, steering needs a bit of working on but again, all 3 dogs stopping on 'wait', going 'steady' on the really bad slippery bits and then off again pulling me up the muddy slopes is hilarious.
So at the top of the park I released them for some free-running, but after a big circle all came back to me with Bertie so happy after lapping the other two he threw himself in a muddy heap at my feet! No trouble getting him back on-lead today.
I think I shall have to look at getting running harnesses for the dogs as this would mean being able to enjoy jogging along with them with more comfort and safety
 
Now that sounds like fun!!! Now all you need are an old pair of skis and a new sport might emerge!
 
The dogs enjoyed their Christmas morning rat hunting, even though they didn't catch anything they are getting better at finding and following fresh runs and 'at home' holes.
So then after I'd had a coffee we went out again for a bit of a run, I was tired out after work and needed the dogs tired so I could sleep. They enjoyed opening their presents and settled down with new chews.
Christmas afternoon meant another run around so Mick and I could have a quiet dinner. Again on boxing day I was having my family over for a big dinner, so lots of exercise meant happy tired dogs settled nicely in their crates.
Today, more running this morning and I've ordered harnesses after measuring up the dogs. I'll take advantage of the sales to get myself some decent running shoes but for now I've got trainers I don't mind getting trashed in the mud.
 

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J9, Is that a fence over a stone wall? Is there a special purpose for doing that? Great looking pics of the dogs as usual.
 
tsst said:
J9, Is that a fence over a stone wall? Is there a special purpose for doing that? Great looking pics of the dogs as usual.
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That is the abomination that the lovely wrought-iron fencing around the park was replaced with. They are stone-filled metal cages called gabions, which are commonly used to stabilise sloped areas against erosion. Apparently the local council wanted to 'open the vista' around the park. Which is how Bertie was able to vault over the gabions when he ran across the road earlier in the year and how 3 dogs have been killled by cars since the 'improvement'.
Of course my (conspiracy) theory is that a lot of kick-back money will have gone to and from the firm that did the work, plus the gabions will need no maintenance, unlike the old fencing did.
And, I'm now wondering if it's the reason the recent rise in the local rat population is happening, as my dogs are finding tunnels dug under the gabions
 
Here's what happens if I don't put all my groceries away! I'd left a big multipack of toilet roll in the kitchen, and was busy putting away clothes in my bedroom. As you can see Rosie wasn't involved at all, apparently, she was sitting in her chair without a shred of tissue near her. Both boys were totally caught in the act!
 

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That's too funny, but it looks like you were able to salvage a few rolls!

It could have been worse - one time, years ago, I came home to a shredded box of "feminine products" that my two dogs got into. It was hard to get mad at them, because they obviously had a grand time, and looked really stupid with the material stuck in their whiskers.

Clean-up was another matter entirely; it looked like the Kimberly-Clark assembly plant exploded in my living room. :(

Kathy
 
Rosie and Bertie are going to be in a book about working terriers!
 

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Awesome!!That's how it should be. Too bad there aren't more owners out there that utilize their dogs to the fullest!
 
Hmmm, my 'working terrier' is curled up on my bed having sneaked into my bedroom! The author put up an appeal for high-definition photos of various working line terriers, as opposed to show dogs (from further conversation with him it's because he needs action shots in the field and show-type cuts and grooming means you often can't actually see the bodyshape properly due to exagerrations)
So I explained I would love to help but was dismayed to find all the best photos of Bertie show him filthy with mud, soaking wet or disappearing at high speed! So he said they were exactly the sort of photos he needed and the photo above of Rosie and Bertie is the one he's chosen. Because Bertie isn't refined, with the elegant lines and arched back of the show lines, he's exactly what he wanted. He also wants Rosie in there as she's an example of the traditional whippet/bedlington cross used for rabbiting and ratting here.
 
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