PSA : just ordered a Crumb tag for the hound. It’s a QR code that you set up with your dogs details
My missis got one. I asked her what the point was when he has a tag on his collar with a phone number.
"Ah, but he doesn't always wear his collar!"
Er....
And yeah, free tag is a loss leader just to get you to sign up for the monthly subscription.
We are starting to regret the colour of Roxie 😉 If only for wear and tear on the hosepipe!
@Sui that is a petwalk dog door. It's the only passive house approved pet flap I've found. I've had dog flaps for years in various houses and been increasingly frustrated with how utterly crap they all are. They're a security nightmare (I used to climb in our old one to scare the wife), always leak air like they're not actually there and end up covered in mud and hair. The petwalk is electrotonically activated by rfid tags on the dog's collars so there's no need for them to touch it, sealed from the weather like an Austrian front door and is generally beautifully engineered. The dogs just approach it and it does the door man thing for them automagically. I even get a notification on my phone to say "Cassie opened the dog door from inside". You can change how long it stays open for, get it to disable itself when its raining or trap them outside for a while if you need. It's bloody brilliant.
When we moved in here, with it's stupendously bad insulation, I couldn't bring myself to hack a hole in the wall that I knew I was going to spend weeks sealing up with Kingspan, foil tape and new plaster, so I hid the exuberance in with some building materials. Quite a lot of building materials. Still, it was cheaper than a log burner...
thanks @hot_fiat , that's quite the investment for a dog flap, though can undersand why you did!
Oscar knew I had some cheese in the pub.
Pre hair cut and nail trim.. he's so cute with longer hair, but he's a little stinker!!!
Our house grew by 4 paws yesterday with the arrival of the gorgeous Cyril, a lab x golden retriever who is almost as tall as our german shepherd. The boys are getting on famously well, we'll see how there first walk together goes (should be fine as we meet up for a weekly walk usually).
We have been out and about this week, stopping off for a coffee in Findra.
Many questions about breed as per usual. Always surprised when I say she's pure Mongrel ?
Lost our old lurcher 6 months or so ago, still miss her everyday.
Annual trip to St David's to see friends, Bert loves a good walk here and obviously a nice snooze afterwards!
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Huey's first day back on the sand in Lower Largo at the start of a fortnight of (mainly) beach walks. He'll get a day or three in St Andrews, probably a trip to Edinburgh on the train and an assortment of coast path wanderings. Fish n chips in Anstruther is a fair bet too
Today it's raining so I am not moving......
Yeah we have to (warm water) hose down the 'white grizzly' most days. Every 3 of 4 we get the dog shampoo out. She looks/smells great then. For about 10 minutes into the next walk where she enthusiastically dive bombs the biggest mud swamp she can find. Reminds me of our old Lab who we once carried upstairs and tried to bath. Never tried that again 🙂
Roxie has a new dog blanket. She's been using Lola's but she's outgrown it as you can see. When we put Lola in the XL version of the one she has, it's basically a tent! As we mostly drive a few miles to meet our friends/other dog walkers most days, these things are brilliant at keeping the car a bit cleaner, and the dogs seem to like them as well. Colour chosen as it was cheapest one in the sale in the Hereford pet shop, as its going to be brown by this time tomorrow anyway!
Oscar made a new friend last night.
Oscar made a new friend last night.
Fun was had by the look of that
I think this picture speaks for itself.
I'm dog sitting today, she normally stays with me but she wandered off. Found her lying in the sun. She doesn't normally go on the settee even when I'm there .@anono - yeah we've got one like that 🙂
Walked with two 7 month old male labs yesterday. They were quite boisterous:) Roxie ran away to start with, but then took them down one by one when she realised she's about 5kg heavier 🙂
The winter duvet is in the bed, the burrowing slug is absolutely rinsing the hell out of naps now.
I like this as it shows clean teef. Which makes me very happy, shows the level of trust we have that she lets me get in there with the tartare remover and scrap the crap out.
Good looking teef there! We use dental chews knowing they are just marketing guff, so end up with the dog toothbrush which sometimes goes well, but mostly goes into the garden as either or both mutts steal the brush and go and bury it somewhere 🙂
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🙂 Very much so. Sadly the brain was not included in the kit. Currently sharing Lola's single braincell!
Cross posting from the not putting the heating on thread....some disagreement with current thermostat settings 
At the bottom of p15, Huey was just starting his fortnight in Fife, and here we are already not far off going home in a couple of days. So I got him out on the rocks as the tide was coming in this morning:-
In the meantime, he's had lots of admirers in all the touristy shops in St Andrews this afternoon. And now he's knackered, spark out flat in his bed for the evening.
Son has a new job up in Cawdor so we went to explore the “Secret Beach” at Nairn. Willow and Tod loving he empty beach. Not enough space for Buck so I’ll post him separately.
Howling with glee as iPhone photo look up is suggesting Tod may not be the Labrador we thought he was…
Jesus, have you hooked kiwi up to a kite?!
Ghost dog walker?
Willow loving the woods around Cawdor. Daughter in law has named them “Tick Woods” with good reason. I took six off Willow after the walk, and found one in my beard later.
