October 1st 2011 - HOT in the UK!!

Here I am on the beach this morning, how handsome am I?  The hoomans are not too pleased at the arrival of the hotness, especially as its Saturday and they had to get up good and early to take us somewhere nice and cool for our walkies.  The beach was fabulous as the tide had been in so nobody else was simple enough to walk through all that mud to get as far out as us.  Should have seen how muddy we all got.

Did we have some fun in the sea? well almost, was a bit too far for them to walk out to the actual sea itself but plenty of watering holes for us to play in

Now just look at this one, many other hoomans see my Tess and say 'awww, she is looking old now' really?? do you think? at the age of around 11 years young she looks good to me..

..and here is me and Jaja before he got all poorly, he started off enjoying the playtime and the cool, but then he went all quiet and sulky chops..

Seems Jaja has the tummy bug I had earlier in the week, I was a wee bit below par and even struggled to eat my breakfast one morning, though I did manage it - might not have been one of my better idea's though as I dont think it helped eating when feeling so wuff.  Jaja didnt eat his tea tonight which is totally unheard of in this house, and the mean hoomans wouldnt let me and Tess help either.  Jaja is currently having one major sulk, and 'they' are fussing round him like you would not believe, hmmf dont recall all that fussing for me??  (note from Mum, oh yes there was!)
Get well soon Jaja I need both my playmates for tomorrow in case its hot again and they have to get up early on Sunday too to take us to play

Alfie xx

Greyhound Gap show

Well we made it, instead of our usual wonderful beach walk for Sunday we were dragged many miles away in the tin wheely thing to a park full of pointy dogs.  I am very very good with pointy dogs, Jaja taught me to give them all the utmost respect which I do.   Many black Labradors are very naughty with the pointies and most of them dont like us, but I was very good and they seemed to like me ok, just one showed me his teefs so I backed up and play bounced at him and he stopped.

The humans were not so impressed for the first few hours as they got very wet, here is my Auntie Liz from Labrador Rescue South East & Central she gave me lots of new squeaky toys to take home, and Auntie Sue fed us lots of yummy treats - but she refused to have her pic taken.

Jaja and Tess dont really like shows, they sulk for most of the day, but Jaja remembered when the hooomans took their cakes and things back to the car, whenever we come to this show we get to go round the back to the park area for a play to cheer them up, this was the best bit of the day and we all enjoyed it.

Auntie Chris won us the toy on the tombola, so we really enjoyed playing with that, thank you Auntie Chris.  Chris is an old friend the hoomans, lives a long way away so they like to meet up half way at this show, they chat on the PC for the rest of the time.  Here she is getting rather wet when we arrived, not as wet as Moms and Dads did though as they didnt take wet things, ha ha.

Auntie Chris has two pointy dogs, Millie and Bess - Millie has a poorly leg so she couldnt play with me, and Bess is about as impressed as Jaja at these things so she wouldnt play either, suppose we should show them off too though.  Millie is the Greyhound and Bess the little Lurcher

I think that will be the last show for this year, weather usually gets too poor for us all, though I hear we are due for some more nasty heat this week, I dont like heat and have to go out very early for my walkies when its hot, then I am bored to bits all day - but at least I still have my squeaky toys to play with for now, though I think Tess and Jaja are getting a bit cross with all the squeaking, serves them right they should play with me more.

Alfie xx

PS forgot to say, we did enter some of the classes at the dog show, Jaja couldnt even manage to win anything in a ring of other pointies, but I got a 5th in best black dog and I was the only one with a proper face!

Introducing Jaja

Time to meet my other housemate Jaja.  Jaja was adopted from Swindon Strictly Strays as a puppy 8.5 years ago.  His Mum was a Terrier x Greyhound, and father unknown, though we suspect he was some sort of Deerhound mix.  Jaja's Mum was taken safely into rescue by a lovely lady called Jess who ran Strictly strays, she was abandoned probably because she was going to be a Mummy.
My Daddy saw Jaja advertised on one of the doggie forums we ran for Greyhounds and Lurchers, he was the largest of the litter and therefore unwanted, but not my Daddy he wanted him and somehow managed to talk my Mummy into them driving to Swindon to adopt him.

When I arrived in my new home Jaja didnt like me at all - there was quite a few scirmishes, as it seems Jaja decided he would be pack leader and did not want another male dog in his house.  But once I got this message, which did take me sometime, all was well...

See, we are good buddies now.  We can even be seen sharing the sofa when the weather is a bit chilly.  But most of all we like to play..

..and we love weekends, when the weather is hot so the hoomans take us to the seaside were its nice and cool for our paws, we enjoy the big pond to play in, even Tess joins in with us

So, thats my canine family.  The hoomans were tempted to adopt more as before me they used to be owned by 5 dogs, but I hear them say I am as much of a handful as another 3 altogether?? not sure what they mean by that.  Therefore we will be staying as a 3 dog family now.

Next is the best bit, I get to introduce my best friend Zac - sending Mum off to find all the best pictures, though as she takes them most days of us it shouldnt be too hard for her.

Alfie xx

My First Real snow ~ January 2010

It wasnt long before those pesky stitches were removed, and as luck would have it (for me anyway) more snow came down, this time I got to play properly.  Mum said 'that op' had improved my behavoir a little and the training classes were also helping, I was starting to appreciate that playing was far more fun than trying to pick fights.  The humans told me this yellow Labrador was around 9 years old, seems to be a great young playmate to me.

Because of the very poor weather, Mums car was snowed in, so I got to play on the local park with Tess, not too many other dogs (or people for that matter) around so we had lots of fun.  My other housemate, the lurcher above called Jaja, went out in Mums friends 4x4 with the other dog she walks, you will see a lot of him his name is Bailey, he sadly lost his Mummy a few years back, so my Mummy takes him for walks with us each day, as his Daddy has to go to work so cant do the fun stuff.  I will show you Bailey in my next blog post, Mum has lots and lots of lovely pictures of him, I was friends with Bailey straight away as he is a nice dog and likes to play ball, only thing is he wont fetch it back, and he calls himself a retriever?

Till next time, wish Mum would hurry up with this past stuff - I'm a dog, I live for NOW!

Alfie xx