How much is that doggie in the window?

I’ve got a new place to sit! (although I’d better not be for sale)



It’s great – I can lie in the sun there and look out the window. Which means that I can see what those pesky cats next door are up to. Usually it involves them strolling around the drive like they own the place. Sometimes they stop and take a drink from a puddle just to wind me up! I tell you, one of these days I’m going to find a way to get out there – then they’ll know it!

Anyway, back to my window. It’s always been there, of course, but I’ve never been able to get up there. But Mum has let me back up on the sofa’s this week (she’s made me a step so that I can get onto the sofa in her sitting room easily). From there I go onto the arm of the sofa, and then onto the top of my crate (which kept bending down, so Mum has put a board over the top of it for me, and then onto the window sill. You can see what I mean in this photo.




And not only that, but I've been allowed to sleep on the sofas at night too. How good is that?

This last week I’ve had a whole week where I haven’t had to go and see the vet. My leg hurts quite a lot sometimes though – Mum thinks it might be the cold weather. Then at other times it doesn’t seem too bad. But the good news is that Mum & Dad have taken me for a few short walks. I’ve mainly been to the Country Park, and once we went to the heath (where a very rude spaniel bit me on the nose!). We don’t walk anywhere near as far as we used to, but I get to see somewhere different and there are lots of good places to sniff where we go. It tires me out though, so I tend to sleep quite a bit afterwards. I think that’s why Mum takes me.

I still don’t know when I’m going to see the specialist. My new vet had to wait for my Xrays, and the old vet never sent them. In the end Mum went and collected them herself then took them to the new vet. I don’t expect I’ll get my leg fixed until after Christmas now. If I get it fixed at all that is. Mum has seen a new picture that she wants, and Dad said it was that or getting my leg fixed. When he asked me what I thought I voted to get my leg fixed.

Talking of Christmas, Eric and Pat came for an early Christmas lunch yesterday – I was soooo excited. Although I wasn’t quite so excited when I found out that Eric had forgotten my Christmas present. Mum says I’m the little dog Santa Claus forgot! And after I gave him a present too!

And hasn’t it been cold? It was all frosty here over the week-end (we didn’t have any snow). I didn’t think it was very funny when I found that my big drinking bowl in the garden was frozen. Every time I tried to lick it my tongue stuck to it! Dad took the ice off it for me, then the next thing I knew it was frozen over again.

Well that’s about it. I had a walk earlier so I need to get back and have a snooze now, especially as Mum has put the heating back on.