It's a Dog's Life: I caught you out there in the fray

Oh no! Where did the time go? Mum forgot to remind me to update my blog and it’s been ages. And things have been happening. We’ve had two very nice men come round the house a lot. They’ve been doing work in the bathroom and kitchen. But they’re both very fond of dogs (well, I can’t really understand these people who aren’t) and so Max & I have enjoyed having them around. I got the impression that Max’s idea of helping them wasn’t their idea of helping though, so most of the time Mum tried to keep up out of the way.

I seem to have got lots of photos to share with you from our walks, which is strange really as Max wasn’t allowed out on walks for 2 weeks as he had to go to the vet for an operation to remove a lump from his foot. Which has been a real pain cos he’s had to wear one of those stupid Buster collars. I tried to tell him that he should have been like me and just left him stitches alone, then he wouldn’t have to wear it, but would he listen? So he’s spent 2 weeks bashing into me with the stupid thing. AND, it’s made it very difficult playing with him. First of all, it gave him an unfair advantage if he ran off with a toy, as I couldn’t grab it from the side any more. Then I couldn’t catch hold of his cheeks and ears when we play. In the end I devised a new strategy – I’d jump on him from behind and catch hold of the scruff of his neck and put my paws round his chest. That seemed to work quite well. Anyway, if you want to see how stupid he looked in that collar thing, here’s a couple of photos.

I think most of what I say has to do with walks, so I’ll leave that for a later post. In the meantime, we went over to see Pat and Eric a couple of weeks ago, which made me really happy. Here’s a photo of me in their living room.