Dinner, Bed & Breakfast

The past 2 weekends have involved husband and I driving great distances over the UK involving both socialising and work.  Leelu would not have liked it - 4-5 hours in the van each way on each trip.  As a dog, it must feel like a bit of a travelling / time machine - you get in and have no idea what view the door will open onto - will it be friendly, like my parents? Or will it be scary - will there be other dogs there, or will it be a great new place to explore?



Leelu has been treated to 2 weekends at my parents - a great big garden lots of fuss, a cat that he ignores but who gingerly steps past him (she is as antisocial as he is!), lovely walks through the woods with my Dad, rabbits to chase in the field and - if he's lucky - double dinner (because both I and my mum have fed him!), or double breakfast when the cat doesn't eat it quick enough and the door might have been left open a crack!


Pets at Home have started sending Leelu mail which made me laugh a lot.  Even better than that, as he turns 8 sometime around now, they have sent a voucher for free birthday dog treats, which is brilliant (although I hope they do cake for the owners too!).



In the photo below you can see that Leelu has discovered sitting on the step on the boat - it makes him almost as tall as us although he was sitting up looking very handsome until i took the photo so now it looks like he is sitting on the naughty step (there is no naughty step)!

In the garden at my parents having a lovely game of catch

Happy walking everyone, I hope you are enjoying the sunshine.

V & L

A new dog

We have a 'new to us' dog! Its great and has been a wonderful first week with him.

My parents had dogs when I was growing up, including a succession of German Shepherd dogs from rescue homes.  My husband also used to have dogs and coincidentally, the last dog we both had was a collie cross shepherd. 

We have both wanted a dog of our own for a few years but working patterns and living on a boat wasn't really conducive to it.  However, now that J works more locally more of the time and has a lot of part time work, most of which is based from home, suddenly the conversation of getting a new dog came up again...  So we started looking at the dog rescue sites...what sort of dog did we want?? 

Not a small dog as we didn't want to trip over it or lose it amongst the rocks or tufts of grass that are found on mountains,  nor did we want to carry it home when its little legs got tired!

Not a large dog either.  We live on a NARROW boat!

So medium sized mountain loving dog....ooh look, a friend has reposted another friend's photo on good old Facebook.  A 7 year old male border collie that needed rehoming due to a change in circumstances of his owners. SOLD!!

So here he is, learning to be with us 2 crazies and completely putting us under his spell! 'Umlilo,' Zulu for 'Fire.'  His previous owners were South African.  So his name is Lilo but for the sake of getting the correct pronunciation we have changed the spelling to be more literal.

This is LEELU our lovely new border collie who is doing fantastically, is good as gold and loves the mountains - hooray!! Periodic adventures of our 'woolly dog' will be posted here. Enjoy.