I thought that I'd take photos of the all the dogs before most of them move out with Kevin and Michelle. Stripe and Bella have caused me a bit of grief and stress over the last 9 months, but it's hard not to have any affection for them. All dogs can be cute when they're inactive. Even so, I will be relieved when they go, even though I will miss ( Read more... )

It's my birthday and already I'm down and upset with myself.

I woke up and one of the first things I thought about was whether or not K & M will be back today, as I'd planned on going down to Sydney to visit Jayne for the night. Only, I haven't heard from them since they left on Thursday (they weren't home when I got back from my long trip) and I ( Read more... )

I abandoned my morning pages yesterday after two pages, because the pups escaped and had to be rounded up.

NOT HAPPY this morning - have been so frustrated with escaping pups FIRST THING in the morning, and having to spend 20 minutes repairing a fence line BEFORE doing anything else (including my morning pages, which then became full of "F* ( Read more... )

They're about 7 weeks old now:


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Now that was something to see. All five remaining pups out for a play, bailing up their mum Hallie on top of a SULO bin! I just wish I'd had my camera on hand.

Went out and did a bit of shopping and when I came back put some washing out on the line and let the pups out to play (as instructed). Got them back into the pen and then noticed that Hallie was missing. I spent almost an hour looking for her and was about to give up and phone K when in she comes through the front door looking very sheepish.

Dogs!

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Shot earlier today:

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Felt exhausted by 7:30pm last night. Slept (with one toilet trip) until about 5:40am this morning. I then discovered that Hallie was lying next to me on the bed, and that she'd a) managed to push through the cardboard repairs made on the connecting door to the kitchen (one of its glass panes was broken), and b) a big poo in my study!

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There are eight puppies, and the father seems to be George from up the road, a big goofy boxer. So relieves it isn't the grey cattle dog from across the road.


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