2010 Blog

Polly Dog Blog 2010

Saturday 22nd May	Hello everyone. I am back from the West Highland Way walk. Except for Boss Woman's massive blister, Big Guy limping like an old man and my legs being at least 3" shorter than they were last week, we are all fine AND WE FINISHED THE WHOLE OF THE 96 miles WALK. We had the best time ever. Anyway, I am very tired now and am lying at Boss Woman's feet as she is writing, so Boss Woman said she will put more stuff on tomorrow and some pictures as well. Just to say, a very big THANKYOU to everyone who has sponsored me. I think that I have raised a lot of money. I am so glad that Boss Woman is back now. I thought she had abandoned me. I keep giving her licky kisses to let her know that I have missed her.
Thursday 13th May	Boss Woman is just getting all our stuff ready for tomorrow morning at 5.30 a.m. Then we are OFF on our 96 miles long walk. Just to say thankyou to all those lovely caring people who are sponsoring me. All the money will go to helping my doggie friends in the rescue. Boss Woman got laughed at today in Asda supermarket. She was buying me some baby socks and when she told the assistant they were for me, the assistant laughed her head off and thought it was very funny. Actually Boss Woman said they were for in case I hurt my paws and I would have to wear a sock (held on by a rubber band) so my paws don't get really bad. I don't think I will need them, but just in case, Big Guy is carrying them in his rucsack. Ooooooh. I like long walks and I think I will like this one. Bye, back in 9 days ...
Tuesday 11th May	On our walk in Durris Forest yesterday, it was snowing, it was cold as well. Luckily we were too busy running about in the heather and in the trees to notice the cold. I got into trouble again for eating 2 baby newts. I didn't see what the big deal was anyway ~ they were dead when I found them. It is still snowing today. We went into the Forest and down by the river and I went in for a swim again. I saw 2 dippers on the river bank. I also heard the first cuckoo of the year. It was a bit persistent and kept calling for ages.
Wednesday 5th May	We saw our first Swallow today. Boss Woman went to the Supermaket and bought me some dog food for our long walk next week. She says there probably won't be any shops to buy dog food from so they will take it with them. Good. It's nice to know that I won't be starved for a whole week
Tuesday 4th May	We had the best day today. We went to the Forest in Stonehaven, the one with the river in. I went swimming and retrieving the sticks that Boss Woman kept throwing in. I really like water and I love swimming. There were a lot of nice flowers growing as well. Primroses, Wood Anemones and Gorse. The Gorse was nasty and prickly but it had a lovely smell just like coconut. I went paddling in the river as well but I can't swim so I didn't go in deep. Me and Polly got into trouble. Boss Woman shouted at us because we ran off into the river and didn't wait for her to catch up. She can be sooo narky sometimes. It's not our fault that she is such a slow walker, she should learn to keep up with us.
Thursday 22nd April	Boss Woman had to take her car to the garage for it's MOT today so she walked us down on the Inverbervie coast path. A HUGE black hairy stinky dog came running up to me, bit me on my side and ran away. It's stupid owner just smiled and carried on walking. Now if I had done that to her dog, would she have smiled? Luckily Boss Woman had put me on lead, otherwise I would have bitten it back if it had done that to me. A Jack Russell x Whippet dog called Buddy had a sniffy sniffy with me, which I didn't mind. I did growl at it him though when he tried to jump on my back. There did seem to be a lot of stupid owners, with untrained dogs out this morning.
Monday 19th April	Me and Amber caught a Pheasant down the fields yesterday and do you know what? Boss Woman made us leave it. Sigh ... I was really looking forward to having it for my dinner and then Boss Woman picks it up and lets it go. She wouldn't even let us chase after it again. A bit mean, I think. Anyway, I am now REALLY famous. I am in our local paper (Mearns Leader) this week, I was on the radio last Saturday, I am now in the K9 magazine AND I am going to be in the Wisbech newspaper tomorrow. In fact, I am so famous, that if you send me £1 sponsorship, I will send you my autograph (pawograph). What I don't understand is when we catch a rabbit, Boss Woman takes it back home and cooks it for us, yet when we catch a Pheasant, she lets the stupid thing go? All we had to show for all that chasing and catching it, was a moutfhul of feathers each.
Saturday 17th April	Me and Boss Woman were on the local radio this morning. Boss Woman was talking about when we walk the West Highland Way in 4 weeks time and asking people to sponsor us. We had some trouble though. When Boss Woman was talking with Nigel on the radio about me being a Therapet at the Old Folks Home, about animal rescues (and donkey rescues) and cruelty to animals, well someone came through the door. I liked the look of him so I ran towards him to give him BIG licky kisses. HOW was I supposed to know that Boss Woman was sat on a chair with castors, that she had the lead around her leg, that she was wired up to the microphone and earphones and that the whole lot would fall on the floor when I lunged forwards? Nigel was not at all impressed when Boss Woman shouted HELP and started laughing, live on air. Poor Nigel looked in a bit of state and he got confused and started talking about taking Donkeys into the olds Folks Home as Therapets!!?? Well, that's a pity, because I like Nigel and I was sorry he looked so upset. As we were leaving, he was muttering something about never working with animals again. Well, if I had gone, I would have behaved myself. Donkeys into Old Folks Homes? Wouldn't they poo on the floor?
Friday 16th April	Hello everyone. Boss Woman hasn't been able to write my blog for a long time because the Server people for the computer made a mess of it and she couldn't upload the writing. Anyway, here I am now. It is really exciting this week because Boss Woman is finalising the long walk ~ The West Highland Way ~ we are doing in May. We are all looking forward to it, me especially, as I like long walks in strange places. I had my picture taken yesterday for the local newspaper and I am going to be in it next Friday, so everyone will know what we are doing and maybe sponsor me. It's a lovely warm day today and soon we are going down the fields and go in the Burn, which I like a lot. It's not fair. I can't go on the walk. Boss Woman said my little legs will be too tired walking all that way, every day AND she says when they stay in the Bed and Breakfast that I might chew things when she is not there. I don't see why Polly should get all the nice things happening to her and yet I have to be left at home. I like walking and anyway, I don't chew THAT much.
Monday 22nd March	Ted (the Ned) went down the fields with us today. He has now passed his puppy obedience test, Boss Woman thinks he is a very clever boy. She says he still needs to learn to walk on lead properly and to COME BACK when he chases things in the field, but she gave him 2 extra gravy bones for being so clever. Mmmm. I think he is still an annoying little twonk though. He will not stop jumping all over me. Doesn't he know I just want to go sniffing about in the field and don't want him pestering me to play with him? We chased 2 Pheasants today, me and Amber came back when we were called, but Ted just carried on running ...... I am on a starvation diet until tomorrow lunchtime, because I was a bit poorly again. Boss Woman said it is because I INSIST on eating nasty things from the floor and I really ought to know better. Help, I am starving and she has no sympathy ...... Hello, it's me, Ted.... Polly said I could just say a few words on her blog, so I will. I like running down the fields with Polly and Amber. They are not very keen on playing fighting and jumping all the time, in fact they think I am annoying, but I think they forget that I am just a puppy and want to play all the time. We had the best time today ~ me and Polly went in the Burn and had a great time splashing about in the water, fetching the sticks back that Boss Woman kept throwing for us. I really like going in the water and so does Polly. Boss Woman only walks me a few times a week, for my own Boss Man. I must say, she IS a bit bossy but I do like the chewy hide sticks or the gravy bones she always gives me when she takes me back to my kennel.
Wednesday 17th March	It's Boss Woman's birthday today. Happy birthday to youuuuuuuu. Me and Amber gave her the usual big licky kisses when she woke up this morning. Big Guy and Boss Woman went to see Cesar Millan on Sunday, luckily for me and Amber she has not tried any of his methods on us yet.
Tuesday 9th March	Went on the coast path down at Inverbervie today. There were 2 stupid women walking their BIG dirty hairy dogs. Their dogs were bouncing about on the lead trying to get to me and Amber to fight with us and the women had to wait at the side of the path until we had gone past. Me and Amber just walked past them on the lead, all calm like Boss Woman told us to. One of the women was glaring at Boss Woman and commenting loudly to her friend how Staffies are vicious dogs and to keep away from them. Mmm. That WAS funny, considering it was HER dogs that were uncontrollable and jumping about so she could hardly keep hold of them. Boss Woman said to just ignore them and it was a pity that their dogs were not as well trained or as well behaved as me and Amber. A really nice man asked me and Polly to sit and then he gave us a gravy bone biscuit and told us what good girls we were. Minced Venison for dinner, which I like a lot.
Monday 8th March	What a cheek! A pheasant was strutting round MY garden this morning. I soon chased him off .... Boss Woman walked us on Stonehaven Beach today. She bought herself a bag of chips and shared them with us. Very tasty they were as well, although Boss Woman said that we aren't supposed to eat potatoes, but I don't think a few chips can do us any harm. Then we walked up Bervie Braes where all the landslips have fallen down and blocked some of the road. There were a lot of red and white signs saying DANGER, KEEP OUT. Boss Woman just ignored them all and took us up anyway. She said we needed to walk a long way on the road to wear our nails down and that the road would be quiet because it was now blocked to traffic. Boss Woman took Gnipper the cat to the vet this morning, because Gnipper has been losing some of her fur. The vet said it's because she is very old and he gave her 2 jabs in her neck. Well, the cat got her own back because she bit the vet on the hand. The cat is very grumpy though ~ she is always chasing me and Polly round the garden and if we go near her and she hits us with her paw. Boss Woman and Big Guy are going to see the 'Dog Whisperer' Cesar Milan on Sunday down in Glasgow. I hope she doesn't come back with any ideas to practise on me and Polly.
Saturday 20th February	In the Forest yesterday it was snowing MASSIVE snowflakes. Me and Amber loved it and we really liked trying to catch the snowballs that Boss Woman kept throwing AT us. I do wish Boss Woman wouldn't laugh when she throws them at us though. You would think that she was trying to hit us with them on purpose. She didn't laugh so much though when she slipped on the snow and fell down. It was okay though, I gave her big licky kisses all over her face, which she didn't seem to appreciate. She is so clumsy, she really ought to watch where she is walking and she shouldn't get so narky when me and Amber try to make her feel better by giving her big licky kisses. She is soooo ungrateful. Today, I don't feel very well at all and I have been sick twice. I just want to lie behind the patio door in the sun and keep warm and sleep. Boss Woman said my eyes are all red as well and that I can't have any dinner or anything to eat today at all until tomorrow morning. I don't care, I don't feel hungry anyway. Boss Woman thinks that Polly was eating something in the Forest yesterday that she shouldn't have done. I always do that as well. Me and Polly would just like to wish James (he is really my Boss Man) a very happy birthday for Thursday 18th February. We gave him big licky kisses so that was our present. He is going to have a party tonight, but he didn't invite us.
Sunday 14th February	Down the fields today we saw : 4 hares, 4 deer, 2 swans, 2 oyster catchers and LOADS of ducks. I chased the hares but I couldn't catch them.
Saturday 13th February	Boss Woman drove us down to near Dundee yesterday, to collect Izzy and Lizzy ~ 2 canaries. She decided not to get some goats because they take a lot of looking after, but got canaries instead from the SSPCA. Well, Izzy canary is soooooo noisy. It makes almost as much racket as Boss Woman does when she practises her tin whistle tunes and THAT is a racket. The canaries seem to like their new home here and now they have a nice big cage to live in (unlike their old one) they have more room to fly about. They seem to like the Brocolli that Boss Woman gave them as well. I would just like to send a big licky kiss (Staffie style) to a very nice lady called Teresa who sent me £5 sponsorship money for when I do the long walk in May. Plenty of people always say they will sponsor me for my long walks, but not everyone actually sends the money. So, thank you very much Teresa. Boss Woman is going to be speaking on the local radio next Saturday, telling everyone about the walk we are doing. Cool ~ even more people will know how clever I am then. Polly is such a show off. Boss Woman said we have not to bark too loud in case we frighten the birds. Well, what about all the noise the birds make then? She never tells them off.
Wednesday 10th February	We had a lovely walk on the coast path up to Dunnottar Castle today. Boss Woman said that it was here where Mel Gibson had filmed HAMLET. Well, I don't know who Hamlet was or who Mel Gibson is, but there sure was a load of rabbits to chase. Me and Amber chased the rabbits right over the edge of the cliff. For some strange reason Boss Woman didn't like us going over the edge. She can be really paranoid sometimes. She should know by now that me and Amber are like mountain goats and can go over the steepest of cliffs without falling down. Boss Woman was muttering all the way back about how she wasn't going to go over the edge to rescue us and she would get herself a cute puppy next time that would have better recall and behave itself. A really nice old lady was talking to me and Polly, in Stonehaven. She was pushing a zimmer frame thing and when she lifted the lid, it was FULL of doggie biscuits. She gave me and Polly some. She said she buys them to give to all the dogs she meets on her walks. She was really impressed and laughed a lot when Boss Woman got us to do some tricks like 'turn', 'sit', 'paw' and 'rollover' for her. She gave us some more biscuits for doing the tricks.
Tuesday 2nd February	When we went in the Forest last Sunday, there was a Yellow Labrador that was being chased by his Boss Man. Apparently he had pinched his Boss Man's glove and wouldn't give it back and the Boss Man was getting really annoyed. Well, I joined in the chase because I like pinching gloves as well. I chased the Labrador all over but I couldn't catch it either, but it was really good fun chasing around. Boss Woman told the man, that if he had taught his dog the LEAVE command, then he wouldn't have had a problem. Today in the Forest, me and Polly were running towards Boss Woman and it was so slippy that we couldn't stop. Polly slipped right past Boss Woman on the ice and I slipped straight into Boss Woman's leg and made her fall on the floor. It was okay though, because when she was laid on the floor covered in snow, me and Polly gave her big licky kisses, which for some reason she didn't seem to like. I think she has a bruise on her leg now.
Friday 29th January	Lots more snow in the fields today, which was good to roll about in. Boss Woman made us wear our stupid fleeces because she said it was too cold to go out without a coat. Well, for heavens sake, I have a coat already, a black and white one. I ran under a barbed wire fence last week and my new fleece has now got a hole in. Boss Woman said I am just so clumsy. Well what does she expect ? That's what us dogs do ~ roll about, jump over fences, go under fences. It serves her right for making me wear it. Someone has read my dog blog and wants to sponsor me for doing the walk in May. They call her Terese, she is the Boss Woman of Inca. Well, that is very nice of Terese, and me and Boss Woman would like to say thankyou very much. Ted was a BIG nuisance in the field today. He just would not stop jumping all over me and he kept sniffing me as well. Boss Woman said he is going for an operation soon so he can't make any babies. Good. I think just ONE Ted is enough for this world, without having any more running about.
Friday 15th January	All the snow has gone now, which is a pity because me and Amber liked it. Boss Woman has put a picture of Amber on picture of the week, to show how much we DO like it. The nasty black cat over the road has been fighting with our old cat Gnipper. Poor Gnipper is in a right state. All her fur is pulled out, she is limping and she has a big lump on her back. If me and Amber see the black cat, we will chase it. See how it likes that! We went with Ted the Ned down the field today. He is very naughty and keeps jumping all over me and biting my face. When I growl at him and bowl him over, then he licks my face. Yuk!