2014Blog

Polly Dog Blog 2014

Wednesday 1st January	Happy New Year to everyone. Yes, Happy New Year everyone.
Tuesday 7th January	Crikey! We went down the fields today to walk on the Thames path and it is TOTALLY flooded. The field where the cows usually are and where me and my friend Amber go running about, is now full of water to a depth of 3 ft. 2 women were canoeing around where the field should be. We will have to just go walking in the woods for a week or 2 until the water goes down. Polly went swimming in the water but I just went paddling, I didn't want to get eaten by anything that might have been lurking under the water.
Wednesday 15th January	I do wish strange black Labradors wouldn't come running up to my Boss Woman and lean against her for a cuddle. She is MY Boss Woman and random dogs in the woods have to learn that any cuddles going are for me and my friend Amber ONLY
Friday 14th February	Yes, thankyou very much to the halfwit man driving the PANGBOURNE GARAGE truck at 13.35 today, that went speeding past us so quick (totally ignoring the fact it is a 30 mph limit) that the water from the road sheeted over us and wet us all through. For some peculiar reason, known only to the moronic dopey looking driver, he seemed to find it highly amusing . Some people are so very brave behind the wheel of a vehicle. Cowardly horrible dopey faced twerp he was.
Friday 28th February	Big Guys Birthday today. No cake in sight though. We walked on the Thames path today, seeing as most of the flooding has subsided. A woman was laughing at me and she said I was the first ever dog IN THE WHOLE WORLD that she had ever seen able to carefully walk across a cattle grid. I always fall in.
Monday 31st March	Good result today. Boss Woman picked us up about 50 tennis balls that were advertised in Freecycle. They should keep me going for a month or two. I found a golf ball on our walk yesterday and by the time we got home, I had killed it stone dead ~ totally destroyed, chewed to bits by my very very strong jaws.
Friday 4th April	Had a beautiful (but very very long) 30.2 km. walk over to historic Uffington Castle today. The weather was really nice and cool, not too sunny, so it was perfect for a long walk. Luckily Boss Woman took plenty of water for us to drink because we did not pass one single stream or water point anywhere on the whole walk. Big Guy met us at Uffington Castle and took us back to the start of the walk where Boss Woman had left her car, calling in at the Fox and Hounds Pub in Uffington for Cheeseburger and Chips (all I got was a bit of burger) and then back home for my tea (Pilchards). Me and Polly were soooo tired, but we still had enough energy left near the end of the walk to chase rabbits.
Saturday 5th April	Short walk in the woods today as we are a bit stiff from the marathon walk yesterday.
Tuesday 15th April	I barked and barked at the patio for Boss Woman to let me out, then I chased a FOX out of the garden that was sniffing around our chicken run. I had a stand off with it for 4 seconds, then it ran off, with me in hot pursuit. Boss Woman can't understand how I knew it was there, because when I started barking I was upstairs on and couldn't possibly see it. SMELL. Even though I was inside the house and couldn't see it, I could definitely smell it. Boss Woman thinks I am a very very good girl and said I had done a good job.
Monday 28th April	Today in the woods, there was a very weird guy walking with his tan coloured sort of dog. I tell you, he did look a quite dodgy. Well I take the responsibility of looking after my Boss Woman VERY seriously and while he was walking past, I stayed right at the side of Boss Woman. I kept my head down and I was so close to her leg that any slight movement and I would have known about it ~ a bit like walking to heel only closer. Job done ... she is safe ..
Wednesday 30th April	Crikey, it was raining so hard on our walk today that it was like walking under a waterfall. The thunder was so LOUD that me and Amber kept looking at the sky and wondering where the noise was coming from. Boss Woman got so wet, the water was running down her tracky bottoms and into her walking boots.
Thursday 29th June	Today I saved the life of Otis the Boxer. We were walking on the Thames path and we saw 4 people with 2 dogs. One a Boxer (Otis) and other a big black fuzzy thing. One guy chucks 2 balls in the water (one for each dog). The black fuzzy thing wouldn't go in the water so Otis the Boxer jumped in the water and got a ball in his mouth and then tried to get the other ball in his mouth. Trouble was he couldn't do it and every time he tried, he pushed it with his nose and the ball (and Otis) got further and further out in the river and half way across. Had he reached the other side, obviously he would have chased the Llamas in the field there, never to be seen again. The owner was jumping up and down like an idiot and shouting OTIS COME BACK, OTIS BAD DOG, OTIS LEAVE, OOOOOOOOTIS. None of which worked of course and Otis just ignored him. So Boss Woman calmly said to me "Polly, fetch the ball" so me being a good well behaved girl (nothing to do with the fact that I am ball obsessed ) jumped in, swam up to Otis and retrieved the spare ball from in front of Otis's nose. So then Otis, because I had now the spare ball, followed me out of the water. BUT then the owner tried to get the ball off me. I wouldn't let him have it, even though he tried to pull it out of my mouth (my mouth was firmly clamped over the ball) I would not let go. Boss Woman said noooooooooooooo the ball belongs to her, Polly saved the life of your dog and the ball is her reward. You know, the very ungrateful owner never even said thankyou for saving the life of his dog.
Friday 29th August	I had some superb pictures taken of me chasing a tennis ball UNDER the water. I love the water and, according to Boss Woman, obsessed with the tennis ball so it made a good combination for a photo. It was great fun and I loved doing it.
Sunday 31st August	Stayed at a very comfortable cottage near Fowey with Boss Woman, and Big Guy joined us for the weekend. We got to eat our breakfast every morning on the nice patio in the garden, overlooking the fields. One day we had a lovely walk down to Polkerris Beach (dogs not allowed on this beach) and shared Boss Woman and Big Guy's lunch at a beach cafe. We spent the week doing some nice long walks, running on the (dog friendly) beaches and we went to Lands End. So, now me and Amber have been officially from Lands End to John'O'Groats.
Saturday 13th September	Well I have been really good today, helping Boss Woman with the gardening. She had some under developed squash so she picked me one and threw it for me like a ball. I liked it so much that when she wasn't looking I went back and picked myself another one ... and then another one ... I got 4 more altogether Not sure why she got cross with me?
Sunday 2nd November	Really angry and scared last night with all the fireworks going off. They were so loud and lighting up the sky with scary lights, that I just wanted to run at them and get them to stop. I kept growling and barking really loudly to get them to stop, but it didn't work. Boss Woman calmed me down and told me that it was okay and nothing to worry about.
Sunday 9th November	I am not normally scared of fireworks, but I was so terrified last night with all the loud explosions and the sky lighting up, that I ran straight up to Boss Woman and jumped on her knee. I was shaking life a leaf with terror. Boss Woman hugged me and told me there was nothing to be scared of. I hope there are no more tonight.
Monday 10th November	Well when Boss Woman threw something in the river, I just assumed I was supposed to retrieve it, like I normally do. I didn't know that it was bread for the geese and that I wasn't supposed to swim after it and fetch it back. We ate some of it as well ..