Monday – Rather a lot of water
Ok, I want the dry weather back. We’ve had rather a lot of water in the last few days and it’s spoiling my fun. We can’t have the back door open when it’s like this and then our Mistress expects us to be more decisive over when we want to go out. She gets very cross when I go and ask for the door to be opened and then when I see what is happening with the weather I trot away again and say I’ll wait until later. It wouldn’t be so bad if all three of us did that at the same time, but we take it in turns on a rota basis to see if the weather has changed. After a while of getting up from what she is doing and going to the back door only to have none of us actually go out, she starts to get just a little bit cross with us. Ari is the worst. He unashamedly does it just to make her get up, at least when I do it I start out with the idea I might want to go outside.
My Mistress is trying to decide when she will take Shadow to mate her next. The decision is being made harder by her season being late. It’s three and a half weeks late so far. Anyway, now her choice is going when she may have to sit outside in snow while Shadow mates or waiting until the following spring, when although the mating will be ok, the summer will have to be spent at home with Shadow pregnant and then having pups. Of course if it goes on much longer the decision will become complicated by the fact that she would need to take Shadow to mate quite near to Christmas, which would be all right if it were just down the road, but is a little harder when you have to travel 900 miles to get there. It will be like wondering if the puppies are going to be born on Christmas day all over again.
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