After Wilma\u2019s trip to the seaside and her unfortunate sea drinking incident, she rather went off getting her paws wet. It\u2019s taken over a month for her to forget how upset she was, that and some torrential rain earlier in the week. When they went for a walk on Monday, Wilma rediscovered her love of muddy puddles and was a very happy girl. Since then she\u2019s even seen fit to get into her paddling pool with all four paws, which given how hot it was yesterday seemed like a very good idea. She\u2019s now all set for whatever autumn throws her way and plans to make the most of it, as she did last winter. Our Mistress is increasing the size of the pile of towels she keeps in the car ready for such occasions and has asked Wilma if she could please, just for once, keep muddy paws off our Mistress\u2019s clean clothes. I said the answer was to only ever wear dirty ones, but somehow humans never think that\u2019s such a good idea, or at least the female ones don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m looking forward to our grandparents arriving later. I always think it\u2019s good when the ratio of humans to dogs is more than one to one so there are enough hands to go round in stroking us all. I\u2019ve volunteered to sit in with our grandparents so I can get constant attention. I\u2019ve had to promise not to bark so much if I do that. I\u2019ve said I\u2019ll try. Ari is fed up as he\u2019d planned to volunteer too, but I got there first. Besides, he\u2019s still supposed to be resting his leg and shouldn\u2019t be moving about too much. I did spend quite a bit of time outside yesterday while our Mistress sat in the deckchair to work. After a while she said I\u2019d have to go in as she was fed up with me pacing in circles around her chair and not lying down. I got the last laugh. Very soon after that she came in as a bird had flown over and used her as target practice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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