I\u2019m off to see our vet for a check up this morning. I\u2019ve not been myself for a couple of weeks and now my eye is weepy and my breath smells so our Mistress wonders if I might have another tooth abscess. It seems to be that at my age one part after another stops functioning as it used to. You young things need to make the most of having all working parts. It\u2019s so easy to take them for granted. Mind you, young Basil, has torn his cruciate ligament and now needs an operation. He\u2019s one of Shadow\u2019s children from her second litter, so a young brother to Ari. He\u2019s nearly six, so he\u2019s going to find all that sitting around very frustrating. At my age you\u2019re ready to do nothing apart from sit around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now I know our Mistress is worrying about the work going on at the village hall, but having weird dreams as a side effect is a little alarming. She woke up very suddenly thinking a shed had just been delivered when she\u2019d only ordered a piece of wood and trying to work out how to send it back. It\u2019s not as though you can wrap it in bubble wrap and take it to the post office, not when it\u2019s a full blown 8\u2019 x 6\u2019 shed. She said it was a very nice shed but that really isn\u2019t the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today is one of those days when the four of us are glad we\u2019re dogs. It\u2019s exam results day. At this point, whilst we all reminisce about our various training classes and exactly whose were the worst, at least our whole careers didn\u2019t depend on them. Of course Shadow had to do some very important tests before she could have puppies and she was pretty stressed about those, so she had more sympathy with the whole process. I recounted the tale to Wilma of when her aunt Megan did her gold exam and bit our Mistress in the first exercise because she was excited. I know our Mistress was mortified, as well as bruised, but it taught her not to set her expectations of any of us too high. Let\u2019s just hope that today goes better than that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alfie<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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