Shadow is now official. Her pedigree certificate has arrived. I\u2019m trying to work out which of us has the more pretentious name. I am Einstein van de Tiendenschuur and Shadow is Aisha Princess of Beauty. Tell me honestly, does her name really suggest a dog with such a big wind problem as she has? She is most certainly pretty and the word beauty does not seem too much of an exaggeration. I was thinking about this after Shadow got growled at by two Labradors in dog training this week. It is always the Labradors that don\u2019t seem to like us and I\u2019m starting to think it\u2019s a jealousy thing. The Labrador\u2019s are fed up that they aren\u2019t as good looking as us Entlebuchers. Now I can see they have grounds for their disappointment but I\u2019m sure they have other redeeming features. There\u2019s no need to go round bullying us just because they\u2019re jealous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I told you a little while ago that I had been invited to be part of a blogging circle and I did feel just ever so slightly fraudulent in accepting. Well yesterday I managed to find a post on one of the other blogs that is actually relevant to dogs.\u00a0 I was reading about the success of plastic bag reduction, but the author clearly wasn\u2019t thinking widely enough about the necessary uses of a plastic bag. Now don\u2019t get me wrong, it\u2019s important that the plastic bag is bio-degradeable and isn\u2019t going to be sitting around for the next thousand years, but once you\u2019ve established that, they do provide an essential tool in the clearing up of the little piles of unpleasantness that I leave behind. Of course it is perfectly possible to buy bags specifically for that purpose, but surely reusing ones that have already serves one useful purpose is a good opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"