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Flick ([personal profile] flick) wrote2018-04-30 12:53 pm

Soggy

In the last 24 hours, we've had 8cm of rain, and it's not due to let up until close to midnight. It is rather unpleasant, but the ducks are happy with their newly acquired water-feature:



The boys, being stuck in their stables, are less happy, poor things. Bob is perfectly happy, as long as I don't make him go outside: I had enough trouble getting him to the stableyard this morning that I don't think I'll bother with a walk. Instead, I'm going to be mostly curled up on the sofa with my new quilt, which I finished off over the weekend:



We had visitors over the weekend, which was nice but tiring. Bob got a bit over-stimulated when so many people kept arriving, and spent an hour or so barking and growling at the last person through the door (but only when he stood up; Bob was perfectly happy to go and have cuddles from him when he sat down!), but a run around the field fixed that. Bob was generally very pleased with the visitors, as he is a complete tart, especially when he worked out that visitors meant that people were sitting on his sofa and cuddling him.

We did have an unfortunate Bob incident on Sunday, though: while we were walking him, he went for a perfectly innocuous black lab that was sitting quietly by the path waiting for us to go past. Whenever he's gone for other dogs before I've been able to excuse it (at the kennels, at the vet), but I think we'll have to accept that this means he'll need to have a muzzle when we start letting him off the lead.

(There are, I know, ways to train dogs out of this kind of behaviour, but I'm not sure how you do it when it's only occasional random dogs that set it off, unless you can convince the owner of the random dog to help. I may speak to the vet nurse about it next time we're there.)

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