Ho ho ho!
Sorry, no pix of Jake after his festive bath, or of him in a santa hat. It's not been that sort of Christmas - we only got the house back from the contractors on Friday morning. Jake has been enjoying many fine pickings from the dinner table, however, and aunt Lillian to cuddle up on the sofa. Plus being back at home after 3 months at the temporary flat is great. Jake particularly welcomes the new radiators (so warm to sleep under) and his people are particularly pleased with all the new floors ... so much easier to wipe up Jake's dinner, pawprints, hairs shed by lashing tail und so weiter.
Jake celebrated Xmas morning with an unplanned bonus - we bumped into a rottie friend in the park who's on heat, and who didn't seem to mind when the half-pint Jakester clambered up ... several times. See the humans race across the park from all directions, crying nooooooo
Sorry, no pix of Jake after his festive bath, or of him in a santa hat. It's not been that sort of Christmas - we only got the house back from the contractors on Friday morning. Jake has been enjoying many fine pickings from the dinner table, however, and aunt Lillian to cuddle up on the sofa. Plus being back at home after 3 months at the temporary flat is great. Jake particularly welcomes the new radiators (so warm to sleep under) and his people are particularly pleased with all the new floors ... so much easier to wipe up Jake's dinner, pawprints, hairs shed by lashing tail und so weiter.
Jake celebrated Xmas morning with an unplanned bonus - we bumped into a rottie friend in the park who's on heat, and who didn't seem to mind when the half-pint Jakester clambered up ... several times. See the humans race across the park from all directions, crying nooooooo
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Is this a sex blog? I was looking up doggie ... anyway, you're not a lurcher! Surely, lurchers in my day were half greyhound and half something else, hopefully, collies (since greyhounds are fast but stupid and collie's are slow but smart!). Anyway, you have to be able to catch hares on open moors. I'm sorry, Jake, but I don't know if any self respecting hare would even run away from you. Hotboy
The incredible sleeping dog is unavailable for comment right now so I'll do my best ...
Can't vouch for the noble hares, but Jake would certainly give chase. While on manouvres he has caught a whole vole, a mouthful of squirrel tail and a wabbit (admittedly the latter with greyhound mate Steve).
Of course we have no idea of Jake's actual parentage. The dogs home told us he's a lurcher, and tho' he's on the stocky side for lurcher, he certainly has a very sighthoundy temperament. He was much skinnier when we got him. :-) A lurcherman I met once on the canal reckoned Jake might be greyhound/collie/german shepherd. Someone at agility wondered about New Zealand Huntaway x, which I'd never even heard of. Jake looks just like the kelpie x lurchers in our lurcher library (oh dear) - it all seems a bit exotic for the central belt.
It's a wise dog that knows its own father, and other platitudes...