It has recently come to our notice that some of Jake's friends think he belongs to us, and are using such terms as "pet" or "owner." How last century! More appropriate terms are companion animal, fellow domestic mammal, and from Jake's point of view, companion people, fellow pack members, aka personal maid and Mother Hubbard.
The dame made a curtsey,
The dog made a bow;
The dame said, Your servant,
The dog said, Bow-Wow.
Hand in hand is the only way to land... we see ya, ya big sook.
The dame made a curtsey,
The dog made a bow;
The dame said, Your servant,
The dog said, Bow-Wow.
Jake would like it be known that he merely finds Rod's slipper a comfy headrest. It in no way implies he misses his fellow domestic mammal, nor should a traditional owner/pet scenario be assumed.
Hand in hand is the only way to land... we see ya, ya big sook.
And there will be none of this.
Clearly Jake is eating better than Sandy. Seriously, we've been tweaking his diet to rebalance it after reading an article in Dogs Today about making sure your natural-fed dog gets a properly balanced diet. Jake was still on a variation of the vet's original exclusion diet from when his food allergies were diagnosed, and though he was looking pretty well on it we decided to make some changes. He's still getting either turkey or pork for one of his two daily meals, still mostly having tatties as his carbohydrate, but instead of random fruit and cooked greens/carrots on an as-and-when basis, we're moving towards 33% meat, 33% cooked tatties and 33% cooked mixed veg. So it's proper-like.
Sandy, the bowl stand has room for two bowls...
Sandy, the bowl stand has room for two bowls...
Enough of the political comment. Jake, cover your eyes! It's a sex doll for dogs. As seen on Popbitch. Now wash your hands.
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We left Jakey at home while we popped out to vote. Other dogs in our neighbourhood did trot to the polling station with their people: Oscar the shih tzu, collie father-&-son Blue and Fram (sp?). Who would the dogs vote for? The Collie Borg party? (Because all collies would vote alike – with great accuracy). Scottish Shih-Tzus for Independence?
Meanwhile the hot topic at agility (apart from trauma because a fellow human has injured herself quite badly, but we’ll not dwell on that) is – choosing a suitably three-part name for the assorted mutts and rescues to register on the Kennel Club Activity Register. This allows us to engage in displacement activity – why fret that our teacher thinks we’re nearly ready to compete when we can be having a laugh choosing poncy names? We have to submit three options in case some other hound already has snaffled the first or second choice.
I quite like Jake’s the King of the Castle, or Little Lord Fauntledog, or [Our suburb name]’s Fawnface.
Meanwhile the hot topic at agility (apart from trauma because a fellow human has injured herself quite badly, but we’ll not dwell on that) is – choosing a suitably three-part name for the assorted mutts and rescues to register on the Kennel Club Activity Register. This allows us to engage in displacement activity – why fret that our teacher thinks we’re nearly ready to compete when we can be having a laugh choosing poncy names? We have to submit three options in case some other hound already has snaffled the first or second choice.
I quite like Jake’s the King of the Castle, or Little Lord Fauntledog, or [Our suburb name]’s Fawnface.
Recently read in the Metro, so it must be true. Hundreds of wealthy Japanese women have been conned into believing thatthey were buying a pet poodle when in fact, they were given a lamb. As Rod pointed out, lambs would be no good at agility.
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