@Natalie I'm glad you got some snaps of our walk - I was too chicken to try to pull out my camera while negotiating the trail!
Love the nose kissy ones on Monty's bed.
Many thanks to Natalie, her OH and Monty for being such good hosts - especially Monty who had to put up with a fair bit of dog appropriation from Carbon. I've said it before, but Carbon's motto seems to be: "If it belongs to a dog, it belongs to me!"
So Carbon was indeed a bit of a hooligan today. I made a mistake by not putting on his raincoat for our walk and I could tell his attitude ventured into Señor Grumpypantalones territory the more wet he got. I honestly thought it would be better for him simply to get wet as having his coat one would mean less physical freedom to dash around with Monty. Won't make that mistake again!
The boys did do a bit of dashing around despite the rain, mud and cliffs (dashing in safe areas only!). They also played together on the beach with Natalie's OH and then we all went into a lovely old church right on the beach. Carbon's first church sightseeing experience!
Then it was back to Monty's beach house to dry off in their matching coats and enjoy the gorgeous view from indoors. That's when Carbon really turned into the bad news guest: he demanded Kong after Kong from Natalie, lounged on Monty's bed, lounged on Monty's sofa and the piece de resistance...stole a cheese roll!
On the bright side, he truly adores Monty and they had such a good time together, regardless of Carbon's lack of manners. Today MONTY was definitely the Gentleman Dog.
When we got home this evening, my kind landlady came over to ask me a question. I shooed Carbon off the sofa before letting her in the door. Carbon is quite good about asking to go onto the sofa and has always kept to the floor when she is in the house. Tonight after we had a chat and I was walking her to the door, she glanced over and there was Carbon snoring away, sprawled out over his pillow, right in the centre of the sofa.
To her credit, kind lady and dog lover that she is, she just looked right away from Carbon and kept right on going out the door, thanked me for my help and cheerfully said she'd see me tomorrow.
Whew. Well I guess we're all going to continue to pretend that Carbon never gets on the furniture. Works for me!
Here are some photos of today to add to Natalie's:
it maybe doesn't look that high but it flipping well was at times. This may take a little while as I'm without wifi.
