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Just noticed I put Tenerife. First stop is actually Lanzarote. Ooops.

We are on a cruise around the Canaries. We left Southampton on Friday, 4th November and arrived at Cadiz yesterday. We're currently at sea, arriving Tenerife tomorrow. Poppy is staying with our trainer, Judy, for the full 16 days and it's pretty much "Boot Camp" for her. Judy pinged me a photo...

Indeed - sometimes more than once!

She did actually stand still. At least that was something!

Imagine, if you will, a string of uncut sausages ...... On our walk this morning, the Pop Dog squats to do what a girl has to do, so to speak. Her slave noticed that she appeared to be stuck and dangling from her (how do I put this) nether area was what looked like a string of sausages...

I meant the relying on treating to get a result. She's so food focused it's an obvious ploy! :rofl: I had two aims really. First was to end up with a well mannered dog. She was an absolute nightmare with no boundaries at all. She wouldn't hesitate to jump on a table, over a gate, or punch...

How time flies! Poppy has been part of our lives for well over a year now, and my, how she has come on in that time. She’s just 2 years and 8 months old and has started that transition that also happened in Lady, going from a juvenile to an adult. In Lady it happened quite quickly over a two...

Thinking of you. Dogs do seem to touch one's soul. Poppy has now done just that filling the gap when Lady moved on. Lady came to us at 6 months old. She belonged to my eldest daughter, Sarah, taken by anorexia and pneumonia at 36 - so yes quite special. The new girl on the block is...

2 years ago on 8th October. Still a special girl.

Saw this in today's Times. Poppy dogs! They have been rescued after having been abandoned and are all going to be trained as prison sniffer dogs.

So sorry, Phil.

We arrived back from Italy on Sunday having been stuck in the hotel room most of the week with Covid. It left both of us feeling drained and me with a hacking cough and no sense of taste or smell. On Monday I kept getting coughing spasms clearing the disgusting gunk out of my lungs. Poor old...

Quite. Yesterday I aimed her in the right direction and sent her out but she passed less then 2 feet up wind of the dummy and proceeded to hunt the 40 acre field. :rofl: Hand signals are non-existent at the moment so I pretty much had to wait for her to come around in a huge circle that got...

I'm not tempting fate you understand, but yesterday and again today, the Pop dog did a pretty much perfect blind retrieve. This morning a very long one. Are we at last getting there?

A bit of welcome good news!

Got back last night. Easy Squeezy Jet was fine except the airport staff tried to get us to board the wrong aircraft to start with. The plane was full of people coughing - more of which in a minute! Gatwick was a scrum with a very long queue for passport control. Having said that it was...

She's so beautiful! Welcome.

Well not there anyway. 🤣🐾🐾

I left our girl at the kennels this morning. She's in there for a week while we take a holiday at Lake Garda. It's a 70th birthday present for Rosemary delayed 2 years because of Covid. We're staying in Bardolino and we're looking forward to walks around the lake and in the hills. We may...