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I've been a bit absent but just wanted to say I'm sorry and send my love too. :hug:

One of my work colleagues is always talking about how she has to put various things on her cavapoos' food to get them to eat it. I just... Can't relate. Today Chewie was drooling literal drops of saliva on the floor because I was eating an orange...

Snakes the most. Then spiders, but only when they take me by surprise or touch me. I'm fine to be in the garden working next to large St Andrews Cross or orb weaver spiders for example.

Chewie still barks and jumps on people, he's just a LOT smaller than Maxx so maybe it doesn't seem as intrusive?

Things have been a blur since we got back from Japan, but I got some feedback from Chewies carers while we were away. 1) Our personal trainer looked after him for the first week and said he was lovely. Wouldn't accept any payment and took Chewie to meet his mum who said that he was a wonderful...

Chewie loves Labs and Goldens. And when they greet it's mostly sniffing and wiggling rather than over excited carrying on. Except Toffee, because she likes to shout her joy about meeting Chewie to the whole neighbourhood... He is also into staffies, possibly because as a pup he had a staffy...

Hugo looks so grown up now. 😍 Chewie does lazy sits when he wakes up from a nap in a chair. He sits there slow blinking and looking a bit confused before doing a big stretch (sometimes so big he falls over...) and lying down again.

My dear friend Alice had to put her 5yo staffie Barry to sleep a few days ago. He contracted a mystery illness that affected his brain (he was obtunded, couldn't really move) and his kidneys. Since he was so young they did lots of tests and tried treating him empirically. He briefly rebounded...

It's so hard to keep a young dog quiet... We have definitely had to keep Chewie supervised when he was too young and boisterous to be trusted look after himself.

I mean, better out than in but please keep the video to yourself. 😀

We are going on our first overseas holiday since COVID soon and a certain little chap is so very excited. He woke up from sleep this evening to tell me "mummy the Trapan Jip (Japan trip) is a HOLLYDAY" before passing out.

Isn't it lovely when a friend thinks of you in a way that shows they really understand you?

The background is fake! It was one of those green screen photos they accost you for at the aquarium. There's only one dugong and the staff member we spoke to explained that they only have him because he's a rescue and wasn't capable of returning to the wild.

Happy New Year all. We were all fast asleep, dog not bothered by the local fireworks and thankfully we are now further from the big Sydney fireworks that used to rattle our windows! (even those didn't bother Chewie...) J has been working both days anyway, so a very quiet time for us. Like...

Today J was working all day covering his hospital practice so I asked Rowan what he would like to do. I silently cursed when he said he wanted to go to the aquarium ("not the museum because I want to see animals that are alive") because we went only a couple of months ago and it involves a lot...

Rowan was insisting that it was a cupcake and we were like "but why would there be a cupcake at this dog training facility?"

We get exactly the same here. "Chewie is a person. But not a grown-up. He's also your kid." 😬

Rowan got a Lego set for Christmas from a family friend and it features a police dog training setup, complete with agility course, man in bitework suit and decorative poo. And of course two Malinois. He also got a drum kit and is having a great time and saying he wants lessons(!)

Rowan has been so irritable these last few days. I guess its the heat, plus impatience re Christmas? I don't know but its been tough. We had a 30min screaming meltdown on the street this morning because he was feeling ambivalent about preschool/leaving me. There I am in my bloody reindeer...

Hope everyone is safe. On our first 40 degree day of the summer I mostly kept the doors closed to keep the house cool. In the middle of the day I opened them to let Chewie out for a wee and the silly bugger lay down on the baking pavers. 😱 I made him come inside...