oh the fluffiness!!
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essayelWe bathed the dog this morning. Paul took him down to the river and he found a particularly succulent cow pat to roll in - the dog not Paul - and came back smelling like - well like shit.
Then he came and put his stinky head in my lap while I was eating breakfast.
We took him out into the garden with buckets of lukewarm water and a bottle of pet shampoo. He takes a lather beautifully. We poured buckets of water over him to get the bubbles off then ran for it. Unfortunately our tabby cat had come to enjoy the show and got caught in the worst of the spatter as he shook. Schadenfreude gone awry. We had to dry both of them.
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yakalskovich asked if he sulked but no he didn't. While we tortured him washed him he looked sad and reproachful and betrayed, but as soon as we let go of the lead he grinned, tongue lolling and leaped and bounded. He shook himself and spiked up like a porcupine then tried to rub the water off on our legs.
Now he has been fed and is asleep on the floor, making a damp patch, because Tabi is getting a bbit of payback by sleeping in his bed.
Himself is watching a tv show about 'building a new life in the country'. I'm a bit po-faced about this sort of thing because though I was brought up in the country I can't afford to live there because of all the downsizers selling up in the city and having masses of cash to lavish on pushing up the prices. Good luck to them, because they've probably worked hard for their money etc etc, but it's sad when the local population have to move out to make way for them. It's a kind of financial ethnic cleansing. But honestly the reason I'm bitching about it today is that THIS particular downsizer, an ex-banker, is driving his top of the range Beemer like a fucking maniac along lanes with poor visibility where there could be farm machinery, cattle, sheep, dog walkers, riders anything. Town driving on country lanes doesn't work, guys. Especially YOU Mr ex-banker Jeremy Duckworth. You hit a sheep at that speed and you'll say goodbye to your legs as well as your no claims bonus.
Then he came and put his stinky head in my lap while I was eating breakfast.
We took him out into the garden with buckets of lukewarm water and a bottle of pet shampoo. He takes a lather beautifully. We poured buckets of water over him to get the bubbles off then ran for it. Unfortunately our tabby cat had come to enjoy the show and got caught in the worst of the spatter as he shook. Schadenfreude gone awry. We had to dry both of them.
yakalskovich asked if he sulked but no he didn't. While we Now he has been fed and is asleep on the floor, making a damp patch, because Tabi is getting a bbit of payback by sleeping in his bed.
Himself is watching a tv show about 'building a new life in the country'. I'm a bit po-faced about this sort of thing because though I was brought up in the country I can't afford to live there because of all the downsizers selling up in the city and having masses of cash to lavish on pushing up the prices. Good luck to them, because they've probably worked hard for their money etc etc, but it's sad when the local population have to move out to make way for them. It's a kind of financial ethnic cleansing. But honestly the reason I'm bitching about it today is that THIS particular downsizer, an ex-banker, is driving his top of the range Beemer like a fucking maniac along lanes with poor visibility where there could be farm machinery, cattle, sheep, dog walkers, riders anything. Town driving on country lanes doesn't work, guys. Especially YOU Mr ex-banker Jeremy Duckworth. You hit a sheep at that speed and you'll say goodbye to your legs as well as your no claims bonus.