little monster!

Gizzy is getting very brave - she followed me and Murfs all the way up to the track on Friday - then got a chock as she was waiting for us to come back - Julia was walking for a change so there were two extra dogs to say hello to! She wasn't impressed, but stood her ground (on the wall - and they're only poodle/spaniel size so not big enough to reach her) and followed us all down the road as normal.

Today however, she followed us up then as soon as we went up the track to the track (as it were) - which is where even nutter Gizzy knows not to go - it's all dogs - she sat on the walll and miaowed VERY loudly and CONSTANTLY til I came back. I made sure she was ok then headed off again - same thing happened! I was not having this - I picked her up and marched back down the road with her (she wasn't too happy about this) and deposited her in the house to wait for us there. But I now have fairly well scratched arms to show for it!

what's a cat got to do...

...to get some appreciation round here?!!

Poor Gizzy! Richard emailed me yesterday morning to say Emily had texted to say Gizzy had proudly left us a present under our bed. "OK", says I, "I'll remove it when I get home and make a fuss of her". Only I forgot, what with getting soaked on the way home and having to dry, take the dog out and then go back out for my bike locker key.

So when I finally got back, about 5, she had obviously decided to take no chances and had retrieved the (poor wee dead bird) present from under the bed and brought it downstairs. It was positioned bang in the middle of the kitchen doorway and just to make doubly sure I didn't miss it she was sitting beside it to point it out.

Awww.... thank you killer kitty!

(PS we subsequently found another poor wee dead bird upstairs in Richard's wardrobe so maybe she didn't bring it down but went and got another one) The question has to be asked whether she'd have felt the need to do so if I'd paid proper attention the first time!

killer kitty

well she got the poor baby rabbit after all - knew we should've moved it somewhere other than the bak garden. It only took her 24 hours...

so here she is in her usual pose - "I'm not coming off this table til you feed me!"

Meantime Murphy had a lovely afternoon chasing deer in the woods while I settled down and spent half an hour on the phone to bro working out how to paint the house walls.. it quite tired him out!

not always the dog!

Man, who'd have cats? Just had to rescue a baby rabbit from Gizzy, half way up the stairs. We shut her in the bathroom while Richard took it out into the garden and we've shut the cat flap to give it a chance to get away. Now she's stalking around, probably looking for it. It's only nature but not in the house, please, we're squeamish!

back again..again

once again I've fallen off my digital world. There's been several times when I thought "I must put this into the blog" - usually about Murphy's doings (but not always).. but haven't managed to get around to it. It's like the ironing, fine once I start but getting started is the problem. I only iron once every few months so you get the idea...

And as suspected now I've started I can't actually think of anything he's been doing! Been pretty good, really. well, I say good - he's finally managed to scratch a (tiny) hole in the carpet (I say hole, really it's a bare patch). We were at Archie's birthday barbecue (Archie the Airedale, remember?) a few weeks ago and they were all terribly well behaved. Apart from wee Sydney who worked out how to get onto the table outside and snaffled enough sausages to let everyone else get the rest (I mean the other dogs!)

Murphy's latest trick involves the cat too - she s=gollops her food down so fast it's not unknown for her to then throw up shortly afterwards. I've discovered that she prefers to do this over in the neighbours' garden. how did I find this out? It wasn't me, it was the dog - and I'm not going to tell you what he does with it...

gotta go and bring other things up to date. Will try to be better this time. You might even get a picture as a sook-up !