Missing - Maddie in Action

Well, pictures of Maddie in action anyway. A friend's wee girl has apparently got a project on at school about pets and have to write about pets they have or know. Needless to say, Poppy wrote about Maddie and my friend phoned there to apologise and say she basically needs a picture of Maddie up to mischief.

Well, I've searched through the photos on my camera, those on FB and those on here and while I have several (many!) showing the evidence or aftermath of her "mischievousness" I seem to have almost none of her actually in action. Clearly I'm missing a trick here!

Maddie channels Murphy?

Or "Maddie versus the swan"

Video to follow

 except I can never upload videos to this thing, unfortunately. It was a wee video I took of Maddie's first encounter with a swan up close - she was suitably scared and barked and growled and ran away for quite some time - most amusing. At least until she refused to move along and when the swan got in the water to swim away she followed it, getting right up to it and barking at it. 

If that swan had had any young, it would have killed her. I know that, everyone knows that except Maddie. As it was it beat its wings over her head as she swam round it, battering her head and pushing her underwater. Eventually she came away (pursued by the now irate swan who continued to batter her with its wings) and so far from being affected by it, showed distinct signs of repeating the performance with another swan in another park the next morning!!! (I got her away pronto and put her firmly on the lead that time)

Apart from that (and it only affected me - see my only available jeans and the resultant wear for church they necessitated - borrowed skirt and several safety pins from my mother) she was pretty much the perfect guest at my folks at the weekend. 

Oh yes, apart from her tracking down and nicking half an Easter Egg from Mum's wardrobe (no doubt hidden there with the gin in case of emergencies) - oops!