Welcome home

We were so looking forward to getting home and seeing the doggos and catto. Apparently Murphy didn't seem to miss us much - just lay around "doin' his thang" but Maddie did go around looking for us - awww.

More of a shock was the state of the house when we got back - bear in mind we were away for a week and there were (on and off) up to 5 people, none under the age of 22, in the house. well -

- there was no cat food left
- not an iota of toilet paper in the house!
- bags of wet towels lying around (which had clearly been there for a couple of days)
- food literally rotting in the vegetable basket and the fridge
- the bins hadn't been put out
- all the towels out the cupboard and tossed over the banisters (used once)

And these people are looking to set up in their own places?!!

Oh yeah - and PS

Got home from Guides and while humouring Maddie (standing freezing in the garden while she sniffed her way around it) saw a flash of something red by her bush.

Behold - an empty digestive biscuit packet! Well well - no surprises there. However it turns out she'd been even sneakier than normal - Richard had had the packet on the table at his elbow, so she must have nicked it LITERALLY from under his nose!

You gotta admire her cheek!

(PS there were apparently only five left so it could be worse)

Everything in the garden is NOT rosy!

Poor Gizzy! Now Emily's back Gizzy's lost one of her snoozing locations (on Emily's bed)

As you can see, she's not happy - looks like she's manning a one-cat picket line at the door.

Not even posed!

Murphy is such a Daddy's boy! Here they are having a serious discussion about Richard's golf swing.

The wanderer returns

Emily is Maddie's favourite person in the whole wide world. Murphy is also keen on her, but he's a Daddy's boy at heart. I was keen to see how they reacted to her arriving home after a year and nine months away.

After we picked her up from the airport she ran into the house. Murphy was doing his usuall barking trick and ran out into the hall (as he always does). When he saw Emily he was very excited and ran straight to her, whining. Maddie, on the other hand, didn't recognise Emily at first and her run into the hall ended with an abrupt halt and immediate backing-off: you could almost hear her "whoooooa, who's this?!" She panicked and started baying.

Luckily after a couple of seconds she worked who it was and it changed to "IT'S YOU!!!!!!" and she was all over her.

Later when all the excitement had died down, she came and sat on Emily on the sofa, looking very pleased. (This from a dog who never stays on the sofa for longer than about a minute if there's anyone else on it)

The next morning as we left for work, she was sitting outside Emily's room, looking expectant. Awwwww.... Puppy love!