Murphy managed to get himself into a situation today - it was a gorgeous day - 21 degrees!!!!! Never before heard of in summer, never mind April! Anyway, I took the dogs out to a local castle for a walk round the woods with Veronica and the girls and stopped in at a garden centre on the way back for an ice cream. So far so good.... but I made the mistake (egged on by a 5 year old!) of letting the dogs off the lead to run around on the grass beside the centre itself and of course while I was concentrating on getting Maddie back on the lead (always a combination of ordering, cajoling and tricking) Murphy decided he was going to go and explore the gift shop. eek! by the time I'd put Maddie on the lead, handed it to Veronica and shot into the building there were a good few people standing around (looking amused, luckily) saying "he went thataway"...
...it's ok standing in a field yelling "Murphy come!" but it doesn't seem to sit so naturally standing in a large gift shop doing it! Luckily he must've decided it was quite boring (he hadn't made it to the checkouts where there was quite a lot of chocolate on display!) and came pretty quickly, so I got a hold of his collar (having put the one lead I was holding onto Maddie) and told him sternly we would go out the "Out" door before scooting him through the place, apologising to all present and emerging into the sunlight again...
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