ArbDogs? Pics!

[AHPP]

He'll open the cavity walls if I hide food so that's not happening. I have an even clearer than usual day tomorrow so a big walk for a great reset I think. I now retire for another beer and to throw the squeaky elephant (replacement for the squeaky reindeer) for him.

Edited October 7 by AHPP

[AHPP]

First shoot of the season. No lead this year. Easier on the tangles and no doubt his neck. Harder on everyone’s hearing. He was generally good on the whistle but I did have to use my big voice a couple of times. He responds quite linearly to volume and intensity. Which is fine for me because I’m a metal and hardcore punk vocalist but probably less enjoyable for Maureen, 68, next to me on the beating line, trying to enjoy the countryside.
He was pretty good. Stayed close. Got a bit big for his boots later on and went further. Had a word. Fine again.

Bumped a hare on the last drive. Massive thing, all of about eight feet away. Nearly managed to dive for him but I’m slow witted. 
 

 

Willow coppice btw. Headland mulched for harvester next week apparently. 

Edited Saturday at 14:45 by AHPP

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

No lead this year

Now that, in a shooting context, is ambiguous.

[Stubby]

2 hours ago, openspaceman said:

Now that, in a shooting context, is ambiguous.

Yea . I read it as steel shot to start with . 

[roys]

19 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Yea . I read it as steel shot to start with . 

So did i

[Stephen Blair]

[AHPP]

Yes yes yes.

[Conor Wright]

Three happy dogs with their new kennel coming on nicely in the background.

[Rac man]

I name this settee0 mine

[openspaceman]

Over the years I used to meet a chap from a nearby road with elderly german shepherd dogs, two sets of sisters.

 

 

 

As two of them became less able to walk he would sit in a clearing and throw sticks for the active two. He died very suddenly while  working, in March, of a heart failure.My wife took to meeting up with his widow and and soon after one of the white sisters became totally immobile and was put down. I think all but one have a congenital spine problem. One of the black pair succumbed and was losing the ability to stand or walk 

 

Last week I was presented with a wheeled frame for her and at the weekend, after a bit of head scratching, we fitted her up, this clip is her on her second day.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12LQeNqevUC1a87Q37lsdxBRW42Oe6Ck-/view?usp=drive_link

 

I'll leave it up for a week or so

 

The wheels are loaned from a charity called WWW.WINSTONSWHEELS.ORG.UK

Edited 4 hours ago by openspaceman
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