On our walk in Durris Forest yesterday, it was snowing, it was cold as well. Luckily we were too busy running about in the heather and in the trees to notice the cold. I got into trouble again for eating 2 baby newts. I didn't see what the big deal was anyway ~ they were dead when I found them !
It is still snowing today. We went into the Forest and down by the river and I went in for a swim again. I saw 2 dippers on the river bank. I also heard the first cuckoo of the year ! It was a bit persistent and kept calling for ages.

Me and Amber caught a Pheasant down the fields yesterday and do you know what ? Boss Woman made us leave it. Sigh .... I was really looking forward to having it for my dinner and then Boss Woman picks it up and lets it go. She wouldn't even let us chase after it again!! A bit mean, I think ... Anyway, I am now REALLY famous !! I am in our local paper (Mearns Leader) this week, I was on the radio last Saturday, I am now in the K9 magazine AND I am going to be in the Wisbech newspaper tomorrow. In fact, I am so famous, that if you send me £1 sponsorship, I will send you my autograph (pawograph). What I don't understand is when we catch a rabbit, Boss Woman takes it back home and cooks it for us, yet when we catch a Pheasant, she lets the stupid thing go ??? All we had to show for all that chasing and catching it, was a moutfhul of feathers each !!

Boss Woman drove us down to near Dundee yesterday, to collect Izzy and Lizzy ~ 2 canaries. She decided not to get some goats but got canaries instead from the SSPCA. . She said that goats take a lot more looking after and because she likes to go away walking and travelling about, that goats are not that easy to get looked after by other people. Well, Izzy canary is soooooo noisy. It makes almost as much racket as Boss Woman does when she practises her tin whistle tunes and THAT is a racket ! The canaries seem to like their new home here and now they have a nice big cage to live in (unlike their old one) they have more room to fly about. They seem to like the Brocolli that Boss Woman gave them as well. I would just like to send a big licky kiss (Staffie style) to a very nice lady called Teresa who sent me £5 sponsorship money for when I do the long walk in May. Plenty of people always say they will sponsor me for my long walks, but not everyone actually sends the money. So, thank you very much Teresa. Boss Woman is going to be speaking on the local radio next Saturday, telling everyone about the walk we are doing. Cool .... even more people will know how clever I am then. Polly is such a show off !! Boss Woman said we have not to bark too loud in case we frighten the birds. Well, what about all the noise the birds make then ? She never tells them off !

A very happy New Year to everyone ! Guess what ? Me and Amber are soooo famous now. We were on a calendar for dogs having fun. Our picture was picked, being in the top 12 of loads of pictures. Everyone can see us now ~ we are Misses April. Me, Amber and Boss Woman went in the Forest today. It was absolutely freezing cold and snowing hard. Boss Woman was white all over her clothes with all the snow and she had icicles hanging from her hair. Me and Amber loved it, we were chasing about all over making snow paw prints. It was great running round and round in the snow.Me and Polly were running so fast, we kept slipping about in the ice and snow. We were starving when we got home and had minced pheasant for dinner.

We have all had a lovely Christmas. Plenty to eat and log fires to keep us nice and warm. Me and Amber have eaten loads of turkey, so it's just as well that we have been out for long runs in the fields, otherwise we would be getting FAT. I learnt a new trick that no one showed me ~ I kept pinching the Almonds out of the nut bowl, cracking them with my very strong teeth and sharing them with Amber. I love Almonds. Boss Woman told me off, because she says they are her favourite nut as well. Boss Woman had to take the Walnuts out of the nut bowl though, as apparently they are poisonous if me and Amber eat them. For Christmas, I got a new blue translucent frisbee that can either float or fly and Amber got a new pink hard ball (she chewed the other one to bits .. ). Boss Woman has been ringing people up today to arrange for the baby pygmy goats that she is going to get. Luckily, I don't think they will have horns. We went to Skatie shore today and chased loads of rabbits. It has been so cold here at night, it was - 8 degrees last night, it's a good job Boss Woman puts me a heat pad in my cage at night when I go to bed because I am always shivering. Boss Woman is looking after someone's budgie, called Buddie. He can get a bit noisy sometimes when he is singing and whistling.

We went in the Forest for a walk yesterday tea time. It was soooo dark, pitch black even. Not that me or Amber were scared or anything, we loved it but Boss Woman was getting a bit narky because she said she couldn't see us when we ran ahead. I think she needs to buy some specs ~ strong ones ! I mean, we were only JUST in front of her, except when we chased after the deer. I think Boss Woman was scared of slipping because she was walking very slowly and very carefully. She even put us on lead in the end because she complained she couldn't see where we were. Sigh ..... We have never been in the Forest when it has been so dark before. There were loads of different sounds than there is during the day. Me and Polly liked it and ran round and round playing chasing, it was really exciting. We got really muddy as well.

NOW you will not believe where Boss Woman is going. Next year she is off on the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Scary stuff. I hope she doesn't fall off the mountain or anything. I think she has gone mad ??!! The whole garden has flooded again. When we went out, the water went nearly up to my knees. The ducks like it though.

Crikey, I think Amber needs to learn to swim as soon as possible. The whole place is flooded with all the heavy rain we are having. The garden, the fields, Big Guy's garage, everything is under water. Boss Woman said we might need to build an ark and then we can call Big Guy Noah ~ although I am not sure what she is on about ! We found a dead Robin in the garden that had been blown about by the wind. Last Friday night, we all went down to the Forth Road Bridge to pick up some meat for me and Amber. We had a car full of raw dog meat and Big Guy had to hold me on his knee on the drive back, because I was trying to eat it all. Beef, Beef and Kidney, Turkey mince with bone, ooohh it did smell nice. It's all in the freezer now. I was a bit worried in the fields today. Where we normally run about in the grass, there was so much water that it almost came up to my chin AND me and Polly got really muddy so Boss Woman had to wash our feet in soapy water. Beef for dinner.

Boss Woman is feeling really sorry for herself today. She has a really bad cold and she was really narky with us today, just because we were pinching her blackberries out of the bag when she was picking them. I mean, it's not our fault she has a stupid cold. She has been busy working this morning on something called tidal power ~ it sounds like something that I do when I go swimming. Ha Ha. Another thing ~ Boss Woman nearly suffocated me today with hugging me. Some of the hens had escaped, so Boss Woman called took me out to help her ~ she told me what to do and I went round, quiet like, rounded them up and drove them back in the pen AND I didn't even try and catch or bite one (like Amber would !). I don't care, hens are stupid creatures anyway. They get me all excited when they flap around and squawk which makes me want to catch them and eat them.

Big Buy went with us to Skatie shore today. Me and Amber went into the sea and I swam out to retrieve a stick. There were 2 seals in the sea, watching us. Boss Woman made me get out of the water ~ she said the seals could bite my legs off. Yikes !! There was a poodle wanting to play with us, but I chased it away, because it was trying to pinch my stick. When I went to see the old ladies on Tuesday for Therapet, I did a roll over. They were really impressed and all of them said what a clevel girl I was. Me and Polly chased 2 black farm cats in the fields on Tuesday night. I caught one and jumped on it (like I do with our cat Gnipper) because I wanted it to play. It was stupid. It did a high back flip then jumped on my back and clung there, digging it's claws in. I was running down the field howling with pain, with it still stuck to my back. Then it jumped off, so I chased it up a tree. Boss Woman is soooo mean. She was laughing her head off and said the farm cat was getting revenge for chasing it. Chased loads of rabbits today at Skatie shore but didn't catch one. I hope they don't start chasing me back as well .......

We went down the fields early this morning. We saw 2 hares fighting in the field so me and Amber chased them. They soon stopped fighting then and ran away like lightening. Boss Woman saved my life as well. I was breaking a stick off a tree with my teeth and some of it got wedged across the top of the mouth between my teeth. I couldn't spit it out and whatever I did, I couldn't get it out either. It was hurting me a right lot and I kept pawing my face to stop it hurting. Luckily Boss Woman put her fingers in my mouth and pulled it out ~ she does come in quite useful occasionally ! Then I had Therapet at the Old Folk's Home at 11 a.m. Someone said that it was lovely to see a little dog give so much pleasure to the Old People. I don't mind ~ I like giving them kisses and getting all the attention. Afterwards, we went to Pets at Home for some more bisuits. Honestly, Polly is so clumsy sometimes. It's not the first time she has done that, she really ought to be more careful.

Went down to Skatie Shore today and had great fun (as usual) chasing rabbits. Boss Woman was collecting seaweed. She said she was going to dry it and feed a little bit to us every day, she said it was good for us. Well! I hope she knows what she is doing and isn't trying to poison us..... Someone has been digging into the rocks again down there and they have made a right mess of the path. Loose stones everywhere and debris. Boss Woman said it could be quite dangerous if you didn't watch where you were putting your feet and whoever had done it were a bunch of idiots ! We saw 2 seagulls chasing an injured Eider duck which was floundering in the water and then we saw a bit fat seal as well, which kept popping it's head out of the water to look at us. I was drinking seaweater and then I got sick this afternoon. Apparently I can't have anything to eat for 48 hours. I'll probably be starved to death by then.

A lovely sunny day yesterday and we had a great time on the beach, chasing the seagulls. It was very busy though with loads of other dogs and people, Big Guy said it was because it was holiday time and everyone had come for thier holidays. We had a busy time in the fields today. Searching out mice in the straw bale, digging for moles, chasing rabbits, birds, hares and deer. I am sooo tired now. Chicken for dinner, which I like.

Boss Woman and Big Guy floated off on some trip to Nepal so she couldn't update my dog blog. She can be a bit slack sometimes! They went trekking up to Pangboche on the Everest Trek path and actually saw Mount Everest. She said it was a bit scary and very steep and they had to cross the river on wobbly scary bridges and dodge the Yaks. Some poeple sponsored them and they got £50 for the Scottish Staffie Rescue. Anyway, she is back now which I am glad of, because me and Amber missed her. We had to go into kennels during the week, which we didn't like very much but we got to eat tins of doggie meat, which we did like a lot. Went down to Skatie Shore last Monday and Boss Woman said she saw a gruesome sight ~ a slug was eating a worm and the worm was all red and bloated. Yuk ..... We are just off down the field now for a run ~ no doubt Boss Woman will be washing us when we get back because it is wet and muddy outside. She's okay, but she can be a bit fussy. I am soooo famous now, apparently even people in America are reading all about me. Cool. I wonder if dogs in America talk with a different accent ? Boss Woman said that it has been proven that birds in different countries make a slightly different noise than they do over here.I hope she doesn't go off on some other trip just yet because I missed her a lot. There are some 'travellers' in caravans at the layby down the road. They keep driving past our house and looking in the garden. I don't know why they are called 'travellers' ~ they don't seem to travel very far. They just drive to the layby and stay there and they leave a right mess behind with their rubbish all over. Boss Woman is a bit worried in case they run off with me and Polly.

Went to see the old ladies in Stonehaven today for Therapet. They all sang Happy Birthday to Boss Woman and made her a cup of tea. I gave them all plenty of kisses (as usual). It's lovely, warm and sunny today ~ 12 degrees in fact but Boss Woman reckons it will snow next week because she says it always snows the week after her birthday. Boss Woman is soooooo greedy. She ate a whole box of chocolates to herself. I think she feels sick now and if she doesn't, well she should do !!

Tuesday
3rd March

Went shopping to Aberdeen with Boss Woman today ~ well, I stayed in the car while she went shopping. It's Big Guy's birthday tomorrow so she bought him a present. I don't know what it is though but I'm sure Big Guy will show me tomorrow when he opens it. I wernt for a run down at Skatie Shore yesterday without Amber. I miss Amber when she is not there, as it's not much fun chasing rabbits and jumping in the sea by yourself. Boss Woman took me down to St. Cyrus beach on Monday and there was a Staffie x chasing about all by itself. It didn't want to play with me or chase me, it just ran up and down the beach. Boss Woman called it but it just ran away again. I went sniffing round a bush and a Swan hissed at me, so I thought I had better leave it alone in case it attacked me. It looked a bit narky and vicious. I think it was sat on a nest. I feel better now but Boss Woman won't let me run off lead yet. She says I am too mad and run about too much and I have to take it easy for another week or two. I'm fine, she just fusses too much. I'm dying to get chasing rabbits into gorse bushes again. Maybe now I have had my operation, it might make me run faster then I can catch them as well !

We drove a long way yesterday, to take Stella to her new home. Stella's new Boss Woman rang up my Boss Woman this morning and said that Stella had been very good and slept in her new cage all night without the door being closed. Stella has been all over the place. Long walks, meeting her new Boss Woman's friends, Pets at Home for some goodies ! Stella saw a little boy in Pets at Home and she didn't even jump up at him, like she would have done before. She also lives with a (grumpy) cat and she had chicken for her dinner last night. ! Stella has a nice big garden to play in. I pood in the garden, just to remind Stella that I had been there and not to forget me. Stella was a nuisance, but I am glad she has found someone to look after her properly. I feel a bit better now, especially after I had some rabbit for my dinner, that the gamekeeper brought us. I feel sleepy all the time, I think it must be the tablets Boss Woman is making me have. I hope she is not trying to poison me !!!

Amber had to go to the vets today for an operation to stop her having any puppies. Me and Stella got to run in the Forest down Slug Road, for miles and miles. There was a lot of deep snow and Boss Woman kept throwing snowballs at us ~ she's always doing it, she seems to find it funny when they hit us. Sigh .... Me and Stella followed some deer tracks but we couldn't find the deer. Stella has a good sniffy nose and she can smell animal tracks before I can. I don't feel very well now I have come back from the vets. My tummy hurts a lot. Boss Woman gave me some chicken for my tea but I didn't eat anything because my tummy hurts so much. I've got a massive cut on my tummy with a load of stitches in it. I hope it doesn't leave a big scar and spoil my looks ! Boss Woman said I should feel a bit better tomorrow but I can't go for a run in the field for 2 weeks. I have to go for my stitches out next Tuesday.

Hello everybody, I hope you had a really nice Christmas and got loads of presents. I went to see the old ladies 2 days before Christmas, which I liked because I got to give them all a kiss. Me and Amber had some really nice beef for Christmas day that Boss Woman bought us and we've been eating Turkey ever since. I got a tug pull and Amber got a chew ball thing for a Christmas present. Boss Woman also got us a hessian rope tug toy and she is teaching us to seek and find it, which we like. Boss Woman has been really busy doing some work for the dog rescue. Loads and loads of tiny puppies and dogs are now needing new homes because the people who got them don't want them anymore. A lot of people buy them as Christmas presents and when they realise that us pups and dogs pee, poo and chew everywhere they don't want us anymore. Well of course we pee, poo and chew everywhere ~ until we are trained otherwise, how are we supposed to know !!??? We aren't always cute and cuddly. Sometimes we make a mess, smell and eat things (like dead moles, rabbits or whatever) that our human owners don't like. We also need a lot of walks, even when it's rainy, snowy, cold and windy. Nobody said we made life easy for our humans even if we love them. Thing is, if we are well looked after and walked a lot, then we are very happy and we make our humans happy as well. If we are not looked after properly then we are sad and poorly and then no one likes us anymore.Me and Polly went a lovely walk yesterday with Stella Labrador. We walked for a long way through muddy fields over Barras and we had to have an all over wash when we got back because we were so muddy. This is only the second Christmas that me and Polly have had together with Boss Woman. We have had lovely time this holiday going for some very nice long walks with Boss Woman and Big Guy and lying in front of the log fire at night has been really cosy.

Went on my first ever Therapet assignment today, to the Old Folks Home. I really enjoyed it and I gave everyone licky kisses even though Boss Woman said I hadn't to go round kissing everyone. Everyone made a real fuss of me and even the local newspaper turned up to take my picture with one of the nice old ladies. I wore a new lead and collar on that Boss Woman bought specially ~ she said it wasn't possible to wear my everyday one because it was dirty and smelt of rabbit poo. I had to wear a bright green flash as well, so everyone could recognise me straight away. One nice old lady wanted to give me a cuddly mouse but Boss Woman said I couldn't have it because I would eat it in 2 seconds !! As if !!! I didn't go, I had to stay at home. Boss Woman said when I am a bit older and don't jump up so much then I can go as well. I think I would like it as I like plenty of attention and giving everyone licky sloppy kisses. Lungs for dinner. Gnipper the cat didn't eat hers so me and Polly shared it.

Me, Amber, Boss Woman and Big Guy went a walk around Loch Muick today. It rained most of the day and the path was waterlogged and muddy. We still really enjoyed the walk though. We met loads of people who made a fuss of me and Amber. One woman who lived in Somerset had doggie biscuits in her pocket, even though she had left her dog at home and she gave me and Amber one. The path was so waterlogged at the end of Loch Muick that Big Guy carried Boss Woman over it. Honestly, what a sook ! I found a dead grass snake that I got in my mouth so that I could show Amber but Boss Woman made me leave it !
Boss Woman came back from Amsterdam yesterday. I really missed her because I had to go into day kennels all day and I missed my long walks. She said they sell funny wacky backy over in Amsterdam but whatever that is, she didn't bring me any back. Someone rang her and said they wanted her to walk their dog and to to do some work in the garden, picking up all the dog poo from their garden that they hadn't been bothered to pick up themselves. Boss Woman was laughing and said that the woman had a cheek and that she did dog walking and not dogsbody. It was a nice long walk round Loch Muick but I was a bit tired and muddy when we got back to the car. Chicken for tea.

Tuesday
4th November

Here I am, back again. Boss Woman floated off to France for a week so me and Amber had to go into kennels down the road. It wasn't too bad and it's a lot better than one I had to go in before, when I was little. I'm really really glad to be back home now though. We went on St. Cyrus beach today for a long long run. Boss Woman said it was hot and sunny in France, well, it was freezing cold here ! She gave us a shower when we got back from the beach. She got some new shampoo and she wanted to try it out on us. It smelt lovely and now I smell lovely as well and my coat is all shiny and soft. She rang somebody up about dog walking so it looks like she might be doing some dog walking for people, I just hope she takes me with her because I like other dogs and I certainly like walking. I was soooo glad she came back. I was beginning to get worried that she had forgotten about us. It's lovely to be back home and I think Gnipper the cat missed us as well. When we went for our walk, stupid Polly went jumping about in the sea but I didn't ~ it was far too cold !

Boss Woman has been really upset and crying today. Bonnie, my litter sister has been put to death by the vet. Because she wasn't a very well balanced dog because of her owners, she bit Auntie Tracie of the Staffie Rescue who went to rescue and re-home her (again) from the people that took her as a puppy and she is now dead. It's not Auntie Tracie's fault. Boss Woman doesn't think it's Bonnie's fault, she thinks it's the owner's fault for not realising that Bonnie needing firm guidance, firm handling and good training, then she could even have stayed with them. Poor Bonnie, at least she won't suffer any more. Me and Polly are glad that we live here. We get well fed, well looked and sometimes a smack bottom if we are naughty ( which I never am !!! ). Also we get to go on very very long walks and runs in the fields.

Me, Big Guy and Boss Woman went to Northumberland for the weekend, they went to pick up some day old Maran chickens. Boss Woman likes these chickens because when they get older, they will lay the darkest brown egg you have ever seen. They are really noisy, they won't stop cheeping, even when Boss Woman feeds them, they still make a noise all the time. We had a lovely time staying at a Bed and Breaksfast in Carlton, North Yorkshire and the owners even let ME stay there. I got to go to the Pub with Boss Woman and Big Guy when they went for a bar meal. Boss Woman saved me her Venison Sausage, it was very tasty. There was some nice people that stayed in the Bed & Breakfast as well that we saw at the pub later. One of the men kept making a fuss of me and said he wanted to take me home with him and kept hold of me all the time. I think he liked me. Boss Woman said he would soon send me back home again when he realised that I like eating dead moles. We went a 12 mile walk over the Moors and somehow we strayed off the path. There was a big fat guy there with a very strange accent. Boss Woman said it was supposed to be a posh English accent but it sounded gobbleygook to me, like nothing I had ever heard before. Don't know why he couldn't pronounce his words properly ~ maybe he was drunk ? He said Big Guy and Boss Woman had no right to be there and that the DOG especially shouldn't have been there, even on lead, like I was. Boss Woman said she was sorry for squashing his grass and that in Scotland we had access rights over all land. Well, he said that we weren't in Scotland, it was England and that we had to leave straight away. On the way back we had a long walk on Ross Links near Seahouses. Big Guy got us some Fish and Chips and I had a whole fish to myself. Boss Woman said that Big Guy always spoils me. . It was lovely and warm and I really liked running on he beach. I got to go to Linn of Dee with Stella Labrador. She was very well behaved and didn't keep annoying me like she normally does.

Friday
19th September

It was chucking it down this morning when we went down to Skatie Shore and we all got wet and muddy. Boss Woman wore her fancy new bright blue wellies with stripes inside, they are so bright it is embarassing walking with her. Me and Amber still had great fun chasing the rabbits though AND we nearly caught one. I found a lime green golf ball in the Forest but it was a bit hard on my teeth when I tried to bite it. Donna from the newspaper is going to put me in the newspaper again and also write about the dog biscuits that Boss Woman makes. Donna has 2 dogs as well, that's probably why she likes writing about dogs. Boss Woman and Big Guy are trying to get some sponsors for their walk in Nepal, with the money going to the Scottish Staffie Rescue like it did last time we did a walk. Only this time, they said I can't go with them. I think she's mean. I would behave myself and not scare the Yaks, honest.I really liked it down at the beach, me and Polly were running about all over, it was great fun. Polly went in the sea as well, but I didn't want to get salty water on me. We had fish for dinner, with cheese and some tomato mixed in, it was really lovely.

Walked over to Barras today, it was a really nice walk and we got to run about in the fields chasing each other for ages. We saw 2 old labradors being taken for a walk by their Boss Woman. The oldest was 14 years old and could hardly walk, she was wobbling about on her feet and walking really slowly. I hope I don't get like that when I get old. I wanted to play with the other one but he was too old to chase me even though I was hiding in the long grass and jumping out on him and running up and down and round and round barking at him telling him to chase me, he couldn't. His Boss Woman said she thought I was really funny and she was laughing at me. Boss Woman told her I was just showing off. I was not, so !!!! Boss Woman picked loads of Blackberries, she said they were for making Blackbery & Apple Biscuits for the next market. Well, I hope she saves us some, because we like Blackberries so much that we even pick our own. Me and Polly ate loads of Blackberries, Boss Woman said if we ate any more we would get belly ache. I liked playing chase with Polly and I kept hiding in the wheat field but Polly always found me. I ate a dead mouse off the road on the way back, luckily Boss Woman didn't see me otherwise I would have got into trouble. Beef for tea. Mmm.