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.