Swimming Lessons

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Dante here- Mum says that swimming is a great form of exercise for us doggies (if we like the water that is!) especially doggies like me who have a lot of arthritic issues as it takes stress and pressure off our legs & joints. I like to think of it as free natural hydrotherapy-hehe. Luckily enough we live on a peninsular with countless beaches and we live seconds from the Lake District, which kinda explains that abundance of water in the name-so there is no excuse for us not to be swimming, now that the weather is getting warmer that is. Now me and Daisy Boo being crosses of two serious water dogs swimming comes naturally to us. 

 So, BRING IT ON. We always make sure Mum has a ball for us to chase and by chase I mean throw-go-fetch-bring half way back-make Daisy Boo bring it back the rest of the way. 

When swimming in the sea the idea is to show no fear. The waves will sense this and try and soak you. 

Can you even see us two in there? Mum said the waves were getting a bit too rough and called us back for 'our own saftey' pah! 

Okay, okay it was getting a bit rough, maybe Mum was right, bol! and whatever you do when you go swimming, is to pull faces like these two goons.

I know what you are all thinking right, two whole blog posts in the space of a week?, maybe we are on a roll!

Our buddy Max sent us some amazing goodies a few weeks back and we haven't had chance to blog about it yet, but Sampson refuses to give up 'his' kong, and as it current stands the Kong Wubba is the longest living toy in our houses history.
PLEASE go visit our bunny friend Speedy over here, who has given us some wonderful Blog awards. :)

Slobbers

Dante

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Sampson's Belated Birthday

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We must apologise for our impromptu blog break, and the fact we are so very far behind on reading everyone's posts, how very very rude of us. But life is keeping us busy little bees, well Mum for the most part. We have been suffering with a terrible chill in our house, the boiler machine which keeps us all toasty and warm and gives us warm water for the dreaded bath monster died on us a few months ago. Well a few weeks ago we finally got a new one..

Mum is clearly easily impressed.

Mum was ever so happy. It's a bit hot for us in the house now though, the heating is on all the time- I think we are melting! Time to shed our winter fur I think.

It was my birthday on the 25th, I turned 2 years old. I got special one on one walk with Mum, complete with stupid birthday attire. Yup, thats right that hat and badge where actually on me during our walk, made alot of people smile but I was ever so embarrassed. Cheers Mum!

I got to go on a play date with my lovely German Shepherd girlfriend Sapphire, we do love each other, heheh!

 We have so much to update everyone on, including the ever growing Baird has his shenanigans, watch this space.

Slobbers

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Bringing up Baird, 20 weeks later. Happy belated Birthday Boos!

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Did you know that us Brits complain about the weather? and I mean complain all of the time. Mum says because its so varied, but I think that we just like complaining and are actually big grumpy guts. I mention this because if you can remember in our last post, it was snowing and it was so very cold! Now Spring weather has decided to show up and it is sort of warm, so Mum is complaining that is it warm now and poor Dante is struggling because Mum hasnt gotten round to shaving him yet. Okay, okay Mum doesn't want to trim his coat yet in case the cold snap comes back and he is freezing-bwhahah.  

Baird is still growing like a weed- he is 20 weeks old now, boy

3 o boy does time fly! Mum says he will be as big as me soon, she is joking right? I'm a bit scaredy of dogs that are similar sized to me, but don't tell anyone, maybe when Baird is bigger it will make me brave with big doggies? Baird has been having some one-on-one training with Mum when she can, he is still working on his recall and other basic commands. Such as 'look' which is eye contact, very useful for taking pictures hehehe! 

 He only does it for hotdogs, certainly not for Mum- hot dogs, okay?! He is currently going through that butt-higher-than-front-legs phase that Dane pups have, its pretty funny if you ask me. I went through it apparently, but I don't ever recall it happening.

Daisy Boo celebrated her 3rd birthday on Thursday, she got lots and lots of kisses and cuddles and a special trip to the beach with just her and Mum. It was also Mums birthday on the Friday but we don't care about that- joking Mum! 

                                                                           Slobbers

                                                                            Sampson

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Unseasonal Weather!

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Sorry if we fell of the face of the planet, we have been busy busy busy as usual. Mum just hasn't been able to update this blog. Has anyone seen Cumbria in the news lately? We have had an unseasonal amount of snow, which piled into huge snow drifts, which caused loads of problems on the roads and up the fells. It was very windy and oh so cold. So very very cold. Well for Mum anyway, us doggies we just love the snow. It is great to play in, or in our case made-to-pose-for-photos-in.

We had never seen snow as deep as this, for England it is a lot. So naturally we enjoyed every second of it! Funnily enough, when the snows around we go all deaf on Mum, not matter how loud she shouts us, we always just have to have one more run or roll in the snow before we go back to her, weird huh?

Baird is now 18 weeks old and 35kg/77lbs, as you can see from some of the photos, he still intermittently has the 10ft training leash on still. Mum says it could be called an unorthodox method of training Baird,but it lets him run free, with the lead giving Mum peace on mind. His recall is almost there, but not 100%, he doesn't run away but follows us around. he stays with 'the pack' but he hasn't learnt that not every doggy is as friendly as us. He will get there though-I hope, hehe. Baird is now much bigger than Daisy Boo and slightly taller than Dante, Mum says that it is easy to forget that he is still a puppy-just a really big one!

Dante was enouraged not to run like a loon in the snow drifts, Mum didn't want to add the extra stress to his legs- but that doesn't mean he didn't try. He felt the cold from the walks when he got back home, so he got some extra TLC and pick of the best spot on Mums memory foam mattress, hehe. 

Last year in March we had a heat wave of epic proportions, so hot everyone was in their summer gear-now there is snow everywhere, we sure hope Spring decides to show up soon. Oh and a big Happy Easter to everyone!

Slobbers

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16 weeks on...

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Anyone else looking forward to Spring? We have had another sprinkling of snow lately and it's getting rather boring for our taste- we want flowers to tear up- erm I mean sniff and nice warm grass to roll in! Baird is now 16 weeks old, Mum had him weighed last week when he was 15 weeks and he came in at a whopping 30kg, such a chunky bum. 

He has been in a strict regime of fun, eating, fun, sleeping, training, fun and most importantly socialising. The Baird has been shopping, out for meals, meeting sheep, children and his fear- big lorries! He is doing well, Mum took him and me up the Lake District a few weekends ago, and I hate to admit it but he was very very well behaved.

It is a very big puddle Mum!

We went to an indoor visitor centre on the shore of Winderemere (Englands biggest lake!) then into a town called Ambleside for tea.

Baird met some children who he loved- me not so much, Mum is working on my fear of little ones! He did a very good job of not having a little wee inside either, Mum was worried because sometimes he 'can't-hold-it-in', sorry to embarrass you bro! hehe. 

Don't worry Mum bought us a round of yummy buttery toast for being such good boys in the Cafe, especially as it was so busy and crowed. As well as socialising Mum has been finding more of a challenge now with all four of us out on the walks, we are general well behaved but the first few weeks Baird has been out with us we have been pushing our boundaries to see what we can get away with now. But Mum soon got us all listening to her!

'Sit stays' and 'lie stays' courtesy of Mum...and a bag full of hot dogs! hehe. But don't you worry, we have been getting in the usual R&R as always.

We hope everyone is okay and are looking forward to the warmer weather as much we are.

Slobbers 

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