THALICE - FEB/MARCH 2007

It's been windy this week and some of the fences have blown down in the garden, so we dogs have not been allowed out of our yard until they have been fixed. So when Mum let us back into the garden I set to - trying to find the bit she missed - meanwhile she was oblivious to this as she was scrubbing the yard and washing our beds. It didnt take long and I just worried away at it and the fence gave way - Yippee !!! Sapphire and Rhian squeezed through the gap with me - I could see Delyth wanted to come too, but the boys - Pah ! Scaredy Cats. Fleet said, 'I'm going to tell Mum!' and rushed off to the yard gate to tell her - but she obviously couldnt understand.

Next doors garden is OK but the next one is better - they have two gingery kitties and vegetables growing. Sapphire and Rhian were so giddy they rushed off towrds the golf course so I had a mooch round looking for the kitties.

Then I could hear Mum groaning, 'Oh NO!' Fleet must have got through to her and she called in Fleet, Flash and Delyth. The next minute she was marching past the kitty garden with an armful of leads and a pocketful of biscuits and I thought it judicious to saunter out of the garden and head for home as if I was going that way anyway....

Now I could tell Mum was upset - I wonder if it was because Sapphire was in season ? Or perhaps because the sheep were down from the hills for lambing, or if she was about to go to work, or if she thought they might get run over ?

Mum went out in the car - she was all pink and said she was short of time and needed to get to work and could do without all this, Madam ! I went to have a nice snooze on the settee.

I could hear her shouting 'Sapphire' and 'Rhian' long into the distance.

I was fast asleep when she got back - funny I didnt hear the car. She went to check the phone but there were no messages, and I heard her ringing Dad - she said her car was bogged down in the mud and she was waiting for the people in the kitty garden to eat their dinner before they would come and pull her out.

I rolled over on the settee to sleep on my other side......

THALICE - A DOGS BLOG

Thalice is a nine and a half year old English Setter who's life is one big adventure. She thinks she's normal - we are not so sure. This is her Blog - a continuation from her original blog found on her website - www.pewterspeare.com She can be contacted there.

She would be interested in stories confirming her normality as she thinks that she behaves exactly as an English Setter should. However, her children and grandchildren are nothing like her and would seem to prove the opposite.