A life in my day!

The time is disappearing so quickly I am beginning to think I have been pushed down a worm hole!!! Yesterday was particularly crazy.  My mornings are covered at speed as, once I go outside, the puppies are eager to say hello.  Their little noises are like a baby's cry designed to get you to do something - I have to put Molly & Teasle out and the pups who have been inside then open the kennel and clean off the floor of the run before food goes down.  Then they are all yelling for breakfast so the food needs to be out and ready or they get very cross.  Not a problem for them as they can actually wait - they are not starving as they try to make out, but I do worry that my neighbours will start to complain!!  However, I found a little trick this morning. I put the inside pups out just for the necessary and then put them back in the big cage while I then put Teasle in with the puppies which keeps them quiet and, although she is not best pleased, at least drains her down a bit as she still does have a little milk.

Then I can wash down, feed the pups and clean out the kennel box without too much of a scrap with the puppies as they try to walk over the floor I am cleaning!!!

Then the vet bed goes into the washing machine along with other assorted towels and the blanket from around the stone hot water bottle they have overnight.

Eventually, by 9am I am ready for a shower and breakfast!!!

A quick nip outside for the indoor pups and after a brief game they are ready for a good snooze.  Today I can blog (and worry about the actual work I need to get on with) but yesterday it was organising a trip to the vet and the garden centre to find something to stop the garden area the pups have from looking like the Somme - some of them were about to start building trenches!!! Then, realising that Teasle also needs to be fed, a trip over to see Gaynor for more food and for her to check Teasle out for me; to find out I need to pop her in with the pups a couple of times a day - which brings us back to the beginning!!!

My wonderful husband, Alistair, sorted out the garden and then it was back to feeding and preparing 2 pups to meet the final prospective family.  I have been so lucky to have such lovely people wanting to have my pups as their pets; it makes it so much easier to let them go.

Then, blow me down! it was time for dinner (curry...mmmmmmmmmm) and bed!!!

It is all worth it for the lovely pups and their future families. :)

There are some lovely photos, taken by Little Blaze's future dad here:  www.dogtraining.isgreat.org/choc Richard already comes to training with his chocolate spaniel ( yes, it is registered as a chocolate (not liver) spaniel) and we are looking forward to some wit and repartee as we train our new pups together with Gaynor.  Antone living around Leicestershire - I strongly recommend her training classes whether you just want to get control over your pup as a pet or would like to have a go at moving him or her along as a gundog.  I will try to upload more, with photos a little later today :)