Catching Up

Hello everyone,

Well, it has been a week since Melody came on our walk (we looked after her while Auntie Geri was away) and I am starting to miss her. I expect that we will get a call from Auntie Geri soon because Melo moans at her after a while if she doesn’t see me. They did pop round one night with some Duty Free for My People and Mel and I caught up while The People chatted but it’s not the same as a walk, is it…

It is good to have Auntie back (she stayed down there. I wouldn't let Mel come here). I didn’t really believe it for a couple of days, and kept expecting her to go off again, especially at the weekend when she went out with her friends for her birthday. Mummy and I are good at being home alone together though and have a routine sorted – she gives me extra attention and often a grooming so it’s not all bad!

Auntie’s actual birthday fell a bit flat because she had some financial worries and also her work kept calling her up on her day off and this made her cross. My People held her birthday again the next day – they went out for dinner and drank wine and gave me some sausage and it was a nice day. On Sunday, Auntie Claire took my Auntie out so Mummy and I had a lovely walk in the sunshine then sat in the garden for a while and had a cuddle and it was nice. It was just what my Mummy needed because they are short-staffed at work, she says, and she has financial worries too so she has been getting very stressed – I think that is why she keeps getting sick so often. She and Auntie are poorly again now. I try to be a good and cuddly boy and help them when times are like this.

Talking of being a good boy, Mummy has been working me hard teaching me to Wait and to Leave and I am starting to behave myself when I see dogs who I do not like – on Saturday, we had the ultimate test when we met That Springer Spaniel who I HATE and I sat nicely for my Mummy and didn’t even pull and she was SO pleased with me!!! We met two new dogs when I was with Bella and Dylan too and I behaved then so I am doing well. Mummy says that that old bag Raye will see whose dog is good and whose dog isn’t (she is still smarting from hearing that her ex friend is putting it about that I am a horrible aggressive dog all because I growl sometimes and it’s not true, I only growl because I am frightened or when I am coming up for a fit and I feel vulnerable). Mummy says that I can growl if I feel I must but that I have to sit nicely for her and not move when I do so – so long as I do that, she says, she doesn’t mind what language I use!!!

We are pleased to hear that The Mother wants to move from Our Seaside but at the same time, My People say it is a shame because she is being looked after very well at The New Home and Auntie Judy is being stupid listening to her and should leave her where she is safe, which is what Auntie Judy agreed with my Mummy the other week so Mummy wonders why she bothers talking...

Well, I had better go, I hope you are all well,

Regards,

Bruce xxx

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Hello!





I got the sulks because I thought nobody reads me here any more so I haven't been writing except in my very own space which belongs to brucebuns only. Now that I know that Wendy is worrying about me - sorry Wendy, I am ok! - I will catch up properly in the next few days. Thanks for asking about me!

Happy Birthday auntie for today!!!!!

Bruce xxx

Mending Mummy

Hello

Mummy is starting to feel better so a big thank you to her for helping me to write again. We were sticking to our summer routine before she got sick so she would go to work, come home and pop me out to the loo and then we would go out properly in the evening. We got into a habit of not walking far but playing with my Frisbee lots and lots. I was just starting to get bored with this when Mummy got poorly. I don’t see the same friends in the evening and I miss them. I did get a couple of short walks with my Melo but it’s not the same. Also I am frightened of the Hot Air Balloons that fly over in the evenings….

I got a sore foot and Mummy and Auntie thought I might have a grass seed in it – it was really irritating me so I kept worrying at it and made it sore. Mummy and I walked across to the vet and Auntie met us there. We had a new vet, a nice Scottish man who admired me lots and lots so Mummy told him that he can’t have me! He said that it was just dermatitis where something had irritated my skin and gave us some ointment. Auntie was supposed to be walking home with us but was poorly prepared so we walked her to the edge of town and then waited at the bus stop to put her on the bus, but when the bus came, the driver said that I could get on so I had my first bus ride! It was fun! It was like a great big car but I had to sit on the floor and there were other people there as well as The Driver and My People which is unusual – none of them patted me though, even though I gave them my best “Do you want to stroke me?” look.

We might not have to do that much longer as Auntie is taking driving lessons now that her eye has been fixed so we may end up with a car, you never know!

The next day, My People went to the pictures and saw ‘Hairspray’ which they thought was great but then Mummy was good for nothing, she said, and she lay down and pretty much didn’t move until Tuesday apart from to take me for very short walks to the shop or to the field where Auntie would throw my Frisbee. We saw Max the Beagle on Wednesday night and had a bit of a walk with him and Mummy had booked Thursday off work anyway. That day, we had to stay in all morning. We had men come out and finish our bathroom, the Sky Man to fix the TV (it turned out that the signal was blocked by our tree so Mummy had to trim it!) and another man to put our loo back in because the first men had left it in the front garden!!!

Mummy went back to work on Friday and then she was shattered and also sad because one of her favourite colleagues is leaving. Over the weekend, she stayed home with me – Auntie stayed over Auntie Claire’s on Friday night and Mummy slept until noon the next day!

She started to take me for walks at my proper time this weekend, in the afternoon, which I like better because there are no balloons and there is less shooting. She prefers the radio at that time of day too. I hope to see my Melo soon for a proper walk.

We still don’t know about The Mother and The Holiday Place by the way….and My People were sad because The Daddy would have been 75 that day if he were alive…

I hope you are all well, regards to all,

Bruce xxx