New Friend

Hello everyone,

I have still been being a bit of a naughty boy but Mummy has still been nice to me. I have seen lots of my friends so it has been a good week. I saw Belle and Dylan – Dylan is getting big now. He gambols around for a while and goes woof woof woof at me then collapses in a heap for a while which apparently is very Basset Hound. Belle flirts with me all the time and jumps around my feet and play bows at me. She’s a bit young for me but I don’t mind the attention. I have also spent time with my friends Juno and buster and today, I made a brand new friend.

Me and Mummy had seen this lady with her little brown dog and we had always gone away from them as the lady always sounded worried. Well, today Mummy couldn’t take me away because the farmer was spraying the fields for the third day running and she can’t walk near the spray because it sets off her asthma. Max, who is a Scottie cross Bichon cross Jack Russell, had a little bark and a little growl at me but I didn’t take much notice, just muttered at him when his teeth got too near to my face. The lady looked very relieved and said that a lot of people dislike the way he behaves and don’t wan their dogs to talk to him but Mummy told her that I was just the same at that age (and still can be sometimes) so we all walked together for a while. I ow officially have a new friend and he is called Max.

Mummy and Auntie have been very stressed and a bit grumpy. Auntie Judy came over on Friday and that didn’t help. The news on the Mother isn’t good. Apparently, when she went into hospital to have water taken out of her (Mummy says it’s called offloading and is done with something called diuretics), the doctors discovered that she was on tablets that would have killed her if she had taken the whole course as they were damaging her kidneys. Now she is off of them but couldn’t have the offloading and is back at The Home, but now she may have a blockage (where she can’t poo and her food can’t go…um…down) and also she can’t stay at The Home any more and will probably come back to this area, which makes My People very unhappy indeed as they don’t feel safe and also because it means that when she gets sick she will go to Mummy’s Hospital and last time that happened, it was Bad.

Also, Auntie Judy wanted to look at Mummy’s Daddy’s Ashes Box and that made Mummy very sad….

I have worked hard to cheer my people up and have been a good boy apart from when I ran off and ate something Secret and was sick all that evening. I keep jumping in ponds and shaking myself all over Mummy. She calls me a Horrible Dog, which I think is very funny.

Regards to all,

Bruce xxx

Hello everyone,

I am on the mend now. I still have a bit of a fuzzy head and Mummy says I am being naughtier than usual - I forgot myself and put my teeth on her hand – only gently- when we were playing and I ran and jumped at her and these are things I used to do when I was younger and Mummy has taught me not to do. Also, I have been ravenous all the time and have been scavenging and begging for My People’s food, which is another thing that I have been told Not To Do.

I’ll tell you a funny story though – My People have taught me to say their names (two barks and a woo for Auntie, one bark and a woo for Mummy) and today, when Mummy came home, she went upstairs and had a wash but first she put out some doggy treats to take on our walk. Well, I had them away – I know it was naughty of me but I couldn’t resist. When Mummy came down, she said who took these and I barked Auntie’s name! She didn’t believe me though, cos Auntie was at work.

I have seen Buster several times over the last few days. He tried to do rude things to my back end so I ran away. On Saturday, I saw my Emily and Troy and when Troy bit my tail and then my back, I beat him up but Mummy said I am a gentleman because I did not bite him. I want to get on with him but he is scared of me and just tries to bite me so I don’t think it’s going to happen. I am still in love with Emily though…

On Saturday, I drowned my brand new Frisbee in a pond over the fields. Mummy keeps trying to dredge it out with a branch and I keep jumping in and making the water all cloudy and then shaking myself all over her. She says I am a very naughty boy but she is glad I am better enough to be naughty so I am getting away with it. Tee hee….

Well, I am tired now so I will say bye for now,

Regards,

Bruce x

Too Much Noise And A Fit

Hello everyone,

Bruce can’t write to you today because he has had two fits one yesterday and one overnight - and he is a bit dazed and confused today. Other than that, he has had a bit of a mixed week. We were supposed to be getting radiators out in upstairs in our house – all the council houses are – and I had said that we couldn’t get ours done yet because I don’t have the annual leave to take to stay home with Bruce. So the neighbours (both sides) got done last week, which meant lots of banging and crashing and people going up and down our shared garden path. I could tell that Bruce wasn’t happy so let’s say it wasn’t a huge shock when he fitted yesterday. It was a particularly nasty fit though, and I was a bit worried about him. At 4.30 this morning, he fitted again and I decided that my last precious day of annual leave for this year (April-end March) would have to be used today. I have kept things as calm and quiet as possible and he has been ok so far so please wish him well and send healing thoughts that he will remain settled and not fir again for a while…

Looks like I’m not getting my heating done, doesn’t it? If he can’t cope with the men being next door, he’d never handle them being in our house.

The Mother was in hospital again last week and we were told all sorts of dire things by the doctor, but now she has been seen by a consultant, he says that doctor was panicking and she is actually no worse than she was before. Bruce’s Auntie went to see her too, which Auntie is still recovering from….

Hopefully, Bruce will feel well enough to talk to you again soon,

He sends his regards,

Bruce’s Mummy