Saturday housework? Not really ...

Oh the indignity of it all! When I heard Jude talking about doing a bit of a clean up this morning I had no idea that I'd be involved. Turns out that she felt that my whiskers and bottom were stinky and messy - and unfortunately that she also had the time to do something about it. 

I've just been subjected to the horrors of a beard trim ("I'm just cutting out the worst of the dreadlocks" she said)  a back end tidy up (thank goodness I couldn't actually see what was going on down there), and WORST OF ALL, a wash of both regions with warm water and soap. I'm just grateful that Jude thinks it's too cold today to wash all of me. 

Now I look like some type of pretty boy and my whiskers are all bouffant! This is totally wrecking my street cred - I'm off downstairs now to sit n my dog pavillion and think of ways to get dirty again and regain my delightfully authentic canine aroma. 

Grrr!

Toby

Loving my new toy!

Woofs and hello!

My lovely girfriend Sally and her humans brought me a toy when they visited last weekend. I only found out about this today (my humans must have been a bit slack with unwrapping it!)

Needless to say I luuurve it! Thanks Sally!

April visit to Ballarat (Hamish still doesn't like me!)

I meant to tell you about a recent visit to Ballarat.

The humans visited Gran and Pa to help sort out (lots of) books for the church jumble sale. We sorted out lots of boxes of books to go to the sale and also stirred up lots of dust (which made Jude sneeze a lot).

While the inside work was going on I went and did some serious exploring outside in Hamish's yard. For some reason he stayed inside - maybe he was feeling cold?

When Jude was sorting some photo collections out she found two that she particularly like - this one of Craig taken at about the time when they got engaged, and another that shows Gran and Pa back in the old days. Is it just me, or does Pa look a bit like Clark Kent?

Anyway, when it was time to go I wanted to get a photo with Hamish to add to my blog, because I luuuuurve Hamish. He wasn't too keen on having his photo taken - I think he was worried that he hadn't brushed his teeth or something. Based on the expression on his face what do you think?


Woofs,
Toby

Sally visited

Woofs and hello!

Great news - my girlfriend Sally came to visit me yesterday. I haven't seen her for ages (the last time was when we were both just young pups) but she is still as beautiful as I remembered. Oh yes, and she brought her humans with her too - someone had to drive after all!

We had lots of fun playing in the backyard - running really fast, playing bark-chasey, woofing, scratching up the grass etc - a perfect afternoon. Sally wasn't overly impressed by my dog pavilion - she said it was a bit drafty and asked why there were so many of Craig's old socks on the ground.

Something strange happened to my special dog-door while we were playing - a huge suitcase somehow came out of the storage room and propped itself in from to the door flap. It took Sally and me a while, but we soon worked out how to push the suitcase out of the way and ran upstairs to the humans where there was delicious food that we thought they wanted to share with us (turned out they didn't want to share at all). The humans took us downstairs again and we ran off for another quick play only to find not only the suitcase but also a chair and a large bin in front of the door! Very strange! After lots of effort we managed to move all of the impediments a bit though we could only make a narrow gap. Fortunately Sally is quite slim and managed to squeeze inside to alert the humans to the strange door blockage - leaving me behind! Hmmm .... eventually Jude came to rescue me, and Sally and I were allowed to stay inside.

We had a fun day - and I really enjoyed having the doggy company. I think I need a canine brother - the humans are OK but they don't know how to play bark-chasey and they strongly resist my invitations to sit in my dog pavilion!

In the meantime I think you will agree that Sally and I make a very handsome couple!

Woofs, Toby

PS: Today I've been doing a bit of extra dozing - guess whether I have been recovering from all that extra exercise or dreaming of Sally?