Dog Walk Chaos

Yesterday we took all three dogs for a walk. Although Badger hasn't had his second injections yet we think he is pretty safe around the farm but for the next two weeks all dogs are confined to close quarters.

We decided to walk down the long track and as sometimes happens some holiday makers came along to park up and look at the view. As we got closer to the car we thought we'd better scoop Badger up as he has a habit of going under the cars on the driveway and we didn't want him to get run over if the car decided to move off.

Badger was in a particularly playful mood and wasn't wanting to be caught so we scurried about trying to catch him while Other Half held on to Henry and Molly's extending leads. When we finally go hold of Badger we looked up only to find that Henry and Molly had their heads and front half of their bodies in the open window of the car!

If it wasn't such a shock it would have been really funny (well actually it was quite funny) and I ran up to get them down and the occupants of the car were really nice about it, despite the mud that Henry and Molly had put all along the window ledge. I had Badger in my arms and the lady in the passenger seat immediately wanted to stroke him and while she was doing that I realised that Badger had got his undercarriage slightly coated in cow poo at some point of the walk so there I was trying to be very nice about the dogs and thankful that they didn't actually jump in and hoping no-one would notice the smell of cow poo which was probably transferring itself from Badger to the nice lady.

By this time Henry and Molly had started to whine as they wanted to get moving so we made a hasty retreat along the track.

I thought that the problem with walking three dogs would be about getting tangled in leads and dogs going off in all directions but it seems that there is more to it than that!