One Man and his Dogs

Oh dear, Other Half has had something of a stressful week with the dogs.

Firstly, becuase I am usually working when he is at home and vice versa, Other Half has the dogs on his own quite allot. We have different views on dogs, I think that if you leave them to get on on their own they are quite happy. Other Half on the other hand is always watching them and monitoring what they are doing. Consequently he sees all the naughty things the dogs do and is often telling them off or trying to stop them doing something, or trying to take something that they shouldn't have away from them. This causes Other Half allot of stress.

So this week, Other Half decided to take the dogs out for a walk somewhere different. He bundled all the dogs into the boot of his car and took them to the hills behind a village about ten miles away. Other Half's car boot is different to mine, mine is split so you open the top half first and the bottom half stays shut, allowing you to grab the dogs leads before letting them out. Other Half's boot opens from the bottom, making it alomost impossible to grab the dogs leads, because of this Other Half decided to test the dogs staying abilities as he opened the boot.

Bescause the dogs knew they were somewhere new and exciting none of them stayed and all three jumped out of the boot and of course all three ran in different directions. A car was coming along the lane and poor Other Half had the devils own job to try and round all the dogs up before they got run over. This he managed to do somehow and then proceeded to take them up the hill.

During the walk the dogs were pulling and sniffing and eating sheep poo and generally behaving in a very excitable way. They are always like this when they go somewhere new. Other Half has been up this hill many times with Fergus and Bonnie and didn't see why Henry, Molly or Badger should be in any way excited. So they got shouted at quite a bit.

Then when Other Half and the dogs finished their walk Other Half felt guilty for shouting at them for pulling and misbehaving on their walk so he took them to the village shop and bought them all a milky way to say sorry!

A couple of days later Other Half got up in the morning and let the dogs out into the garden at just the same moment when the farmer next door came past the house with his dogs to feed the sheep. There was an almighty amount of dog barking and yelling as all the dogs always want to get together when they see each other either for a fight or a good game. Wee Pup Badger's brother was one of them and he came through into the front garden to bark through the side gate. This made our dogs bark at the other side of the gate and somewhere along the way one of them must have jumped up and caught the catch and the gate opened.

This caused a mass canine break-out!

Henry and Badger cleared off into the farm yard, and Molly did as she always does when Henry has done something naughty, she came back indoors and acted all agitated. It took Other Half a few moments to realise what was going on and then he looked out the window and saw the gate was open. Poor old Other Half, still in his jammy bottoms, grabbed a coat and a pair of wellies and flew out of the garden to find Henry and Badger.

He found Badger in the cow barn with Henry and Badgers brother chasing a chicken in between the cows legs! How none of them got trampled by a cow I've no idea.

Badger was easy enough to catch but as soon as Other Half tried to get hold of Henry he shot off up the track to pay a visit to our neighbours.

Luckily the farmer was already up there and caught Henry, turned him around and sent him on his way back down to Other Half. Other Half intercepted him at our driveway and Henry bombed back into our garden.

Henry and Badger had had a great time, but I think Other Half's nerves were rather frayed to say the least!

And I still can't work out how neither Henry or Badger got trampled by a cow!