Leon saves the day

Saturday was a nightmare. Paul went to oxford to pick up a rescue Malinois, bitch. She was a little nervous but otherwise settled in quite nicely. She took an immediate liking to Leon, as you can see on the video, I thought they were doing a bit of tap dancing. All was going so well I decided to take Lotty (as she is known) for a walk over the fields ( on the lead of course) with a couple of the other dogs to help her settle some more. Not the best decision I have ever made, as we stepped out of the gate, the collar broke (you would think I learned my lesson after the episode in France with Gaby).Any way off she went, flat out, within seconds she had disappeared, great start to my job in rescue. We searched every where but having fields every where she could have been anywhere. Around 8 0'clock on the evening I spotted her run across the field, at least we knew she was still around which gave us some hope, however she disappeared almost immediately again,and boy did she pick a good night to run off, the hotel up the road decided to have a disco outside with fireworks, then the helicopters from the airport were out in force and to top that off the neighbours over the road decided to have a firework party as well. Go live in the country for some piece and quite, you must be joking. Around 12 am we decided to check out the front of the house, no luck then as we came back in we saw her in the neighbours drive, we were so close, but no, she took one look at us and of she trotted up the road, luckily we do not have much traffic at night but by the time we got in the car she was gone again. By 2 am we decided There was nothing more we could do but leave some food out back for her and hope she would stay close for the night.

7 am next morning we looked out the window and saw her, knowing she would run off again if we tried to get close, we decided as she had taken a shine to Leon we would let him out into the fields and see if she remembered him, it worked like a treat, their eyes met across the horizon and it must be love, they played together like pups for about twenty minutes then he came trotting back with her.

She has now settled in wonderfully and is a very sweet, loving dog, no aggression just a little nervous at times. She will make someone a fantastic companion, as long as they do not go walking with her on the first day and make sure the collar is strong!

What a glorious day, has summer finaly arrived?

The fields behind our house have at last been cut and baled. It makes walking the dogs so much easier, and as you can see they thought so to.

Best make the most of it before they plough it up again.

We all had a morning at the car boot on sunday, the weather finally picked up with some glorious sunshine. Gaby took a fancy to Kai's ice cream, he was not amused. All the pups took it in their stride even though its the biggest car boot I have ever seen. What sad people we are to spend the morning buying other peoples junk?

Companion Dog Show

The weather held out today for the second day of the boating festival and the companion show that was held there, run by our ringcraft club of which Paul is chaiman.



Callum judged the Junior handling classes.






These two made me laugh in the fancy dress class, in case you don't know they are the Blues Brothers.

Here we have a long haired Akita.



It was a very good turn out and everyone seemed to have a good day despite the ground being a bit of a mud bath.

Netherton Boating Festival

Should have gone to Darlington Ch show today but after last weeks mud at Richmond, I really couldn't be bothered,(although according to the results on Higham Press, we won the junior class with Gaby?) as we are holding a companion dog show tomorrow at Netherton Boating Festival we thought we would

go and check the venue out instead (its a 2 day event.) Its a big gathering of canal boats plus funfair and other attractions. Cerise, Scarlet, Gaby, Zara and Giorgia came along for the day and thoroughly enjoyed their selves with all the attention they received, although we didn't see much of Gaby as Callum went off with her for most of the day, Lisa, my personnel agony aunt, came along and became the puppy walker, as she normally shows Poms, this was a bit of an experience for her, but she took it all in her stride and I think I am half way to convincing her to get a real dog (only joking). As you can see the kids had a great time also, the sun was out in its full glory which seems to be a rare occasion nowadays.So all in all we had a very pleasant day,

lets hope tomorrows weather holds and we get

another great day.

The 'Tour of Britain' bike race went past today, the speed these guys travel is unbelievable and I have never seen so many police.They travel around 160 KM a day in just under 4 hours. They started the race in London last sunday, they then travel through Burnham on Sea, west midlands, up to yorkshire and scotland then back down to liverpool by next sunday, not bad going on a bike!

Ringcraft Training

Just got back from ringcraft training, as you can see from the picture Harry (the sheltie) had worked so hard he needed to chill out in Charlie's arms (Barney's owner). In the other picture Coral is also flaked out. Such a tough life eh.

Richmond Champ show

Well we went to Richmond and boy was it wet, mud every where, we took our waterproofs much to every one's amusement although we had the last laugh when they were all wet and cold and we were snug as a bug in a rug.

Any way the trip was well worth it, in Groenendaels, Leon (Nadjarah's Don Corleone for Belsharose) won open dog, best dog and BEST OF BREED, his daughter Velvet (Belsharose Messina) won Junior bitch and RESERVE BEST BITCH. Then on to Laekenois, Gaby, (Gabrielle D'Eroudur avec Belsharose) won post grad bitch, best bitch and BEST OF BREED, so we had a great day and i would like to say how pleasant it was under the judge, Mrs Eleanor Bothwel, who's happy and courteous manner made it a pleasure to show.

We also recieved our trophy for winning BOB Laekenois at the BSDA club show, which was under going a overhaul at the time.

When we arrived home my daughter, Jordan, thought we had won the world cup.

Just to finish the day off nicely, after arriving home at 10.30pm, paul took the dogs with him to see to the horses, he arrived there at approx 11pm at 12.30am i got a phone call to say he had run out of petrol, so off we go again to tow him home!

Welcome to our new blog

Hi everyone, thought we would have a go at this for a bit of fun, hopefully we will be updating on a regular basis of our hectic lives, hope you enjoy and come back for more.

Here scott thinks he's a pirate also see if you can spot the belgians doing their daily thing and a brief appearance by Kai.