March 2014

I almost made it the whole week without any mischief! 

Almost...

I'd been such a good boy all week... Until about two minutes ago when I jumped onto the bed and scrambled across dad's laptop popping out five of the keys and sending them flying across the room behind me. Mum and dad have found all but 1. Literally, the number one. They can't find it anywhere! I didn't eat it! Promise!

We've taken part in another Monday Mischief blog hop hosted by Snoopy’s Dog Blog, Alfie’s Blog and My Brown Newfies

We’re taking part in the Black and White Sunday blog hop kindly hosted by Dachshund Nola and Sugar the Golden Retriever.

We are very happy to once again be joining Ruckus the Eskie for the Sepia Saturday blog hop.

Welcome to our very first 'Follow-Up Friday' post which will be permanently replacing 'Fridays Frenchie Finds'.

Every Friday we will now be wrapping up the week by responding to some of our reader's comments and questions that have been kindly left on our posts.

Sepia Saturday: Moving in with Wilf - 22 March 2014

We only just heard about this today and it starts in 5 days!! We think it sounds like fantastic fun so we've decided to take up the challenge!

And it will be a challenge for us as we may well be moving into our new house in the middle of it all! To help ourselves, we'll be pre-writing our posts a few days in advance so that they're ready to post when each day comes along. 

The idea is to blog from A - Z during April. That's 26 posts! 'But there are 30 days in April!' I hear you say! Well, Dudley Dursley is here to tell you:

So, you start with the letter A on the 1st April, going through the alphabet until you finish with Z on the 30th! You can choose a theme for the month or go random like we'll be doing.

We're preparing early and have decided to share with you our many topic ideas that we have come up with for each of the 26 letters. Of course you only need one topic per letter but it's good to get lots of ideas flowing. Here's what we've brainstormed up so far:

There are already well over 1,500 bloggers taking part including many pet bloggers like myself (we are #1694). So why don't you join us? Click here to take on the challenge!

Check out the blog hop below to see which other pet blogs will be participating in the challenge. Some others have also posted helpful ideas.

It's Wednesday which means we're taking part in Wordless Wednesday hosted by blogpaws.

This is our 4th day of staying at my dad's parents - remember I posted previously about how we're staying with them until our house is ready to move into? Well, we've settled in very well indeed. Brian & Sally the Bearded Dragons are slowly getting used to being in a new place as well. It's taken them longer to settle as the car journeys always stress them out.

I love the bed here. It's mums old bed and it's a queen size!! It's amazing!! Apparently we're taking it to the new house with us! That's music to my ears!



It's beautiful here in North Devon with lots of beaches and country-side to explore. Mum and dad grew up here but moved to Bristol just before I joined the family so this is all very exciting for me. I saw something new for the first time today whilst walking on the Northam Burrows! I can only describe them as clouds with legs! They didn't half look funny.

I'm sure we'll get there eventually :)

Much to everyone's surprise the title is NOT referring to me! I actually have very good manners when it comes to food. I won't even scoff all the kibble if mum accidentally leaves the open bag on the floor! The thief in question goes by the name of Wilf!!! 

He's great when it comes to respecting my toys, but my food?! Another story entirely!! His rules are quite clearly; his house, his food! Mum's had to move my food bowls into hers and dads bedroom otherwise if left unattended the food will 'mysteriously' vanish!

I forgive him though. He's brilliant fun to rough house with after all!

Mum says I'm getting a taste of my own medicine, whatever that means. I think she's referring to when we stayed at her parents and I kept sneaking into Bella's room and eating all her chicken. Hmm... I take back what I said earlier... Maybe I'm not so good with my manners... Not where chicken is concerned anyway! I'm a Bull Breed! Wha'dya expect?!

It's been raining here over the weekend. Not had much of an appearance from that big yellow thing that I've grown to love over the last few weeks. I hope that wasn't our summer been and gone! I think the weather is very confused at the moment, it's even snowing in some places nearby! Talking of rain.. I'm a bit sad that my camo coat no longer fits as it was super warm and looked awesome. It doesn't even cover half my back now and there's no chance of fastening it around my barrel of a chest. This is a photo that I found of me wearing my 'then' favourite coat, taken around this time last year when I was just a few months old. We've adjusted the saturation so we can jump on today's blog hop :)

We’re taking part in the Black and White Sunday blog hop kindly hosted by Dachshund Nola and Sugar the Golden Retriever.

As of today, I've got new living quarters!.... Again... This is the situation currently; We had planned to move back to North Devon after living in Bristol for a year in time for when my little brother comes along (June). We have a new house all lined up but won't be moving in until Easter time. Here's the problem though; the builder men have had to go into our house in Bristol to sort our bathroom which is taking forever and requires us being out of the house completely. Since the 6th Feb we've been staying with my mums parents and their dog Bella. You might remember briefly meeting her last month when we went to the beach (Monday Mischief: I believe I own everything I pee on). She's the 'Barking Mad' Bolognese pictured below:


Now we run into another problem! Mums parents have just sold their house and the new owners are picking up the keys at the end of this month!! So today we're packing up the car, again, and heading 13 miles up the road to stay with my dads parents. We'll be with them for the next 3-4 weeks until we get the keys to our new place! In the meantime you'll get to meet their German Shepherd, Wilf! He's awesome and shares all his toys with me. Here's a photo of us taken when I was just a pup:

We are very happy to once again be joining Ruckus the Eskie for the Sepia Saturday blog hop.

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 PET THEFT AWARENESS WEEK: MARCH 14th-21st

Bernie's mum here, letting you know that today marks the last day of Pet Theft Awareness Week. If you haven't seen these posters floating around the social media sites yet, they're posted below and they contain some scary statistics. 

With pet theft constantly on the rise, owners need to be extra vigilant when out and about with their dogs but also equally vigilant in ensuring their safety when at home. I'm still seeing dogs tied up outside shops and left alone in cars and I worry so much for them. If you're going to go into places where you can't take your dogs with you then leave them at home! They are so much safer there.

Be wary when strangers stop to ask certain questions about your dog. Questions that ring bells for us are; 'What breed is he?', 'Is he neutered?', 'How much did you pay for him?' etc. Lie to strangers if you have to. We've told strangers before that Bernie has diabetes and requires constant medication in hopes of deterring them.

There was a sickening story posted only the other day about a 14 week old Bichon puppy who was left in a critical state with a possible broken hip and leg after being kicked by a man who tried to steal the pup whilst on a walk. The 21 yr old female owner also suffered from a broken nose after being punched in the face by the man.

Spring has well and truly sprung. I've absolutely LOVED playing in the garden over the last week. It's beautiful out there and there are brightly coloured flowers growing everywhere. Mum particularly likes the cherry blossom tree around this time of year. The little bridge has been my favourite to play on this week. It leads around to the back of the summer house where the grass is uncut and so long that no human can see the trouble I get up to. Here are just some of the photos that mum took today:

I hope you enjoyed mums photography. She never seems to put the camera down at the moment. It's becoming permanently attached to her... Not that we mind :)

Bernies mum here! Whoops! What a way to start the week. We were so busy yesterday we completely forgot to jump on the Black and White Sunday Blog Hop! 

We'll make up for it now by combining today and yesterday. Here's the photo we would have posted yesterday which I suppose ties quite nicely into the Mischief theme! Bernie's not normally allowed to sit at the table but we couldn't exactly tell him 'No' with him looking at us like that.

This was taken the other day, Bernie sitting at the table with his people.. Sort of. I'm pretty sure he doesn't realise he's a dog... Somebody had better tell him.

I perked up towards the afternoon and we all went for a BBQ at a friends house. On the way there we made a stop at the garage and Bernie decided to jump from the back seat to the front seat where I was and stuck his foot in a BBQ sauce packet sending sauce all over the middle of the car and all over every one of his 4 legs. Once cleaned up and once there, Bernie was brilliantly behaved and everyone loved him... Until he started bringing over presents from the flower beds... lumps of cow dung. YUMMY! Thanks Bernie!

I'm starting to suspect he knows about these 'Monday Mischief' posts and therefore goes out of his way to help me write them...

Happy Monday and Happy St Patricks Day! 

We are very happy to once again be joining Ruckus the Eskie for the Sepia Saturday blog hop.

Today we found this pop art piece by New York artist Dean Russo and we love it!

Dean Russo has a huge variety of art prints and originals of cats and dogs of all species. 

For obvious reasons, we liked this one best.

We've had some smashing weather this week down in the South West of the UK!  It's almost getting to that point where I can hang my head out the window again. Car journeys have been very boring with the windows closed over the last few months.

Because of my flat face I tend to struggle when the weather gets too hot. As a result my walks get shortened to help me cope. Last year mum bought me a fab cool coat from Easidri which will be coming out of the cupboard very soon to get used again! We shall be doing a little review on that in the coming weeks as we think it's absolutely superb and therefore want to shout out about it!