Losing His Mind

Liquorice has firm beliefs in her human’s unequaled talents for becoming lost ever since I used to train her to walk on her leash by circling tree trunks, doing endless figure eights and reverse figure eights in sight of our home. She was convinced that I could...

Sylvester

Liquorice and I, as is usual these days, went on our early morning walk along our rural roadways. The last couple of days she has been most concerned about a heap of rubbish our neighbor has placed on the roadside ready for the Camden Council’s clean-up day....

Mornings With My Puppy

The times I have shared with Liquorice of an early morning, before the family rises, have meant a great deal to me. It is when I quietly sit in my father’s chair in the breezeway and give my little girl a nurse (not suckle <vbg>) in the breezeway of our...

Foolishness

Today I mowed the back lawn shorter than normal. Usually the mulching attachment on the ride-on mower cuts the clippings up very fine and blows them back into the lawn. This works well however there comes a time when the amount of new and old grass clippings becomes...

Little Fatty

Yesterday we returned with Liquorice to the place of her birth at the “ancestral” home of Planhaven Kennels and the delightful Francis Wilson. I am sure she would not mind her magnificent Newfs receiving primary acknowledgement. It was a lovely autumn day...