by Arthur Witten | Dec 15, 2017 | Thriller
I was most proud of the venerable Miss Thriller last night! Thriller was outside in her little grassy yard furiously barking at something in the inky gloom. Thriller has a new grassy yard that she has access to 24/7, and it has proven most successful with no more...
by Arthur Witten | Nov 26, 2017 | Thriller
It has been many years since last I had to collect a urine sample from female Newfoundland. Ruggles, and Keaton before him, upon receiving the command to “Have a leak”, simply stood on all fours, stretched out a little and let go – easy-peasy to collect a sample from...
by Arthur Witten | Nov 26, 2017 | Happy
Thriller had her weekly physio massage, then enjoyed a real good “chase” of a bunny once Miss Julie had departed. She, that being Miss Thriller rather than Miss Julie, “chased” said bunny a handful of yards at a time for around three quarters of a mile, slowly...
by Arthur Witten | Oct 12, 2017 | Happy, Nanny
Years ago, when we had more land here, cattle grazed the place. I’d feed them Lucerne (alfalfa?) cubes in the stockyards to get them wanting to go in there whether they needed rounding up or not. It wasn’t long before I could call the cows, and they would “stampede”...
by Arthur Witten | Oct 6, 2017 | Thriller
Thriller’s interaction with the neighbor’s cows has improved greatly since coming to share her life with me just three months ago. Then, whenever Her Ladyship saw a bovine in the neighbor’s paddock (not always easy given that they have allowed the land to revert to...
