Hello from Donna.

Hello, this is me and my name is now Donna amongst others, I am also known as Donna Kebab, Miss Kebab, Mix Kebab and Donna Doobags, you get the picture! I didn’t always have a name but I will tell you how I came to live at Little Dumpledale.

I was born on a farm in Brongest some miles north of where I live now. My brothers, sisters and I lived in a wire pen in the farmyard of a dairy farm. My Mother fed us all with milk until we all got too big to feed, then our humans fed us, we were quite large puppies!

My Mother told us all we were going to be “working” dogs which meant we have to chase and catch things and live in the farmyard like she did, chained to her wooden kennel during the day and taken out at night. She told us that our father was a big hairy dog called a Deerhound and we were to be good puppies and do what our humans told us.

We lived all together for the first three months, sometimes it rained in on us so we were wet and sometimes it was cold but we all cuddled up and kept each other warm and played together. Then one day someone fetched one of my sisters and took her away, then my other sister went too and I was left with my four brothers. It wasn’t too bad but they did pick on me a bit as I was the only girl!

Then one day a tall man came to see us and spent some time with us all in the pen. He talked nicely to me and said he would love to take me home as I looked just like another bitch he had some time ago, called Tally, but it was not to be, as my humans had told him that I already had a home to go to. He finally picked my favourite brother and took him away and that night I was sad.

I couldn’t be sad for too long however, as my remaining brothers were still there to play and fight with. Then just a week later life changed forever as the nice man who had taken my brother came back for me! The other person who had said they wanted me had changed their mind, so my humans had phoned and asked him if he wanted me too and he did!

I travelled in the car for the first time and wasn’t sick and how excited was I to be reunited with my brother, now called Blitzen which is apparently the name of a reindeer, so I was to be called Donna (another reindeer) but with a lady’s spelling! This began the succession of names as above! I don’t know what reindeer are, but Mr P says that they are big and hairy.

When I arrived Blitz told me he sleeps now on a dog bed by the side of the “human bed” which for humans is something very comfortable and a lot nicer than our straw in the farmyard. On his first night he slept between his new Mum and Dad in the “human bed”. I was very excited as to whether I too would sleep in this “bed”.

Anyway before the night came I had to meet the rest of the gang. Blitz introduced me to Mr Podge, Waljan, Waj or Mr P as he is known. As you can see multiple names are common in the pack. He was a bit overwhelming as he is very big and hairy and Blitz told me he wasn’t that keen on puppies, but he has got used to us since and now after six weeks is actually playing with us.Here is Mr P himself...........

Then there was Kishka the husky, aka Kish or Kishka Lou, who tolerates us, but is not up for playing yet.

 The old ladies of the pack are Faith, or Faith the Wraith, the whippet. Blitz tells me is quite poorly and we are not to mention the lump on her side. Blitz likes Faith and spends a lot of time with her, she tells him of all her exploits as a puppy. Here she is out on a dogrun recently.......

 and sharing a bed with Blitz..................................

 The other old lady is Poppy, who also gets called Poppy-doo and Poppy the puppy, even though she’s twelve years old! She likes to pinch our toys and growl menacingly at us, even though she so small she can fit under my legs and I’m only 17 weeks old! Poppy with OUR toys................................

 The two youngest dogs are Lucy who is also Luce. Lulu, Lulu Belle, Putrid Pugh (also rhymes with Lucy Lou)and Tatia for some reason? Then there’s Phoebe aka Phoebe Beebee, confusing isn’t it? 

Phoebe looks very much like me and Lucy loves her bed!

Phoebe................................

and Lucy Lu................................................

 Anyway I soon got used to "Donna come", "Donna do wees" as I am very clever and Blitz and I have become virtually housetrained within a very short time.

Soooo, as Mr Podge says, to bed and I was lifted up and put on this vast expanse of “bed” where the humans sleep. It was nearly as big as the pen that all seven of us puppies lived in. Anyway, after all the excitement of the day I soon dropped off to sleep knowing that my new Mum, Dad and Blitz were nearby. Since I have arrived I have been out on walks around the field, met the resident cat, duck, chickens and horses.

I have been taught lead walking and Blitz and I enjoyed our first visit to what they call “the beach” where there is a lot of soft stuff called sand and running water called “the sea”. Mum took some photo’s on the beach where I am playing queen of the Castle and chasing Blitz around! Dad climbs the rock.....................

 Whatever dad can do we can do better! Can you spot us camouflaged on the rock?

We did some chasing games....................................

Then stop for a scratch..........................................

a play in the sea....................................................

Life is good......................................................

We have not all been good, as I did get onto the table last week, doing what they call “counter surfing” and Blitz and I have helped Dad with the paper shredding, but after all we are still puppies!

Toilet roll goes so much further in pieces..................................................

 Mum says Blitz looks just like Mr. P when he first arrived as a puppy and he follows him about like a mini me, he is now also known now as Mr. B! All in all I think we both have landed on our paws and we look forward to more exciting goings on on the farm and helping Mr P with his blog.

Love from

Miss Donna Kebab

Sunday afternoon dogrun!

Hi folks,
As is was a nice day today and we had some sunshine, Mother took that camera thingy on our dogrun to take some photo's of the new arrivals. Firstly can I say we had a bit of a late start as Mum and Dad went to that thing they went to last year, called the Hunt Ball. This apparently involves drinking copius quantities of beer and wine, some live music and dancing. They then get home rather late, well after our bedtime anyway and Dad insists in taking us up the lane at 3am taking one step forward and two back! It's all quite entertaining actually and Mum didn't pass out this year till she got home and went to bed, being the correct place. Anyhow I digress, as I said we all had a lie in including Blitz who as you can see has fitted in with us all quite well, in fact it's like having a mini me!

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Lucy doesn't want to be identified! But they don't mind sharing the bed.............................

Anyhow as I said, we went on our usual afternoon dogrun round the fields and as Mum had that camera thingy (you know the thing that steals your soul, ooh err) so I was dawdling a bit so she couldn't use it on me, oops, too late....................................................................

Arghh she got me, anyway she also got some of the little blighters too, they're not that good but they're quick little things. Soo here they are........................................................

I'm sure she was chewing something there, well aren't puppies always chewing things?

Ickle Blitz.....................

He's seen something interesting!

Yes its Donna!
And as all good puppies to they have to help out in whatever you are doing so here they are helping Mother by making sure the washing is really dirty before it goes in the machine!

On a sadder note, Mum took Faith, her "special" whippet to see Mrs V.E.T this week as she had a bit of a swelling on her side and they have diagnosed a large tumour on the spleen, if they operated to remove it it would only prolong her life by about six months and she would have to go through surgery with a bad heart. Sooo, they have decided to bring her home and keep her comfortable for the time she has left. i can tell you Mum was very upset but the poopies are helping to cheer us all up. so thats sll for now, catch you later.

Waj x

Our Christmas suprises

OK, OK, I know some of you already know, but for those of you who don't Santa came this Christmas and bought us not one, but two Christmas puppies! Firstly there was one little blighter hanging off me fur, then a couple of days later there was another one, due to a curious set of circumstances which is too long to narrate here. 

Anyway please welcome our Christmas puppies Donna on the left and Blitzen on the right.

 Cute little blighters aren't they?

 Donna's got him where she wants him in a head lock!

 Checking out the duck! Luckily it's still in one piece!

 

Anyway they are quite good little puppies I must say and haven't made any mess in the house at all at the moment, mainly 'cos they spend a lot of time in the garden with Mum and Dad with them going "go wee wees" all the time! Oh I remember the joys of housetraining in the cold!! They both spent their first night in the bed between Mum and Dad, good job they've got a six foot bed that's all I can say! 

I'll get some more photo's for you soon, so it just remains for me to wish you all a Happy New Year, it's certainly got off to an unusual start for us anyway.

The now "keeping calm and carrying on"

Waj x 

Lucy's Christmas present.......

Alooooo evriwun, Luce ere an I az ad me cwistmas wish ain't i lucki? I wuz out wiv me muvver earli dis mornin an i catchd one of dem babit fings! I tuk it ome az a speshul presant four me muvver an shi dident wan it, how rude! Shi even got daddi owt of bed to tek if orf me, he sayed he waz gonna couk it four Cwistmas dinna, ho, ho, ho! Anyways, happi cwistmas to you all! Luv Tattia Luce xxx

Hi folks, Waj here, I didn't see no rabbits this morning, but then I can't be bothered to chase them anyway so I stayed with me mother like a good dog!  Anyway, Luce, Kish, Poppy, Faith, Phoebe and our humans would like to wish all the blog followers a merry Christmas and a happy, peaceful and prosperous New Year.

Catch you in the New Year.
 Waj x

Tatia!

Allo, Lucy ere, I az ad an owie too weaks ago. It appened loike dis. I wus owt wiv me matey Kish luking for dem babit fings to chayse. I wuz in de vallee part sniffin in de gorz booshis. Dere must av bin sum barbid wyre in de boosh cos I slit me ere rite down de miggle. Dere wuz blood evriwere so’s wen I got ome me Dad cut de end off a sokk and put it on me hed to stopp it bleeedin. Me muvver fort dat she wuld resque me ere herself, sooo shee put sum sterry stwips acros and coverred it wiv microepour taype an lef it,     hand, amayzinlee enuf it staid On!!!!  

Dis wuz foine until day four, wen it did start to smelle a bit………ooh err! 

 Bi dis tyme me muvver fort I ad a gangly greene ere soo we ad to go an sea Mr Shawn de V.E.T. Mr Shawn sayed he fort my ere wuz ok az it wuz stille pinc an to leeve it to de weakend an den tak de taype orf then. And I ad to tayke sum tablets cawled hanti bitoticals. Well wen dey tuk de bandidge orf me ere it ad heeled up a treet, but I az anover battil skar and anover nayme az I iz now cawled Tattia, shawt for Tatti Ear. Ha, ha they iz soooo funni ain’t they?

Ere it is afta the weak, gud aint it?

 Dis is wat it luks loike now al heeled up!

I met a nuw fwend las weak too, he wuz an I-talien grayhownd caled Roderick, he ad free fwends wiv him too moor I-taliens ann anover whipet loike me!!! Dey all went to de pub wiv der humans inde middel of de weak as it wuz dere Muvvers birfday. i met dem in de yard wen dey cum bak an Rodders loiked mi veri much. Hear he iz down de pub wiv his sparkli coler.

kute aint he? Anyways I iz orf now as Mr P iz on is way ooh err...................... luv Tatia sory Luce!

Hi folks, drat that whippet, it looked better when it had that sock over it's head! Hee, hee.......

Anyway, I'm afraid I forgot to tell you that Andy's Callie had passed away a couple of months ago after a short illness, here's the great man himself.

Anyhow, Andy has been hankering for a puppy and a couple of weeks ago Radar landed! He has been called all sorts as his parentage isn't know, but Dad has called him a beagle/spaniel/foxhound well all sorts really what do you think?

We're all getting used to having him around, though I hate it when he gets under my legs!

Are all you folks ready for Christmas? It's really quiet in the cottages this week as there's no one in at all or next week either, so Mum and Dad are having a rest. It's been throwing it down this morning and all the fields are wet so we were all snoozing on the bed including Tatia who was IN the bed! Hee, hee.....

Anyway, that's all for now, will be back in a couple of weeks for me annual Christmas message!

Waj x

Comings and goings!

 Hellooooo, Waj here again, reporting back after a few comings and goings in the last few weeks.

Firstly Mum and Dad flew off on their annual holiday to Rhodes a couple of weeks ago and we were left in the semi capable hands of young Jason and Andy. As I mentioned in my last missive, poor little Faith is now on tablets, to be taken twice a day an hour before food. Normally Mum will give her her tablet at 7.30 and feed the rest of us then and Dad will give her food about 9am.
While Mum and Dad were away, Jason had to walk us in the dark (it was quite creepy) as he had to leave the house at 7.00 to get to work. Before he went, they planned that Jason would give Faith her tablet and Andy would pop in a little later to feed us all. Soooo, on the first morning we were all sat waiting for breakfast when Andy arrived. We watched him put little Faiths tablet in her food and put it down in front of her, then two seconds later snatch it away from under her nose as he suddenly realised he wasn't supposed to be giving her the tablet as Jason already had!! It was sooooo funny..............................

Anyway, Mum and Dad say they had a good time 6 days of nice weather and here's a couple of their snaps, Dad gets to watch Wales play in the hotel bar...........................................

 On Monday it rained....................................

 So they went shopping in Lindos....................................................

 Looking happy probably after several cocktails!

 This years holiday cat!

 View of the pool although they didn't go in it much as they mostly swam in the sea...........................

 Waiting for the coach on the last day....................................................

 Mum looking a bit serious!

 They did think they would be staying an extra two days because of a general strike in Greece, but as it happened it was only a 12 hour not a 48 hour strike so their flights weren't affected. Anyway it was nice to get them home and things back to normal.
Then this week Mum went away again to Cardiff on a three day course with work. She stayed at a place called the Novotel and just to celebrate Halloween, here's a really spooky picture of it taken on Mum's phone.............................................................

 

Oooh errr, looks haunted to me!

Hey do you remember this spooky photo from when I was a pup? Looks like all three of us are possessed as well as the TV!!!! Anyway, enjoy Halloween and I'll speak to you soon!

Waj x