Within the last week Brandy & Brinkley seemed to have changed from being puppies to being small dogs. Their coats have lost the softness of puppy fur and are now properly dog fur, although Brandy’s head is still puppy soft. They have both started to bark at things they don’t understand such as odd noises on the TV, reflections in the glass doors and knocks at the door in the middle of the night – yes, Brandy & Brinkley have become guard dogs. We had the misfortune to have the police knock on the door earlier this week close to midnight, as with out our knowing, our car had been stolen from the drive and the police were here to tell us it had been found, burnt out! Without the pups waking us when the police knocked at the door it is unlikely either Neil or myself would have woken, shame they didn’t hear the car being stolen in the first place.
They are both quite happy running around the garden together for ages and they love going for walks, particularly if the sun is out. I think they are going to love Spain and fortunately there is not too long for them to wait now. Our original plan was to drive down to the south of Spain, going through the channel tunnel, France and Spain so that we could keep them both with us as much as possible. Unfortunately, having our car stolen has made us change our plans as we were supposed to be taking that car. So now, we are taking the ferry from Plymouth to Santander on the north coast of Spain and taking an old wreck (sorry dad, it’s his old car) as we cannot take the dogs onto the ferry unless we take them in a car.
The travelling facilities for Brandy & Brinkley have been paramount in our choice of ferry and Brittany Ferries have kennels for the dogs which we can access at any time and they also have an exercise area. The ferry journey is 19 hours long sailing at noon and arriving at 9.00am the following morning, so for a large part of the journey the pups should be asleep. Hopefully, as they travel well in the car, we won’t have any problems at sea. I’m not sure whether dogs can get sea-sick – I feel another Google coming on.
Right from early on both Brinkley & Brandy have realised that a lot goes on in the kitchen that smells good but they can’t get close to, no matter how they try, however, yesterday they tried really hard to help Neil cook the sausages for breakfast, maybe if they are really good helpers, he might cook an extra one for them. Oh, OK, so we put an extra one in the pan for them.
They are both quite happy running around the garden together for ages and they love going for walks, particularly if the sun is out. I think they are going to love Spain and fortunately there is not too long for them to wait now. Our original plan was to drive down to the south of Spain, going through the channel tunnel, France and Spain so that we could keep them both with us as much as possible. Unfortunately, having our car stolen has made us change our plans as we were supposed to be taking that car. So now, we are taking the ferry from Plymouth to Santander on the north coast of Spain and taking an old wreck (sorry dad, it’s his old car) as we cannot take the dogs onto the ferry unless we take them in a car.
The travelling facilities for Brandy & Brinkley have been paramount in our choice of ferry and Brittany Ferries have kennels for the dogs which we can access at any time and they also have an exercise area. The ferry journey is 19 hours long sailing at noon and arriving at 9.00am the following morning, so for a large part of the journey the pups should be asleep. Hopefully, as they travel well in the car, we won’t have any problems at sea. I’m not sure whether dogs can get sea-sick – I feel another Google coming on.
Right from early on both Brinkley & Brandy have realised that a lot goes on in the kitchen that smells good but they can’t get close to, no matter how they try, however, yesterday they tried really hard to help Neil cook the sausages for breakfast, maybe if they are really good helpers, he might cook an extra one for them. Oh, OK, so we put an extra one in the pan for them.
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