So Rubbish/Lazy!

My mummy has decided that she can't manage to keep up with 2 blogs at once so she is only keeping Orca the Porker's up to date because he is only here for a few weeks whilst I am here forever.

Fortunately, she has done a very good job of letting all of my fans know just what I've been up to as well as Orca the Porker  ;o)

I'm very sorry if you've been waiting for updates, but you're just going to have read about our adventures on the smelly puppy's blog.

(He is a bit lovely actually and I will miss him lots when Auntie Fi takes him home. He is very norty and we have had lots of fun! Mummy says that he will go home at the end of next week because Flora is having her hopperayshun on Wednesday and Aunti Fi is coming to stay for a few days to help when Flora comes back home, and then she will take Little Stinker back with her.)

Woohoo!!

Orca the Porker has come to stay for a holiday! Mummy was telling the truth about me getting to meet him very soon!

He's a bit of a pain in the bum sometimes and his teeth are VERY sharp. I'm sure that I never used to bite Flora as much as he bites me. But he is LOTS of fun to play with.

Mummy was going to let him share my blog but I said "no way!" so he has got his very own holiday blog here: Orca's Holiday Blog

I have to admit that he's quite cute for a bitey, barky puppy.

I have lots to teach him though before Auntie Fi gets back from her holiday. Mwahahahaha!!!

Orca Update

We've got lots of photos of my little puppy friend Orca who was born back in January so we thought that you might like to see how he is growing up. I haven't met him yet but Mummy says that I will do very soon! Auntie Fi says that he is a very naughty boy so we should get on like a house on fire. What does she mean??

Orca when he was first born on 8th January

1 week old

10 days old

2 weeks old 

(I think this might have been a set up! Such a little puppy couldn't be so naughty, could they??)

3 weeks old

4 weeks old 

(he looks like a real dog but in tiny!)

6 weeks old

(doesn't he have very handsome eyes??)

At 6 weeks old, Auntie Fi weighed him again and he was 3.5kgs! I was 6 kgs when I was 14 weeks old and everybody thought that I was a big boy - I think Orca is going to be even bigger than me!! 

He is starting to eat big boy food now and isn't drinking so much of his mummy's milk, because he's 7 weeks old now. That means that his beautiful mummy, Katie, will be looking for a very special home of her very own soon. He has had the first of those horrible injection things and soon he'll be able to go out and play with all of the other dogs at the Barn.

I can't wait to meet him. I know lots of things that I can teach him. I'm sure Auntie Fi would like that  ;o)

The Bran Stuff

Oopsy! Left it a long time again!

It's not been lots of fun at my house  :o(  Flora has been really poorly and had to go to hospital for 2 days last week. Me and the kids went to Nanny's house while Mummy and Auntie Fi took Flora to the hospital. She didn't come home on the night time because they had to take photos of her baddy hips. When she did come home she was very very tired and a bit grumpy. Poor Flora looked very sad.

As promised, Mummy has kicked me out of the crate which I don't really mind because I am a big boy now and very good at sleeping in the lounge by myself. It means I get to spread out on the sofa allllllllllllllllllll night. Although, the crate is looking sooooo comfy now that I'm not sure whether I've made the right decision. Mummy has put duvets around the sides so that Flora's legs don't hurt if she leans against the side and there is a super squishy bed in the bottom of it!! As soon as Mummy had finished putting it altogether, Flora was allowed to try it out - but me and Sophie sneaked in too! Flora wasn't very impressed though  ;o)

When Sophie got out there was a bit more room for me and Flora to stretch out. 

Mummy says that I am a silly boy because after we've had our last wees at bedtime, she always gives us a chewy to take to bed with us and both me and Flora grab our chewies and race into the crate together! Pah. Then Mummy comes and tells me to get out.

Lots of things have changed here because of Flora's baddy legs. There is lots of stuff on the floors so that it isn't slidey any more. It's nowhere near as much fun now that I can't skid down the hallway and into the kitchen! But Flora is happier. 

And Nina and Stew and Tom came the other day to bring the kids home after their holiday and clever Stew made a special ramp for Flora that goes over our back door steps. I usually just jump straight over it but Flora uses it to go into the garden nearly every time.

Mummy says that Flora will be having her hopperayshun soon and then she will not be able to play with me at all as she will be very poorly and have to be extra specially careful not to hurt her legs. Before she has her hopperayshun though, Mummy says that somebody will be coming to our house who will be able to play and play and play with me until I can't play anymore. I am very excited but don't know who it is!!

I was in Serious Trouble the other day. I made Sophie cry and Mummy told me off. I don't think it's so much fun being a norty puppy any more  :o(  Auntie Sarah and Zack and baby Sam came to visit and I played with them and then slept like a good boy, but then they went shopping and left me on my own when I hadn't been to the park for a walk and I lost my chewy under the chair so I found something else to play with instead. There were some lovely squishy toys on the windowsill that smelled just like Sophie so I played with them. When Sophie came home and saw that I had eaten her Sandy's special sparkly harness and chewed a hole in Sandy's face and took Sandy's nose off, she cried a lot  :o(  Apparently, she's had Sandy (a yellow labrador toy) since she was a very little girl and nothing bad has ever happened to her before so she was very sad with me. Mummy was cross with me first of all, but then she explained to Sophie that Sandy should really have been left somewhere that I couldn't reach and she also apologised to me because I would have been a good boy and gone to sleep if I'd been to the park. I don't think I'll play with any more of the toys that smell like Sophie!

Mummy has been taking me to the park lots and lots since the Sandy incident though. Lots of times, I go with my friend Cooper. He is white and black and is a terrier and he lives just 2 houses away from me. He is just a little bit younger than me and used to be a naughty boy who used to try and get me to have his puppies!! I have been trying to teach him how to play nicely with everybody and he is lots of fun now. I like it when we go to the park together. We play chase with the ball and we wrestle and we play with all of the other dogs. Our mummies smile and tell us what very good boys we are.

A little while ago, a very lovely lady who my mummy calls Auntie Verity sent me some presents. Presents! Just for me! She had sent Flora some pyjamas too which have helped to keep her baddy legs warm but she didn't want me to be left out. For the first time, I learned what fun it is to open presents all by myself! I had toys and treats and Auntie Verity said that I had to share them with Flora. Humph. Well. I shared the treats with Flora but the toys were so cool!! I was a little bit greedy...

I did let Flora put her paw on one of MY new toys when Mummy told me to stop being mean...

While "we" were playing with the new toys, Mummy made a discovery in the hallway. I think this photo is called Aftermath of a Puppy Lesson...

I know that the snow was here quite a long time ago now, but Mummy has only just put the photos from the camera on to the computer. So here are some photos of me playing in the snow...

A Hup-Date

Oooh hello! I haven't been here for a long time again - sorry!! Lots of exciting and rubbish things have been happening and I forgot to tell you all about them.

First of all, we got a new car! Yay! Mummy bought it from one of her doggy friends which meant that it smelled heavenly. I know that the nice lady cleaned it before me and Flora got to ride in it,  but we could still smell that fabulous smell of Other Dogs. It made me like the car straight away. It made me like it enough that I couldn't wait to go for a ride in it so I made a great big mistake and forgot that I make Mummy lift me into the car and jumped in all by myself as soon as she said "hup". Oops. And now she refuses to lift me in ever! But it's sort of ok because I love being in it.

And then something terrible happened to the garden! My tunnel is gone. Alright. It wasn't much of a tunnel yet, but I'd made a really good start on it and had a great big hole. But now there is a big square stone over it  :o(  I've looked really hard but I can't find anyway around it. It's not fair! I think that Mummy had something to do with the stone appearing so I have decided to get my own back by chewing up the little fences that she planted  ;o)

Ooh there was lots of white stuff!! Did you have the snow stuff? It was fabulous and tasted soooo yummy. When we went to the park I didn't even want to play with my ball because the kids kept making me special balls made out of the snow stuff. They were much more fun, but they kept disappearing when they landed. Mummy took some photos of me playing with the snow stuff but said that the white dots made me look like a "reverse dalmatian". Silly Mummy.

We've been for lots of rides in our new car. We even went on a great big ride where I seemed to be in the car for aggggggggggggggggges. When the car stopped, we were at Nina's house!! I haven't seen Nina for a long time and she was very surprised to see how much I've grown. She has 2 tiny little dogs called Ricky and Charlie but they are both old and don't play much. That didn't stop me trying to make them play though! I chased around their house and tried to make them get off of the sofa and chase me, but they just looked at me like I was a bit stupid. How very rood. Flora did not come to Nina's with us. She stayed at Nanny's house for a little holiday. I don't know why she didn't come, but I missed her lots. 

My mummy has been a bit sad lately. I give her lots of kisses when she looks sad and that makes her smile again. I don't know why she's sad but I think that it might be something to do with why Flora didn't come to Nina's house. Flora's not allowed to come out with me for walks any more and she doesn't like to play much now. When she does play with me, sometimes she cries and has to have a big sleep afterwards. I keep hearing the word "hopperayshun" but I don't know what that means and sometimes Mummy says that I might have to stop sleeping in my crate at night because Flora is going to need it to get better in. I know that she is not feeling right at the moment, so I am being a very good brother and looking after her.

Mummy note: Flora has severe hip dysplasia which has been under control for the last 9 months or so, but there's been a relapse over the last few months and she's now waiting to see a specialist to see if she's a viable candidate for a total hip replacement op.

Exciting News!

My friend Katie - a beautiful chocolate lab girl - that I met at Auntie Fionna's (Lizzies Barn Sanctuary) had to have a little operation today and when she woke up she had had a baby!!!

He is a very big baby and Auntie Fi has called him Orca. I think that she already loves him lots and will keep him forever and ever just so that I can play with him when I see her :oD

Welcome to the world, Orca!

The Truth Is Out There!!!

Just like my mate Muppet I've been working on cultivating a reputation for myself. While Muppet is striving to let the world now just how naughty he is, I am going for the other end of the market and encouraging people to believe that I am the best behaved labrador puppy in the world. And so far it's working ;o)

I've learned to retrieve (rubbish), I have not killed (m)any toys, I don't bark (much), I am (mostly) doing as I'm told, I've been letting Mummy take lots of photos of me and I'm being nice to Flora (although we'll not talk about the incident where I decided to see if she'd give me a piggyback the other day and she bit my winky - yowch!).

I have been sharing sleeping space with Flora and she is happy for me to plonk my gigantic bum on her head and everything. I'm a bit bigger than her now so she usually has to curl up quite small so that I can have enough room to spread out...

Sometimes, though, I forget how big I am now and my head falls off of the sofa and my nose gets all squished up to the floor!

Sophie was all poorly yesterday so - being the best behaved labrador puppy in the world - I let her share our sofa.

Now, however, I find that there is a bit of a flaw in my plan >:o( Mummy took a video of me and Flora playing this morning and I'm not convinced that it shows me in my best light. Well. It certainly doesn't show me being the best behaved labrador puppy in the world....

Ah well. I suppose I'd better just admit that I'm not the best behaved labrador puppy in the world: I'm just a labrador puppy and I like being naughty ;o)