End of Summer Update

I can't believe it's the end of Summer already & that I have not updated Scrumpy's blog for the last 8 months!!

Well here's a quick run through....

He likes making new friends

He loves to look intelligent

And handsome

And he also loves riding in the back of his Dad's sports car with the roof down

(yes he is wearing a harness)

We enjoyed watching Murray win Wimbledon Tennis & celebrated with a High Five when he won.

And this is my friend taking him into the sea in July

He is now very sociable & loves walking to the pub

He's also a Daddies boy!

He loves having play dates in the garden with his friends - big or small

This is Harry who's 3 months old

He loves his sofa in the Conservatory

And is looking forward to having a girlfriend soon too!

She's currently in a rescue centre & is very nervous, so we have to all make a few visits to see her before we can be considered to bring her home.

She's a Lurcher Cross so quite similar to Scrumpy in breed.

We also have to be home checked by the rescue centre as it's a different place from the one we got Scrumpy from.

They got on well on the first meeting so hopefully that will continue & we can bring her home in the next 10 days or so.

Scrumpy & Snow

Scrumpy's first sighting of snow was a bit of a shocker!

He really didn't want to go out in it

But he had no choice in the end

And then realised that it could be fun!

So we had a snow ball fight

& I thnk I came off worse as I was drenched

Improvement all round!

Here he is - our little puppy, well not so little anymore!

He's growing at a rate of knots in height, length and appetite too!!

Improvements are:

• Walking on the lead
• Socialising with other dogs
• Not taking the tea towel from the AGA rail
• Play time
• Not biting so much
• Doing his "Do's" outside!!

And not only that.

Due to not having any heating one recent night, as our boiler went down, we didn't feel that it was fair for him to sleep in his usual room, so we invited him upstairs to our bedroom.

He played about for a bit, nicking slippers and suchlike, hiding things under the bed and running a little mad, he soon settled down and slept right through until 7am, when the alarm clock went off, without a wee or a poo in sight.

Hooray.

Scrumpy HATES the rain!

Yes, we have discovered in the last few weeks, Scrumpy hates the rain!!

He pats the door to go out, but once he sees the rain he turns back and comes back inside again.

We have had to go through the following steps to get him out in it:

1.  Pushing him out of the door - which just results in him sitting on the step and not actually doing what he's meant to do.

2. Going out with him, underneath an umbrella - which just means that he sits at your feet under the umbrella too and not doing what he's meant to do.

However 

3.  Going out with him, without an umbrella, getting wet and having your hair go all frizzy, to show Scrumpy that the rain won't kill me (has he been watching too much TV??) seemed to do the trick!!

As you can see, he likes home comforts

Loves to sleep a lot

And loves the AGA

And the open fire!

He also likes to stretch out in one of his 5 (yes 5 - as we had 2 dogs before so we accumulated a few) beds

And he loves being picked up for a cuddle

He also likes to walk on the Trailway

Above is a view of the River Stour which runs along the Trailway - it's banks have burst in recent days

Here he is looking for his next stick to pick up

And these are my red wellies which have come in REALLY handy for dog walks in recent days

Scrumpy is coming on leaps and bounds in the last few weeks.  Things he used to do, like pulling cushions off the sofas. tea towels off the AGA and eating lumps of coal from the fire, he no longer does!

However, one thing he is still doing is having a wee and a poo in his room overnight.

I suppose that he's still young at 15 weeks and he will grow out of it, although we do feel that he's protesting at being put in his room, rather than being allowed to sleep in our room!!

Could there be some truth in that?

Mystery Solved!!

Thanks to Daisy's (Daisy is Scrumpy's Sister) Mum who was even more curious than us as to what our dogs are, she had a Doggy DNA test carried out and it turns out that one of the parents is a Greyhound and the other is a mix of a Dalmation and a German Wirehaired Pointer!

So that explains his build, his markings and his wirey hair that seems to be appearing all of a sudden.

When Scrumpy first came to us he was a little puppy weighing 4.5 kilos.  He's now reaching the 7.5 kilo mark so he's putting on weight - hooray.

He doesn't like his latest medicine that the vet has prescribed but I have become a dab hand at syringing it straight to the back of his throat, which is good as every other method resulted in white chalky liquid going everywhere.

Daisy

& 

Scrumpy

Over worried puppy parents

Today we took scrumpy to the vets as he is still coughing and when he did a puppy poop indoors (on puppy pad) overnight I noticed a little blood so to be on the safe side he went for a check up.
The vet did all the listening to his chest, looking down his ears, thermometer up his &@:;%{¥ etc and gave him a clean bill of health.
To be on the safe side after listening to his history to date she gave him some liquid medicine to combat both worms and lung worm for the next 7dsys just in case.
On another note he has now chewed through my laptop cable so I am a little limited to blogging, tweeting and www until I get a new one.
On another note again we have nearly finished our kitchen and as we were working in there today he came with us to keep us company. He went straight for the aga!
We also went on a lovely walk today.

Dog house

Yes that is where scrumpy is! He has in the last week chewed through
1. Wii cable
2. Play station cable
3. My laptop power cable

That is why I am blogging from my phone.

It's hard to be angry with him as he is so cute.