August 7th

Dog dating

Yesterday the Dog went for a date with his lovely young lady. She was such a Lady, and the Dog only had 2 problems. The first was to keep the other guys away from her. The other one he is still struggling with. He really likes her, but is a little worried about her mental health after she just walked straight out in the river and laid down. Didn’t she know that water is bad for your fur?

After a seriously consideration he has come to the conclusion though that he would love for her to come and live with us.

The Dog says: “She might not be perfect, like my mother was, but next to that, she is really something special.”

Rooster looser

Suddenly the Rooster had a relapse. Therefore the poor rooster is now back to quarantine and meds. Nobody is happy about the situation, but at least both his spirit and weight are much better now than last time he was ill.

The Rooster said: “At least this quarantine has plenty of food and water, my favourites.”

Pigs in trouble

The Pigs have been sentence to spend their upcoming weeks in their pen after being caught rednoosed eating grapes in the wine yards. This is NOT a good choice if you want a long happy pig life. Unfortunately the Chief Pig refuses to realize that eating grapes may be dangerous for his health, so his new hobby is now escaping.

The Chief Pig said: “I just can’t help myself, the taste is pure delight.”

Angry Cat

Last night the Primadonna cat wanted to go to sleep, and she had decided that the humans bed was the place for her upcoming nap. You can imagine her chock when she found the door closed! The humans lame excuse about the door being close due to a draft……

The Primadonna Cat said: “There is no excuse for a closed door!”

The Invite

We are glad to announce that The Dogs date has said yes to our invitation to come and live with us.

The Lady Dog said: “The Dog wasn’t half bad, quit handsome actually. The rumours also have it that the humans are trained to satisfaction.”

Number of eggs today: 3

Weather forecast

It is actually looking like it is going to rain!

The Dog recommends you to make sure that your favourite pillows will not get wet.

August 5th

The Dog off again

The Dog is now always off to somewhere. Somewhere other than here. Today he went off to the marked. This is off course only an excuse. We all know he only wanted to get off to his regular bar. You know the place that feels like home.

The Dog said: “I can’t help it, but it is so nice to get away sometimes.”

Snack time

The Dog has ordered the human to provide some of his favourite snack so he can bring this to his date tomorrow. He is also seriously considered a bath, but on that account no decision is yet taken.

The Dog said: “I really like all my friends here at home, but they don’t really understand me. This Lady Dog though, I think she understands me.”

Charming pigs

Today we had visitors, and the Pigs being pigs, did their best to charm them. They sat, shaked trotters and even laid down. The Pig school seems be working out.

The Chief Cat said: “It is disgusting! Pleasing guests? The guests are here to please us!”

Yet another definition of hot

Cat a sleep, cat a sleep, cat a sleep.

Lizard is walking by, tail intact.

Cat continues to sleep, cat continues to sleep, and cat continues to sleep.

The Model Cat said: “zzzzZZZZzzzzzZZZZZzzzzZZZZzzzzz”

Living from Mars

During a full property inspection a new life form was discovered. A thorough investigation showed that the new inhabitant is of the more silent type. Still, it is not being trusted quit yet, so he will be watched carefully.

Number of eggs today: 2

Weather forecast

The heats continue as the sun likes to be naked.

The Dog recommends you to stay calm, very calm.

August 4th

Playdog

Today the dog brought the human to a shelter for dogs. There were so many dogs there, but off course mama wasn’t there. Still he did meet a lovely young lady. She was actually so nice that he said yes to go for a walk with her at Thursday.

The Dog says: “She was cute; I can hardly wait to see her again.”

Awful treatment

The Model Cat was to day quit shocked when he was looked in the living room. How was he then supposed to check the electricians van from top to bottom? Everybody know that this is a very important job. Even though he did his best, the van left before he got back out.

The Model Cat said: “Sometimes I just think that they don’t appreciate all I do around here.”

Summer break

Last night he summer went for a break. Something about needing a vacation. In the mean time we were the victims of a very cold night. For the first time in weeks the temperature 16 was observed.

The Primadonna Cat said: “It was almost chilly. I had to sleep on the humans legs to keep warm.”

Top security

After yet another break in the hen house, where the Thief (Pig) even had the balls to fell a sleep with his noose in the feeder. A security consultant was contacted. This resulted in the lower part of the door being boarded up. So the Thief Pig had no other choice than to show off his jumping skills. Another board was added, and the Thief Pig went to sulk in his own pen.

The Escape Hen said: “I quit like this new arrangement. It was getting a bit boring to escape when the door was always open. This way at least I have a SMALL challenge. I think it was all done for me actually.”

More hugs

The Peacecat trying to shear everybody up with hugs did today learn an important lesson. Hugs are all nice and cuddly, but never stand between a pig and his next meal. The Peacecat got his fur got all smeared while the Chief Pig tried to walk over him.

The Model Cat said: “He means it so well, but sometimes a hug is not the answer.”

Good news

For the first time after his mother death had his: “Juhu! It is food dance”. Not that he actually ate all his food, but it is definitively a step in the right direction. Nobody eat much in these hot days anyway.

The Dog said: “For a moment there I remembered something about being happy.”

Number of eggs today: 3

Weather forecast

After a cold night the heat is back, and it looks like it will stay that way for a while.

The Dog recommends that you hurry back to the shadows, (If you ever left them, that is.)

The life and death of a true legend

The God Mother Dog Pilota was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth.

This is how her story goes.

One day this lady was driving to her summer house. On her way she passed this dog running around in the middle of the road. When she went on driving she kept thinking on this dog, and finally she stopped, turned around and drove back. The dog brought her to another dog, and this dog had a small puppy, Pilota.
The Lady was very proud of how good she was to animals, so she put them in her car and brought them to the nearest village. When nobody knew them at the local bar there, she thought: “Well, why don’t I let them live at my summer house?” So that was what she did. She brought them to her Summer House where they stayed all the time and she was there in the weekends. Thank heavens she loved animals as much as she did, and it wasn’t too bad either, to be able to tell her friends back home that: “Oh I have dogs, I rescued them myself. There is no life for them here in the city though, so I have them at my summer house where my servants take care of them.” There was only one flaw in that; she did not have any servants.
Pilota though was a surviver! She was born without toes on her right back paw, but that did not slow her down one bit. She grew up thinking it was normal to live in an old chicken house. In the weekends they had company and the rest of the weeks the neighbours and a man in the village gave them something to get by with. Everybody on the hill knew her, and when she grew up she loved to run around at the hill, sometimes for days at end. She always returned though. Her mother died not that long after they arrived, but she and her father kept going. Pilota had never lived inside and the fact that she was covered with ticks and fleas, well wasn’t that just the way it was suppose to be?
Pilota was not sterilized so she started to have kids on her own. Pilotas lack of toes was most likely a sign that her parents were related. She lived together with her father and he was most likely to be her kids father as well. They did not survive. Pilota was a wonderful mother the neighbours have told us, but not even she could fight the combination of malnutrition, lack of a proper shelter, the parasites that crawled all over them and most likely having the same dad and grandfather. They all died, one after the other. The Good lady of the house, well she liked puppies, so Pilota wasn’t sterilized. She was a good catholic, and if God wanted the puppies born, that was what he wanted.
The Good lady of the house stopped to arrive. According to her daughter that was because she got seriously ill and died. Which is true. In accordance to our neighbours (also known as her servants) she stopped coming before she got ill. She stopped coming because she got herself a new summer house. This summer house was off course much more interesting than the home to some dogs.

The Good lady died. Immediately afterwards her daughter arrived to collect everything she found remotely interesting. The house was totally emptied out, expect for one thing; the dogs. Who wanted some old moth-eaten dogs anyway?
At this time Pilota was about 8. Than a miracle did happen. She continued to have puppies as normal, but this time one of them survived. Erbie had arrived. Pilota loved him. Off course his head did not really evolve as fast as it should do, and the lack of proper nutrion and all the parasites have made his bones a little weak and his head stopped at the age 2. This did not matter though, because Pilota was there to take care of him, and that she did. She took al the decisions for him, and well most of the thinking as well. For Erbie she was just the life itself.
The years went by. The father died, but Pilota had learned how to take care of her family of 2.

One day when Pilota was in her 16th year and Erbie in his 8th these new humans arrived. They did not arrive alone either, they brought CATS! They arrived to find the dogs looked in a stable. According to the amount of fiches they had done so for several months. They broke into the stable and let the dogs out. Or what was left of the dogs. They were very ill. Pilota herself was missing over half of her fur.
It was not love at first sight. The dogs did not trust any humans anymore, and these humans had cats as well. Pilota was also very ill. She could hardly breath and all her energy was used scratching. No way had they wanted to be touched by the humans. In the morning they walked up the road and stayed there all day, until went to bed again in the evening. Erbie moved about a little more, but Pilota was completely knackered after only a couple of meters.
Nobody thought she was going to make it through the first days, but Pilota had a son to take care of so she wasn’t about to leave.
The humans fell in love with the dogs the second day. They had left them some sausages to eat, but Pilota was too tired to go and get it herself. Therefore Erbie took the biggest one and carried it up to his mum, than he got back and ate the smallest one himself.
It took the cats 2 weeks to be in control of the dogs. It took the humans 3 weeks before them where able to touch them at all, and that was just because they went and hide in a storage room. Erbie was so frighten that he pied himself.
The vets came and saw to them every 2nd day, as having them in a car was unthinkable. The Humans removed over 1000 ticks from each of them, and the vets used 6 weeks before the dogs was declared well enough to vaccinated. Pilota also has a terrible old dog smell and breath, but if the human did not believe in expensive dog food before, they did it from than of. That smell went away with in 2 weeks, never to come back!
Pilota was bathed twice before anyone relaized she had a white chest and tummy!
The dogs started to notice that one of the humans walked off everyday, only to return an hour later. So they started to follow. Unfortunately they behaved rather poorly in traffic, so they started to walk on a leash. Needless to say the dogs hated it, but the humans were for once as stubborn as Pilota so the training continued while the cats laughed their buts off. One day the dogs wanted to go in the car as well. So they started to go to the vets instead of the vets coming around.
Their first time in a bar was amazing. They loved it. They where watching the great life in the big world. It was actually so great that they became regulars. Life was absolutely starting to be great, and they both loved it. They even got friendly with the cats. (The cats did not care that she screamed at them every time they had a ca(t)rate session, they knew she did not approve of fighting, so they just went out of her eyesight). Their favourites were long car drives, than going for a walk in a new place to finish it of with a visit to a bar and watch the local life.
They started to become quit well travelled dogs, and went all the way to the Mediterranean. Off course that wa the only place they did not approve of. Pilota never understood why the humans wanted her to have her paws in the water. “Nah” she said, and stubbornly left the beach with the humans attached behind.
In the beginning of her 17th year she broke her paw in a hit and run. Nothing a “small” surgery could not fix. It did persuade her to go into retirement though, especially when she got a uterus infection the month after and went into surgery again. A couple of month after that she needed to have some lumps in her breast removed. It was to see if she was strong enough for the surgery the x-rayed her chest. The vets looked long and hard, checked her collar, looked strange at the humans, and finally said: “Do you know she has been shot?” Poor Pilota had been shot at, and left to fend for herself. Luckily for us she survived. Otherwise her heart was strong, so she had yet another surgery. It did her good as well.
The coldest and longest winter in 40 years arrived. Pilota did not like it one bit, and it broke her spirit a little. She wasn’t interested in going for walks anymore, and Erbie was allowed to go in the car with out her. She stopped barking out messages about what she meant about the other dogs in the village (which is what earned her the name “God Mother Dog” in the beginning). She was still very happy. She did not hear anymore, but that did not matter as her imagination took care of that for her. She sent Erbie out for one ghost hunt after the other, and Erbie did as his mother told him. Mama was always right, end of story.
The pigs arrived, and Pilota took charge. Not like she could trust a piglet to a human, was there?
After the coldest winter the hottest summer arrived. That got to much for the strongest dog ever. She died peacefully the 10th week with over 30 degrees. The last week she looked so content and happy, even there was no question that she was in pain. Thinking about it know we think she knew it was time for her to leave, but she had peace with it. Her son Erbie was finally ready to manage on himself. Hadn’t she trained him to take walk and go in the car with out her perhaps?

We are quit sure that Pilota left us because she knew we where all finally ready to manage at our own. Otherwise she would have stayed on regardless of how tired she was. She could live on will alone.
Pilota we miss you so much! You will always be in our hearts.
Thank you so much for letting us live with you.

August 1st

Life goes on

The God Mother Dog has left us and we miss her like crazy.

But as the expression says: The life must go on!

Death may have paid us a very unwelcome visit but the rest of us are still alive, doing the best of what we have left. It is not easy, but we will get there some how.

The God Mother Dog liked to be in control, and she usually got what she wanted.

The last week of her life we could see she was in pain, but at the same time she was looking so content. We all thought it was because she was getting better.

Than she left us in the middle of the night, the day before the male human was off to travel for work. Like she wanted to spend as much possible time as possible with us, and knew she was not able to wait until he got back.

Thanks to the neighbours next door we got her buried before he left and she is now resting under a nice tree, watching over her beloved home and valley.

Around we go!

To get away from it all the New Chief Dog (her son, earlier known as “Mamas Boy Dog” ) has been travelling a lot. He has even gone all the way to the airport. There he charmed the staff, and they insisted he went in and instead of hanging about outside. That was way to hot for him they claimed. Italy is a sensible country, so off course he was allowed in.

Next to the airport he has also been down by the river, a couple of bars, and even found our where there is a dog shelter. Just in case he wants a new friend one day.

The New Chief Dog says: “I have booked some cars.”

Jumping in the river

Yesterday the New Chief Dog brought the human down to the river. There they watched all the little fishes, the tracks of herons and also tracks of what were believed to be wild boar. The New Chief Dog even went out in the water.

The New Chief Dog says: “That was totally planned, it was so not an accident. If Mama had been here, she would tell you so! It is not like I would ever just fell out in the river by accident. HA!”

Definition of HOT

Yesterday evening to Gentlemen in stripes (the Model Cat & the Chief Cat) was observed observing something. Closer investigation showed they where watching a tiny mouse. They were not hunting it though, more the other way around. Every time the mouse walked up against one of them and stood on his tiny back feet and squealed at them, they jumped back. Once he tried to hide under the Chief Cat, but the Chief Cat than remembered he was very very late for an appointment somewhere else.

The Primadonna Cat said: “OH NO! This is just so embarrassing, complete and utterly embarrassing!”

Hugs anyone?

The Peacecat was a very close friend of the God Mother Dog and is trying to comfort her son as much as possible. This is done by walking up close to him and try to give him a huge hug. He also tried to persuade him to sleep with him in the dog’s bed. He could even sleep under the pillows so that her Son could visualize his mum. Still the New Chief Dog refused.

The Peacecat says: “It is a work in progress. The God Mother Dog tried to resist my hugs in the beginning she to. He will come around. A proper hug (or preferable a lots of hugs) is good for him.”

A wake up call

Today the human was dreaming something was stamping on her face. She woke up and so straight in to the beautiful white tummy fur of the Primadonna Cat,

The Primadonna Cat said: “I needed a good tummy scrub, and than the human was a sleep. What else was I supposed to do?

A day off

The Hen Department has taken a day off, and will not be laying egg today. This is a result after yesterday incident where an egg was laid with out a proper shell.

The Spokesshen said: “This was so shocking that we needed some time out to think about it. Off course we have heard the tails and stories, but we never thought it should happen to any of us.”

Thank you all!

We would all like to thank all of you for being so kind and understanding regarding the loss of our Pilota. It has ment a lot to us and really made it so much easier for us.

Number of eggs today: 0

Weather Forecast

After a heavy rain shower last evening the weather today is almost refreshing. Around these parts 25 degrees is considered cold 10 am.

The Dog recommends you to try to enjoy it if you can. He sure can’t.