You would think there is enough Salt in the sand to stop the freeze!

However, here in Devon this last week it has definitely seen a freeze...

Click the image below and enjoy Dottie... ⤵

Shopping time

As you'll know, William used to Love shopping, especially at Pets-at-Home, so it is no surprise that Dottie also loves this shop!

Dottie has been staying with us for a few days and we thought it would be a Treat for her to go into town. So off we trundled and I managed to get a short video clip of her heading for the pet shop....

(click the clip below)...

and a couple of bags of biscuits were soon in the trolley.

The outing must have worn her out...

The visiting pup

When you have a young pup visiting (now Dottie's a One year old), you have to keep her entertained.  We  think her most favourite place is the beach....I do wonder why (haha)...

click the pic below (sorry this is only a short blog today)...

Beach Time

Dottie LOVES the beach, so here's a compilation of clips from the walks.  It does last over a minute, so you may want to skip some of it, otherwise ENJOY her fun.

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Dash to where?

 One of Dottie's favourite walks  (as ever, click the pic below)....

Dottie’s beach run

One very excited little pup.... (I couldn't avoid being in this, Graham was videoing!)

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Rabbit

Sometimes William doesn't even spot the rabbits, but this time one found itself in front of him - it soon made off.  Not that it needed to worry.  Back in the day, William would chase rabbits and amazingly, he would  S-L-O-W   D-O-W-N   giving them the chance to get away!   (We are glad he did that btw).

The other day, he was quite close to one....(as ever click the pic..it's a Very short clip about 11s).

Beach dig

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Slipper issue

Barney has visited and stayed for a sleepover - he's such a happy little lad and, of course, William enjoys the company.  There is, however, one thing that Barney LOVES and that's to get a shoe (or in my case on this occasion my Slipper).  Fine, but getting it back is sometimes a negotiation.  Fairly easily resolved with a TREAT, but until then I do try to 'persuade' Barney to let me have the item back. 

It's okay, I did achieve the Slipper removal - and no, he wasn't hanging onto the slipper because of the sparkly cats, he's like this with any shoe.

This short clip shows how determined he can be - click the pic  ↴

Precious moments

William at his age, 14½, obviously has good days and some not so good days.  We accept that this happens and work around him, we're his Carers after all.   

So when William has "moments" of fun and games, we treasure them.  Here's one such 'moment', albeit short and not terribly exciting, but to us it was an interaction with the elderly chap  - William I'm talking about, not hubby ;)

As ever click the image...

Card sharks

 As ever William gives way and Dottie gets the card!

(click the image)

A little update on William

All is well with William, but a little update nonetheless ....

Yesterday morning, Thursday 24th March, William didn't seem to be himself.  Something was 'off' with him, his balance for one and he seemed to walk slightly crooked, holding his head to one side :((      Yes, we think he had suffered a minor stroke during the night.   We kept him quiet for a couple of hours and let him decide when he wanted to move....which in true William style he did.  

The video below (click the image for it) will show you how well he has done in just a couple, or three, hours.  

Update to today, Friday 25th March, and William looked himself again.  He has been demanding breakfast, pressies, and gone for his walk, and his love of going upstairs onto the balcony for his drink of water - a bowl placed especially for him and refreshed with cold water on demand, of course! 

Yes, he is a little wobbly, but that's to be expected considering his arthritis - oh how his meds help.

At 14½ years, he is doing remarkably well and we are grateful for every day...they are all a bonus.

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William and Dottie's walk together

Thought you may like to see this one.  Our daughter added this little clip via her tiktok account....

...as ever, click the image ↴

Beach time

Okay, it wasn’t long for him on the beach.  In fairness we had just walked around a large seaside car park, then walked down a slope to the sand.  We were concerned in case William over did it and couldn’t make his way back up to the car….so we have to do the decision making and William seemed happy.

In time honoured tradition…click the image below ….

Dottie enjoyed her visit

 …and loved her run on the beach

Storm Eunice

We seemed to be front line with Storm Eunice that hit the UK, particularly the South West with a Red Warning for damage and danger to life, yesterday.  Mostly, people stayed indoors, schools were closed etc but there comes a point when you have to take your dog for a walk.  Towards the end of the storm, Graham plus our daughter Lil and little Dottie ventured out.  Lil captured this small clip of William showing that he can still outpace Graham....you have to watch this through and will see when Graham is actually hurrying to catch up with William....so funny.

(video captured by Lil and Dottie - click the pic below)

On the beach

It was so good to see William on the beach again.  

Of late it hasn't been easy to access the beach, either the tides up or there were too many people/cars around...plus some days William obviously doesn't want to walk too far. .... note: we decide that.  

When he looks a bit rickety on his old leggies, we make the decision that he should take things easy.  Given half a chance, I am sure he would want to hurtle around the sand, like he used to, but keeping him limited is for the best.   

We're so pleased he had so many years of enjoying the running and jumping about in the sea and on the sand, how awful if he hadn't we say.

So this morning he had sand between his paws again, with a quick drink from the stream first...

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Barney couldn't understand this....

No text explanation necessary - I think this short video clip says it all..... just click the image 

Starting the day with a dip

 

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Sorry....I didn't add the video from yesterday's post...

 Hope this works...it's only a few seconds of Barney ...