Officially ours! - July 2013

We are pleased to announce that we have notified the District Council that we are keeping Twiglet and they are happy for us to do so, so it is official!  He is microchipped, vaccinated, insured, and ours!!!  Be have subsequently met so many people who witnessed him running around the village chasing other dogs months and months ago, so are delighted that he is now part of our family.

Twiglet does uninvited dock diving! - July 18th 2013

Came home from work and decided to get my swimwear on and go for a dip in our garden frame pool while there was no one around! Was lying on a semi deflated barbie lilo with my eyes closed enjoying the solitude when I heard whining. I opened my eyes to see that Twiglet had, like a mountain goat, climbed up a series of planters and was there, bright-eyed and ready perched on the highest plant pot!  He had a true dock-diving glint in his eyes!  With visions of it all going very pear shaped I intercepted the forthcoming leap into the pool and helped him in for a swim.  I then had to get both of us out of the pool safely. We achieved this with no elegance whatsoever only to find Harry at the bottom waiting for his turn.!! Dock dogs through and through! 

Twiglet has now moved from the Special Dog training class into Novice where he is doing really well.  His off-lead recalls are pure comedy due to the speed and enthusiasm involved and we are now walking him with the other dogs off-lead without incident!  We haven't even chased any rabbits.  Twiglet now looks really well - all his fur has grown back, his ears are repaired, he is a healthy weight, with bundles of energy and enthusiasm for life! 

Twiglet Goes Dock Diving - 7th July 2013

Off we went to All About Dogs Southend-On-Sea with all 3 dogs to compete at Dock Dogs.  As Twiglet's experience of being with Elvis and Harry has led him to believe that all dogs jump into the water, it came as no surprise that parking our caravan next to the Dock Dogs pool created huge excitement!  He has now watched Harry and Elvis train, compete, and win 2 competitions and quite rightly felt that it was time for him.  George took him up on the Dock with a tennis ball.  Twiglet barked and leapt about, got to the end of the dock, looked down and stopped.  Oops - I think it was higher than he thought!  We took him onto the ramp, dropped the ball in, and let him make his way down the ramp to retrieve it in his own time.  This, we repeated throughout the weekend until we decided to let him watch Elvis jump from on top of the dock.  This was it - Twiglet, leapt off the ramp with gusto and retrieved his ball.  George then took him onto the dock where he ran down the dock, put the breaks on at the end, and leapt from a standing start!!  Brilliant!!  Harry has always just jumped off the dock - his first jump was about 18 ft and he has won all competitions in the UK this year, but Elvis started the Twiglet way, with tentative 8 ft jumps from standing and now jumps 19 ft plus!!!  George entered Twiglet into a wave (competition) and he (Twiglet) jumped 9 ft 4".  What an achievement. We are now a 3 dock diving dog family!!!