Daffodils

I am now officially 5 months old! Happy birthday to me. I am also now 25.6 kg. I'm not quite sure how tall I am, but I am much bigger than Leo these days. I can't believe how small I used to be. I could drive Leo's car! (Look at me on the right when I was about 9 weeks old). Now I can't fit in it at all. But he doesn't really want me to these days since I chewed it underneath ... just a little. He was not happy about that, but it's being fixed!

This morning I watched "Bewitched" on the television and I am certain that the dog that was on today was an Otterhound or cousin. He was smaller than the Otterhound grown-ups I know, but his tail went up in the air like a flag (like mine!) and he had long ears, and a wiry coat. But I'm sure he was an Otterhound or an Otterhound relation, because he could also talk. He said "I want Perfect Pizza too."

I am growing out of collars as well. So I got a new one for my "birthday" (well, 2 collars actually). I have a new brown rolled collar (so it doesn't mess my hair) which I don't quite fit yet so I have a black one in the meantime. But I don't wear my collar all the time, just when going out, like to the park. Speaking of which, Leo and I were in the park today smelling daffodils. I met a very nice lady on the way who wanted to know what sort of dog I am. Leo gets a bit irritated by this as he used to get all the attention and now they ignore him or call him a poodle, which I think rather infuriates him (or worse, they call him a Labradoodle). But he is a Bedlington!

You can probably see that I am quite a bit bigger than he is now. But he is still much faster so for games we are pretty evenly matched. The good thing about the park today is that there has been a bit of rain, so it was really good and muddy. There was also such a large puddle I could get my paws properly wet. I fell over loads of times when we were chasing, so now I smell like a pot plant. Yummy!

But I did get to smell the daffodils. They are my first daffodils and apparently it means spring is finally here. That sounds promising. I've heard there's a dog pond in Hampstead Heath so we are going to investigate soon!

Anyway, after lots of play we met a very handsome 12 year old Afghan Hound called Max and his friend. I'm embarrassed to say I don't know his friend's name as I was distracted at the time by a group of teenage boys standing in a circle talking about the girls at school (not very nicely! I think girls are much nicer than that!). So I went and sat in the middle of their circle as they seemed like the sort of people I could convince to be my followers in a pack. But I don't think they got it and I was "retrieved". I do like things that stand in circles though.

On the way back we met some more dogs and chatted again for a while, including a very pretty Corgi who really wanted to play ball. I really wanted the Cardigan Corgi to win at Crufts. She is an endangered breed like me! And she really was rather beautiful.

Anyway, on the way back we met a lady who knew Leo was a Bedlington and fussed over him. Which seemed to make him very happy indeed. And then we bumped into two of his favourite neighbours (two little Miniature Schnauzers), and they had a little play.

We got home just before it started to rain and rain, so I settled down with some doggie treats and continued to eat my family out of house and home. It's amazing how tiring running around after Leo in the park can be. All I want to do now is snooze!