Yo Wynken and oxo

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I enjoyed our thread of yesteryear.

Wanted to hear how you were going with your lovely dogs.

Hellooooo, was just typing to you on the other thread! How old is Elsie now and I need a new coat as am shrinking and will need to tie it in with Muckboots, whistle etc !

saw your other post.

elsie has two weeks left of being a puppy

She is a star, an absolute star.

i also need a new coat and saw an add in my camping and caravanning magazine featuring advertising angle of pockets big enough for dog biscuits and promise to keep them dry. I was duly swayed.

why are you shrinking?

How is pog and the sniffing with cones business?

She isn't nearly a year is she That has gone hideously quickly.

We haven't been doing much with the scent cones bit now she is 18 months she can do agility so DD has been turning the living room into an arena and teaching her to jump. As soon as the weather improves I'll send them both to a class.

Am shrinking as am finally sticking to a diet and exercising properly. In July I was still the same weight I was on the first ever thread in the Big whatisname section, which was when DS was a baby, he's 7 now! Still have a way to go but am nearly 3 stone lighter, helped by Plog walking and allotment digging.

I'm worried about having pockets for dog treat as my friend's lab launches herself at you and rifles through pockets and it flipping hurts ! I also need something longer as my legs get cold but not too expensive as will continue shrinking.

Oh yes, saw your thread on camping but didn't have chance to reply. If you go through Luxembourg and want to do Germany, we go to a lovely area with water filled volcano craters for swimming, lots of forest and the Nurburgring if anyone is into that, it's lovely (though we are wusses and don't camp )

Agility sounds lots of fun. I'm still not sure whether tom have a stab at some gun dog training with else.

I won't link you the coat I've seen as it's £170. I did get a really long coat from a riding shop. Went right down over the tops of my wellies. It look quite sloaney but kept me dry, well it did until I left it on a train . Well done on the weight loss, the dog walking helps doesn't it.

Where is this fab sounding place with volcanoes for swimming in?

Actually, please link it, I need something to aim for next winter, nightmare about your other coat. I thought about Gundog training but somehow I am the mother of a 12 year old so think agility would be great for her. She got Dotty jumping over our makeshift jumps really quickly using the clicker training so I think they will both enjoy it. One day she will be calm enough to be a PAT dog, she will !

Place in Germany is here. You might need a wild boar plan though ! We were on our way back from somewhere following a very small road and stopped for a picnic, car parked at top of small track against a back drop of tall fir trees. Picnic blanket laid out with DH and I enjoying lunch, almost like a car ad for the Toyota Verso, apart from two children sitting roasting in the
car, windows firmly shut in case of wasps. DH and were laughing at them when DD wound the window down and shouted 'I saw signs for Wild Boar not far back'. Haven't ever packed up so fast in my life ! We didn't see any thank goodness but did see an Eagle taking off from a field which was great to see. I'd love to take Plog as she'd have the time of her life but gets car sick after an hour so that's out.

this is the coat

I must have seen the without VAT price. a friend of mine had one on the other day. It looked very smart and the fabric felt really nice, well as nice as waterproof coat fabric can feel. She was telling me you can put a pin in it (my mind went immediately to brambles) and it stays waterproof. Something about it being designed like a water loving creatures fur, with two layers.

It comes in other colours. The lentil is a bit too.... Pooey.

Thanks so much for the Germany link. Wild boar picnics sound verynexciting (even without a sighting)

I like the concept of the wired peak hood so you can see where you are going and can do the whole monitoring distance for cows and wild boar at ease. It does look very good, it can be my get off backside and shift weight incentive coat, though agree about the lentil bit. Am off to walk Plog and could do with that now , it's horrible out and very cold, will need to do my dog walking hat and hope I don't bump into anyone I know !

Bathed her yesterday, what's the betting she finds some fox poo to roll in .......

heh heh

It's one of the best bits of dog ownership that when you assmeble your warm and waterproof and wellies/walking boots ensemble with socks over the trousers look the dog doesn't go "wtf have you got on you mismatched freak? I'm not going out with you dressed like that"

We had an incident with extremely deep cow poo yesterday. House is still most fragrant despite several hosings down of Elsie.

Coat as goal is a good one. I have my christmas weight to shift so may use that as an incentive too

Cow poo, oh dear ! I bought some Tap a Drop recommended on here which has definitely helped with less than fragrant household aromas. Didn't go in the woods today but Madam found some fox poo, she likes to rub her ears in it

Was quite impressed with her earlier, DD has been teaching her to sit in Japanese (don't ask) and she was doing it. Then she started messing about with wanting to go in and out and I fell down several stairs in the process, hurting my back. Since then she has been a flipping nightmare and I was contemplating offering her to the OP on the Labradoodle thread but I don't think she will have her. DH has put her and the kitten to bed and peace is restored.

Rofl @ sit in Japanese. I'm going to have to ask aren't I. Sorry to hear you fell down the stairs. Hope back is OK this morning.

I love the sound of dh putting dog and kitten to bed like naughty children. "THere is NO bedtime story tonight as you have been very silly. I told you it would all end in tears!"

DD is obsessed with learning Japanese and wants to be a translator. Have found her somewhere from September after her going on about it for ages , whilst secretly thinking flipping heck, learn German , your Grandmother can teach you. Meanwhile she is teaching herself from You Tube and chatters at me in something that may well be Japanese but expects me to know what she is talking about as apparently she has told me. She also expects 7 year old DS to know and now the dog sits, stays and jumps in Japanese. I'm trying to turn this obession into free labour for the allotment as she's not very keen on helping so have ordered her a set of Japanese seeds to plant in the vague hope she will. And then once I've got her there she can help train Plog to be a good allotment dog, whilst I dig, as Plog seems to be scared of the shed atm.

Kitten and Plog really are like two naughty children, which is lovely and annoying depending on what they are doing. They have this system going with the litter tray, Spike poos, Plog eats it if I don't get there in time. Which is fine until she comes and slobbers over you. She's off to dog sitter for a couple of nights if she manages not to eat their catflap like last time.

How old is your dd? How utterly brilliantly bizarre and wonderful to have a child obsessed with learning Japanese (i'm visualising a nine year old here btw, if she's 17 then that's a bit more understandable but still terribly cool)

I just love the vision of her telling the dog to jump in Japanese hahahah

TOTALLY gross wrt plog eating cat poo. Bleurgh

She's just had her 12th birthday, this all started when she was about 10 and seems to be persisting so I must sort her some lessons. It's just not that easy though here in the sticks in Dorset. DS looks at me with mute appeal in his eyes when she starts on him ! I tried what I thought was the sit command out on Plog myself earlier and she looked at me as if I was deranged and this from a poo eating dog, the cheek.

Looks like Oxo has weaned herself of MN then. Shame, would have liked to have known how she was getting on and she could have helped you on your grand camping trip.

oh yes. I forgot she was forrin (sort of).

12 eh? Well I'm dead impressed. Why Japan do you think?

at attempting the Japanese sit. Is there a japanese hand command that goes with it?

Well I tried the Japanese verbal command and she looked at me. Then I tried the usual hand command for sit and she just stood there and looked at me. So all in all that training session was a flipping disaster ! I bet Elsie does what you ask her, I'm sure she'd put Plog to shame these days.

DD and some of her friends got into some of the Japanese films like Spirited away and My Neighbour Totoro which started her obsession interest. Am hoping Agility classes will give her something else to focus on but have never forgotten running round freezing muddy fields during her riding lessons when she was younger so am going to hold off until it is warmer.

Yes good idea to wait for warmer weather.

Elsie's training is still very much a work in progress. I'm still enjoying doing it though despite sardine treat fingers this week.