MORE furry things, scary sparkly things and a little bit of an adventure......

Well, as always, life is busy for me here in Sri Lanka. Paws, Ivy, Benson and I are living happily with “her indoors” at the volunteer house and like it quite a lot. We have a variety of new admirers that regularly turn up just to see us. Some of them even bring presents for us to demolish – err, I mean play with. We also, unfortunately, get other doggy imposters turning up to stay with us, luckily they go to their new homes quite quickly so we do not have to share for long. Betty was one of those, she was very small and seemed to like helping “her indoors” with the housework, anyway, she has gone to live with her very own “her indoors” now, do not tell anyone but I quite missed her when she left, she was alright for an imposter.

Betty does the housework.

Paws muscles in on one of MY admirers.

One morning, we were minding our own business when suddenly, from nowhere, three things flew over the fence. On investigation I was disgusted to find that they were those furry purry scary things. I specifically asked never to have to spend any time with those things again, yet here they were, wandering about in our garden. Her indoors got them quickly as Benson was looking quite hungry. She took them to the sanctuary and I am very pleased to say, I have not had to have anything to do with them since.

LOADS of furry purry scary things, far far too many.......

Sometimes, “her indoors” goes and stays at the sanctuary with all the other dogs - I let her do that, it is good to share - and leaves us here with one of the admirers. One night, “her indoors” had gone and one of the admirers came back, I thought she had left “her indoors” outside so I shot out the gate to look, I ran up and down the road but “her indoors” was nowhere to be found. Suddenly, I realised that I had run too far and decided to come home, I could not get home though! Every turn I made there were naughty street dogs snarling at me, chasing me and confusing me, I could not find my way home and was very scared so I ran and ran. The next day, I was still trying to find my way home when a man found me, he thought I was very handsome so he picked me up and put me in a cage, he said he was going to keep me. He gave me some rice and curry which I did not like, I do not think he knows about Pedigree Chum. I waited and waited, hoping “her indoors” would arrive but still she did not come. I was very scared and very sad, how would I ever get home? I did not sleep a wink that night, strangely the man said he and his family did not either, something had kept them awake, I did not hear anything, I was too busy shouting. The next day, the mans sister came and saw me, she said I was famous – I could have told her that – she said I was on a poster in the local town and “her indoors” was trying to find me. Anyway, the man who put me in a cage phoned “her indoors” then he let me out the cage. I was running up and down the road, wondering which way to go when suddenly, I heard a voice calling my name, it was “her indoors” !! I raced up the road and jumped right up in the air and kissed her a lot, strangely, her eyes looked all odd and puffy, not sure what was wrong but I think she was quite pleased to see me. I screamed and screamed, trying to explain to her where I had been and what I had been doing, however, I had shouted so much the night before that I had lost my voice, luckily I have found it again now. When I got home, Paws shouted at me a lot, blimey, she was like a nagging wife, I tried to explain it was not my fault but she chased me round the house telling me off, I think she thought I had been out at the local bar or something, huh, these girls do not understand what we go through. I had a very big dinner and went to bed with “her indoors”, she seemed quite tired too, not sure why, I was the one that had been running up and down the roads all night shouting.

I was a bit tired.......

Her Indoors was quite pleased to see me!

I was a bit poorly after my adventure, lots of little things had bitten me so I had to go and see the needle man. There, once again, I encountered the furry purry scary things, really, enough now, I have asked, prayed, begged and shouted but nobody listens, they still keep coming into my life.......

It was quite exciting going to see the needle man, I got to go in a big red box with wheels, I liked it, I could see all the other dogs on the road and shout at them but they could not get me, I shouted at them a lot and felt very big and important.

I AM big and important.

We have got a thing called Christmas, have you got one?

I am not sure about the Christmas business, everything was fine when suddenly there was a thing in the house, a flashing thing, I barked at it for ages and every time “her indoors” tried to show it to me I ran away. I have sort of got used to it now but more of these Christmas related things keep appearing, one minute they are not there and then they are, one of my admirers put some of these things up and seemed to find it amusing that I noticed, these humans have no idea just how intelligent I am, bright shiny things are suspicious, Paws, Ivy and Benson do not notice them but I do, I keep barking at them when they move but they are not going away........... Hmmm, will keep my eye on them and watch what they do, if they keep twinkling though I may have to try and eat them.

Hmmm, I am watching you twinkly things.

Anyway, wherever you are, whoever you are, whatever you are doing I wish you a Christmas free of sparkly scary things and send you lots of love for a Happy New Year – whatever one of those is, “her indoors” said it so it must be something important.

Love and Christmas licks, FF xx