Saturday 16 April 2011

Tilly - Bitch of Mystery


Hello, Tilly here. You may have seen me in photos looking pretty glum and sad. It’s a look I’ve perfected since puppyhood, guaranteed to win me cuddles galore, toast crusts, bits of banana and anything else that takes my fancy.


I’m not like Indy with his tummy troubles. I have a cast iron constitution, well except when it comes to leftover pizza, but perhaps I was wrong to help myself from the bin, but I was right to wake her up in the middle of the night or she’d have had a disaster on her hands or at least the bedroom floor.


No one forced her to run across the garden in bare feet to stop me drinking from the bird bath…


Anyway I’ve no idea why she’s a bit off with me today. It’s not my fault if they put food in the bin is it?


So my brother. They named him Indy after Indiana Jones because being a springer spaniel, they thought he’d have an adventurous spirit.


Yeah right! I wasn’t around for all of his early months, but Oakley has whispered a thing or two about my brother. Not so much Indiana Jones as Corporal Jones.

I love Oakley.


He’s my hero.





You should have seen Indy when I got into the bin. Did he help eat the spoils? Did he heck. He ran upstairs and hid on the landing and kept muttering, “Don’t panic, don’t panic,” whilst panicking profusely.


We went for our usual walk yesterday, played ball and got hot. He usually gets the ball. I tend to let him get to it first after the time we bashed heads and the world wouldn’t stop spinning.


Anyway, hot spaniel, cool, smelly, full-of-rotting-vegetable-matter ditch – in I went.

“Eurgh! Go away,” Indy said. “You stink. And you’re filthy. I only had a bath last week.”


I shook all over him and he had a hissy fit because a blob of mud landed on his leg.


“That’s it,” he shrieked. “I’m all dirty. Must get clean. Don’t panic, don’t panic!” So he went and jumped in the dyke and had a swim round.


Show off.

“Come in,” he said to me. “The water’s lovely and it’ll clean you up.”


He knows I don’t care for water unless it’s warm, in a bath and full of bubbles.



“Who wants to be clean?” I said. “I am happy as I am.”

And I was. Happy as a happy dog in muck.







This week I was introduced to Poppy.


She’s Oakley’s new little sister.


Everyone said I’d have to be watched, that I don’t know how to relate to other dogs and that I was an unknown quantity.


Bitch of Mystery, that’s me.


Well I thought she was quite cute. I don’t go in for this jealousy lark. It doesn’t bother me if Oakley cuddles up to Mum on the sofa. Indy’s the one who glares daggers at him.


To me Poppy’s just another member of the family, someone to chase under the bushes and fossick round in the crispy leaves with. I think I may have a new best mate.


I can’t wait till she’s big enough to come out on walks and I can show her The Way of the Spaniel. I know all the smelliest, dirtiest ditches in the area and I know them well.


Come with me little Grassmuncher I will say. Embrace the mud, soak up the stink.


Your humans will adore you for it.

14 comments:

  1. Love your dog tales - and nice to see the latest pupster. Life's just one big adventure when you're a dog.

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  2. Ditto what Joanne just said. Thanks for making me smile, Tilly.

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  3. Lovely post, Tilly. And I love all the photographs, too.

    XX

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  4. Lovely hairy tale! I can almost smell the wet dog from here.

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  5. Thank you ladies - between you and me, I'm better at this writing lark than Indy. Actually I'm better at everything. He can't open doors or pedal bins and he can't pull out chairs and use them to climb on the table no matter how often I've tried to teach him. I love adventure I do, almost as much as I love food xxx

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  6. I love these doggy blogs. They make me smile.

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  7. Wonderful and atmospheric. Thank you, Tilly.

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  8. You should write your own book of stories, Tilly, before Indy does!

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  9. Smiles are good, Keith :-)

    Thank you, Joanna.

    Yes, Rosemary I think I should. After all, I've had a more exciting life than him no matter what he might tell you about his "disease" - he's a right old hypochondriac always going on about his health. A book by me would be far less depressing!

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  10. Thank you Tilly for a great start to my week! x

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  11. You're welcome, Sue - I have a much brighter outlook on life than the hypochodriac, I mean Indy. As long as there are bins to raid, smelly ditches to jump in and bird baths to drink from I'm happy :-)

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  12. Have just found your blog - love this post. My golden retriever Flossie writes on my blog under 'Puptales' do come across and meet her!
    I also write there of course but you'd be more interested in her tales I am sure ;-)

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  13. THanks, Deborah - just spent an enjoyable time over on your blog. Loved your post about Grace! Flossie is a sweetie :-)

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  14. Deborah - I've nipped over to read your blog, too. Looks like it's my reading material for the next few evenings. Very enjoyable! Thank you.

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