In 2014 we adopted a dog called Skye. She was described to us as loving and affectionate to other dogs, people and other animals and was able to walk brilliantly on a lead. When we got home we found her to be hyperactive, unpredictable, anxious, impulsive, reactive, destructive and near on impossible to walk. There… Read More »
This stage of the West Highland Way lent itself quite well to having dogs, our two dogs in particular. I’d decided on walking the first 7.5 miles with Morse. This was partly because I felt he would cope with the distance better and at the very start of the walk I’d at least have the… Read More »
It seems like years ago when I randomly decided to walk the West Highland Way with Skye. It seemed like a fitting adventure for a dog who wasn’t able to be walked off-lead for the first couple of years. Between September 2019 and March 2020 we put in a fair bit of training. I’d come… Read More »
Yesterday we lost our wee man. He had woken up as normal, had his first lot of pills, followed me around a bit while I tended to our other animals and ate his breakfast. I noticed that something seemed up when I came to give him his second lot of pills, he didn’t take them… Read More »
I’m probably bias but Skye looks fucking great in her pirate bandanna.
Jake got caught out investigating the contents of a shopping bag today. No matter how ill he gets you’ll always find him in the kitchen when the food shop is brought in.
There’s one section of the West Highland way that was concerning me somewhat. The stretch between Rowardennan and Inverarnan is 15 miles over various sections of rough path. I had to see what it was like before Skye and me attempted it for real. Stewart had taken Jake and dropped me off at the starting… Read More »
On the 5th January we traveled to Ayrshire to watch two young seal seals being released into the wild, of course we had to bring Skye and Jake.Jake enjoyed a little pootle on the beach and Skye had a good dash and jump around with Stewart.
Now get that in ma bowl!
The SSPCA were holding a fund raiser, we couldn’t resist having Jake and Skye’s photo taken with Santa.