Big Smiles For Sugar

On Monday, our good friend Sugar The Golden Retriever turned 14 years old! And because she's always smiling, Earl and Ethel decided to smile along with her!

SMILE BIG!

We hope Sugar had a PAWsome BARKday filled with big SMILES!

Arden Grange Crunchy Bites Winners!

Havning recently entered a competition run by Arden Grange to win a big packet of their new MINI Sensitive Ocean White Fish & Potato Crunchy Bites, we were delighted to discover we had won! We then came home from our holiday to find our packet waiting for us! A delicious surprise!

A hungry looking Earl and Ethel!

We send a huge thanks to Arden Grange! Earl and Ethel love them! Also, having recently switched the dogs' food to the Arden Grange Sensitive Ocean White Fish and Potato, we're even more delighted!

We're joining our hosts Kol's Notes and Sugar The Golden Retriever in the Tasty Tuesday Blog Hop. We send many thanks their way, and you can join in below.

My Ingenious Dog

Sometimes I wonder if Ethel is actually a dog. Maybe she's human, or maybe she's something ever brighter? Well, this morning, she definitely made me ponder this thought all over again with her display of sheer intelligence!

The dogs' outdoor toy box does not, and has never, lived in the middle of the garden. It has always lived near the fence, at one side of the garden, under the currently-out-of-use table. It has always lived there, ever since Earl was a puppy. It is also wedged under a wooden step, to be moved by me when I play with them. You see, they have that many toys that if it wasn't wedged down, the garden would be littered with millions of toys, resulting in several human casualties from falls. The lid has also always been hard to open, even with human hands.

So, you can imagine my utter confusion this morning when I looked out of the kitchen window and saw the toy box in the middle of the garden, with Ethel 'casually investigating it'. It was then that my mind became boggled; what I saw was priceless. Ethel had placed one paw firmly on the lid, and was prising the lid carefully open with her mouth. I sometimes struggle to lift that lid, using my human hands. Once the lid came lose, Ethel then picked it up firmly in her mouth, carrying it to the side of the box, and dropped it there. She then went back over to the box and retrieved her favourite toy from it, parading it around the garden with glee.

When I went to investigate where the box should live, the wooden step was on it's side, gravel had been tossed everywhere, and the grass was lined with 'pull' marks. Obviously the work of one very clever pup...

A proud and casual ingenious Ethel.

Oh, and do you know why the box was in the middle of the garden? She'd pulled it there herself, single pawed! And, if you saw my large garden, you'd understand that she'd pulled it a long way. She has strength, willpower, and an incredibly bright mind.

What a show my ingenious dog put on for me this morning!

She'll be opening the fridge soon...!

Does your dog ever impress you with his/her ingenious canine skills?

We're joining our hosts Snoopy's Dogblog, Alfie's Blog and My Brown Newfies in the Monday Mischief Blog Hop. We send many thanks their way, and you can join in below.

Unwinding With A Drink And A Cuddle

What better ways to unwind after a long, hard day of holiday making? If you can give us one, we'd love to hear what it is!

*Slurp*

P.S. Don't worry; Earl didn't actually get any beer!

We're joining our hosts Dachshund Nola and Sugar The Golden Retriever in the Black and White Sunday Blog Hop. We send many thanks their way, and you can join in below.

SS - Sprinkler Fun

Ethel thinks the sprinkler is great fun! Plus, it keeps her nice and cool!

Do your dogs enjoy playing in water features?

We at Earl's World! are delighted to be cohosting the Sepia Saturday Blog Hop alongside Ruckus The Eskie. We send many thanks to our fellow host, and you can join in below.