Packlove!

Earl now has his own profile on Packlove, a wonderful site for dog owners to join their dog up with the rest of the pack! You can set up a profile with as much or as little information on as possible. Your dog will fall in their breed catagory, and you can sit back, sigh and look on as your dog joins the pack! Your dog can also join if he/she is a crossbreed or an unknown crossbreed.

To join and make your dog(s) a profile of their own on Packlove, you will need to request an invite from someone who is already a member, and has some, and are giving out, some invites to the site.

I HAVE 12 INVITES FREE - IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE ONE PLEASE ASK!!!

It is simple to create a profile for your dog - and then you can sign in and 'love' all your friend's dogs as well! You can edit your dog's profile at anytime! Ask for an invite now and join!!

Please love Earl on his Packlove profile at - http://packlove.com/earl-1

Thank you!

Earl and I.

Earl's Great Escape...

As you've probably guessed by the title of this entry, Earl escaped the other day. Since the fence between ours and our neighbour's garden blew down, we have been wary about him being outside unsupervised. We went out with his for ages at first whilst work was being done to build up new panels replacing the hole, however, we finally gained trust in Earl not to wander off and let him outside by himself, whilst we watched here and then to make sure he hadn't escaped. He never did at first. But the other morning, my mum said she found Earl in our neighbours flower beds, so all his independence drained and he was back to being supervised AT ALL TIMES!!!

Anyway, the part of the real action comes now... I came home from school and whilst I was changing from my uniform, Earl was outside with my mum watching him. She was having a phone chat at the time, and nipped out of the room to fetch something, Earl unsupervised. In this time, he snook out! I realized, when I was changed, he was gone, so both me and my mum called and called, inside and outside, his name, but he didn't come. I was worried now, as I'd checked my neighbour's garden now too, stepping just inside and calling Earl. He didn't come - he was nowhere!

Now I raced up the garden and shouted him from the gate, an I heard his tag on his collar rattling back and forth somewhere close, but he was out of sight. I couldn't bare it! Then I heard my neighbour tell my mum at the bottom of the garden, that Earl was out the front and wandering. With this, I saw the locked gate and with no second thoughts, dived over the gate landing on the other side, running towards the road. That's when I heard Earl's tag again; I peered round my neighbour's side fence and I saw Earl, trying to get to me, pacing up and down and looking up at the top of the fence, obviously responsing to my call.

I told him a firm 'wait, you wait...' and I ran towards the path and over the small wall into my neightbour's front garden, grabbing Earl's collar and scooping him up into my arms. With this we went back over the wall and round to my front drive, where my neighbour and my mum were, talking about how my neighbour had left the front gate open because he was gardening, and Earl must have escaped out of there!! I was sooooo suppperrrr relieved to have Earl back - what if I hadn't noticed he was missing??

My mum, held a packet of treats to rattle to get Earl back, just in case he had wandered further and we had had to go on a trek to bring him home... I didn't give him a treat though because he'd just escaped of course!

So that was Earl's great escape, and I have him in my arms once again.......

......... But no way! Today, he just escaped again.............................................

He's luckily back, and can't go out now unless I'm with him all time. He's such a naughty boy!

Earl and I.

Fings For Fido in the Post.

The other day me and Earl recieved a suprise is the post! It was a large box that was totally unexpected! When we opened it, I realized I had won a competition in a dog magazine and had won a Fings For Fido box! It included so much for Earl, his eyes were bright  and he was raring to get his paws on the stuff; haha!

Below is a picture of the FFF box we recieved! And one of Earl smiling hugely for the camera whilst enjoying the stuffed lips that were included in the box!:

Fings For Fido.

Earl's lips grew in an instant ;)

We reccomend subscribing to them - one each month would be lovely!! Even though me and Earl will not be doing so, as if we did, the house would belong to Earl's many toys haha!

Until next time,

Earl and I.

Earl's poor case...

On Thursday (25th April 13) and at team agility classes, Earl was acting rather strange bless him, and refusing to do the agility courses. So, after he finally did do a round, everyone agreed that something was definately up. So we took him straight home and he was quite quiet. It was such a worry-ful night of worry-ful sleep and non sleep, and such a terrible worrying day with stomach lunges just in case Earl wasn't well back home, working hard.

At the end of the day, luckily, he'd been himself, phew!! We took him to the vets anyway to get him checked over. The vet couldn't find anything serious, but just in case he'd overdone intense excersise, he was given some agility days off, and for 5 days, some anti-inflamatory steriods tablets.

He is acting fine today, MOST LUCKILY, but still seems a little confuzed of why he can't play play play! I took him for a gentle little walk (at first he was unenthusiastic but got into the swing of things after about 1 min and a half luckily) and we have gently trained, and played fun, but very gentle stimulation games.

Anything for Earl's health.

Earl and I.

New Toys!

Well, today I came back from a hard working day and was suprised but delighted to see two very bright tennis balls that my nannie had bought for me and Earl! They both smell of mint and are supposed to freshen the dog's breath! Earl loves them to bits and we've already had a big big play with them in the garden already today!! It was lovely and be both adored it like we always do!

Here they are (and a few of Earl!):

Note: the other tennis ball is in my hand in this picture, see Earl's face waiting!

Wating again, with his new balls behind him :))

 

Above you will see Earl's orange ball, then the last one is one of his new balls!

 

Its lovely to play with your dog, and watch them making a new toy(s) officially their own - Earl did this by rolling on his haha!!

 

Hope you enjoyed!

 

Earl and I.