Hello everybody - our first ever posting to a blog, so hope I get this right? Raich & Maud were pups 10 and 2 from Diva's litter in October. They live near Winchester, where Andrew works on a farm full of interesting smells, puddles and dead things (as well as a few hundred black and white cows). They divide their time between our cottage and the Xsara in which they wait whilst Andrew milks, mucks out and feeds the girls he works with. Maud loves playing submarines in any puddle (the muddier the better), whilst Raich (otherwise a thug) just laps at the edges. Stealing from kitchen surfaces and drying racks is a favourtie pastime - best swag so far has been Caroline's Fendi glasses which they totally destroyed. Socks, mail and packaging of all sorts are also fair game. Raich was weighed today - he is 35kg - Maud is 24kg. Maud runs like the wind (chasing swallows is a great game), leaps gates and fences and is the principal thief, she also points beautifully - oh, and fighting with her brother is a daily treat. Raich plods/ lumbers, talks a lot, fights constantly with his sister ('cos it's fun!!) and thinks this is HIS pack.... sorry Raich, but you're booked in to the vet next week. Here's a pre-milking video: Maud had just been for a 'sub' in a particularly large farm puddle, and had enjoyed a fight over something she's found in a field that Raich wanted (something that was once a rabbit, I think)... they are wearing their long leads, in which they get tangled too easily, I think... the reference to the RSPCA is simply because of her bedraggled look (!)
Anyone else out there had a bad reaction to 'Drontal'? R & M reacted badly (she was very sick and they were both "hyper" for several hours after taking the tabs) both times they had it, so we've switched to Panacur instead.
