Thursday, 3 April 2008

Introductions


Hi all.
First post on the blog and this is an introduction.
I am John and Mandy is my partner.
She wanted to have a dog and we got Zelda as a puppy.
We knew a little about Large Munsterlanders and though that this was the dog for us.
A pretty little puppy changed our lives forever. She is related to Satan and is chief tormentor to our other dog Zeb. They seem to love each other and we love them to bits.
Ali has very kindly outlined his story.
We all live in North Lincolnshire in a most rural part and the dogs get to meet all sorts of wildlife.
Zelda has a thing for birds and she thinks if she barks loudly enough they will fall from the sky.
Zeb is into rabbits in a big way and shortly after we first got him he took off attached to me by a good quality extending lead, which snapped. Pitch black, mainly black dog, gone Found him sitting in a garden by a rabbit scrape looking lost and sheepish. Moved on a long way now though.
Their favourite game is to run along a flood levee and leap into a tenfoot (land drainage ditch) which is tidal. When its low its thick mud and this is a particularly sticky toffee type mud which they delight in bringing into the house.
We have hard floors and mops so that is not a problem.
The dogs are our family with the cats and the chickens.
We wake and walk them at 6 a.m. Stimulate them all day long with conversation and games, when they are not sleeping and then they do about 6 to 8 miles in the evening and terrorize the local wildlife.
They are in the family in a big way and at the moment Zeb is on the sofa behind me grumbling because he is getting to warm and Zelda is stealing his chews and Zelda is chewing for all she is worth, on a piece of rawhide.
The lights are burning, the telly is on and the day ends with a peaceful snoring from the slumbering pair.
All is right with the world.