Ally also loves to chase bugs, but her favourite is Gheckos!!!

We get loads of them here. The funniest thing is when they climb accross my bathroom window (on the outside). Ally paws at them and tries to catch them! Silly girl - she is convinced that one day Mr Ghecko will make a mistake and run accross HER side of the window!

Her other amusement at the moment is the birds nesting in the Air Con outside my study (I'ts one of those old-fashioned "box" ones, set into the side of the house, and every summer birdie nest down in the gap between the AC and the wall). Ally sits on my bookshelf with her little nose pressed to the wall for HOURS - I think that she thinks "one day they will make a mistake and be on my side of the wall".


Reminds me of my RB Ridgeback Fiona. She used to chase birds around the garden, but was too big and clumsy to catch any! Then one day she DID catch one - it was obviously someones pet which had escaped, and didnt have much survival instinct. The FUNNIEST thing was that, after ALL these YEARS of chasing birdies, Fiona had NO IDEA what to do when she caught it - she just sat in the garden with a really DUMB expression on her face, and her eyebrows all wrinkled up in surprise!

(We got the birdie off her, and our vet sorted it out and re-homed it - for such a HUGE dog she was so gentle with it - it was hardly injured!)