Karen, not boring, but I have to admit to a tiny giggle as I imagined it! I am ashamed and guilty about it and beg forgiveness....oh shoot! there was another one!!!!!

I used to walk four to six dogs at a time (Greyhounds) and my sister came to visit for a few days I thought nothing of giving her three - oooops! They turned into dervishes!! The Beagle behind the French doors that always greeted our passing by bringing itself to the very edge of a coronary and had always been ignored with haughty disdain was suddenly, apparently, a bunny that needed to be brought down at all costs! My poor sister found herself being dragged on her stomach up and down the lawn of our only neighbours for miles around. The neighbours, very helpfully, thought this was the funniest thing they had ever seen and called more and more family members to the windows so they could enjoy it too. The four dogs I had, meanwhile, refused to have any part of it and stood as if all was well with the world. I, to my shame, stood with them, trying to work out why this had happened as my sister continued her, very fast, trips up and down the French windows. It was only stopped when the owner of the house came out to help as he was worried about the mud slide developing on his lawn. My sister was fine, just a few scratches on her tummy from twigs on the ground and some rather deeper scratches on her back where the dogs had to run over her. Several years later she even began to speak to me again. (I was about fifteen at the time and nothing like that has ever happened again because of what I learned that day. It was one of those Eureka!! moments.) She never let go of the dogs because she says all she could think of was how angry and upset I would be if she let go!!! Awwwwwww!

Paddy gets what I call "real dog time" at least every other day. I hate this as it should be every day. When Foot and Mouth hit us we were very restricted on free running space for dogs ( and people). Our part of the Country is open again and he has at least two hours at a time where his only constraint is that I know where he is and several recalls - other than that he is free to do his own thing. He also has a short reinforcement of basics and goes for a quick run in the woods every day. I groom him myself every day too.