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October 2007 Our new puppy Dotty Has arrived.....first pictures....
.....................Isn't she wonderful?
Tousie's tales
There was a hedgepig, who was snuffling in the leaves. But his back was covered in prickly spines. It kept on rolling into a ball, and Brae thought that it was some sort of strange ball that he could play with. But it kept on pricking his mouth, so all he did was shout lots. Mum came to see what all the fuss was about and then she made us leave it alone. We carried on walking and came to a big stream, wow that was good fun, we all managed to get our feet wet. The sun had started to go down and it was really time to go home, we were really pleased to see the car, and soon we were in the comfort of our own home and dreaming contentedly of our recent adventure, Braes Brags.
Chloe’s Capers. The day I followed my lead…
It was a lovely hot sunny day, mum decided to take us out with her friend Janette and our 3 Sheltie friends, called Hobo, Rudi, and Skerry. We all got into the car and went to a place behind where my mum works, there she parked the car and off we went. At the end of the track we came across a long straight river, my mum said that it was called the Union Canal, which joins Glasgow to Edinburgh. It was great fun we were all off the lead and were able to sniff all the flowers and say hello to the local butterflies. We seemed to be following this path for ages, when mum decided to cut off from the path, and into this really huge field. We ran and ran and ran. It was so much fun. Skerry (Who is the Black and white Sheltie and my favourite) is getting rather old so half way round the field mum and her Aunty Janette decided it would be best to try and carry scary the rest of the way. First of all they tried to put him in Jeanette’s hood. We went a little way, but it didn’t look that comfy, so mum tried to tie her jacket in a sort of harness that would be able to carry him like human babies. That did not work either. So, he was put back on the ground and we started to make our way slowly back to the car. All of a sudden Mum and Janette were talking about our leads. Where were they? Mum was getting all flummoxed as to where she had put them. In the end it was decided that Janette would sit under the trees with the Shelties as they were beginning to feel really tired, we would go back where we came from and see if we could find the leads. Mum was going to give up and go home without them, but my lead was new and a pretty red colour.
Did you know...?
How to get Mum out of bed. (by Chloe)
I have found the best way to get mum out of her bed is first to pinch her mobile phone, then if she doesn’t respond pinch her hair scrunchy, then if she still does not respond take her glasses, that is a sure way to get her up. Always make sure that you take her toys outside, as it has a better affect. Place all the toys in a neat pile on the patio and sit sweetly next to them, that way you don’t get told off and you will be successful in your mission.
Jump up and down on her, when you see her face make sure that you supply lots of kisses, that way you ensure that you do not get told off. Find your favourite toy and give it to her to play with, but make sure that it is nice and soggy. Sometimes this does not go down too well, and can carry a telling off.
This is one of my favourites, but mum doesn’t think so. If you care reach really high in the kitchen you can get hold of the t-cloth. If you pull really hard you can get it onto the floor and drag it to your water bowl. Just put a corner into the bowl and it sucks up all the water. When you think it is wet enough just drag it to where she is sleeping and put it on her face. THAT GETS HER UP! "TO DIG OR NOT TO DIG" (by Chloe)
What do you think?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spring 2007 Tousie’s Tails Well that is Easter over, and I did not get any eggs, but my mum did buy me a new toy, a white fluffy stuffed dog – doesn’t say much, but I can throw it around lots. Mum has just been away on holiday, she took Chloe with her – but us boys stayed behind and had a week of boy fun. No-body to shout at us when we made a mess, I like dad he lets us get away with lots of treats when mum is not around.
I have to work really hard when mum is not around, as I have to guard the house and make sure that everything is where is should be. Brae has a habit of pinching things, and even if it is not eatable he will try to eat it anyway. He likes socks especially and toilet roll tubes. Me, I prefer underwear, I like to run around the garden and show it to all the neighbours, but if mum is around she gets cross.
Still I am sure that my mum and Chloe will be back soon and we can play lots then. I wonder if mum will bring me a present she normally does………………………. Brae’s Brags Tousie is so bossy, he keeps on telling me what to do, I shout back at him, but then he does not talk to me, so I just have to shout louder. If he still doesn’t talk to me I go into the hall, and shout there – but nobody listens, they just say that I am noisy. I go into the garden to tell the whole world what is happening, all they say is “Shut-up”; anyone would think that they did not want to hear what I had to say. It’s so hard being a Brae dog! Before mum went away she cooked a luvely roast beef dinner, I have never seen such a big bit of meat – I think it must have been half a cow! There she was, in the kitchen; making lots of nice smells, there were those Yorkie pudding things that she makes, lots of roasted plant things ( Tatoes, tulips and smeed) lots of yummy gravy. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it. Well, my mum had taken the beef out of the oven, I was very good, and I just watched her. She left it in that silver stuff for ages and then dad was called to the kitchen to cut it up. Then they all sat down for their dinner, I thought that they had forgotten about us!
She really told me off, she then went into the bin and got the meat out as it was just sitting on the top and still had that silver stuff on it. Guess what she did then? She cut all the meat up into small pieces and to my excitement gave it to us all for dinner. What a treat that was, and I didn’t have to pinch it again. It did mean that I had to share with Tousie and Chloe, but that didn’t matter – It was Roast Beef for dinner………. Chloe’s Capers
Mummy took me on holiday last week. We went to a place called Turriff, which is in Aberdeenshire. We were staying with mum’s friends; I have been there before they are really nice humans called Dee & Alex. They give me lots of treats. They have lots of hairy friend’s aswell, some are called affieghans, there is a little hairy thing called Chelly who is a Lhasa but every time she squeaks they call her Louise? They also have a Border collie puppy called Meghan, and she is very naughty, she tried to get me in lots of trouble. When we went on one of our walks, Meghan ran away. She tried to get me to go with her, but I just wanted to stay with my mum. We played “Chase me”, lots of times but on the last time Meghan did not want to come back, she just wanted to go on an Adventure. When my mum tried to get her to comeback, she fell over and hurt her ankle – I stayed with my mum and made sure that she was all better. I think that it was all my licks and huggles that made her feel ok and ready to finish our walk. When we arrived back to the cottage, Meghan was already there and was wondering what all the fuss was about; after all, she came back! The next day we went for a very long walk, I really enjoyed
all the sniffs! I met something called “a pig” apparently he was a
“Gloucester Old Spot”, silly name if you ask me – I much prefer Chloe,
Tousie or Brae. He had a lot of
Girlie pig friends, and he didn’t like me cos he came running up to the fence
making very rude noises. Turned out
that he had babies and that it why he was so cross. The sun was shining and we started on the walk back to the cottage, there were smells everywhere, some that I had not smelt before. Eventually we came to the lane that lead up to the cottage. We were half way up when I heard this really scary noise it was so loud – it reminded me a bit of when daddy sneezes, but louder. As we walked further up the hill, I could see what was making the noise. It was like a horse, but was smaller. It had big pointy uppy ears and my mum said it was something called a “domkey”, was that something that opened doors? Perhaps it was some sort of magical creature that could open locks by just looking at them or perhaps it used the rather strange tail that was dangling behind! He tried to say hello to me but I was so scared that I stayed in the middle of mums legs until we were safely passed. I liked being on holiday, but was missing my dad and the two boys (Tousie & Brae), and I wondered who Fraser was playing with as I wasn’t there. I was beginning to feel homesick and was really glad when I heard my mum saying that we would be going home on Saturday. We did have lots of adventures though, and I cannot wait until we go again. Saturday came and were we home. Everything was just where I left it……………………. I fell asleep and dreamt of pigs and domkeys!!!!! And a Black & white collie
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 2007 Valentines
Day Special Tousie Here
are a couple of photographs of the
loves in my life
The first is a beautiful girl called Giselle. I have admired her from afar ever since I was a young dog. She is beautiful both on the inside and out. I only wish that she lived closer. She is 9 years old and lives in USA Her human mum makes lovely bows and things for her hair, you can check out her website here Giselle is also a therapy dog, and so has many human friends, and I get very jealous! I will just have to keep her in my heart as my long
distance love…….
Chelsea
(Bun Bun) This
is the second love of my life, Her
name is Arrinagour ‘dream
I have know her ever since I was a puppy, we have played
together several times, and I think she is also pretty,
She is the mother of several of my nephews and nieces, as my brother took
her heart first. We are great
friends though and meet up at shows and events. Who knows perhaps one day I will be lucky! My
mum is great friends with her mum, and
although we do not get to see each other as often as we would like, my mum and
Aunty Ella always talk on that voicebox thing called a tellingbone.
(It’s not really a bone cos I have tried to chew it when I was little.
These are the guys I share my pad with, and I love them both. As yet nothing serious, cos I want to see the world first! ....anyway I'm in love with my Dad!
Tousie Brae
Brae (One Track Lover) Brae's only true love is food! especially the forbidden variety. If there is no one around then ITS MINE....... If its in the pan and no one is looking ITS MINE...... If it has fallen on the floor ITS MINE.... If you can't catch me ITS DEFINITELY MINE !
Brae
January 2007 Firstly a very happy New Year to all our Beardie friends. We had a wonderful time even though we went down with the dreaded flu. The weather was absolutely horrible and the Tousietykes enjoyed lots of playing in mud and pond stuff, even though we don’t have a pond. The Garden is a boggy mess, but is great fun all the same especially if you are a beardie. Tousie's Tails "We had a visitor over Christmas, it was uncle Steve, he is a friend of mum and dad, I can remember him from when I was a puppy. I was so pleased to see him, but I don’t think that he remembers how big I am. I used to jump on his head when I was a puppy, and play lots of games with him, but now he would only let me jump on the back of the settee and attack him from there. He seemed not to want me to be his new fashion accessory. I thought that a brown fluffy scarf would have been everyone’s taste. Especially when they are as good looking as me.” “There was lots of nice treats for us to eat, but only when mum and dad were not looking." As the oldest, I had to make sure that everyone was on best behaviour. But sometimes, when the Bi-peds were not looking I had a quick game of tuggy with Chloe and a big blue monkey that Santa Claws left under the tree. I did staid awake but Santa is so magical I missed him." "My mummy knows a lovely lady in California, called Terry Chacon who does really beautiful sculptures, and paintings - she did this one of me cos my mum asked her to. As my mum likes witches, wizards and things, she has always said that I was a wise wizard she wanted me to have a wizard’s hat on.
" Well, what do you think? My mum loves it soooo much she has put it on the mantle for all to see. If you would like to contact Terry, there is a link to her webpage below and also shown on my page of favourite links. Mum says that it is well worth a visit. If you want to see any of her work in real life, my mum’s got lots. I am sure she will be only too pleased to show off all her beardie things….. www.terrydchacon.com Brae's Brags “There was so much food in our house, it must have been Christmas, I thought I had the bestest present ever – but it turned out to be something they called “Christmas dinner”. Mum was not concentrating on what she was doing as she was feeling poorly, and when she took the yummy turkey roast out of the oven and left it on the kitchen bench to cool, the temptation was just too much for me. I managed to pick it up and was just about to take it into the garden, when my big bro Tousie, started to shout ever-so loudly and gave the game away. Although mum was cross, I did not get told off much, as I managed to give “the look” and that always wins them over , didn’t get much of the turkey tho.!” .....Anyway I prefer sausages..! Chloe's Capers "Wow, lots of presents to open, the paper was great. Mum made me wear strange things in my hair, she liked them but I couldn’t wait to get into the Garden, which because of all the rain, was great fun. I could run with Brae and go “plodging in the clarts”. And lose my strange hair things under the bushes and trees. Uncle Steve was great fun, I was able to give him lots of kisses and then give some to my dad, and then more to Steve, and then mum. You don’t realise how hard it is to keep all these bi-peds clean.
I have found that I like Clementines, not sure about eating them, but they are great fun to kill. Trouble is they keep spitting at me, bit like that ginger cat that lives here, but without the sharp bits. I like Tom (that’s the cat’s name) but he gets cross with me when I pull his tail. I like doing this, but I don’t think he enjoys it as much as me. He does like to lick me a lot tho – specially when I am sleeping.” Tom's Torments
Tom is roughly about 12 (we are not really sure), he was a rescue cat that we took on when he was a small kitten. He was diagnosed at an early age with feline leukaemia which resulted in him having all his teeth removed at the grand age of 4 (also the raids on the home made tablet which he made in the middle of the night). He now has only one eye as he had an operation in 2006 to remove a tumour which resulted in the loss of the eye. He is a wonderful cat and puts up with a lot. He spends a lot of his time with the beardies, however, he is not frightened to give them the odd swipe when they are getting too boisterous. Since he had his eye removed, he has turned into a different cat. In fact it has given him a new lease of life. Gives a whole new meaning to the expression “One eyed and toothless” or was that a song? |
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I
want to tell you about when my mum took us all to Selmuir woods, we had a
wonderful time, with all the wet weather, there was plenty of wet boggy land for
us to play in.
Why
do I always get told off for shouting, don’t humans realise it is only cos I
am happy – I love it when My mum takes me up on to the Bing (a big hill) and
on the top there is a huge bit where I can run and run and run.
Front
-Tousie, Brae, Chloe, Skerry, Rhudi, Hobo
I have found a place where it is brilliant to dig – I
love to dig!,
Dad and Fraser had something called a curry, I tasted some
when they had finished.
Spring is definitely here, dad say
Mum always make extra Yorkies so as we all can have one
when they have finished eating, the sniffs were getting too much for me, but
like a good boy I sat and waited in the hope that they would remember that it
was our dinner time too.
