I am such a good girl

Photograph by Ian Merchant

Don't you just love her.

Exploring

Photograph by Ian Merchant

Shula exploring Ian's garden.

These days she only wears her harness when we take her out in the car. The reason is, that here in Spain, unless you have a grill in the car between the driver and dog, the dog has to be tethered so it can't interfere with the driver. It is not unusual to have to stamp on the brakes when some idiot pulls out in front, so in order to avoid breaking her neck should such a situation occur, we clip the strap to her harness. The harness which was only bought as a temporary measure when we first had her because she was so nervous has come in very handy.

Shula - Out to lunch

Photograph by Ian Merchant

This photo was sent to me today. It was taken a couple of weeks ago when Ken and I were invited out to lunch at the villa of some friends and took Shula with us. She was very good and had a fine time exploring their garden. The garden, which is very beautiful is set on different levels with steps and paths meandering through it.

So we were not disturbed during the excellent lunch we gave Shula a chew which she promptly took off to one of Ian's flower beds to eat. She was well behaved for which I was grateful, it is nice to know we can take her with us and not be worried all the time that she will misbehave.

Ken is in the UK at the moment as we are having the bathroom and cloakroom there refirbished. Well, I say refirbished, but in actual fact they are being gutted and everything from floor to ceiling is being renewed. Ian who is doing the job has sent me photos of the work in stages and it looks to be going very well.

Catch me if you can

Today we met up with a lady and her two young children walking with their Spaniel. Shula and the Spaniel had lots of fun chasing one another. On the way back the little girl picked up a long piece of bamboo with leaves on the top and was waving it about. Shula thought this was a great game and grabbed hold of the end of the bamboo and pulled. The little girl let go and Shula ran off with her prize, it might have been quite funny except the little girl burst into floods of tears. Getting the stick back was not easy as all attemts to retrieve it were seen by Shula as part of a great game. Eventually I managed to get it back and peace was resumed. The mother then convinced the kid that it was great fun having the dog running off with her bamboo stick so the little girl waved it about, would Shula take it, oh no. Stealing from a child is one thing but actually taking a stick someone is trying to give you is no fun at all.