“Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of all!”
– John Grogan (Marley & Me)
Wow – it’s not quite a hundred but it’s way more than fifty! Today marks ninety days since harassing you good people with a daily blog and photographs. And to give you your due, most have stuck with it! So thank you very much. Ninety days also marks a landmark amount of followers – since beginning the blog I had a couple of loyal subscribers but I’ve now topped the hundred mark – thank you again!
In celebration of ninety days I would have perhaps attempted to achieve something awesome by way of photography. But honestly my day was spent helping out my parents to de-clutter the house. With all the building work going on we’ve landed ourselves two bookcases full of books to house, lots of other bits and pieces and a lot of dust. The dust just keeps coming. The polish has been used everyday for about two weeks. Amazing.
So yes – today was spent doing that and around 4pm I realised I’d not photographed a single thing. Awful. So I grabbed the camera and stalked Buddy & Star whilst they ate their dinner. Now Star is a lady, she eats her dinner on the bottom step outside (when it’s not raining which lately it never has) and chews nicely and quietly. Buddy stands on the top step with his bowl and crunches his biscuits so loud you can hear him from inside. He also looks around whilst he’s eating which means he often sprays crumbs down the steps onto Star. Teehee!
Being a greedy doggy Buddy always finishes first. He still hasn’t learnt to eat slowly. This obviously could be signs of his born free days when he had to fight for food (possibly!) unless he sat down to a three course Lady & the Tramp style meal over in Ireland. Which is entirely possible…
Once Buddy finishes he runs to the top of the garden and stands watching Star from afar. He plans this bit carefully, often using the bushes and bits of shrubbery as cover as he stealth walks down the slope towards her bowl.
Star always leaves biscuits in the bottom of her bowl and if Buddy takes little notice of it when she walks away – he can pounce on them and polish them off. However if she knows he’s watching, she’ll walk away slowly and the minute he goes for her bowl she’ll turn around and plough her way back to it. This of course scares Buddy, who has every inch of respect possible for the old lady. He backs off and watches from a distance again – this time as she eats every last bit of biscuit that she never intended to eat until that moment. She also looks around at him regularly – chewing right in front of his face. Teehee!!!
Once she’s finished every bit that she really intended to leave she wanders on up the Garden – which Buddy thinks is great. He translates it as meaning play time and starts to play fight…
It looks quite viscous – it’s really not. Both tails were wagging happily throughout the whole exchange but Buddy and Star’s teeth pulled back into the most terrifying of sneers!
Buddy invariably looses, with Star striking fear into him with her ladylike dog smile and he eventually turns tail and goes back inside. But the whole thing wears both of them out and is quite amusing to watch – they never bite, just seemingly dance!
Kathryn Dawson Photography 