The Little Bear Dog Blog

The lack of posts may be a give-away, but Other Half and I have been on holiday. We had a wonderful week exploring Dorset and Somerset and did it all dog free thanks to the excellent house, dog and cat sitting expertise of OH’s daughter and boyfriend.

Little Bear adores them both so we never worry about leaving him. That doesn’t mean of course that I don’t obsess for the first few days. I can’t help myself.

By day three of the trip I’d calmed my pants enough to not call daily just to check that they both still had four legs each and were eating their food.  I didn’t manage to stay completely dog free though. A friendly Lab in a crystal shop in Glastonbury was very obliging and let me give her a cuddle and our hotel at Lyme Regis had a resident Labradoodle who, I think out of sympathy, indulged me with a game of fetch on the lawn.

Doing the true tourist thing Other Half bought a postcard to send home. I added a quick PS along the side which said something like “Remember to kiss the kids from me!” The kids of course being LB and the cat.

The next day OH’s daughter called in fits of giggles.  The postcard had arrived and being as daft as we are, took it to LB to show him.  He apparently sniffed it all over as he does with all of the mail but then went into hyper drive when he got to the PS. Tail wagging he then proceeded to enthusiastically lick it until it most of the PS ink had disappeared!

Clever little (blue tongue) Bear.