GOOS CUDDLY BEAR

There was a young bear came from Hamley

Had no clothes, lived in his birthday suit

Where's this going? Know not where - it's an inanimate bear

But he fits ever so well into the family...

There was a young bear came from Hamley

Always still and so quiet - fact was mute

Lived on the couch, was a regular slouch

But his girlfriend thought he was darned cute.

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

LETTER TO POPPA

Dear Poppa
Tonight when I was going for my bike ride there was a couple of big mastiff doggies in front of us.  So we crossed the road and got ahead of them on the other side.  And then crossed back in front of them.  And they very kindly hung back and let us go round the corner.  And then it happened..........

See I had to turn around to keep my eye on them and I pulled the bike seat round as far as it would go with Mum on it.  And she felled into the hedge.  And ummmm,  well  I snapped the PVC pipe.  I may  be only little but I don't know my own strenfff.

So long story short,   can I have another pole please cos it is my fave thing?   The only bit we broked was the pipe.  All the other bits are fit n healthy including me and Mum, although her pride got a bit dented in the hedge......    We promise we have learnt our lesson on this trip and we will keep all doggies, cats, rabbits, hedgehogs and butterflies in front view.

Pllllllllllllllease,  this is my saddest expression I could muster at short notice.

Love from Magoo 

woofs n licks

BORDER PROOF FENCE

S'bin a bit busy round here for the last couple of weeks.  In fact we were banished from our kingdom and sent to Nana and Poppas for a few days.   And when we came back this is what we found in our yard.

Bit of a mess I have to say.    Lots of investigatin to be done - a dogs job is never done.  Nothing is in the right place and what is our fence doing on the lawn?

Nothing is in its rightful place........

All the tiles that had blocked up the Gooses escape holes all scattered round the lawn, whats going on?

In our absence a new fence has gone up - wow that was fast.   The old fence was falling down, the planks was falling off and the Goose was diggin out and hedgehogs was treatin our plantation as thieir annual migration path across New Zealand.  It was all getting too much for Mum.  So now there is a fence and a multi purpose mowing strip which cunningly masqerades as a border proof and hedgehog proof digging out digging in strip.  Spoil all our fun why don't ya.

BT Inspectors at your Service.  Just checking that the concrete is level & the right consistency before ya pay the bill.

My 2nd in command checking out the corner escape gap.   Theres going to be no dramas in this corner forthwith.

Just a few cosmetics to be done now.   Not going to be doing too much fraternising with Dougal and Sally next door through there now are we.  SIGH!!!

And the final touches.   Goose supervisin the painter.   I was inside mindin the couch,  no point all of us being outside in this heat.

STRETCHING THE BOUNDARIES

Apparently I have goals to achieve this year.   Yes,  you may be as surprised as me to learn this.   I am a dog, and I have goals!!!!!!   You've got to be doggone jokin..........

Whatever happened to just bein a dog?   Sniffin butts,  rolling in stinky stuff, sleepin on the couch for 18 hours a day, barkin at the cats next door for daring to sit on our drive, chewin on ma paw and hangin out by the fridge?    Those were the days........

Well apparently my goals, yes its goals with an essss, not just the one,   are within the realms of possiblility otherwise my partner in crime would lose faith. #1. To get our Rally Novice Title. Apparently this is quite achievable, we need two champ shows with marks over 90. I do think I already have one under my belt but I have yet to retrieve the evidence. My filing clerk is more than a little lax, it's in here somewhere, gonna have to fire her ass. 

#2 is a little more difficult - I am determined to get the hang of the WEAVES but it is proving to be a bit of a struggle. How many times do I have to tell you, don't put your hand on your side, that is your obedience hand and is telling me to stick to you like a teflon dog, not do weave poles.

Whats the matter, are you sick? Come on, you can do it!! We're not quitters round here. GET UP! I will help you.

OK, now try a different arm position, get rid of that obedience hand signal. There you go, you're getting it.

There is hope yet, you are going to look a bit naff running round the field like that but hey, I still love ya.

#3 goal is a CLEAR ROUND, where I stay in the ring for the whole course and dont miss any jumps n tunnels. That is called a STRETCH TARGET. Hmmmmm - back to my couch.

WHAT'S HAPPENED TO SUMMER?

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We have it on fairly good authority that summer is coming in March.  We are not sure what happened to November, December, January.  And here is us last weekend.   This was a very hot day for a change and that yellow stuff on the grass is a rare thing called "sun" so I'm told.    We're making the best of it.  Last weekend we filled the bus with all my buddies and took off to Rerewhakaaitu, one of the lakes near Lake Rotorua.

Looks postcard perfect doesn't it,  we're trying to keep up bright and breezy appearances, we're sure you don't want photos of our rain.

Being a true host I let Max have the master bedroom.   Hmph!

Leaving me n Onny to top n tail in substandard accomodations.  We have put in a complaint to management!

Goose came too and kept a pretty low profile, enjoying the breezes under the bus.

So seeing as its not got too hot yet, the fur puller outerer is wondering whether to skip my summer strip and let me get reeeeeeeeeeeeeally hairy this winter like Hairy McLeary. What do you think?

Well as the master groomer hasn't got me to pick at,  look what she did to my cousin Finn.   She did a one day course.

Plucked, n washed, n clipped, n stripped, n shaved him.

Voila  le Finn!!

fin

The Liebster Blog Award

Hey we got an award, - wowza thanks Lexi n Jasper we're glad you like our blog!!!    It's the Liebster Blog Award  and like all great awards it needs to be passed on.......

This award has some formalities that we must abide by…

(1) Thank the blogger that gave you the award and then add a link to their blog.
(2) Reveal our top five picks (with less than 200 readers) and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog. - Well we suspect all our faves have lots of readers so we'll give you 5 but its not easy.
(3) Copy and Paste the Award to Your Blog.
(4) Hope that the people you’ve sent the award to send it to their five favorite up-and-coming bloggers, and keep it going! - Come on guys keep it going

Ok so some of our fave blogs we wish we could put more n 5, but we'd be here all night.  And we hope our fave bloggy mates don't mind us nickin their pictures.

1)  Marley n Lola in England, always keep us laughin, I mean really n truly, the blog with this pic didn't even have words this day and we still got a giggle.  Marley monkeyin around...

2) Our mate Zack in Canada,   we've been following his n Marleys adventures for two years and they is like family.

3) Bella the pirate border terrier in Iceland.  She does similar stuff to Mrs Magoo like bikin n trackin and she does tricks like me.  And Iceland is as different from New Zealand as you can be as its on the other side of the planet so we love reading about how different Bellas' life is to ours. 

4) Hana in Japan is hikin all the mountains with her Dad, and her adventures just blow our mind.  In this one, her Dad was throwin her across the rivers.  The photos on here are beautiful too.

5) Annas Food Safari    jjust to show that its not all about dogs on our blog and that we  DO have some perspective we also think this cooking blog of one of Mums friends is funny too.  If ya can cook or ya can't cook, this is pretty funny,  and makes us hungry anyway.  Anyone for a dish sponge n a cuppa?

Later patatas.