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A day in the life of a Poppy dog!

07 Mar in Brush Cottage | Comments (6)

My name is Poppy, and I live with a little family in rural Hampshire. I am an extraordinarily well bred Cairn Terrier! This is Labrador land – so I am a bit of a novelty around here…. My proper name is “Elite Charm Angels Delight”, but please feel free to call me “Poppy”. My mum calls me all kinds of other names – “Gorgeousness”, “The Popster”, “Poplet”….sometimes she calls me “Bad Dog” but I don’t take much notice when she does.

Mum and I walk every day (sometimes we skip it if it’s raining – rain is sure to bring on a “Bad Hair Day” – to which both of us are susceptible!). My best walks are when Dad and T come with us.

More often than not, we walk up our road, which is a really pretty road.

on-the-way

At the top of our road is The Park. It’s where I often meet some of my buddies. There is some cool stuff for T to play on as well. Sometimes on a Saturday afternoon, the Upham Harriers come and play football here – I wish I could play with them, but I’m not allowed to. I get my lead taken off here!

Lead-off

And I’m free!

free

After we’ve crossed the football pitch, we head out into the fields. My family love to admire the view.

view

Upham is built on the top of a hill, so you can see for miles.

view-2

During World War 2, there was an observation point in this copse of trees. Soldiers were permanently stationed here to keep watch for planes coming over the channel from Europe.

Observation-point

My Mum loves the red berries on these trees, I don’t really care about them, because I can’t eat them…

red-berries

I love this section of the walk – it’s often where we come across pheasants – and I chase them! I’m not really supposed to……Mum is a bit scared of the gamekeeper …..but that’s her problem, not mine!

woodland

A little later on, we turn up and walk adjacent to the pigs. They are much, much bigger than me, so I generally leave them alone.

pigs

Next is the really scary part we have to walk through – there’s a massive bull…..

bull1

Did you see him? Did you see him? He’s enormous! But whew, we do manage to get past him ……

bull2

And then we head back up our road – almost home….

home-again

The rest of my day is spent lounging around, sleeping, chasing the squirrels or pigeons that dare to enter my garden and hoping that Mum might leave a pair of her leather boots around for me to chew on….!

6 Comments »

Poppy you are a cool dog and we all love walking with you. Except when you try to chase motorcycles or landrovers. They are a bit bigger than you.

Comment by David — March 7, 2010 @ 12:40 pm
P.S also if there are cows, sheep,horses or any dangerous animal i will defend my family with my barking vocabulary!
yours truly.

Comment by tessa — March 7, 2010 @ 12:47 pm
Horrendous about the boots! Naughty Poppy!

Comment by Colleen Skinner — March 7, 2010 @ 4:18 pm
Jen just loved reading your blog today – she is soooo cute. Will have to bring over Camba again sometime to go for a run at the park with her.

Comment by Marlene — March 9, 2010 @ 3:30 pm
wow jenni a great blog of Poppy. I hope Poppy is not to scared of that bull (ha ha) .
I hope she dosent tred in that mud that me and Tessa did.

Comment by Freya reeves — March 16, 2010 @ 7:11 pm
I just had to say.. I think you have a wonderful website. Its obvious that your adicted to dogs.. just like me.

Comment by Pet Sitter Buffalo Grove IL — March 18, 2010 @ 7:41 am

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