Posty Office

Two important missions today:

First a trip to the Posty Office to supervise the dispatch of more goodies.

Then we were off to Morrisons for lots of goodies - most importantly a new supply of carrots! We had run out! The chillycupboard had none inside it! That was a terrible situation to be in. It needed urgent sorting out! I guided Mummy to the right place - thankfully just inside the door. I felt it essential to make this item top priority. A large bagful was duly selected and all but one was installed in the rightful place in the chillycupboard when we got home. That one seemed to disappear! I wonder where it went?!!!!

I've inspected the boxes where my calendars and mugs are kept. They are almost empty, so I may not have many trips to the Posty Office left to do. So, if you would like a picture of me wrapped around your hot brown water water, or hanging on your wall, then get your orders in quick before it is too late.

www.guidedogoakley.org.uk/shop.html

Sustenance!

zzzzz.....Oh...err....yawn.....sorry... I must have dozed off!

Well, after a workywalkies to church (carpet snooze!) and back again - then a super-dooper long leisure walkies along the towpath - some of it on new territory, the warmth back aboard floatyboatyhome seemed to make my head very heavy! I'm sure it also had something to do with Mummy's failure to drop any sustenance my way at lunchtime!

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Carpet snoozies in church - it is the best way to pass the time of the humanhowling and yacketying - the floor was a bit tickly though with all the boombooming vibrating through it from the boomboom-bowls that were getting thoroughly duffed up with sticks this morning!

The torture of watching Mummy munch cheese and failing to drop any.

Super Zoomies!

Scooby was super fast fun to do zoomies with! I met him when I took Mummy on a lovely long leisurewalkies. Mummy got in some practice with her rolytwitstick, so I got to get in some practice at sniffing and weemailing and - well - just being a dog! We went all along the towpath and around the Soho Loop. When we got to the park part-way around there, I think Mummy had ideas that we would just keep on walking past. Meeting up with Scooby soon sorted out that daft thinking!

Scooby came out of the park and rescued me! Mummy was a good Mummy - she took off my flexilead and let me 'Go play'! Yippeeee! It was great fun trying to keep up with Scooby. He is a lanky lurcher and so zooms super fast! He does a great line in boxing match too! It seems that our respective humans found lots to yackety about - no complaints there as it meant we dogs got more time to have fun!

I was a tad tired when we got home again. My bone had to wait for further attention - my eyelids demanded intense internal inspection!

We had a visitor - Susan. I like Susan! She brought me yummies and a squeaky toy! Her front paw made a very nice pillow. Thank you Susan. Apparently we will be going again sometime soon to find her with her troop of minihumans called Brownies. They have been raising shinydisks to add to my Sponsor-a-Puppy fund! I shall look forward to that. I seem to remember those Brownies had some rather lovely bellyrubs to offer!

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Me playing with Scooby; Lurcher (Greyhound x Staffie) - pale coloured with tiger stripes.

Posing with Scooby and his humandad.

Waiting for Mummy to unwrap one of the yummies that Susan brought.

Zonked again with my new squeaky toy but my head was just too heavy to hold up to play - I had to rest it on Susan's front paw.

 

Collared!

Scary big beastie lorries!

I took Mummy on a looooooong workywalkies around Bumingham. I'm not convinced it was meant to be that long but Mummy was daft enough to decide to try to find a shop in a bit of town that is less familiar! It just meant that I had to step up to find the way home after she tried to follow the squawked directions from her talkybone.

The first bit of the trip was fairly straightforward; it was 'Let's go find the Posty Office'. It would have been completely straightforward if the walls hadn't been moved! The walls in the city centre seem to have moved everytime we go in there! There is lots and lots of noisy drrrrrrrr-ing and bang-bang-bang-ing going on behind these moving walls. I found the way though - it was only a minor diversion. Mummy got the little parcel from the ladyhuman behind the counter and we set off again.

The next stop was VERY worthwhile! The meat market! The very nice manhuman in there had a hugenormous bone for me! Yesssss!

Then came the rather round-and-about-and-back-again route to try to find this other shop. When we did eventually find it, it didn't have what Mummy wanted anyway! When we came out again, Mummy was all disorientaterated.... disorien..... she was lost! 'Oh Oaks! Where are we? Which way do we go to find home?' I gave her 'the look' and 'the huff'. "Go on then smartypants. Find the way home"... Head up, chin forward, tail high and wagging..... paw perfect! Straight home!

There was the scary moment though - well - Mummy thought it was scary. I just did my job. As we were walking through one of the areas where the walls have moved; a bit where there is usually no traffic - just walkyhumans. Today though, as we were walking up the hill, suddenly I had to guide Mummy off quickly to the side, against the movable wall. There were 4 big growly-rumbly lorries coming towards us! I got us to safety and they grumbled past us, then a hi-viz yellow manhuman with a white bowl on his head came up and asked if we were OK. He said that we shouldn't have been able to be there because we should have been stopped at the barrier. We didn't notice any barrier so it would seem that something went a bit wrong. It all got me a big fuss and praise for being a good boy and doing a good job of keeping Mummy safe!

It was all worth it for the bone! I think this one might keep me occupied for a day or two!

Mummy opened the little parcel we picked up from the Posty Office. It contained two rather smart new collars for me! Mummy says they are handmade especially for me by a nice ladyhuman called Aimee from The Barking Boutique.

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Me with my huge bone.

Me modelling my new hi-viz yellow collar.

Me modelling my new hi-viz blue collar with silver stars.

 

Commando Crawling!

Traitor Mummy!

Mummy went workywalkies with two other Guide Dogs today! I had to stand with Daddy and watch! Hooooowwwwwwwlllllll!

Visitors came aboard floatyboatyhome. Guide Dogs workyladyhumans Jenna and Laura. I recognised their blue fursubstitutes! They did oooooodles of yacketying with Mummy and Daddy, along with slurping that hot yucky black/brown water stuff. I kept out of the way for most of that time but, when I thought that maybe they had done enough of it, I did get under the table and stick my nose in each lap in turn - just to make sure nobody forgot I was there!

Finally, they all put on pawcovers and extra layers of fursubstitutes (what IS that all about? One permanent layer of shiny black fur is perfectly adequate!), and we ALL set off out.

There was a very slight delay in getting going though because there was something much more important to deal with: right outside our home was a tiny puppylet; a little 9 week old Labrador x Collie called Gladys! Well..... I simply could not be so rude as to ignore such a young one! I think the humans were a bit smitten too!

Then it was harness on and off we set for workywalkies - me and Mummy in the lead and everyone else following us. I tried very hard to get Mummy to huppup enough to catch up with little Gladys, but she kept telling me to 'Steady' (slow down). Huff! We went up the slope and onto the streets where I had to guide Mummy according to Jenna's directions. This took us to a car. Inside that car were two colleagues: Guide Dogs in training Pluto (black Lab x Retriever) and Lilly (golden Retriever). I did get to greet them very briefly, one at a time, but there was no opportunity for playing or even kanoodling. It was a business meeting!

Then, off came my harness and I got handed over to Daddy. First of all Pluto got harnessed up (in his brown training harness - we dogs don't get our smart white harness until we qualify), and Mummy set off with the ladyhumans and with Pluto doing my job. They went off around the block and then came back. Then the same thing happened again but with Lilly doing my job.

I rather get the impression this is all to do with my re-tyre-ment thingy but they all went away and I got my job back today. Mummy says it will be soon but not quite yet.

I did my job again this evening - guiding Mummy and Daddy to a big important building in Bumingham. Apparently it is called the Town Hall. Inside it was really crowded with tables and humans. I found some humans I recognise though - David and Mary, who are fellow floatyboatypeople. We did a bit of standing around, I got my picnic tea and then we all went into a rows-of-seats room. Carpet snooze time for me! There were some humans at the front doing yacketying into a lollipop. I commando crawled forward under the seat and got some lovely ear rubs from the ladyhuman sat on that seat! Heehee! When all the yacketying was done and everyone had finished banging their front paws together, I got more fusses from that nice ladyhuman - but she couldn't bend down, so I hupped my front half onto the chair to help her!

After a bit more yacketying and then some human noshing, and a very welcome bowl of water for me, it was time to workywalkies back to home again.

 

Photo shows me with my front half up on a chair getting some lovely fusses from the ladyhuman who had been sitting in front of Mummy.

Facebark won't let me upload video as well as photo in the same post, so I will upload two videos separately in a moment.

 

Video 1: https://www.facebook.com/GuideDogOakley/videos/2209958672394778/ 

 

Video 2: https://www.facebook.com/GuideDogOakley/videos/378461929367148/

Chicken Foot.

I got a burger! A squeaky burger! Great fun! The chicken foot was much more tasty though!

Today we have cruised. That meant I got to do towpath toddles with Mummy for some of it. For the rest of the way, apparently the towpath wasn't suitable - too muddy according to Daddy. No such thing as too muddy in my opinion! It wasn't muddy around the three locks that we worked though, it was all good towpath for Mummy there. That meant that I got to have a bit of a play about - and there was a toy that simply had to come out to play: My squeaky burger! Heeheee! It doesn't squeak quite so loudly now!

The chicken foot didn't squeak - but it did CRUNCH rather splendidly! Mmmmmmm!

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Me with my squeaky burger on Mummy and Daddy's bed.

Close up of me holding squeakyburger in my mouth on the grass.

Shaking that burger so hard I am all blurred!

Fun while Mummy does the hefty lock work.

Daddytoys!

Waggy Bark Day to me!

First of all - a big woofy waggy THANK YOU to everyone who made barkday donations to my Puppy Sponsor funds; It seems my Barkday is worth a fantabulous total of £70. That is pawsome! The link is still on yesterday's dogblog post or on my wagsite www.guidedogoakley.org.uk

I had to work! It was a good work though! It involved Pets at Home! Mummy does love me!

It all started with Daddy failing dismally when he was sizzling sausages and bacon. He totally failed to drop any my way! Humph!

Then came a rather pleasant part-freerun-part-flexilead-walkies along the towpath. About 5km worth of it! And Daddy was chugging floatyboatyhome along behind us. Eventually he caught up with us and we got aboard to cruise the rest of the way.

We moored up in a familiar place; apparently it is called Oldbury. (We used to live in Newbury!). When Mummy harnessed me up, I knew exactly where we had to go! Upslope from towpath to road, left along the busy road, over a rather nasty crossingplace, find the downsteps and tug-tug-tug...... Mummy just wouldn't walk fast enough! She got a bit miffed with me and made me stop and sit to remember my manners. Oops!

Then .... horrors! We went 'straight on' past Pets at Home! Hooooooowwwwwwlllllll! That was not the plan! We went to a really boring shop with nothing edible in it! Apparently it is called Homebase and it sells Daddytoys.

Thankfully, the next stop WAS the right shop! Phew! Mummy and Daddy got me some yummies for my barkday: A bag of chicken feet, a hoof and 8 biccies from the pic-n-mix.

When we got home it was dinnertime. And I think I rather like barkday dinner! It was super yummilicious! A special treat of wet juicy lamb and vegetables! Please may I have a barkday every day?

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Me hupped at the checkout in Pets at Home getting a yummy from the nice ladyworkyhuman. She said I am cute!

Waiting for my whistle command to tuck into my special dinner.

Tucking in. Yummmmmmm!

On the sofa with my 8 biccies between my paws (they didn't stay there for long) and my hoof and pack of chickenfeet beside me (Mummy says I will have to wait until tomorrow to sample them).