canines

Stealing Lily-dog’s soul

The calm after the storm

dog jumped into deep water at Kirkstall Abbey. Couldn’t get back onto bank and was struggling. Heroically fell in to help her. Stressful! @johnleach 5:12 PM Jun 27th via web They quickly got over it though.

One month in: things I’ve realised since getting a dog

1. Walks I knew we’d have to go on walks and we were looking forward to the excuse to exercise and explore. I didn’t realise how much we’d need to walk to tire her out in the first few weeks (we were constantly exhausted!) but now it’s settled down, I didn’t expect quite how much [...]

The hierarchy of the Peach household, according to Lily

From top dog/alpha male/pack leader down to general dogsbody. Boron John Carla Lily Me

Internet, I’d like you to meet Lithium ‘Lily’ Peach

In light of my very sad last post, this seems a little “neeeeeeeext!” but we’d actually started the adoption process before Carbon died (we had just got back from getting a vet reference when we found him) and we thought it would be unfair to Lily to leave her at the shelter for longer than [...]