Category Archives: dog walks

Muddy Pooches

Posted on May 17, 2009 | 4 Comments

There’s a dew pond on one of our walks and depending on how the humans are feeling we drop by. As you can see, you have to be prepared for very muddy, wet dogs. They love it and dash around diving in and out of the water. Here’s Jessie with her friends Frankie, Bobby and Holly having lots of fun at the weekend. Georgie tends to do her own thing – usually schmoodling with the humans, eating grass or staring hard at insects. Jump back to the post, “Frankie, new pup in town” to see how much Frankie’s grown!

L-R, Jessie, Bobby and Frankie

L-R, Jessie, Bobby and Frankie


Jessie and Frankie in pond

Jessie - I recognise the collar - and other(s) going for the tennis ball!


Bobby, Jessie and Frankie (on right)

Bobby, Jessie and Frankie - on right


Holly on left, Jessie, Bobby (collie) and Frankie

Holly on left, Jessie, Bobby (collie) and Frankie

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Meet one of our neighbours-Wordless Wednesday

Posted on April 29, 2009 | 14 Comments

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Our evening walk is around the local streets and if this lovely lab’s out, we always pop over to say ‘hi’!

She says hello to lots of the locals and often takes them by surprise as she pokes her head through the wall!

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Bluebells on our dog walk

Posted on April 26, 2009 | 12 Comments

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Fantastic – it’s Spring which means the bluebells are doing their glorious thing. Our woods in Stanmer Park, Brighton, are full of them and everywhere is transformed. Here are some pictures from yesterday’s dog walk with Georgie and Jessie.

Jennie, when are you coming over? ;)

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Wordless Wednesday-English woodland in April

Posted on April 15, 2009 | 7 Comments
Georgie and Jessie enjoying the cool of the woods

Georgie and Jessie enjoying the cool of the woods

Bluebells coming through

Bluebells coming through

Sunlight through the leaves

Sunlight through the leaves

Looking up to the beautiful blue sky

Looking up to the beautiful blue sky

These photos were taken this morning on our dog walk in Stanmer Woods. The bluebells are peeping through now and it was really beautiful there.

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Barking in the fog

Posted on April 4, 2009 | 2 Comments

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It’s rather unnerving arriving at your destination only to find thick fog ahead. This was the scene this morning.

Before I knew this walk well, and whenever the fog descended, I used to keep to a very flat circular area in front of the carpark. I’d gather pieces of chalk and make a kind of arrow pointing up towards the carpark in case I got completely lost.

Now I know my way round really well and I’m not afraid of stretching further afield when the weather’s bad. Even so, it’s still a little scary seeing figures in the distance. Georgie barked at these people, which she never normally does, as if to say, ‘Friend or foe?’ Look carefully at the photo and you can just make the three figures out.

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As we carried on with the walk, the fog lifted a little at least in the immediate area we were walking. I took this of Jessie because I noticed the wild bunch of daffodils just sitting on ther own.

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By the time we got back to the car, my gloves and hat were off, jacket unzipped and the sun was out. It was as though the fog had never been there. We went from winter back to spring within an hour and a half. The joys of English weather!

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Dog Walk in Stanmer Woods

Posted on April 3, 2009 | 6 Comments

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Today’s dog walk was in Stanmer Woods, an area to the north-east of Brighton, East Sussex.

It’s a favourite haunt of dog walkers for several reasons:
- no livestock if you keep to the inner woods
- no danger from cars/roads
- sheltered in bad weather due to all the trees
- it’s beautiful!

The photos were taken this morning and show my dogs as well as those of 3 friends (one is a professional dog walker). We take it slowly so that the dogs can chase, dig, roll in the leaves, drink from the roots of trees, stick noses down holes, snuffle, and generally have a good time :) Soon the woods will be full of bluebells and when they are, you’ll see them here first!

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Georgie doing her own thing as usual!

Georgie doing her own thing as usual!

Bailey, Boxer-Mastiff cross, with her stick

Bailey, Boxer-Mastiff cross, with her stick

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Blustery Dog Walk

Posted on March 26, 2009 | 3 Comments

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The blue skies and warm weather of the last fortnight seem to be over for the time being. Back to furry ski gloves, fleecy hat and waterproofs.

For the dogs it’s perfect weather of course – neither too hot nor too cold and a fresh blustery wind to ruffle the fur.

Here are a couple of pics from this morning. I found a nice sheltered spot and plonked myself down on the grass. As soon as I do that, Georgie, the Retriever, starts digging frantically a few cms from where I’m sitting. She seems to have a surge of energy whenever I stop on the walk and as you can see from the photo below, digging with her paws is mixed in with poking her nose and mouth in the earth! This photo isn’t cropped by the way. They both just like to get as close as possible and this is how it came out. I thought it was funny!

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heads down – follow your nose

Posted on March 20, 2009 | 2 Comments

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I walk with a great dog walker on a regular basis. One of the things Karen likes to do is throw a handful of treats on the ground and let the dogs use their noses to find the goodies.

‘The Find’ proves how balanced packs behave – there’s never any fighting or disputes over food. Just a group of dogs with their heads down searching frantically.

I remember the first time Georgie (my Golden Retriever) was asked to ‘find’. She sat in front of Karen, as good as gold, waiting to be fed by hand as usual. Now, as you can see, she gets stuck in with the rest of them.

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The sheep at Sheepcote Valley

Posted on March 11, 2009 | 2 Comments

Well today started off with – joy of joys – a puncture. So before we could visit the sheep at Sheepcote Valley, the tyre had to be changed by the very nice man at the AA. Thank you to the person who left a 3″ nail in the road that caused the problem.

Now Georgie and Jessie have met sheep before. We had a ‘dog-friendly’ holiday in Scotland – on a sheep farm. This was the one piece of information missing from the description and had we known, we wouldn’t have gone there.

On the first morning of our holiday, we’d let Georgie and Jessie into the front garden, which we assumed was safe and enclosed, only to find the whole area around the house surrounded by sheep. By that time it was too late, the two species had met and two dogs and two sheep ended up in the sea. Everyone survived but after that, the dogs had to be tied up on long leads whenever they went into the garden.

Here they are in the amazing ‘front garden’ of our holiday home safely tied to the picnic table.

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So when I discovered that sheep were being brought in to graze our local patch I thought it was an opportunity to do the ‘sheep thing’ again.

It was a while before the dogs noticed them. But when they did, the same excited barking started and Georgie, especially, thought she had new friends to play with.

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What I didn’t tell the dogs was that there was a low voltage electric fence surrounding the grazing area. Sure enough, both dogs got too close and both got zapped. And this was actually what I wanted. Not pleasant I know but certainly effective and I’m hoping they’ll now make the association between sheep and that nasty shock they got today.

I may go back tomorrow and see if they remember. Probably not an ideal way to cement a life long friendship, but one way of making my dogs just a little more respectful of sheep then they were.

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Friston Forest

Posted on February 20, 2009 | 4 Comments

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Today we hooked up with Ali and Nat and their lovely handsome Golden Retriever Monty (on the right).

Friston Forest is about 45 minutes drive from our house and we go there every couple of months – what a treat. It’s so beautiful there – long footpaths, no sheep, fantastic views over the East Sussex countryside and the dogs LOVE it!

These are some of the pics fom this morning’s walk.

Here’s the handsome Monty:
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What a wonderful way to spend a morning :)

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