Andy SmithLooking after handsome Silver and shiny Vole for a little bit. My first stay with them. They're breaking me in gently!
Meanwhile Voley did some zooming around the garden and is now snoozing.
Name checks out. 🐿️🐿️🐿️
It's a relief that it's about a month until my next sitting because I'm not sure my shoulder joints can take much more!
And here's why Silver and Vole need to wear muzzles:
Just took them on their evening walk. Saw a lady with a chihuahua walking towards us on the other side of the road. S&V were sniffing in the bushes so I was looking at them. I hear a skittering sound behind us and she's let her chihuahua run ACROSS THE ROAD on an extending leash until it's within 6cm of S&V's arses and trying to bite them.
S&V are reactive to unknown dogs. They both went for it and batted it away.
Without the muzzles they would have got it and probably would have killed it. If a car had come, the chihuahua might have died (it's dusk, and it's a small black dog).
Despite being an aggressive dog, the chihuahua wasn't wearing a muzzle.
Silver and Vole have to wear muzzles, and have people think they need to cross the street to avoid them, because other people own dangerous dogs that they can't control.
Silver and Vole would have totally ignored that dog if it hadn't come close.
I do understand that a large dog that goes for a chihuahua is probably going to kill it whereas a chihuahua that goes for a large dog will probably only injure it, but I have dealt with some very serious injuries from small dogs.
Josh Holland@grifferz small dogs get away with murder