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.
Hugo Mills@grifferz Those extensible leads are absolute horrors. I remember being on a cycle path crossing Southampton Common once. Someone with a small dog sniffing in the undergrowth saw me coming, and politely stepped to the *other side* of the path, lead straight across my way.
If I'd hit the lead, I'd probably have broken the dog's neck (or seriously damaged it).
The dog owner just stood there, gently tugging at the lead... which just sproinged, leaving the dog exactly where it was.
Josh Holland