Kanine Kapers Dog Blog

A couple of weeks back when it actually wasn’t raining  we decided to head up to St. Andrews for some beachy fun with Harry and the kids. We left Midas at home, the excitement might have been too much for him and quite frankly any exercise  and he’s wiped for hours if not days afterwards. For those who don’t live in Scotland (apparently we do have visitors to our website from as far a field as Australia, Germany and Croatia, I could try and be smart and say ‘Hi’ in your native lauguage but I would fail miserably, only ever did French at school), St. Andrews has the most perfect beach for dog walking, lots of dunes to hide in and explore.

My current video project at the moment is the footage I took on the beach of the kids and Harry running up and down the dunes .  Most of it is very dodgily shot as everyone was moving so fast and let’s be honest I’m no cameraman or editor or director but doing these things at night stops me eating chocolate.

Harry had great fun investigating the water though he rapidly found out that you don’t drink sea water.  In fact Harry found out about a lot of things that you don’t do at the beach:

1. Don’t approach big black labradors carrying whole trees in their mouths, no matter how polite you are being they don’t want to share that tree ( seriously, it was huge!)

2. Don’t eat sand

3. Don’t eat wet sand

4. Don’t eat shells

5. Don’t eat seaweed

6. Don’t chase kite surfers (they can chase back!)

7. Lastly, don’t assume that if you are running down a sand dune that you will be able to stop at the bottom.

On the ‘Do’ side:

 Do have fun and lots of it!

PS Watch out for the video, promise it will be up soon

Firstly , I must apologise for not blogging, I’ve had the folllowing written for some time and never got round to putting it up (it should have gone up with the video), just been too busy, with what escapes me at present but well, here it is, the missing blog.

When we had decided that we were going to get a puppy I had already made my mind up that I wanted one from Liz . We had had a few dogs come through our classes that had come from Liz and without exception all were, not only beautiful to look at but had the sweetest dispositions and I fell in love with each and every one of them.

Midas had started to become ill and at one point we thought that losing him would be a very real problem that we would have to face sooner rather than later so we put the puppy plan into action.  It probably sounds quite mercenary to think of bringing a new life into the family as one leaves it but the kids were really upset with Midas so ill that a little joy and excitement was enough to lift their spirits when they were faced with losing a much loved friend.  So in June 2007 we first made contact with Liz to see about getting our name on the waiting list for one of her puppies.  A good breeder will have  a waiting list.

 We kept in regular touch with Liz , as to how things were going on the puppy front and eventually on the 12th October Liz sent us an email and photos of the pups when they were a few hours old.  Over the next few weeks as the video shows we took to almost camping out in Liz’s house to watch the pups change from furry little blobs to the cutest puppies ever (me biased, never!).