What I did last Thursday... (Or, how sharp are MY claws!)

Now that I've caught you up with what has happened since the last time I was able to write my blog, Mummy says I have to confess what I did last thursday while she was out. As I've written, I dribbled through the kitchen gate and now have almost full run of the house - it's hard for me to understand why I can't check on all my territory regularly - how can I fulfill my role properly if I'm not allowed everywhere? Having nowhere to secure me when she's out means that Mummy has to leave me In Charge! But I miss her when she's not home. I don't really have any doggy friends to play with, even though several keep getting invited over for doggy dates. For some reason their parents keep being busy and unable to bring them over - is it me? Is it something I said? I'm lovely, really! And would like a doggy-friend...

But, back to the matter at paw! So, Mummy left me In Charge for just over three hours, and at first I was OK and busy with the importance of making sure everything was alright. But then I started to get a little lonely, and my sister didn't want to play with me, but instead went and hid in her house and caught up with her sleep, so I decided that I was going to find my Mummy and no pesky UPVC door was going to get in my way! So I started to dig...

After I'd pulled the middle of the door out of the frame I squeezed my way through the corner and trotted off into the big wide world. What an adventure! I was young, excited, free and had a mission to perform: Operation Mummy-finding! I went looking along some of the routes that we walk on - I thought I'd pop by to see my erstwhile boyfriend and see if he had a big enough hook to hang the moon for me, but he wasn't around, so I kept on exploring - there's so much to explore when you're not on a lead and go where the wind blows you! I was so entranced with all the doggy-gossip along the way that I almost forgot that I was on an important mission! But then it came to mind that I wasn't on a pleasure sniff, so I thought I'd trot back home to see if Mummy had come back yet. She hadn't but there were some workmen doing up a house down our road, so I thought I'd go and say hello, seeing as I'm a friendly little soul and like being admired! (and they might have some food!). They played with me for a bit (I scared them when I first poked my head round the door, but they soon noticed my happy smiling and realised I was just being neighbourly!), but I was still on my mission and went off to search some more.

I was busy sniffing a most entrancing bush when, all of a sudden, there was something tasty, a kind voice and a lead around my neck and I was being put in a cage in the back of a van. We travelled around a bit and the door opened again and another dog was put into another cage in the back of the van. We stopped again for a while while the humans who had caught me got out and got back in again, then we had a longer journey. When we got to the end of this journey, both of us were taken out of the back of the van and taken into some buildings and put into runs with water. As I was brought from the van I heard a lady with a nice voice exclaim that I must be a Tibetan Mastiff, and how nice it was to see one again. I spent the afternoon exploring the territory I found myself in and got quite cozy!

Mummy told me her side of this story when she got me home, and I don't know what she had been worried about - I can look after myself and I know where home is. I just got a little lonely without her there. She explained that front doors were there to keep me in when she left me at home, and that I should keep watch over my territory without looking for more when I was Left In Charge. I must admit, having no front door is rather inconvenient as it means we have to go out the back and round the house to go anywhere! But I'm fine and I left my sister looking after the house - after all, if you can't trust a cat, who can you trust?

Wow! What a time it's been! Mummy got a facebook account towards the end of last year, and has been spending a lot of time of it talking to other people (am I not enough company for her?), so it's been difficult to wrest the keyboard from her to write up my blog. But she's asleep on the sofa right now, so I'm grabbing my chance!

I've grown quite a bit since my last blog - I even discovered boys for 3 weeks last August! I kept Mummy up for at least 3 days straight because I felt very strange and didn't want to be left alone with all the mad hormones! I found a boyfriend who lived over the fence behind our house. Mummy says that she looked out the window while washing up and saw me coquettishly running around in circles kicking my heels up in the air every so often and giggling like a schoolgirl, but I think she's exaggerating. He promised me the moon... After that, I wasn't allowed anywhere outside the house without a chaperone - I felt quite medieval going everywhere with a duenna!

I spent my first christmas with my scary great-great-aunt and Grampa - we took 'Bella with us and she talked a lot during the journey, but only conversationally! In order to protect her from Great-great-aunt Dotti (who is quite the rat and cat catcher), 'Bella had to stay in Mummy & Daddy's room - no fair! I wasn't allowed to stay with them - I had to stay with GGA Dotti in the kitchen - Eeeeek! But I am a clever Tiggy and worked out how to open all the doors in Grampa's house - Haha! It may be noisy, but I get through in the end! I spent my first new year with the other grandparents, but because they don't have a dog, and their kitchen wasn't necessarily dog-friendly, I had to sleep in my crate and I didn't like that! Maybe it was because it was a strange place or maybe I remembered something from when I visited the day I left my siblings and started on my new life, but I wasn't going to be left alooooone! In the end Mummy & Daddy slept in the kitchen with me so that everyone else could get some sleep - I liked having them so close!

Since coming home, because I dribbled on the kitchen gate and broke through, there's nothing to stop me from sleeping in the bedroom with them - 'Bella wasn't happy at first and I didn't see why I couldn't sleep on the bed like 'Bella does, but I know my place now and am quite happy to settle down and let 'Bella cuddle up beside Mummy - as long as we're all together!