We had a great day yesterday, I recognised Erica with Dylan and Jessie straight away and met Kelly with her 3 and Wendy and Bob at the same time but didn't meet any other COL members. I probably did see some as we walked around but didn't recognise them. I think it was national Chihuahua day there yesterday though, I've never seen so many in one place, mostly getting pushed around in pink pushchairs
We didn't enter anything other than Tilly doing the dash n'splash again, because she did it last year we didn't have to queue up for the practice pools, she went straight into the big one. They gave her her own Paralympic category
and she managed to beat her jump from last year by a whole foot, jumping 13 feet which isn't bad for an extremely arthritic 8 year old, the drugs are definitely working and luckily nobody reported her for steroid use
She loves doing it, she's always been mad for leaping into water and it's nice to see she still hasn't lost that
Other than that we mostly shopped until we dropped; I ordered Tills a memory foam bed (which she probably won't use), ordered them a new Yap bed and a new Ann Rees collar in brown and camo for Ro, a handmade leather slip lead for Caoimhe, a ton of venison chews and venison marrowbones, 3 buffalo trachea and 3 packs of dried turkey necks, lots of F4D stuff including a new food storage bin, a really funky dog water bottle which has a rollerball top thing like a hamster bottle so it doesn't go all over them, it's in black with a dog and crossbones design and I think it's great, a few toys including a new Kong Wubba for Tills and lamb flavoured durabone things for Ro and Caoimhe, a tub of 480 Working Dog Yumove tablets for Ro and Caoimhe which had £25 off the usual price, a bag full of muffins, pies and biscuits from the dog bakery and just the one other slip lead... another purple one for Caoimhe... that's the 2nd purple one and 4th in total I've bought in the last week, it's an actual problem I've got
My bank account notwithstanding it was a fab day; there were some lovely dogs there and I liked looking at all the different breeds, saw some gorgeous Great Danes and Newfies and lots of Staffies, Bull Terriers, Bulldogs etc. We saw a few snappy dogs, mostly the little ones like the Chihuahuas and a miniature Daxi but the only actual spat we saw all day was between two Husky types, some poor woman walking past got knocked completely off her feet by them but the vast majority of the dogs we saw were lovely and really well behaved.
