Life with Spots
After months away, I took Mac back to ringcraft tonight. Considering he hasn’t been in a ring since February 2020, he coped really well. it was great just getting back into the swing of showing and seeing faces I haven’t seen in months and months.
We took Seren too, she sat in her crate, had a tripe stick and watched.
We’ve had puppies, well Lottie and Mac have had puppies! We welcomed 11 pups into the world and our home in April, 5 boys and 6 girls.
They grew so fast, before we knew it they were earring solid food, playing outside all day and being cheeky!
The time for them to go to their new homes came way to soon, and we did shed some tears.
We kept one of the girls, so we will be sharing with you Seren’s stories, as well as Mac and Lottie’s.
As lockdown is lifting and it was a beautiful day yesterday, we took the opportunity to visit my parents. The Spots love where my parents live, plenty of space, water and cuddles. They had a lovely day, mooching, paddling and chilling out.
Everyone thinks that Dalmatians are very active … mine actively sleep!
After their morning stomp, they love nothing better than to sleep in the sun until lunchtime!
It does have its advantages as I can get on with my work in peace, well apart from the odd bout of snoring or dream squeaking!
We are lucky to have a little village green that always has beautiful daffodils at this time of year. Every year I intend to get photos of the Spots with the daffodils and every year I don’t get round to it.
So this year I have had a couple of special outings to the green to get photos … with varied success 🤣
And the less successful photos …
Mac and Lottie get on really well and love playing together. However, they don’t often play on walks, even when there is lots of space, too busy moving forward and sniffing. So at least once a week I take them over to the paddock at work for a play. I also use the opportunity to do a scatter feed when it’s not wet.
Ellie plays the clarinet and we spend lesson and practise time splitting Mac up from her, as he does like to join in and sing along! Her music teacher thought it would be funny to teach Ellie Cruella da Vila’s theme tune from 101 Dalmatians… he had other ideas!
We took Lottie over to the paddock for a bit of quality girl time. Ellie loves doing tricks and fun stuff with Lottie.
Lottie has been taking the girls’ homeschooling very seriously, and had tried to help them with their lessons. But as time goes on, even she is flagging, and french seemed to finish her off today 🤣
The Spots are loving the girls being at home as it means extra walks, as the girls use the walks as their PE lessons, or just to escape or delay a lesson they aren’t keen on! The Spots aren’t complaining though, and Lottie loves getting the extra treats, she does love her treats!
Ailsadot Dalmatians 