Bobbins the Poo Hound

Bobbins has been pretty much a model little puppy. I think she’d dearly love to be a naughty little tyke, however her blindness hinders her somewhat so she spend the majority of the time being unwittingly good. She spends a lot of time playing on her own, namely because when she gets too annoying the others walk away and leave her, and she often doesn’t realize they’ve gone. She ends up playing and making friends with odd things. She quite happily spends ages playing with her friend the drain pipe, who doesn’t run away from her! She can’t get down steps – well, to be more accurate, she doesn’t like going down steps, she quite happily leaps down them at food time, but the rest of the time she calls to be rescued.

She’s been excellent with her puppy crate too, and this has been really useful. Although she is a solid little thing, she is very small and needs to be kept safe if we’re not around to supervise. She came to us with a plastic spider toy. I said to Ian when I saw her spider that it wouldn’t last long and I had visions of one of the others shredding it, or at least chewing a leg or two off. However, her spider is still intact and keeps her company at night. Ian said it is because it is such a fearful looking spider (it is like a large real spider) that none of the others would want to play with it!

And until this week she had been excellent at night, however she’s had a spot of diarrhea which seems to come on at night. She doesn’t ask to be let out, or if she does I don’t hear her. She also appears to be quite happy rolling in it, because when I let her out in the morning she is a little poo encrusted monster scattering bits around her until she gets outside. It’s getting to be a bit of a problem, as her bedding needs washing every day. We’ve wormed her, so hopefully this will make a difference. We also changed her food recently, however I think that this has been going on for too long now for it still to be an effect of her food. Hopefully it will sort itself out this week.

We’ve got a nice little family at the moment, although it is hard to think of Petal and Tinkerbelle as being the matriarchs of the family.