Striding for Stroke

It’s always important to help others and even better if you can enjoy doing it.

 

Yesterday we went on our trot to help Peninsula Stroke Association.  It was really exciting.  As well as the trotters, there were lots of humans on unmotorized human carriers, most with two and some with three wheels.  The guys on the three wheeled ones were lying down.  I like to take a lot of naps so I can see the advantage of riding one of these where all you have to do is stop and immediately be in the nap position.

 

There were so many humans that numbers had to be pinned to them so that they didn’t get lost.  We of course have the advantage of wearing tags, and when we were little our doctor pricked us with a big needle, after which if a special wand is waved over us it says where we live.  Humans should think about doing the same thing.  I would really not feel secure with a paper number pinned to me.

 

The day was a great success.   Our team, dressed in yellow body covers was made up of many humans whose brains had fallen out, some of whom were in chairs with wheels and their kennel mates came along to help out.  Our friends gave around 22,000 green dog biscuit vouchers to encourage us which we are extremely grateful for.  However, we still need a little more to reach our goal of 25,000.  If you would like to help us reach this goal, go to https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=55608 and it would make our tails wag really wildly and would help a lot more humans whose brains have jumped out of their heads.

Talisker

Hangovers

My litter mate, Kihei and I turned one last week so this weekend Talisker and our humans threw a big party for us.  There were 4 other fish retrievers, 2 little kids called Apollo and Jake and a couple of older local girls, Ginger and her sister, who Talisker has had his eye on for a while.  Truman joined us to help teach the little guys correct fetch etiquette, and then there were three smaller dogs, but they were more interested in sitting on top of their humans.  They were obviously concerned they might escape.

The best bit was that Mummy made us cake.  They were special dog cakes with good stuff in them like carrots and sticky stuff that bees make. Talisker ate a lot and did all sorts of things that he doesn’t usually do, like humans when they drink too much falling over juice.

Sometimes, the day after our humans have their friends over to our kennel to drink falling over juice, ours complain about having something they call a “hangover.”  They’re kind of sluggish, we have difficulty getting them off their bed, Daddy lies on the sofa watching humans on the moving picture frame hit little white balls with long sticks and as for throwing balls for us to play fetch, well forget about that.

I think the cake must have given Talisker a hangover because he was really sluggish the next day.  I have to admit to feeling a little low on energy myself.

Tobermory