charlie morph

Happy 15.5 birthday to me!!  A lot has happened in the last 11 years since I got my gold Good Citizen award.  We have more humans, more dogs, ponies, reptiles…..dad is tearing (what is left of) his hair out 😂.  

Wicket was the first dog brother to arrive 6 years ago.  I was going to have another Vizsla sister but mum's friend and my hydrotherapist had a litter of Border Terriers.  Then we fostered Freckles 3 years ago, a 5mo Greek English Pointer x who had just had hip surgery.  Mum was to take him swimming and do his exercises before sending him back to be rehomed.  Hrm, you can see that that went well.  Failed foster, successful adoption.  They keep me on my toes and playful which was kinda the point of getting more apparently.  

I still go swimming once a week and I've branched out into Low Level Laser Therapy from one of mum's friends.  I have some of the new wonder-drugs too - Librela injections once a month that help keep my arthritis in check.  I still go out walking with the young hooligans and make sure they are following the rules.  If I bark at another dog it's gratifying to see how quickly they swoop in from either side to back me up, although mum just rolls her eyes, I can't think why.  

As I've got older I'm big into My Daily Routine.  My Big Thing is dinner time.  I like to start warming up about 2 hours before it.  I give a bit of a shiver and a whine, drool a little, just so that the humans get the idea that it's coming.  I gradually shorten the time between whining and eventually escalate to barking when there's about half an hour to go.  A little childish maybe, but you've got to keep the humans under control.