Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Just to keep you up to speed, I am house sitting for youngest daughter for next two weeks as she is in Spain with partner and kiddo's.

So I'm looking after a huge Rotty and a lunatic Collie/Staffie cross.

Posts might be a little less frequent than usual from me.

(*Hears a large sigh of relief !!!*)

What about Mrs JR and the two feline R's. Are they Left Behind....(in peace..?)

Our two houses are only some 400 yards apart.

We are a very close family !

AAh.. isn't that nice?! And aren't they lucky to have a local Housesitter. I use a non-local (Old Blue, as it happens) and it doesn't half wallop up the cost of the holiday...

Still my little animal family is worth it!

I woke up this morning with 'Kaiser', (Collie/Staffie cross, on his back next to me on the bed, snoring with his legs in the air and nestling into my shoulder !

And I thought I was a cat person !

He then proceeded to destroy my medication container !

J.R. wrote:I woke up this morning with 'Kaiser', (Collie/Staffie cross, on his back next to me on the bed, snoring with his legs in the air and nestling into my shoulder !

And I thought I was a cat person !

He then proceeded to destroy my medication container !

I hope he didn't get the little blue pills, the mind boggles

J.R. wrote:I woke up this morning with 'Kaiser', (Collie/Staffie cross, on his back next to me on the bed, snoring with his legs in the air and nestling into my shoulder !

And I thought I was a cat person !

He then proceeded to destroy my medication container !

Be grateful JR - if he were a full staffy he would very probably have been lying on his side, with legs extended and claws digging into your flesh. Staffs also seem to have particularly odourous paws

xx

Well, he got to the front door this morning after the post-man called before I could.

No 2. Son-in-Law is now minus a car insurance re-newal form !

He was not best amused when he phoned from Spain just before lunch !

Kaiser might have been reacting to your medication, which, if he's savaging window envelopes, can't be anything too tranquilising!

The post this morning has brought me three window envelopes, and how I am wishing I had this proactive dog to destroy them quickly!

Ferdinand does his best, of course, having a little sleep on the door mat.

Grr! Grr!

Angela Woodford wrote: Kaiser might have been reacting to your medication, which, if he's savaging window envelopes, can't be anything too tranquilising!

If he went for the leg (and not with his teeth) then he definitely got at those little blue pills Mary referred to... (and no, Mary, I don't!)

BTW, JR "Kaiser?" Definitely the sort of name that gives rotties a much undeserved reputation! I once knew one called Lucy, but I'm not suggesting you go quite that far - she was a wimp. And she slobbered a lot.

'Kaiser' is the staffie/Collie cross.

'Beau' is the beautiful big Rotty

now ocnsidering he J.R said posts may be slightly less frequent whilst he is house sitting- i personally have not notcied any change! Here i was thinking maybe i could get another 3000 posts in while he is gone and try and get up to the same level as him and plum!

Just keep trying !

NB Mr Plum will be quiet for a while, firstly now on his holiday in Devon and secondly before he starts his new job in the exciting borough of Banstead......

Collie-cross dogs can be a bit volatile so I am not surprised that Kaiser got the post. I had one once (a Welsh Collie/Rough Collie cross) and if he did not like the look of anyone, he didn't stop to ask any questions. It got very embarrassing and I learned to be careful. Unfortunately his brother was much worse - he had to be put down....after savaging me. I was 'doing' the 1980 Census, having had my dog about nine months. I'd left my dog at home, but his brother's 'house' was on my patch, so I had no hesitation in going in to say 'hello'. Whether he did not like my smell (?) or whatever - we will never know. He lunged at me, tore half my mouth away (it's tingling as I write that - but I was fortunate to have had a brilliant maxiliofacial surgeon and the scars are now barely visible) and then went for my arm where I was badly bruised despite wearing an Arran sweater. Almost the hardest thing in my life was going back to my own dog, after I had been discharged from hospital about 12 hours later. He flew across the garden towards me and I had to be very very careful not to show any fear. He growled at my Arran sweater, though - so it was rapidly removed and destroyed- despite the many hours which my mum had invested in making it for me!

Sounds like JR has his hands (let alone his bed) full at the moment!