He'll never forgive me

Todays the day Toff loses his 'essentials' so to speak , eek

I know its earlier than I wanted , ideally I was going to get him neutered when he was around 2 - 3 years old , if at all ... but Gypsys 7 months old now (where did the time go) and so her first season cant be far off , and id rather not deal with an unplanned litter ... in this madhouse , with lunatic kidlets running round that would be a definite possibility

So im feeling guilty , the OH is teasing me that Toffee will come home barking falsetto and my poor lad is clueless as to whats going to happen to him later on today

Ive hurt my arm so the OH is helping out with their tea-time walks

Play date with Bella (lots of pics)

Took the monsters round to my friends house today and Bella , next doors dog , was there... so it was mega racey chasey time for the next couple of hours :D

Nice photo , shame Toff's enamoured with her bum , lol

New friends

Bella

What Gypsy thought when Bella was called in by her Mum

A weekend away

We went to open up the lodge this weekend ready for the Parks opening , It was Gypsys first time there , she took to the beach like a duck to water , dived straight into the sea and had a whale of a time ... Toff was his usual 'chicken' self and barely got his paws wet :lol:

Steve took these gorgeous pics of them , im going to get them enlarged and framed and hang them side by side

It was Red Nose Day while we were away too ... so I decided the dawgs should join in the fun (not really , they'd have eaten the noses , its just photoshopped , lol)

Yesterday I wondered ...

Could these two possibly get any muckier

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Today that question was answered , lol

Puddle fun

Hi Toff & Gypsy here , we thought it was about time we nagged Mum to update :)

Not much to say really , we're both doing well with our training , eating well and having tons of fun playing too ... lifes simply fantastic

So anyway , today Mum took us on the field as normal , but took our human sis Jean along as well to snap some pics of us , Mums getting a bit bored of just taking pics of us in the house and garden (or the mudpit as Dad calls it) so wanted something different ...

well , there was this huge field full of lovely dry grass for us to run around on , but we're border collies , never happier than when we're knee deep in some muddy water ... and guess what we found in the middle of the field , this huuuuge muddy puddle , total bliss :-D

so enough with the chat ... heres some pics of the two most gorgeous BC's you'll ever see (hey , no-one said we had to be modest on our own blog , lol)

dont we look clean , not for long , lol

Its Puddle fun time

and now a run to dry off a little

Gypsy's an Intellectual

though she prefers a good horror story over a musty history or philosophy book anyday :)
(for anyone who'se interested the book is Steve Altens The Trench .. a fiction book , its the second in a trilogy about Megalodon sharks)

what do you want ...id just reached a good bit


Leave me alone , I cant concentrate


Fine ..have it your way , i'll carry on reading when you've gone away

Worlds End ... part two

Its part two cos we loved it so much yesterday that we decided to go back again today while theres still loads of snow around :)

whats she spotted

Toffs on the scent

Baby loves to run

Pretty boy

Such a sweet face

Argh , its the infamous welsh mountain troll ... and shes caught two cute pups for her tea

(or ... Me and my sweet angels :D )

Yay , we found snow , lol

Steve took us up to Worlds End in Wales today , he knew id wanted snow pics of my pair

The camera was set to take black and white pics and we didnt realise til we got home ... not that I really mind , they still look gorgeous (not biased much am I , lol)

Gypsy - not too sure yet

Toff

well , play with me then

Chase me

Running Free

Proud Boy

Happy Birthday Toffee :)

He's one year old today , my sweet cuddlemonster (feb 6th was the day he & his littermates were born)
I totally adore this dog :-D


He's such a sweetie he'll even share one of his pressies with his sister


He's worn out now , infact they both are ... Yay !
we've spent most of the day playing in the fields (very muddy) playing in my friends garden (not quite as muddy) and chasing balls in our garden (a mudswamp)
add in all that chewing and chomping on that rawhide bone and the poor pooches are pooped (try saying that fast 5 times , lol)

Happy Birthday my sweet boy ... may we have many more together :D

Criminal Acts

Just starting out on her criminal career in the BC Gang , I introduce you to Miss Sweetcheeks

Deftly being guided by the big boss , the Tri-terror himself , Mr Toffmeister ... Miss Sweetcheeks has in the last month destroyed (or attempted to) the remote control , my daughters nicotine inhalator (she's trying to quit ciggies) , numerous pairs of socks and her Dads slippers (his second pair I might add , Toff destroyed the first pair ) & much to one of the kidlets dismay , a Thomas the tank engine jigsaw puzzle

Both Criminal Mastermind wannabes blatantly ignore the evidence and try to steer all blame towards the kidlets whilst loudly bemoaning the fact that no cats live here that they can blame
Nice try gang ... but we know the truth

Just some piccies

My two today :)

Go running to Mum , im not playing

Mum, Mum ... he wont play with me

I still dont wanna play ... gonna stare at these clouds

Fine then ... i'll go pose for the camera and get loads of treats

Lazy Mum

We've been asking her to write in here and post some pics , but she always seems to be too busy ... but yesterday we threatened to bite her toes every night for an hour if she didnt and that seems to have got the result we wanted :P

Toff says
Gypsy is nearly 4 months old now , and she's a terror ... she wont leave me alone , If she's not pouncing on me to play then she's pinching my toys or food ... of course being the elder brother I act maturely about these things , and either pounce back or pinch my toys/food back off her ... its a bit of a vicious circle really (but without the vicious bit , lol)
Still , she is my Sis , and she looks up to me , always wants to do what I want to do , wont go anywhere unless I go with her ... its kinda cute and im glad she's here , even when I cant get my cuddle alone time with Mum or Dad cos she's always gotta join in
I really enjoyed my first christmas ... I got loads of new toys , a bed and of course, extra yummy food ... Mum says it only happens once a year though :(
still ... theres always my birthday to look forward to :)

Gypsy says
Well i've been here a while now and its been fun, fun, fun
My brother is soooooooo kewl, he knows the best games ... he loves playing 'chase me' and 'steal the toys' and 'its my stick' almost as much as I do ... im pretty sure he isnt as keen when I nick his food , but hey , if its not in his mouth its fair game ... well ok , even if it is in his mouth its fair game too , I dont want to miss out on anything after all do I , hehehehe
We just had something called Christmas and New Year ... I got a lot of new things to play with and sleep on ... and some tasty new things to eat too :)
On New Year there were lots of bangy loud things going off , Mum and my human Sis Jean were looking out of their window , so of course me and Toff wanted to see too ... the loud bangy things were making the sky light up , even though it was dark , it was kinda pretty.
Mum said it was nice seeing two dogs who werent scared of the noise cos it always broke her heart how terrified Buddy used to get with storms and fireworks ... she looked sad for a while and said she missed Buddy
Later on when it was quiet I asked Toff who Buddy was and Toff said he was Mums old dog who has gone to play now at the bridge
I hope Mum loves us as much as she loves Buddy ... Toff says he reckons she does cos we're both way too adorable not to love ... gotta say I agree with him :)
anyway , heres a few photos of me and Toff

TOAST on xmas morning ...Mmmmmmmm

God bless us every one

Poor Toff , its a Pounce attack

Handsome lad

Beautiful Girl

Sticktime (Dads annoyed we've reduced the garden to mud but Mum says what the heck , it'll grow back , lol)

Cute pose

Just the two of us

Cutiepie