One man and his dog

Have not said much about Pete lately.  He is still with us (a dog is for life, blah blah blah!).  But, he is definitely John's dog.  Here he is having his first bath.  Growing well, but still only approx. half his expected adult weight.  He has a few friends on our estate, Eddie, a ridge back from Germany (language seems to be no barrier here).  Eddie is very tolerant of Pete, who is always the eager, over the top one.  And, there is Ashoka, a Heinz 57 Indian street dog.  Ashoka is slightly younger than Pete but has already taken over Pete in height.  Again, Pete is the eager 'beagle' and you can tell that Ashoka thinking "For god's sake Pete, calm down."

John tells me we are expecting too much too soon of Pete.  He is 5 months next week and as yet all furniture etc is intact.

The mornings are a lovely and cool 22 degrees at the moment and I walk Pete around the park for a few kms.  I then drop him off to John where Pete has been going to work with John for the past few weeks, only a couple of hours a few days a week.  He seems to be excepted though does run circuits like a lunatic around and under all the desks, and then collapses with exhaustion like a good boy when John is in a meeting.

He is off to the kennels again next week when we go on holidays, but Ashoka will be in the same kennels with him so hopefully he won't feel too home sick.