My favourite boy husky....

Getting ready to run....

I am very happy today.

I got to run with my favourite boy husky for hours and hours and Lady Human told me that I am doing something very special and exciting on Friday…..

Lady Human was a little sad when she put my harness on today, she cuddled me lots and told me that she was going to miss me lots.  I thought that we were going out just her and me but then she got Kroi’s collar and lead and asked if he wanted to come too.  Kroi never says no to running or going anywhere with Lady Human. 

Kroi leads the way...

Kroi is allowed to run with just his collar and lead, but I need to wear a harness because I like to pull and Lady Human says it would hurt my neck if I didn’t wear a harness.  One day I hope I can run on the long lead and collar because it looks like so much fun.  Kroi runs back a forth between me, Lady Human and all the exciting sounds and smells of the countryside.  He likes to wee a lot, which is silly as he should go before we start running….

Finally won him over...

Kroi is my favourite boy husky and I like snuggling up to him when I am sleeping.  He likes it now, but didn’t when I first moved in.  He was such a mummy’s boy husky and didn’t know how to treat Lady Huskies.  He got really grumpy when I followed him everywhere and wouldn’t let him have any of the toys – he said they were his. 

He has changed a lot since I have known him and is now nearly a grown up.  He is going to be a daddy later this year and he said that if he has a baby girl he will call it Lara.  I think he was just being nice to me as I think he wants a baby boy husky to play rough and tumble with.

It is fun running with Kroi and Lady Human.  Sometimes we go really quickly and sometimes we just trot along admiring the view.  We always see lots of furry creatures and Lady Human gets cross when we try and catch them.  I think she is just jealous as she isn’t fast enough to catch them…

Lady Human kept on barking today and making “choo” noises.  And her voice sometimes sounded funny too.  I wondered if an alien had taken over her body like sometimes happens in the movies, but Kroi told me that she just had a bug.  That sounds weird as the only bugs I know are the ones that crawl across the floor and I try to eat….

See, I am prettier than him, but he is rather handsome

Another big scary dog tried to hurt me again today and this time it wasn’t Lady Human that protected me, it was my favourite boy husky.  He knocked the dog down and tried to sit on it, he didn’t hurt it, but the bad dog decided not to attack me again.  The bad dog’s owner eventually took his dog away.  I don’t think Kroi liked the bad dog or his owner as he stood staring at them until they were safely away from us and I think he was muttering something under his breath.  Lady Human gave Kroi lots of cuddles and told him that he really was turning into the dog that she dreamed of…..

Lots of other dogs came chasing after us, but we ignored them and kept on running.  I think the owners of those dogs shouldn’t let them off lead if they are naughty.  One dog chased us across busy roads and was very lucky not to get hit by a car.

It was safer when we were in the countryside as the country dogs and their owners behave.  It was the town dogs and their owners that didn’t have manners….

We met a nice old lady that wanted to talk to the Lady Human.  She said that it was amazing how well behaved we were.  I think she was mistaken as Kroi was pulling funny faces to make me laugh when the two humans were chatting…..

Shall we go upstairs now..?

When we got back home Lady Human went out running with Krofti and then Kez.  Kroi and I thought that she got lost when she went out with Kez as they were gone for ages.  We snuggled up together at the front door waiting for them to return. 

Then we all had lots of breakfast and Lady Human even let me have some of hers.  Lady Human then went back to bed so I lay beside her bed as it was warm and comfy.  The boy huskies all stayed downstairs – I think they were too tired to climb the stairs….

I think Lady Human forgot that today was Sunday as we all went running in the evening too….  Kroi and I had to wait until last and he got really upset about this and had a bit of a sing song to let everyone know….

We ran up the track to the big hill and Lady Human kept on asking us to stop and then she played with her little box that makes “dring, dring” noises.  Then she suddenly squeaked really loudly and crouched down low.  Kroi ran over to her and started making funny little noises.  I tapped her with my paw to make her run again, but she didn’t want to.  She turned around and headed home, we never made it up the hill, but I did try and catch a mouse on the way back….

I had a really fun day today and I think I am going to have even more fun next weekend…..

Lara xx

(photos courtesy of Sandra Bowers)

Free the Lady Husky one...

I don't like being in jail

Lady Human put me in jail today.  She said that I needed to spend time on my own to consider my behaviour towards old huskies.  She said that I was very rude to Kroft and that I should think about what I had done and apologise to him.  

So I wrote him a letter.

Dear Krofti,

When I shouted at you today it was only because I thought you couldn’t hear me.  I know you don’t hear very well these days and so I wanted to help.  I didn’t mean to use a bad word, it just sort of came out and my “nasty face” as Lady Human called it, was just because I had an itchy nose.

I didn’t mean to push you out of the way when you tried to say hello to Lady Human, but you did just cut in front of me.  I know I came from the other side of the room, but I was heading that way too….

And I didn’t really steal your food I just thought that it was mine.  I know I have a pink bowl, but in the bright sunlight your beige one did look a little pink to me.

Sleeping on my bed...

When we walk together I don’t mean to be rude, but you are really slow and boring.  So I try to hurry you along even though Lady Human tells me off.  I know she sometimes gets impatient too as I hear her little mutterings under her breath when you sniff the same piece of grass one hundred times.

When I pulled the bed away from you as you were sleeping today I was only trying to let you know that it was my bed and that you would be more comfortable in your own bed.

The pizza crust last night was fair game in my opinion.  I know the Man Human gave it to you, but you placed it on the floor so I assumed you were too polite to refuse the gift from him.  Yes it was just under your nose and between your paws, but does that really matter...?

I wasn’t really trying to pounce on you the other day.  Maybe if you didn’t walk past my launch pad then I wouldn’t have mistaken you for a big mouse.  I know the sofa isn’t a proper launch pad, but when I am playing space invaders with the boy huskies I sort of pretend that it is, well until Lady Human stops me….

Kez telling me off

I want to be your friend, but don’t understand why you ignore me and why the other boy huskies sometimes will not let me talk to you, especially Kez.  He can be quite grumpy sometimes when he pushes me away from you or stops me jumping on top of you.

Can we be friends please?  Lady Human has promised that if I am nice to you then I will be allowed out of jail to play with the boy huskies and go running and stuff.

I promise not to steal anymore of your food or be rude to you.  I will try not to make silly faces at you or stop you getting attention from the Humans.  If I do will you be my friend and tell me how beautiful I am.  You could share your food with me – I can eat the bits you don’t like, I am not fussy…

So I guess what I am trying to say is that I am sorry for not being nice to you, but you started it…..

Lara xx

(Photos thanks to Ian J Berry & Sandra Bowers)

Today I asked a butterfly to play...

I wonder if it wants to play...

Today was fun.

Lady Human stayed at home to “tippy tap” on the computer, and every now and again she spoke to the little black box that makes “dring”, “dring” noises.  I like when Lady Human is here as I can follow her around and watch all that she does - sometimes I just stare at her.  If I stare at her lots, she starts smiling and then gives me stuff to eat or toys to play with….

Me hiding, bet you can't see me..

Sometimes she gets cross and tells me to go away.  The boy huskies stay out of the way when she gets cross, but I pretend to not understand and hide under the table so that I can still be close to her.  I make myself really small so that she doesn’t know I am there.

The butterfly

Anyway, today I followed Lady Human upstairs and into the room where the humans sometimes hide.  She was talking to something on the window ledge and I wanted to know what it was so I squeaked at her to let her know that I should see whatever she was looking at.

I asked him if he wanted to play...

She did as I told her and it was so exciting.  Lady Human had found a beautiful fluttering butterfly!  I was a bit confused as I don’t think that the cabbages in the garden have started growing yet, so I don’t know what it has been eating to turn itself into a butterfly.  Krofti told me that the real life creatures that look like Kroi’s Colin Caterpillar are born green and eat lots of cabbage.  Then they go to sleep for a long time and when they awake they turn into butterflies.  I think that is really cool and sometimes I wish that when I go to sleep I will awake and have beautiful wings, just like the boy husky that visits me in my dreams.

Planning an escape..

I was fascinated by this beautiful butterfly and asked it if it wanted to play.  It got really scared and flew away when I tried to touch it with my nose.  Lady Human tried to find it again, but I don’t think she did because she went back downstairs to go “tippy tap” on the computer and talk to the “dring”, “dring”….

Lara xx

Kroi's Colin Caterpillar disguised as a Husky..

My Solo Adventure

What are we waiting for...?

Today I went on a big adventure with the Lady Human.  It was a ladies’ day out, no boys allowed.  Apparently I am not allowed to go on the really long and relaxing runs with the boy huskies because I misbehave and then Kroi misbehaves too and then it is not relaxing.  I think the real reason is that we are too fast and strong for Lady Human – she should get fitter then it would be easier!  I could show her how to sprint up and down the garden….

I like running on my own as I get to explore and have fun.  When I run with the boys they just want to keep running and running and don’t want to stop and sniff.  The even ignore rabbits and birds sometimes, so boring!  My motto is “if it moves, chase it”, making sure that the human chases it with me too.  I sometimes make mistakes though as leaves and litter blowing in the wind aren’t really worthy of chasing, but when they move I can’t resist.  Then I have to pretend that I was just doing some sprint training as Kroi laughs at me for being silly.

Lady Human's view for most of today..

I asked Kez why he ignores furry creatures and interesting smells when he is running with Lady Human.  He said that he didn’t use to ignore them.  When he was a baby and before he did lots of running he said he used to chase things and stop and sniff every tree and all the holes where the rabbits hide.  He said that he did so much of it as he was growing up that now he only needs to do it every so often.  He said that when he is running with Lady Human he has a job to do and that is to keep running and to remain focused and make sure that Lady Human does too. 

Kez also said that he used to pull and pull when he ran with her but she asked him to not pull and just lead the way.  He said that was really hard to do as he has a deep seated desire to always pull, but he has learned to do what Lady Human really wants him to do and now he only pulls when she specifically asks him to.  That sounds a bit silly to me as I love to pull and Lady Human likes it when I am happy so why would she want me to stop pulling….

I never got to do any exploring when I was a baby as I lived in a box and didn’t see the outside.  Then when I was a little older I had to look after my own babies and never got to do any exploring.  I never had fun like I do now.  I think the Lady Human understands because when we go out together and without the boy huskies she stops a lot and lets me have fun.  We run really quickly too, but then we stop while she gets her breath back and I can sniff and explore.  When we stop she points her phone at me, not sure if she wants me to call someone?  Perhaps I could call the boy huskies and tell them how much fun I am having….

Wonder what lives in this hole

Today we helped two naughty pointers find their humans.  They had run away chasing deer and the owners were really upset when they spoke to Lady Human.  A little while after seeing the upset humans we saw the naughty pointers in the distance.  We ran towards them to get their attention and then they saw us and started chasing us.  I got really scared as it was a pointer dog that hurt Kroi recently.  Lady Human told me to run as fast as I could back where we came from.  So I did and the naughty pointers came sprinting after us.  They got closer and closer and I ran faster and faster, what if they wanted to hurt me too…

Follow me!

Lady Human suddenly stopped and stood right in front of me as the naughty pointers came charging towards us.  Suddenly the upset humans appeared and the naughty pointers changed their mind and ran over to them instead.  The humans were so happy to have the naughty pointers back.  Lady Human told me how good I was and that I didn’t need to be scared as these pointer dogs were friendly ones.  I didn’t want to say hello to them though as I had other stuff to do….

I found this huge hole that smelled amazing and there were lots of little tasty rabbit currants beside the hole.  The hole was big enough for me to crawl into and so I tried to.  Lady Human started laughing and told me I would get stuck!  I think what she actually meant was that she was too fat to follow me down the hole….    

Mmmmm rabbit currants

We ran some more and I tried to chase some birds.  Lady Human is like an anchor when she is attached to me and she slows me down so the birds fly away chattering rude words back at me.

Trying to get close to Lady Human

It was so much fun and when we got back home I followed Lady Human everywhere looking for more fun.  Humans are really cool to be around now that they don’t scare me anymore.  Lady Human got really sad and her eyes started watering when I sat on her foot and tried to cuddle her leg.  She said something about me having to grow wings and flying nests.  That sounds silly as I am not a bird and I don’t think nests can fly.  Only birds and butterflies have wings. 

We maybe that’s not quite true as the boy husky that I sometimes see in my dreams also has amazing silver wings…..

Lara xx

Little people & scary monsters

Me as a scary snake...

Sometimes Lady Human takes me running on my own, without the boy huskies.  I like when we do this as I get her all to myself.  She lets me do silly things like bounce up and down like a lamb and grab cabbage leaves in my mouth.  She laughs when I do these silly things and I like when she laughs.  I don’t like when she gets cross when Kroi and I race each playing racing car games.  She should just practise running faster and then she would be able to keep up with us….

The other day she took me running to a place where there were lots of little people.  The little people were all wearing blue jumpers.  The little boys wore trousers and the little girls wore skirts.  Lots of them wanted to speak to me and they were really nice and gentle when they touched me.

We ran down a path where an adult human was walking with her little person.  The little person started screaming and ran down the path away from her lady human.  She wasn’t on a lead and her lady human was too busy talking on her phone to call her little person back to her.  I wondered if the little person was running to the grassy area because she needed a number two.  When we got to the grassy area the little person was just standing there screaming and her eyes were watering.  She looked really scared and I got really scared too.  Perhaps there were monsters hiding in the grass that were going to hurt us….

Lady Human stopped running and crouched beside me.  I didn’t feel scared anymore, but the little person could still see the monsters and her eyes were still watering.  My Lady Human kept speaking to the little person and as she spoke to her I noticed that the little person was coming closer to us.

Lady Human kept cuddling me and I snuggled closer to her as I knew she would protect me if the monster suddenly attacked.  The little person’s adult human had decided to stop talking on her phone and she started speaking to Lady Human.  I think she said something about the little person being hurt by a bad dog.  I think she meant to say a dog with a bad human, but was a little confused.

I know that dogs should never hurt little people and it made me sad to think that this little person had been hurt by one of my kind.  I tried to edge towards the little person just as another little person suddenly appeared.  This little person shouted “husky” and reached over to touch me.  Lady Human let him cuddle me and I liked it lots.  When he left I turned around and the little person with the watering eyes was standing right beside me.  Her eyes were no longer watering and as Lady Human continued to speak to her she put her hand on my neck and gently touched my fur.  Then she started smiling and rubbed her hand all around my neck and head.  I liked it a lot.

Lady Human was smiling lots and I think she said something about “husky magic”.  Then the little person started smiling and said I “looked like a silver fox”.  She said it so happily that I smiled and bounced around after we left her and started running again.

I like little people.  They don’t scare me and seem to know when I am scared.  Some adult humans don’t understand me and they try to touch me when I don’t want them to.  Most little people wait until I relax and then they touch me.  I think some of the little people understand me in the same way as Lady Human does.

Lara

(photo joint effort of S. Bowers & Ian J. Berry...)

The little dog that loved to run

The little dog did love to dream.  She dreamt of a place where she could run.  A place where she was free and happy and her babies were safe.  A place they could all run free together.

Her life was sad and she was always scared.  Her dreams took her to a beautiful place, a promised land for those that dream….

One day the door to her prison was opened and she placed her feet upon grass for the first ever time.  She stretched her legs and dreamed of more….

She never again saw the man that held her a prisoner in a small cage.  She met new people and got to explore a whole new world.  An exciting world of different smells, sounds and sights.  People spoke to her, shared good food with her and welcomed her into this new world.  It was an exciting world, but still a scary world and the little dog still loved to dream….

She dreamt of her babies, did not know where they were and if they were safe.  She longed to see them one more time.

One day the little dog had a terrible fright.  She was so scared that she ran and ran.  She had never run alone before and the further she ran the more scared she became.  There were so many strange smells and sounds and no friend to help her understand them.  She did not know where she was.  Her legs hurt and her paws were sore.  Her whole body ached from the effort of running so fast.

Suddenly there was a flash and the little dog felt pain no more.  She continued to run and as she ran each stride became easier.  She flew across the ground.  There was brightness everywhere and lovely smells and sounds.  The little dog smiled as she ran.  This was the place of her dreams and she was really there.  In the distance she saw her pack - her brothers, sisters and all her babies.  They gently called to her as she ran towards them.  She felt extreme happiness as they nuzzled her and playfully jumped upon her.

They played together for hours and then the leader of the pack told them that it was time.  They gathered together and then they ran.  As they ran the little dog felt her legs go faster and faster, so fast that each bound took her further from the ground.  Suddenly the ground was no longer beneath her feet, yet she continued to move forwards.  She looked around and saw all her pack now flying high above the ground.

As they flew the little dog looked down and recognised all the places where she had once been….

The horrid man who kept her in a box and took her babies from her was far below.  He no longer walked free and he now lived in a box with bars.  He looked sad and grumpy and just stared at the wall of his box.  He had no friends and it looked like there was no door in his box made of bars.

And then the little dog saw the family that had shared their sounds and smells with her.  The family that had fed the little dog - touched her and told her how special she was.  They all looked sad and tears flowed down their faces.  They held a photo of the little dog close to their hearts.  The little dog whimpered as she did not want them to be sad.  The leader of the pack flew to the little dog’s side “fear not my little one, in time the tears will stop and they will remember you with smiles and happy thoughts.  They will love you forever and never forget how they helped save you from a different life”.  The little dog looked down upon the family one last time and then called her babies to her.  She would miss this special family very much, but now she was finally living her dream.

The little dog had found that special place that she had always dreamed of.  She had found her babies and found her pack.  She no longer felt pain or sadness and no longer was she scared.  But best of all she could now run free, forever and a day she would run forever free…..

Lara xx

(image courtesy of Ian J Berry)

Lara the Arctic Explorer

Me looking all pensive

I am no longer “Lara the Lady Husky”, I am “Lara the Arctic Explorer” and I have been on a big adventure….

We woke up one morning and outside there was white stuff everywhere.  It was cold and fluffy and so much fun to run in.  I could jump in it, roll in it and even eat it!  The garden looked just like the place where the polar bears live. We watched them one time on the flat box with moving pictures that talks to you.  Krofti told me that the white stuff was snow and it had fallen from the sky just like rain, but because it was so cold it had frozen and turned all fluffy.  Sometimes little pieces of white fluffy stuff just like snow falls out of the big food box in the kitchen, the one where our food hides.

Look at me, I can fly!!

I played for hours in the snow with the boy huskies and Man Human kept on asking me to do things while he lay down in the snow with a little box with a big tube that he kept pointing at me.  It made clicky noises every time I whizzed by.  Kroi told me that he was trying to shoot me but I was too fast.  Kroi says silly things sometimes because I know that the Man Human likes me a lot and he wouldn’t want to shoot me.  He sometimes tries to shoot Krofti with a water gun to try and make him stop singing, but Krofti is too clever and he always misses.  I think Man Human wants to be a husky because he looked really cold and he couldn’t move his human paws after put the box and tube thing away…..

After we had played for ages, Lady Human took me running with the boy huskies.  She kept on saying the “steady” word, but we all ignored her because it was too much fun trying to run really quickly in the snow.  We tried to help by pulling her forward to make her run faster, but she looked all wobbly and kept on making weird noises.  Humans are funny when they run in the snow – they only put their back paws in the snow and wave their front paws around a lot.  They should use all four paws then they wouldn’t fall over so much.

A penguin that takes speed ....

There were lots of little birds and some didn’t want to fly and waddled away from us on the snow.  They looked like little penguins on speed, it was really funny watching them.  The boy huskies and I all tried to catch them, but Lady Human got really grumpy and told us to stop.  Kez and Kroi stopped trying to chase them and Kez jumped on me when I didn’t want to stop.  Kez told me that they were game birds and we would get into trouble, but I didn’t believe him because those little birds obviously didn’t want to play games with us….. 

We didn’t see any more penguins on speed, but I did see a big red cat with a very pointy nose and a big bushy tail.  I smelled it first because it was really pongy, and Kez and Kroi smelled it too.  Lady Human made us stop and she crouched down on the snow, which seemed really silly as she doesn’t have a tail to keep her bottom warm.  She kept on telling us to stay, but I didn’t want to as I wanted to follow this smell.  Kez and Kroi went over to see why Lady Human was sitting in the snow and as soon as they did that the smell got stronger and this pointy nosed cat ran across the field really quickly.  I tried to run after it but Lady Human was too heavy for me to pull across the field.  Kroi tried to help me, but Kez being such a mummy’s boy stayed where he was and then shouted at Kroi and jumped on him so Kroi stopped helping me.  The pointy cat disappeared and Lady Human started running again.

We ran up a very steep hill with a little ditch in the middle.  There were big bushes on either side of the path and lots of rabbits kept on jumping across the path.  It was really exciting and Lady Human was trying to run really fast to keep up with us.  She laughed a lot and sounded all huffy and puffy.  Then this really white bird suddenly swooped down in front of us.  I had never seen a bird like it before and it didn’t make any noise as it flew along in front of us.  It had fluttery wings like a squeaky bat, but much bigger and really white.  I tried to run as fast as it was flying, but Lady Human was too slow and it flew over the bushes and disappeared.

I decided to run slower as the boy huskies looked tired.  They think that they are faster than me and can run further than me and I don’t want to upset them by showing off too much.  So I pretend that I am tired, but I am not really….

What a  polar bear really looks like....

We saw some more penguins on speed, but they were too far away and as I watched them a big growly dog suddenly appeared.  It was big and white and looked like a ferocious polar bear.  It leapt at Kroi, but Lady Human jumped in front of the polar bear and shouted at it.  Kez hid behind Lady Human and I tried to hide in the snow by lying down and making myself really small.  The polar bear kept on growling and Kroi tried to shout at it while hiding behind Lady Human.  I think Lady Human growled the scariest because the polar bear didn’t try to hurt Kroi again and just stood there muttering under its breath.  Then this lady appeared and captured the polar bear with a lasso.  I got up from my hiding place in the snow and watched the unfriendly polar bear being dragged away as the lady said something about “never done that before”…. 

Leaping after the caribou...

We ran some more and as we ran down the hill where the badgers live some deer came charging out of the woods.  I got really excited again and so did the boy huskies.  Lady Human tried to make us stop running but we all ignored her and kept on running.  The deer looked like caribou running across the open snow land.   Our favourite food is deer and caribou must taste even better.  Our food lives in a big ice box before we eat it so perhaps we were now living in the world’s biggest ice box and our dinner was waiting for us.  I looked across at the two boy huskies and asked them if they wanted to play a game.  A game called “let’s pretend we are wolves”.  Their husky smiles said it all and off we ran, wolves in pursuit of caribou as Lady Human finally learned how to fly………

Lara xx

(Photos courtesy of Sandra Bowers, Ian J Berry & Wikipedia)

Three of my most favourite things

Look at me go.......

Three of my four most favourite things: running, food and gentlemen….

Wow, had the best day ever today!  I got to run with lady human; eat so much good food that my belly hurt and met a really nice man looking for a new running buddy…

Lady human got up really early and took the boy huskies running.  I was sad that I didn’t get to run but I didn’t let it worry me and had a little sleep in the kitchen with my fluffy cat while I waited for the boy huskies to return.

When they returned man human put me in the car while lady human cuddled the boy huskies.  I don’t think that the lady human likes leaving the boy huskies and the boy huskies don’t like it when she is not there.  The two baby boy huskies wait by the front door looking really sad and grumpy while Krofti sings away too himself in his bedroom…  But don’t tell the boy huskies that I called them babies as they think they are sooo grown up, yeah right….

I even have a matching bucket.....

We went for a drive in the vroom, vroom car and then we arrived at the place where the boy huskies like running really fast.  Once upon a time the boy huskies did something very special at this place, something that no one else will ever do.  I think they are very proud of what they did as they did it with the lady human and they are happiest when they do things together with her.

Everything was so exciting, I had to stare...

It was a little scary at first, being at this place where there are lots of humans and no boy huskies to help me.  Lady human was really cool though as she knows when I am scared and helps me feel better.  All the other humans suddenly ran away from us, and there were hundreds of them running so close together that they looked like a swarm of bees.  Lady human told me to stay for a bit and then we started running but we stayed on the grass and ran in between all the gorse bushes.

We overtook lots of the humans and then I got a little scared as there were so many people and I don’t know any of them.  I tried to hide behind a gorse bush, but I don’t think the lady human liked that as she squeaked when she ran through the gorse – I forgot to tell her to make herself small so she could fit through the lady husky sized hole between the bushes that I found. 

The cows were my favourite fascination...

Once the lady human stopped squeaking we started running again, straight into a herd of cows!  I wanted to say hello, but lady human told me to keep running.  Then a rude dog started chasing us, but I was too fast for it and it ran out of puff.  We got to splash in lots of puddles and I got to play at being a submarine.  I am really good at this game and it is so much fun!

I think the lady human found it hard to run today as she has been limping a lot recently and sometimes she stops running and walks.  I think this is why she does not run with all three of us together at the moment.  I think it hurts her too much when we play at being racing huskies.  I have been running with only Kez, while Kroi runs either alone or sometimes with Kez.  Kez is a goody two shoes and always behaves so I think he is allowed to run with everyone….

After we stopped running I got lots of cuddles and lots of treats from the lady human.  Then I met this really nice man who told me all about his dog and how he is looking for a new running buddy.  He really liked me and I liked him and would like to run with him and his little dog…..

I had to wait in the car when the man and lady human ate cake and talked to all the other humans.  Lady human kept on popping out to say hello.  I think she was worried that I would be naughty, but she need not have worried as I am a really good girl and knew she would not leave me alone for long.

On the way home we stopped at the most amazing place where everywhere smelled of meat.  Then the humans put loads of this delicious meat in the back of the car and let me choose a special piece to eat on the journey home.  I think I ate too much as my belly is really big now and I keep making little rude noises, but please don’t tell the boy huskies as I blame them, like the time they ate too many brussel sprouts…..

Lara

Back home with my most favourite things......

My harness, line and lady human's running belt were all very kindly given to us by Emily at K9Trailtime - for all your dog running needs :-)

 (photos kindly taken by Stuart March & Ian J Berry)

Today I saw a mouse's tail

image ©Kobiart

Sometimes when I am out running with Kroi he jumps into the grass and pretends that he is hunting mice.  He tells me that he catches lots but I have never seen him catching one so I think he is playing make believe.  He does find bits of string sometimes as I see a little bit of it sticking out from his mouth.  He is a silly husky because only cats chase balls of string, not boy huskies!

Kroft told me that he once caught a mouse and that Kade used to catch them all the time.  But one time a mouse got its revenge and bit Kade’s tongue, which made him cry and throw the mouse away.  The mouse then scampered away to tell its family of the day it took on a husky…

Kez says that we shouldn’t catch mice because Lady Human gets upset and he doesn’t like when she is sad.  Kroi says we shouldn’t listen to his big brother as all proper huskies hunt little furry creatures.  Our ancestors in far off lands had to take care of themselves and find their own food, which meant that they had to hunt their own dinner!  I think Lady and Man Human must do all the hunting for us as they come home with our dinner in big boxes.  I don’t know what they do with all the fur because it isn’t there when we eat it.  I wonder if they eat the fur before they come home, yeuchh!

Apparently the reason that we are not allowed off lead in the countryside is because only the humans are allowed to hunt the big furry creatures that live there.   Kroi says we will not get into trouble if we hunt little furry things, but we must leave the big furry ones alone.  Sometimes he forgets this and Lady Human gets cross when he tries to make her chase the big furry things too…

Anyway, something really exciting happened today!  I was out running with Lady Human on a grassy path with long grass on the side.  I suddenly heard a noise and jumped into the long grass to listen closer.  Lady Human stopped running and loosened my lead.  I stopped jumping and listened.  There it was again, it was a rustling noise like something little was moving in the grass.  I pounced where the noise came from and it stopped.  Then I heard the noise and pounced again.  I could smell something too.  It smelled like the smell of the balls of string that Kroi sometimes eats… 

I got really excited as I tried to jump on the smell of the ball of string.  I was playing make believe like Kroi does and today I was pretending that I was a cat.  Lady Human was laughing as I played and it made me happy, so I kept on pretending that I was a cat pouncing on a ball of string….

Then I saw it!  I saw a little piece of string moving towards the wall and with one huge leap I pounced on it.  I wasn’t quick enough and it disappeared into a teeny, weeny hole in the wall.

When we got back home I told the boy huskies all about my fun playing with a ball of string.  Kroi started laughing and when I asked him to tell me why he was laughing, Kez told me to go and speak to Krofti.  I went to where Krofti was sleeping and politely asked him if he knew why Kroi had laughed at me.

Krofti yawned and looked up at me from where he lay.  “Lara, Kroi was laughing because he knows how much fun you had today chasing mice.  Those little bits of string are mice’s tails.  You are a proper husky that is why you enjoy hunting and chasing.  You don’t need to pretend to be a cat.  Just be who you are”.

Krofti is very old and very wise and so what he says must be true.  I really did see a mouse’s tail today.  So cool, maybe next time I will see the rest of the mouse…….

Lara xx

My new life...

Dear Diary,

Not quite sure where I should start as so much has happened these past few months…

One minute I was really sad and living in a box alone.  My babies had all been taken from me and I missed them a lot.  Then the horrid man threw me in a van, drove me somewhere and threw me out the van.  He grabbed my neck and it hurt lots, but it was the last time I felt pain and the last time that I felt sad.

The man had left me with a lady who fed me and let me play with other huskies.  She was nice to me and tried to make friends with me but I was a little scared of her because I did know her very well.  I think she understood because sometimes I saw her smiling at me and smiling people are not scary.

Anyway, next thing is that I am travelling with lots of huskies and when we arrive at our destination I meet some new people and another husky.

The new people and the husky took me for a little car journey and suddenly my life is complete, I am living with three boy huskies!! 

Okay scrub that last statement I am not that simple.  And I am a lady husky after all….

But seriously, suddenly I am living this really cool life where I get to run every day, play with boy huskies, sleep where I want, eat what I want and do whatever I blooming well want…. 

The humans don’t appear to agree with the last point but as their rule is “only tell the husky off when you actually catch it doing the thing that you are telling it off about” as long as I am sneaky they cannot scold me….

Anyway, was watching the lady human the other day and she was doing lots of this writing stuff which seemed to make her happy and I suddenly thought - what if I started writing too.  Would it make me happy?  I have got so much to tell.

So here I am, full of loads of stories to tell about my new life.  There will be tears and there will be smiles and lots of fun along the way.  

Gotta go now as one of the boy huskies is trying to steal my furry cat that I thought was safe….

Lara