Worms indeed !

Now here I am enjoying a nice warm place to watch Cesar Milan, "The Dog Whisperer" try and train some American canine mutts who misbehave and what do they put on but an advert telling all you humans that dogs get worms!  I ask you is that off putting or what? My people look after me very well and I do not have worms or anything like that, it nearly put me off my dinner!

Watching TV.....

Now I know some of you think we dogs do not see as much as you humans do...your wrong.  When we go out in the tin box on wheels I see more than my people do. I can see a cat at 100 yards, and I bark to tell them so!

Again you humans think you are the only ones that look at television, again you are wrong.  I like nothing better that to watch TV in the night with my people, I can curl up in my own armchair and if I do not like the programme I can fall asleep just like Mrs Stop'it often does !

Just woke up......

Well that was a nice long sleep I had, at least until my people woke me up by turning the television on!

Now I have heard some of you humans asking if dogs like me have dreams. Let me tell you we certainly do, in fact very much like human dreams. The difference of course is that we dream of doggy things like barking, playing and running about. Thats why sometimes if you look at one of my friends sleeping you will see their legs scampering whilst asleep.  What I do not understand is when humans have a bad dream they call it a nightmare.....I thought that is what horses had !!!

Dog tired

What a day yesterday was. My people were up and about in the morning and I knew it was carnival time in Messinia, so I had to stay alert and make sure if they went out I was included! 

Sure enough we were off in the "Green Meanie" just before lunch time, but to my surprise we headed towards Pylos not to Messini. After a short run and lots of good barks at sheep and goats in the field we make a right turn......YIPPEE we were going to my friend Pal's house.

While the humans eat and talked (they do allot of that!) Pal and I had a great time running about, barking and playing and I'm right worn out now!!!!!

Manicure !!!

Sometimes I have more difficultly with the English language than my people do with Greek! Now the misses of the house, when she was working in Britain was a chiropodist. We do not have such people in Greece to my knowledge, but I soon learnt what she did when she explained to friends over here what the job entailed.

Now this morning I heard Mr Stop'it saying he was going to give me (Rosie) a manicure, now I had never heard that word before but guessed it was something to do with making male dogs better for me.

WRONG, he took these sharp cutting things and chopped my nails off! It never hurt though, but I'm going to draw the line if he wants to varnish them !!!!

He''s gone.......

We went out this morning for my beach outing as normal but something was missing!  Yes the poor old Boxer at the bottom of the road has disappeared. Now unfortunately we do not know what has happened to him, but as you will have seen from my earlier blogs even if the "worst" did happen it was kinder than seeing him shackled and dying slowly.  It looks as if the authorities did take notice of my people and their friend. Sometimes even in Greece things do workout !

Now if only more took action like my people did we could go some way to stop my canine friends from being abused........

  

Off to see the council......

Well fortunately my people have lots of friends here and one immediately sprang to mind that not only speaks fluent Greek but also knows lots about the legal system here and its people. So armed with the photos off we went to the local authority offices. I heard them talking afterwards and think all went well, so I do hope so.

I will be checking each time we drive past .........

The events......

To follow on from yesterdays blog..... Well my people first went to a local veterinary (the dog doctor who looks after me), she made some phone calls but unfortunately unlike the U.K. there is no equivalent of the RSPCA out here. The only alternative was to report the matter to the police, so off my people went to the town police station armed with photos. Unfortunately they were told to go to a small local station in one of the nearer villages, but here the police stated it "was not their remit" and Mr Stop'it was told to report the matter to the local authority.

Now unlike me the Stop'its are not totally fluent in Greek, so they needed to contact a friend that could help....

I know I am very lucky

Despite my very bad start in life, as you will know from my early blogs and indeed my early photographs show just how thin I was, it hurts me allot seeing some of my canine friends suffering.  I know just how lucky I was in being rescued by Mr & Mrs Stop'it. 

The problem is they can not cope with more of my friends, and I know when my people see animals that are not cared for they get very upset indeed. Mr Stop'it says he has no problem seeing dogs tied provided they are fed and exercised regularly, but unfortunately this is not the case with the dog in the picture my people took the other day outside a house a few miles from our village.

I'll tell you later what just happened.... 

Ouch, that hurt !

Like most mornings this morning started with my normal walk on the beach. Today my people took me to Petalidi beach, you may recall I have a friend there that I have shown you photos of earlier. Well this morning he was nowhere to be seen but I did spy a very large black dog near a German camper van, so I went to investigate. Now despite me barking in my best Greek, she replied with a German-Greek bark and became most aggressive, I think she thought I was after her food ! Now what self respecting Greek dog would want sauerkraut and wurst?

Well things went downhill from there and we had a "set to". She might have been three times my size but I was not going to give in. Unfortunately I did get a bit injured on my right rear, as you will see from  my photo. I later found out she was a Greek rescue dog like me who now lives most of her time in Germany. Good job I say, the quicker she goes back and leaves the beach to me the better !