Mirren September 29th

Still confined to barracks.  I am getting walked but on the lead and I have to take it easy.  I am a bit embarrassed by my haircut.  Pam says she understands how a bad hairdo can just lower your self esteem.  I try to be brave, but it depresses me a bit.  I know it'll grow back soon but I'm used to shaggy, "just got out of bed" hair.  I am always amazed at women who shave their heads for charity.  They are so brave.   I know they do it for a good cause by I stand in awe of their confidence.  It gets very chilly.
Anyway, Big Boy has been quite pleasant.  He lets me have his bed and walks on the outside of me to hide my bald bits.  He has been quite kind.  A bit of a gentleman actually.  I am also getting free rein/reign (both do) of the furniture.  I have to be comfortable.  I'm becoming quite adept at the sad, pathetic eye thing.

Magnus September 29th

Life is great.  I get to run about like a a puppy, unattacked by Witch Face, who is on a lead.  It's great.  Ewen throws sticks and stones and she's not showing off how fast she is. I get to run and retrieve and win every time.  I'm letting her have the big bed just now.  She needs to stretch her legs.  But she's getting much better so I'll need to assert myself again.  Mind you, if she's on my bed, Pam and Ewen, acknowledging my  chivalrous behaviour,  let me on theirs.  Perhaps I'll forget the asserting bit!
She's eating a lot more after her op and funny mood time so there's not a lot left for me to grab from her dish.  On the other hand she's probably stuffing her face just to punish me for being fit. Women.  Just never get to grips with the way their minds work.  I have secret guffaw at her bald bits.  Ha-ha.  Who's in charge now?  Might as well enjoy it while I can.

September 13th  Mirren

Well, I'm home.  Pam and Ewen picked me up on Thursday night.  They came in Pam's car because they thought it was lower and Ewen could sit in the back with me.  Ha!  Showed them.  I told them off the whole way home.  Howled and screamed at them until we got home.  Payback is so sweet.  Pam said she was happy she was deaf in one ear.  Magnus greeted me warmly but I give him a snarl just in case he had something to do with it all.
I look like a badly cut Poodle.  My right hip and leg have been shaved but I have a hairy paw.  It's all rather odd and Pam says it'll probably itch as it grows back in.  She mentioned something about bikini lines but I'm not sure about what they are.
I am happy to be home but I have to have lots of little walks rather being able to run.  I am so going to miss being able to run.  I'm sure Olympic athletes must feel like this when they get injured.  All the pent up energy.  Not that I'm an athlete of that standard but Colin says I have have really low heart and lung rate.  A sign of a fit animal.  Talking of fit animals...I get to go and see Colin again...............Every cloud has a silver lining!
And don't forget the pate treats.  The guilt must be really gettng to Pam and Ewen!

Tuesday 9th September

Magnus

All is peaceful at the ranch.  Mirren isn't here.  Got to sleep in my own bed last night without her chucking me off it.  Anyway, she's in hospital.  At the vet hospital in Edinburgh.  Pam calls it the Dick Vet.  It's old name apparently.  We all went there on Monday.  I had to go back to the car.  I could smell vets a mile off and the floor was very tricky looking.  I just shook so Ewen took me back to the car.  Mirren hasn't come out yet.  She has cranial cruciate disease.  She's getting her right leg fixed.  I hope she doesn't have to go to an airport because she'll set off the alarms if she does.  Metal bit in her leg.  She'll have to take it easy for six months.  Pam and Ewen are quite concerned but I find the extra floor space attractive and Ewen and I have been paddling and playing in the river this morning.  Mirren doesn't like water.  That could be a problem because swimming will be good therapy for her leg.  Ha ha!!!

You can Facebook the hospital on https://www.facebook.com/dickvet

Pam and Ewen say it's really good there so hopefully my chum will be well looked after and I'll see her soon.

I've been at the vet too.  Jabs and a lumpy bit in my neck.  Fatty lump!!??? I don't think so.  I'm too fine a figure of a Wolfie to have a fatty lump for goodness sake.

September 1st

Magnus

Ewen has been away for FIVE days!  I really miss him when he goes away.  He's a bit of me.  I can't sleep, I can't eat and I upchuck.  This really endears me to Pam, who has to clean it all up.  She has this big machine that seems to help.  Anyway, he's HOME.  I am so happy I could wet myself.  Just threw myself at him, put my paws round his neck and licked him to bits.  I can relax again.  Order is restored.  Things are how they should be.
Oh, and Mirren is wearing pants again.  She's been very quiet. Not too much bitching at me about this and that.  She must miss Ewen too.

Mirren

The boy's an idiot.  I am in season again.  I felt really awful yesterday.  Pam thought I was very ill.  I couldn't eat, I couldn't drink, I felt huge.  Still do.  Does my bum look big in these knickers? ( see video) And what about the boys then?  They seem to think it's perfectly all right to stick their noses where I don't want them.  Have they no manners?  Magnus does it, but then he's my chum and he can't do anything anyway.  He's had the snip.
Pam's had a bad time too what with Magnus being sick all over the place and me being a bit of a drama queen, but then I am allowed to get a bit off at my time of the 6/7month.  She had to keep getting the carpet shampooer out.
Moving on.  Ewen has been away and Magnus has, as usual, felt abandoned.  Please watch the video clip.  Can I also say that this happens if Ewen goes away for five minutes, nevermind five days.

Sorry all but cant get the video to down load properly ............