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This morning Wiggle and I were doing one of our Pets As Therapy visits

Wiggle was keen to get in and see everyone:

As always, Wiggle was very good - gentle and attentive to all of the residents and made me very proud.

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 Yesterday evening I had been invited to an evening of presentations at the vets talking about causes and treatments of skin allergies in dogs.  On the way, we stopped off at Maud Heath for a run:

Wiggle enjoyed some rain-free exercise:

The grass was long in the field so pretty quickly the ball was lost and a search party required:

Sofy got bored of searching, but Wiggle wouldn't give up:

Still looking:

Found it!

Wiggle: "I found the ball, but now you're going to throw it away again?!"

Our audience:

Unfortunately, just before we left, Wiggle pulled one of his toe nails nearly off but as we were heading to the vets, he was seen straight away.  The nice vet clipped off the remaining nail and put a dressing on his poorly paw (red, of course!).  After we got back home, he somehow lost the dressing but thankfully his paw is ok and the nail will eventually grow back...

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We've had horrid, wet weather over the last few days which is not the most fun for our walks.  Today though, Wiggle and Sofy enjoyed some playtime in the field but were mostly chewing grass:

Soon enough, the rain started again but that didn't put them off.  A team effort, Wiggle watched me while Sofy watched the ball:

In other news, in two weeks time we will be house-sitting in London for the weekend.  And Cato has a new baby brother!

Cato has been very kind to Haggis and we are looking forward to meeting him when we visit!

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Wiggle and the jelly bean.....

Not sure at first, but soon decided he liked it!

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Wiggle and Sofy, taking a break during their evening stroll:

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Wiggle and I did our Pets As Therapy visiting this morning and once again, Wiggle was a star.  All the residents were pleased to see him and he got lots of fuss and event some biscuits.

After, we stopped at the pet shop.  Wiggle tried to look innocent, like this:

But then did this:

But Wiggle had his eye on bigger biscuits.  Way bigger!

The big cookie took a while to eat, but Wiggle wasn't in a hurry to hide the evidence of his theft:

Once we were home, Sofy was fine and had been laying in the bed in the sunny spot, working at getting the last of the peanut butter out of her Kong:

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Yesterday evening Wiggle and I went to visit a care home for the elderly who would like us to visit as Pets As Therapy volunteer's.  

As always, Wiggle was on his best behaviour as we were shown around and introduced to some of the residents.  This will be the second place that we visit and as before, there is a mix of elderly residents, some with dementia.  It was clear that Wiggle will be popular with the staff and also the residents and we're very happy to now have two homes which will we each visit twice a month.

Wiggle has been making me so proud, being gentle and calm with the residents and standing for them so they can fuss him and talk to him.  He interacts with them, looking at them and gently leaning into them for as long as they stroke him and talk to him.

Some of the residents will have forgotten us by our next visit, but Wiggle won't worry, he'll just be happy to see his new friends again and bring his own therapy to them.

And for being so good, Wiggle was rewarded with some play time at Maud Heath after with Sofy, who had been a good girl and waited in the car.