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Sunday, 1 October 2017

1 October 2017

Well, Finlay is still proving that he has bags of energy and it is pretty hard to wear him out. The trouble is when he has all that pent-up energy he has to take it out on someone and that someone seems to be me. He loses his bite inhibition and the ability to obey the word "no" when he is at his worst, and it is something he only seems to do with me, not my wife. Don't get me wrong, this isn't something he is doing all the time, just when he is at his most wound up. One of our previous Tibbies was the same and he grew out of it and I'm sure Finlay will too.

I have previously said that nothing fazed Finlay, but yesterday we found something that does. A new dog coat. Now we aren't one for dressing up our dogs, but bearing in mind Finlay's fur coat isn't entirely weather-proof yet, we thought we would get a coat to keep him dry when he goes out on the rain, seeing as how it seems to be the rainy season already. Happy with his new coat, Finlay is not!

He stands there in a kind of "I can't move with this on" fashion, he whines and looks sorry for himself, something we've not seen before.

Quite different to the dog that was fearlessly playing with 'Nero' the rather large Doberman puppy earlier. Nero was very good with Finlay and didn't play too rough, although Fin gave it his all naturally. He did squeal once when Nero trod on his paw, but that didn't stop him. But his new coat did. So we have some acclimatisation to do with the new coat. Strangely he managed to be naughty and escape through the stair-gate upstairs in his coat, so he still has enough courage for that!

Look at that face.....what is this bloomin' coat!



The only time his tail has been up wearing the coat....when he was being naughty...


Finally I wanted an excuse to use this photo. I accidentally took some photos in "burst" mode on my phone, and I use Google Photos which automatically backs up my pics to the cloud. Every now and then Google 'auto-creates' a photo or video out of what I've taken and it created this Gif. So I can't take any credit for the auto-create, although I took the original picture. This look I call "oh god, dad has got that blimmin' camera in my face again"....




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