New year’s day found us up bright and early without any traces of overindulgence. (We began the year as we mean to go on!)<\/p>\n
Mary had a peaceful and rest-full holiday period, as I walked the dogs from Christmass to Epiphany. She did get out but she did not have to have a dog in hand. Well, all except new year’s day, when the Tolutim girls all went out together. We walked in the glebe land fields behind the church.<\/p>\n
Walked may be the wrong word to describe what was going on around us. Perpetua mobile<\/em> would be a better description. The walk to the fields was pretty good, everyone was contained – no one was pulling excessively. When the gate closed behind us, everyone was ready to be off. Once we got the leads off and said, “Go for a run,” they did not stop running. Everyone ran – except for Mary and me, we progressed in a stately manner for the whole walk.<\/p>\n They really did enjoy running together. Well not so much together, for they did not form a hunting pack, but they did run with each other generally.<\/p>\n Sorrel at over eleven years kept up a fast trot for the whole walk, interested in all the smells round about. She did not run full-pelt with DV.<\/p>\n Casia ran. She ran here and there finding all the organic matter fit to find, tasting some, scoffing others. She quickly became the dirtiest of the dogs. She only stopped running when she stopped at the organic matter.<\/p>\n Zaffre ran as well, keeping up with Casia, though she did not stop every time Casia stopped. She also did not range as far as Casia, so she sped around us.<\/p>\n DV ran like a demon. She was one of the reasons Casia got so dirty, for she tried to play a great deal when Casia was near by. DV did not range as far as Casia nor Zaffre, but she did go beyond the range Sorrel kept. She did try to play with the others, but she was ignored.<\/p>\n Well, all except for one time. DV was running as pups do and we were keeping a weather eye out for the tornado streaking by (because we know the steering and brakes on this new model need to be run in). We avoided collisions, but Zaffre was not so lucky. I suppose it has to do with doing too much sniffing at the expense of watching. Zaffre had her head down; we avoided the Monster zipping by at full tilt, but Zaffre ten yards away was not lucky this time. DV collided fully with Zaffre. Both went tumbling. Both immediately were up and running about.<\/p>\n We thought Zaffre’s nose was a little out of joint for a bit, for she was not quite up to full speed for a moment. However DV was quickly away at a terrorising rate.<\/p>\n (A note of caution – although we were amused by this incident, our hearts did rise into our throats because we heard of a dog who had done the same thing, but in that case there was a broken neck. So we do take care when letting the dogs run free.)<\/p>\n It was a great walk. We look forward to more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New year’s day found us up bright and early without any traces of overindulgence. (We began the year as we mean to go on!) Mary had a peaceful and rest-full holiday period, as I walked the dogs from Christmass to Epiphany. She did get out but she did not have to have a dog in … Continue reading “Happy new year”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tolutim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}