The Tales of Lilly, The Mud Life Dog
Call Housekeeping
by Karen Lee Turner
Lilly is the perfect dog...almost. I say almost, because when we picked her up for that initial weekend to see if we got on, the only three things that were on our list were: • No chewing of furniture • No peeing when she got excited • Good in cars After being besotted by those big brown eyes, she never went back, and two years on, I can tell you that she satisfies those three criteria, well the 'good in cars' is the slightly less than perfect bit. She isn't 'bad' in cars, but she's part Whippet, and so she likes to be moving fast, so when we're on a motorway she settles down and watches the world travel by, but put her in a slow, stop-start urban situation and she gets a bit whiney. Obviously green-laning is the ultimate slow driving that sets her off - not ideal with her being The Mud Life Dog! We have solved this situation - I get out of the car with Lilly, Damian drives off and does the entire lane, stopping to take loads of photos, whilst we have a merry jaunt around the wilds of Britain, and then we eventually catch up at the end of the lane and hop back in. It's not the ideal situation, but it gets me out and moving, so I suppose her foible is actually making me fitter, if somewhat begrudgingly.
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Other than this she really is perfect. Which other dog could be left in the house alone with a cooked chicken or her own food thawing on the side, and you come back and none of it has been touched? Maybe a teeny dog that can't reach the side, but Lilly is a bouncy, medium-sized dog who could easily reach, and doesn't. Perfect.