The Blog of the Frog

You may remember in my long post about a week and a half ago I mentioned that they were going caravanning and I was having one of their dogs to look after whilst they were gone.

We hadn’t actually discussed when she was coming, so when I went to ringcraft on Tuesday evening I was greeted by S saying I was taking her home that night. We’d sort of assumed it would be Wednesday or Thursday so I was taken by surprise! Much as I would have loved to have taken her then it wasn’t really convenient so we agreed T would drop her round the next day.

So I took delivery on Wednesday 6th 🙂 And I’d like to introduce you to Trudi…

She’s a Phalene, but one of her ears is slightly twisted which often makes it stick out at a funny angle 😉

Trudi has a few different positions she likes to sleep in. From the more conventional to the slightly less….

And she’ll stay like that for hours!

Though when an irritating person keeps taking photos of you it’s a bit tricky to sleep.

So then, rudely awoken from her sleep, like all dogs she’s very helpful and so likes to assist in the photo taking.

She’s settling in and she really is absolutely gorgeous. During the day she sleeps on either my bed or one of the chairs in my room. At night she sleeps with me on my bed 🙂

Sunday was my ringcraft club’s companion dog show, Trudi has never shown before and isn’t the most confident dog, especially as she’s only known me a few days, so it wasn’t fair to take her in any of the pedigree classes. But we decided to do a couple of the novelty classes where I could keep her on my lap throughout!

It was *such* a hot day, the show started at noon so we got the worst of the heat too. It was nice for the people but too hot for the dogs, I felt particularly sorry for a big black newfie that was there!

Originally I was going to take Vale as well, but I’d taken her into a companion show the previous week and she was a pain! So I decided to leave her with dad as he wanted the company as well. As it happens I wished I’d taken her too as the judge liked labs but still! I decided to enter Trudi in Prettiest Bitch and Most Appealing Eyes. I was going to do Dog The Judge Would Most Like to Take Home too but when I took her in Prettiest Bitch the judge told me she wasn’t a little dog person so I decided to abandon that. Plus it was the last class of the day and by the time it got later she was so hot and tired I just wanted to get her home.

So anyway! They were both good size classes and she got 2nd in Prettiest Bitch and VHC (Very Highly Commended – otherwise known as 5th) in Most Appealing Eyes! I was so proud of her, especially as the judge admitted to not being a little dog person. Incidently the dog that won Prettiest Bitch was entered in the pedigree classes also and went on to win Best in Show there. So beaten by the best!

Showing off her rosettes 🙂

I rang S that evening because I wanted to check when she was meant to come into season – the previous day I’d seen what I thought was some blood on her undercarriage but her fur gets stained from licking so I thought I must be imagining it. But then when we were at the show I had her off my lap for a bit so she could lie on the cool grass and there was a spot of blood on my trousers. She wasn’t due in until July/August – it was meant to be after they got back home and then they were going to mate her! – but evidently the move had triggered it off – and she was excited and very proud of her too!

Dogs, don’t ya just love ’em 🙄 😆