Ivy’s friend, Birdie

Today is just a little Ivy story because everyone is too sleepy to write them. Daddy wasn’t at work today because he didn’t feel well so we had to look after him. No sleeps is a bad thing because it makes people poorlies. Everyone was all snuggled up together.

Because nobody could play with us, we had to make our own games and me and Coco played good. We played chasey and pinchy toy chasey and bitey bum chasey until we made ourselves tired out. Coco was laughing at me because I tried to make a new friend that has been coming to the garden to see me. It is called Birdie. It wanted to play chasey as well and it flyed to near me and waited until I ran and then it flyed on to the fence. When I ran to the fence, it flyed to the other fence and it was looking at me. It is fast and I hope it comes to see me again. I was telling Coco all about birdie and she said doggies and birdies can’t be friends. She forgot that Amber has a birdie and she is friends with it. Coco is a bit of a meanie sometimes – look at my photo.

Daddy is having something called a flask in bed with him tonight. Mammy hopes magic coffee will help his barking. I hope so too, because I don’t like people being poorlies…I like people to play with me!

Ivy’s fishy story

Mammy still hasn’t been able to get some sleeps and she’s having lots of magic coffee. Daddy took Amber and Coco out early because today is shopping day and daddy Chris is looking after us. Mammy had to go in the bath because she was covered in something called Vicks. It is very smelly and not in a good smelly way. I was being good and letting her have a bath and wash her hair. I was too tired for being naughty. Mammy took my photo when I was doing some resting.

It was wet when we went out and I didn’t like it. Mammy let me go on my long lead to see if I would walk properly. I wouldn’t. I didn’t want to be out in the wet. I hurried all the way to my grandparents’ house and then ran in and jumped on daddy Chris. That meant we were both wet, but he didn’t mind because he loves me very much.  He didn’t even forget to remember to feed us today, so that was good. When mammy came home, we checked her for treats but she had none. Well, not ones for doggies, but she did have some Llama biscuits and I quickly eated one that she dropped. Amber and Coco were too slow.

Mammy walked home with me and we waited for daddy to come back. He didn’t come. He was stuck at his work because the bus didn’t come and get him. Mammy Yvonne came to the door with some food from the shop that has fish and chips in it. I don’t know what it’s called but I love fishy. When daddy came home, he had hurted himself in the leg and he was wet and cold, so I gave him big loves. Mammy gave him pie and chips. Mammy was feeling poorlies because she didn’t get none sleeps so we got to have her fishy. I am sad that mammy felt poorlies but I’m a little bit happy because we got fishies. Then we all lied down. Look at Coco in the photo – she sleeps on the pillows and peeps at mammy!

Ivy’s tuna treat toys

Daddy was barking and growling in his sleep last night. Amber was licking and biting. Me, mammy and Coco were just trying to do sleeps like you’re supposed to do on night times. We was all very tired again and mammy has tired eyes and head. None sleeps makes mammy feel poorlies. She took my photo when I was lying beside her and she said, “Ivy, that’s just how I feel!” This is the photo.

Mammy couldn’t do her revising again because her sleepy eyes told her not to. I was glad because I wanted some cuddles and I got lots of them.  Mammy had to make all the cushions go back in to their cushion-holes for Cokey and there was feathers all over the floor, so mammy had to ask Dyson to eat them. Dyson was full so mammy had to empty his tummy. When I went in to the kitchen to find her, she said, “Ivy, no! Get back.” She was beside the bin and had lots of dirt and feathers on her. I think Dyson might have spat it on her. I told her he was mean. I barked at him good when he came back in the sitting room to eat the feathers.

Then mammy Yvonne rang. She told mammy she had broke Dyson (who used to live with us) and asked mammy how to put him back together. Mammy couldn’t remember so we got to go for a walkies. Mammy took all of us and she doesn’t usually because we can be naughty sometimes. We all walked good to show mammy that she could take us all out. Coco didn’t fight with the gooses or the llamas and she didn’t bark at the men that were near her. Mammy said she was proud. When we got to mammy Yvonne’s, Dyson was in lots of bits on the floor but mammy made him go together again quickly. Mammy is a silly sometimes because she shouldn’t have mended him. He chases doggies and scares Amber.

Mammy was having some magic coffee and Coco was lying under the table like she always does at mammy Yvonne’s, then she ran fast to the curtain. Mammy jumped up to see what was wrong and Cokey had seen a spider. Mammy did screams and mammy Yvonne told her off for being silly. Mammy was glad Coco had told her about the spider and mammy Yvonne got it. mammy said, “Thanks Coco, but if you’d eaten that, I would’ve had to leave you here!” I don’t really think she would have.

Mammy Yvonne helped us walk home and Coco barked at a toddler-girl because she had a toy that Coco didn’t like. Then, Coco barked at the gooses and she got told off. Mammy was very tired in the afternoon, so she gave us toys that we’d had for ages, but made them like new: she put tuna treats in them all – the ball, the bone and the funny one all got a treat inside and we had to try and get it. It was the bestest fun, but Amber is greedy for tuna treats and wanted them all. Daddy took some photos and mammy says my eyes look funny.

Mammy hopes that we can all get some sleeps tonight, but they made a bed come downstairs in case daddy was noisy. Daddy had a bag and then he did a magic thing and it was a real bed. Coco doesn’t like things being put in her sitting room, so when daddy moved away, she wee-weed on the sheet that daddy was going to put on the bed. She got very told off and daddy had to find new sheets. Daddy wasn’t happy. I’m glad we went to upstairs bed because downstairs bed is strange!

Ivy’s pain in the grass

Guess what! Daddy barked AGAIN! Nobody did sleeps except daddy but mammy wasn’t too much of a grumpy head. We were all sleepy but Amber made us get out of bed. Then, she went to sleeps downstairs. Mammy said that wasn’t fair. Mammy was supposed to be doing her revising but her eyes were too tired. She did silly things instead, like banging on the wall. She had a big stick and she was hitting the wall and it went bang, bang, bang. Then, where she’d been hitting the wall, there was a thing with our tea towels on it. It might have been a magic stick, but I’m not sure.

After that, she maked a LOT of magic coffee in the big magic coffee machine. She had to keep going back and getting more drinks. Then, she took all the cushions off our sofa and fed them to the washer machine. It ate them all. Things called feathers were everywhere and I was trying to eat them before Dyson could. I got wrong, but Dyson didn’t. Coco was very sad because she lies on the cushions so she is high up and she can put her head on mammy or daddy’s shoulder. She didn’t know what to do. Mammy had a little lying down pillow for when she does daytime lying down, so Coco pinched that. It wasn’t very high but Coco was happy. Mammy wasn’t.  When the washer had spat the cushion things out, we helped mammy put them on the line. I didn’t eat some grass – not while mammy was looking – but she seemed to know I had been doing it. I think my mouth might have told her because some grass was sticking out. I am not grass’s friend. Some went in my eye and mammy had to get it out for me.

I was doing some rolling today and some chewing. Mammy took my photo while I was chewing little bone and I got a fright. She says I look scared on my picture. We are going to bed early tonight to see if we can get daddy to stop barking. I think mammy might turn in to the biggest grumpy-head ever if she doesn’t do sleeping soon!

Ivy: grassy-ass

Daddy was barking again and it was making mammy a bit grumpy because she couldn’t do sleeping. Mammy mustn’t like barking from people or doggies, because she tells us off as well. It meaned that everybody was a grumpy-head in the morning and I don’t know if there is enough magic coffee in the whole wide world to make it better.

Mammy was supposed to be doing something called revision. I’m not sure what it is, but she said she couldn’t do it without some chocolate. Doggies aren’t allowed chocolate so they mustn’t be able to have revision either. She ended up doing sleeps on the sofa instead.

I was being a bit naughty, eating grass. I got told off for that, so I saved it all in my ears and in my tail to eat later. I got wrong for that as well. Mammy called me Grassy-ass and said that meant thank you in Spanish. I don’t know what that means but it sounds silly. I think she was trickstering me for being naughty.

I wasn’t really mammy’s friend for telling me off, so I was going under the little sofa. I was ignoring mammy and daddy when they said, “I-vy!” but then they pretended they went out the door, and I thought they’d left me, so I came out quick. I was daddy’s dog for the rest of today, because I’m not mammy’s friend (unless she has a tuna treat or a Polo)! My photo is of my loving daddy and being huffy with mammy.

Ivy, hot dog

Last night was mean. Our room was hot and it maked us not be able to lie in the same place for many minutes and daddy barked all night, which made mammy be awake. Coco would have got telled off for that. Daddy was still sleeping, even when he was doing funny noises.

I am not sure I like the hot because it makes us be all tired. Coco was looking after me, but she was cuddling me and making me feel more hot. Mammy said we were really sweet and took our photo. We went to our grandparents’ house for our dinner and uncle Dan was there as well. Mammy and daddy were going to somewhere called the garden centre so we stayed with daddy Chris. When mammy and daddy came back, we were upstairs with daddy Chris and he had forgot to remember to give us our dinner! Daddy Chris has a very bad remembery.

We had our dinner when we got home and we got a bit of hot dog for a treat because our dinner was late. It is not made of doggies but it is a sausie. Daddy was on my garden chair but we stayed in the house with mammy and did some sleeps. They ate their tea on my seat and that’s when we got hot dogs. Coco was being naughty in the garden and woo-wooing at everybody who walked past. Daddy put some things in a box called herbs and mammy said, “Ivy, get off that coriander!” I don’t know what they are but they smell better than ordinary garden.

Later on, mammy had made our new treats to try. They are called tuna treats. Mammy maked them and daddy put them in the oven. We liked them a lot and they smelled like lovely, but not the same lovely that meat or Frazzles smell.

Ivy: Cokey’s four birthday

Oh my goodness! I have so many things to tell you about that my little head is all confused. Daddy has started to bark. It sounds like doggy barks, but the sound doesn’t mean words to doggies. Mammy said he needed to have some medicine because his bark was making his throat be sore. I hope that he will still be daddy and he won’t turn in to a doggy!  When we woke up, mammy and daddy did a thing where they made a squeaky noise and said, “Happy birthday, dear Coco!” That is what people must have to do when it is a birthday. I didn’t like that sound. Cokey is four and that is more than one, I think.

Mammy and daddy had them breakfasts that smelled like Frazzle today be we didn’t get any because they had the stuff on it that makes your mouth go all scratchy. Even Coco didn’t get any (but I sneaked back to lick the plate when I thought nobody was looking – mammy was looking and she saw). Mammy had to go out for to get her sore neck done, but she said we were going out when she came back. Then, we all went to our grandparents’ house. Amber was staying there because it is too hot for her to stay outside, but we could go out for a little while because we likes it a little bit more than Amber. We had to go in the car to the place that I remember from when I was a baby. It is called the Hirings and it is a party, I think. Last time we came, I winned a prize called Bestest Puppy. We couldn’t be in the game this year because of Coco…

When we got out of the car, we walked past a house and a doggy said, “WOOF!” very big and it frightened Cokey. She ran in front of daddy and made him fall over. Mammy had to catch him, so Cokey didn’t get squished. When we went to the place, Coco started doing some woo-woos at other doggies that she didn’t know. Mammy told her to settle, but she wouldn’t so daddy had to hold her. Whenever daddy tried to look around, Coco cried because she is daddy’s girl (that’s what mammy said) so I cried as well, because I do what she does. Daddy took her to the meat table and we got a big sausie between us because it was Coco’s birthday. We weren’t allowed the bread, but Coco was trying to sneak it. Something that was called a Charlotte came to me. It was a baby, mammy said, and it poked me in the eye. I licked its hand.  Then, when daddy was talking, Coco saw a doggy and tried to run hard to meet it. She managed to wiggle out of her harness very, very fast but mammy was even quicker and grabbed her by the collar when she tried to get past. Mammy told daddy that she always was worried Coco would do that, so she was ready for her! After that, we had to go home. Coco was good, then. We got on a bus! It is like mammy Yvonne’s car, but lots more people can be in it. It was better than going walkies in the hot.

We had to get Amber and she wasn’t hot, but me and Coco were and our tongues said, “Hah-hah-hah,” and wouldn’t be in our mouths. When we got home, we went in that big thing we got for a present the other day. You might think I’m being a fibster when I tell you this but it had water in it in the garden! Some of our toys were in it, then me and Coco were in it. There are photos, so you know I’m telling you the real thing. Mammy and daddy were sitting on my chair and it has a hat on it now, so the sun can’t get us when we play on the chair. Oh, and guess what else! We had some water and it was hard! I didn’t know water could be hard.

Today has just been very much exciting for us, so we’re tired now. I hope you like my photos because I made daddy take lots in case you thought I was trickstering you about all the things we did. Coco has had such a fun day that she’s tired out and is lying with mammy on the top of the sofa (mammy is on the seat bit).

Ivy’s special chair

Can I tell you about last night? Mammy promised us a Polo at bedtime for being good. We all got one and then mammy put the pack away in the tiny little small pocket at the back of her bag, then she put her bag right up against the bed. Then she went to use a brush on her teeth. When she came back, there was a lot of bits of Polo wrapper that mammy followed right back to Cokey. She pretended it wasn’t her, but she had wrapper and Polo in her ears. She got very wrong and mammy said to daddy, “I have NO idea how she managed to get them out of my bag – the pocket is tiny and she hasn’t got fingers!” What is a criminal mastermind? That’s what mammy said Coco was.

It was too hot to sleep good last night, so I was glad I didn’t have to go out early like Amber and Coco and daddy. Me and mammy had a little lie-in and then mammy had to go in the bath. I let her because she said she would be quicklies. She put stuff on her arms and legs and I was licking it off when she was trying to put it on. Mammy said, “Please stop eating my sun cream, Ivy.”  We went to mammy Yvonne’s so daddy Chris could look after us. We were lying in the garden and daddy Chris was sitting in the chair. Coco was barking at things so daddy Chris says she’ll have to go on her lead if she’s naughty.

When mammy got me, after she’d been to the new castle in the shops, we saw Candy. Candy said, “Ivy! Ivy’s mammy!” so we went over to see her. Mammy was talking to her daddy who is an old man and I licked Candy on her nose. Her daddy said she’d had her booster and she had no problems, and he was smiling so that is good, I think. Candy is old as well as her daddy. Mammy made Candy’s daddy laugh by saying something that isn’t funny to dogs, but is funny to people and then we went home.

Mammy made something called scones and they smelled like nice, but she’s not making our treats until tomorrow. Tomorrow is Cokey’s birthday. Daddy made the special chair for mammy in the garden, but I am having it instead. I jumped on it good and I might play on it when I’m in the garden. I will let mammy use it because she seemed to like it – look at my photo please.  Coco pinched my spot on one of them and I wasn’t pleased because it’s my seat and my mammy’s knee.

Ivy’s new pool

I think we nearly forgot to go to bed last night because we were up very late. Mammy Yvonne rang up when the clock said 22:37. She was watching some guns and some roses with daddy Chris. I don’t know guns but I know roses. Mammy always says, “Ivy, don’t you dare put that rose in your mouth. Coco! You stop it as well – you’re teaching her bad habits!” I would eat them but I wouldn’t watch them. Mammy had to tell auntie Lyndsey that mammy Yvonne was coming home late. Being late to sleeps meant that we were very tired in the morning. We couldn’t lie in bed because the man was bringing mammy’s chair for the garden today and she didn’t know when he was coming.

When we got up, mammy was trying to get my ear tatty out with the pointy brush and I was running away and hiding. When she caught me again, I climbed up her arm and on to her shoulders so she couldn’t get me. I don’t like getting my ears brushed. I wasn’t mammy’s friend for doing that but she said I wanted to look my best for Saturday. I just want to look like Ivy.

Mammy Yvonne came to the door with some bags of food for mammy and some pop. Mammy was very, very pleased but Amber wasn’t because mammy Yvonne only had keys in her pocket instead of Polos. Amber isn’t very happy when she thinks people have Polos and then they don’t. After mammy Yvonne had been, mammy tried to do my ears again when I wasn’t looking. I definitely wasn’t her friend for that because she trickstered me to think I was just getting a cuddle.

Some people came to the door and we barked good. I think they wanted mammy to give them money and mammy said she had none. If I hadn’t spended my Christmas money on Amber’s bowl, they could have had mine (but only if they gave me a Polo). The man said we were guard dogs but we are not them: we are Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. Mammy watched something on the telly last week about a man called King Charles II who had doggies like us and made rules that we could go to anywhere and be allowed in. Mammy just looked it up and she says, “Yes, Ivy, it’s still in the law books, so I should be able to take you to the shops!”

When daddy came in, he had brought a present that mammy found for us, so I thought I should be her friend. It is something called a pool and it is for when its hot. Coco showed me how to get my toys out of it but its for outside, not in the sitting room. Look at my photo so you can see it.  Then, mammy and daddy went outside to make the garden chair. It looked very hard and we weren’t helping by running round the garden and barking so we had to get put in the kitchen. We did not like that. Well, me and Cokey didn’t so we asked Amber to help us make a plan: she barked and ran to the front door, like someone was there, and when mammy went to see who, we sneaked out. It worked very good, but mammy was a bit annoyed. I wasn’t mammy’s friend again for making us go back in the house. Daddy got fed up with trying to make the chair, so it didn’t get maked and they ate pizza instead and then daddy had a bath.

I can’t remember if I am friends with mammy now or not, so I went to lie in the bathroom with daddy. It has been a very tiring day!  I have let you see a photo of me and Amber, fighting over the kong toy. I winned it.

Ivy: meet Pepi and Maizy

Before I tell you about today, can I show you what Pepi and Maizy look like? This is them. Their mammy said we could use their photo so you could see them.  My mammy says they are beautifuls. We is all Rabymar doggies and we is the same except that Pepi is a boy doggy. Pepi and Amber got born on the same day with the same doggy mammy and daddy. Pepi is the doggy that looks like Coco and Maizy is the doggy that looks like Amber. I am very excited for when they come to Amber’s birthday party. Amber has only seen Pepi once since they were babies and she was a growly. Sometimes Amber is a grumpy-head, but I will play with them. Coco will hide.

Today we were all tired but daddy was the tiredest because he’s got a cold (and I woke him up in the night). I don’t understand how people have cold and it is hot. We had a little lie in but not much because the man might come with mammy’s parcel. It is going to be a chair so mammy can sit in the garden and watch us be naughty play.  Mammy had to feed the washing machine with about twelve-ty four lots of clothes because people can’t have dry clothes if it isn’t sunny outside, I think. We helped her put washing on the line. It takes her a long time because she can only do a little bit of clothes at a time. She didn’t drop a peg for us, so we had to make our own game. Me and Coco both ran different ways, so mammy couldn’t see what we were both doing. I tried to dig for a Tony and Coco tried to dig under the fence in to the next door’s house. We both got wrong, so I think mammy must be able to see more ways than I thought! Amber was doing something called sunbathing. She lies outside and her eyes are little.

Mammy was supposed to be making us some doggy treats but the washing line tired her out, so we had to play a game mammy called mischief. I was digging at mammy’s feet because she was hiding them from me. If you can make her do a squeaky noise, that’s when you win. I winned! Daddy is going in the garden and he is going to find us a lawn. I think it is hiding under the grass and he has a special thing that eats the grass, so we might be able to run around tomorrow. That will be good!

We have been a bit naughty for the past minutes because daddy won’t let us be in the garden to watch the grass getting eated. We barked really long and loud, but he still didn’t come to get us. Mammy is being a shouty-head and telling us to shush and behave but if we do that then daddy won’t hear that we want out. Then daddy came in, so we barked to tell him, “Let us out!” but he said we were lucky we weren’t outside because the people in the street was singing Rod Stewart in a cocky knee accent. I didn’t know what that meant but mammy said, “Urghhhhh.” Mammy doesn’t like it when people are loud outside – even us!