Famous Friday

It's the Mins ...

Photograph of Mins © copyright Angela Chapman, AKA Muzzle ;-)

Yumega Plus - Muzzle has been giving this to me for a little while now to help with my allergies. I like it - it tastes of fish.

Black Beauty

Muzzle took this photo of me yesterday. I had been having fun fetching my ball and was taking a breather ...

Picture Perfect

Wordless (Fabulous) Wednesday

A big thank you for my first donation

Some time back Muzzle helped me set up a Just Giving page to try to raise some more money from Labrador Rescue South East & Central, the rescue that very kindly took my mum in, gave her a safe place to have her babies (including me!) and then found wonderful homes for us all.

Last week I received my first donation to the page - Muzzle didn't realise until yesterday.

We aren't sure how/if we can contact the very kind person directly, so in the hope they may read this - THANK YOU so much for your kindness. The rescue does a wonderful job for Labradors and we are really pleased to help them in any little way that we can.

Love,

Minnie-Moo
xxx

Walk with a Wiggle!

Yesterday Muzzle and I arranged a last minute walk with a friend of mine, Wiggle - a black Lab who is a sponsor dog from the same rescue as me - and his mum.

We walked along a river and through different fields where we chased balls, met nice people and dogs and had a splash in the river. Muzzle says I was quite brave as I went in a bit deeper in the river than usual so that I could retrieve the ball. She was pleased about this as it washed off the mud I'd got on me after laying down in a puddle!

We went to a pub/cafe place so the mums could have something to eat and drink and Muzzle saved me the last bit of her hash browns - yummy! Then daddy and his friend came and found us and took us home :)

Here are a few photos ...

Me waiting for Wiggle to come back with the ball.

I did get a bit braver ...

Swamp monsters? LOL



Wiggle loves the water!
Me doing my kangaroo impression for the ball Wiggle's mum is holding! ...


Wiggle looking rather handsome again :-)


There's a ball and a Minnie-Moo in this photo, in case you were wondering ...

Friends posing together :-)


Wiggle doing a bit of an Elvis impression

ME in the WATER past my ELBOWS! LOL


Me and my shadow

Pretty Minnie-Moo (so Muzzle says!)


Very handsome Wiggle

and after that Muzzle and I wanted to show you just what wonderful things Wiggle, his "mum" and Labrador Rescue South East & Central have made happen. Wiggle came into rescue in summer 2008 after living a less than happy life for some time - this is one of the first photos his mum took of him - it makes Muzzle cry whenever she looks at the photo.

What an incredible transformation?! Wiggle looks so much younger, healthier and most importantly HAPPIER than he did last year. Muzzle says the light has come back into his eyes and that it would be hard to believe it was the same dog in both photos if we didn't know him. We love Wiggle :-)))

Dummy

Yesterday Muzzle and Daddy took me with them when Muzzle went to photograph a friend and her dogs.

I watched one of the dogs working with a training dummy and wanted to have a go, so their friend gave me one of the dummies (to keep, lucky me!) and I had a go at retrieving from the water. I love to retrieve and Muzzle said that tempted me a bit further into the water than I would usually go.

It may not have been quite how the "pros" do it, but we had great fun ...


I love my new toy!

Happy Gotcha Day Wiggle!

Today we wanted to wish Wiggle a very happy first gotcha day. He went into the care of Labrador Rescue South East & Central, the same rescue I was adopted from. He was in a very sorry state to start with and he looks so much better now than he did a year ago.

You can visit Wiggle's blog here - there's a montage which will make you cry, so have tissues at the ready. You can see how old and sad he looked to start with and how amazing he looks now, after receiving lots of tlc from his mum.

We first met him in July, a few weeks after he had gone to his new mum- here he eye-ing up her ice cream!

We've met up with Wiggle, his brother Sir H and their human mum a few times now. My brother Max can be grumpy with other dogs, but Wiggle and Sir H have always been great with him so he regards them as his friends now. Amazing that Wiggle is such a wonderful dog after all he has been through.

A few of Muzzle's photos of Wiggle and his friends.

Happy Gotcha Day Wiggle - from all of us xxx

(we wanted today's post to be for Wiggle, so Muzzle has posted some photos of me on her blog).

A fun day! Photo-fest

Today Muzzle and Daddy took my brother Mr Moo (Max) and me to a forest to meet up with Wiggle and Sir H - who were both adopted from the same Lab rescue as me - and their mum. Wiggle and Sir H are LOVELY dogs. Max can be wary of dogs he doesn't know but they were very good with him from the first time he met them and he now regards them as part of his little doggie pack of friends.

Muzzle took LOTS of photos - it has been a lovely sunny day but we had lots of shade in the forest too.

Sir H (which seems to stand for Hippopotamus!) loves to wallow and headed straight for the first bit of muddy water we found:


Max dropped his duck into the water:

but then didn't look too thrilled about carrying it on the rest of the walk

so Muzzle had to carry it in a bag - and she gave him one of my balls to carry for a bit instead:

But not the RED ball, that's my favourite:








We had a good walk around and went to find some *clean* water for Sir H on the way back:


He found a piece of "water art" to lie next to ...

and then rose from the water looking like a swamp monster!!

While Wiggle had a good swim - though sadly his ball sank and even though he spent a while looking for it, it had gone for good :-(


We had a lovely time and I can't wait to go again!