Mr Moo's Gotcha Day

Yesterday we celebrated my big brother Max's (AKA Mr Moo) eleventh Gotcha Day.

Muzzle says if you see him bouncing around and standing on his hind legs to try to grab apples from the tree (a trick he has very kindly passed onto me) you'd not think he was almost 12, but he is!

A few of our favourite photos of Mr Moo. For those of you who don't already know, I got my name because of him. When Muzzle and Daddy were waiting for a Lab pup to come into rescue, Muzzle was struggling to think of a suitable girlie name. She was having a chat with Mr Moo, as you do (you would, if you met him!), and told him that the puppy would be a little version of him, a mini-Moo - and there was my name, Minnie!

Love you Max ♥

Incoming tuna cake ...

Calendar Girl

One of my puppy photos has been chosen for a calendar being organised to raise funds for rescue.

The photo came second place to a very cute photo of a teeny pup having a bath!

Here's my photo ... and while I'm here, today is the last day to vote for my brother Jasper's story in this week's competition, so please would you take a few seconds to click and vote? You can vote from anywhere in the world as far as we know. Thank you :-)

Fun Times

Had a lovely walk today, met a little dog we meet sometimes and we had a good sniff and a play together and then a chill out. Muzzle said I was good and just used a firm paw to put him in his place when he was jumping at my face - she said it wasn't his fault he is so little and couldn't reach without jumping LOL.

We stopped for a rest while Muzzle and Daddy were talking with the little one's mum and Muzzle thought this made a really cute photo.


Then I had another play with my brother - Muzzle said it was good to see me being my usual calm self ...


LOL, she calls it my enthusiasm for life and loves me (lots) for it.

Here's one of my brother being a handsome dude ...

Walk with Little Louie

Today Muzzle and I met up with her friend Amy and her dog Louie, who is a rescue dog too, for a walk and a late breakfast (well I'd already had my breakfast but I got to share a little of theirs too!).

Muzzle took a few photos, including these two lovely ones of Louie:


Louie made a new friend who was a similar size and colour and they had a great run around together:


We had a good walk ...




(and Muzzle says we did walk in the same direction a lot of the time!).

Louie did a bit more posing:

and we had a paddle in the river:



Then we had a walk around the town. Thankfully the weather wasn't as hot as it has been and the rain stayed away too. I met lots of new people who thought I was lovely and said hello to me, which makes me very happy. I'm a friendly girl :-)

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).

If you're happy and you know it ...

We think these photos say it all - having fun in the fields :-)

Wordless Wednesday

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!

A fun day!

It was my Daddy's birthday today. They had arranged to go out for lunch with some friends and family and I was allowed to go to lunch too as I am a good girl when they eat out.

Muzzle took us for a nice walk first to try to tire me out before lunch. The sun was out and we met a few new dogs that we've not seen before, including this spaniel that ran everywhere - Muzzle thinks he was called Rocket, which she said was rather appropriate, watching him run!


After we'd got back and Muzzle had fed us dogs, I set off with Muzzle and Daddy and a friend for lunch. Muzzle made everyone pose for a photo - if you look very carefully you can just about make me out, bottom left of photo. Muzzle made a comment to me about the Addams Family, but said not to mention it to them! I had a nice time though, one of their friends gave me some of his steak, yummy!

After lunch we went to visit some more of Muzzle and Daddy's friends, who couldn't come to lunch. They have a little baby, he's about 4 months old. I met him once before, he's the youngest child I've met. I was allowed to say hello to him - Muzzle was very proud of how gentle and calm I was, especially considering how excitable I can be, she said. I hope we will become good friends as he grows up.

Sun's back!

After all the rain we had yesterday, the sun came back today - yay! We had a run around in the field, but Muzzle made sure we didn't get too hot.

Here I am posing ...

Doing my crouching Minnie-Moo impression:

Sno's got my back ...

And asks me to play chase - Muzzle says I don't need asking twice!

If the sun's back, we'll have to go out earlier again tomorrow!