It’s A Dog’s Life

Unless the weather changes very dramatically between my paws clacking on the keyboard, and your September copy of Sussex Living magazine gracing your autumnal coffee table, it’s been a particularly dry spell. I, personally, blame ‘Them Indoors’. Having moved to a new house in the spring, they planted lots of plants in our garden, and if that isn’t an invitation for a prolonged spell of drought, necessitating weary rounds with the watering can, then I don’t know what is.

And it’s not even possible to use a hose pipe as that has been banned. At our previous house, we had the definitive collection of rainwater butts, including one so big that people used to think it was the oil tank – not the oil delivery driver thankfully – so rainwater has always been the preferred garden option. I think this autumn will see another mass installation of water butts so we will be better equipped for next summer, which should make it With it being the driest summer on record since ’76, Teddy has been ruminating on water conservation, communal water consumption and misadventures with moorhens, as pawed by Helen Stockton, his human translator

the wettest on record! I can’t say I’m keen on the wet stuff myself, other than to drink of course. I prefer the water in my bowl to be pristine and fresh so I’m averse to those communal water bowls provided by well-intentioned people in public places. I once went for a summer walk on the Ashdown Forest, and ‘Her Indoors’, thinking I’d be thirsty, took me after to the communal bowl at the Visitors’ Centre. The look I gave her was apparently equivalent to the look ‘Him Indoors’ would likely give if he was invited to drink from a bowl shared by other random members of the public.

I’m not too keen on water in all its other guises either. Rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, and even the sea, are fine for a little dabble if it’s really hot, but I never go further than my paws. I’ve watched all those BBC Wildlife programmes and you don’t know what’s lurking beneath. The apprentice, Bear, got caught out earlier this year. We regularly walk in a lovely, shady wood that has several ponds, one of which is covered in green algae. Deceived by this, and the fact that a couple of moorhens seemed to be walking on it okay, Bear charged forward to investigate said moorhens at close quarters. She immediately found herself up to her fufee in brackish pond water, looking a bit surprised. She was even more nonplussed to find that her little adventure meant an unsympathetic dousing with clean water from a watering can, when she got home. She’s lucky there’s a hosepipe ban, or it could have been worse. Every cloud has a silver lining, but we haven’t seen many clouds, silver lined or not, during this particular summer. l

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