The Tales of Lilly, The Mud Life Dog
Naughty & Nice
by Karen Lee Turner
After gushing last month about Lilly's improvements, you'd think that this month all would be good, but not quite. We'll get to the 'not quite' bit later, but I will start with the nice side... As you know if you've been following her tales we got Lilly last August, and apart from going on cinema trips, shopping or green laning mooches for up to about four hours, we haven't left her, but this month we had a dilemma....well actually two. First up we had a two day combination trip of an Expo at the NEC in Birmingham followed by SMMT's big motoring industry event down south at Millbrook Proving Grounds. Then in the middle of the month Kia had invited both Damian and I on a swanky overnight stay where we would be fed and watered for free. Usually it's just Damian that gets the good invites, and I get to be envious of his posh bedrooms, 4 course meals and ever-flowing drinks, so I wasn't going to pass up this opportunity, but as I said, now we had a dilemma - who would look after Lilly? As we haven't booked any hoildays for this year finding a suitable dog sitter or kennels had not been top of our list, and instead of rushing to find one we grovelled to my Mum, asking if she'd have Lilly for the two day/one night event. I was reasonably sure she'd say yes as her and Lilly get on, and I knew she'd looked after my sister's two dogs a couple of weeks before, so she couldn't really deny me (love you Mum). We don't have children, so I wasn't prepared for my reaction; I suddenly became an anxious parent.
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- Would Lilly cope being away from the love of her life (not me, she's a total Daddy's girl)? - Would she fret and panic? - Would she get out of Mum's well enclosed garden, and go chase sheep in the field opposite? - Would her whippy tail break Mum's ornaments? - Would her ability to pull an 18 stone bloke around mean she'd pull my, less than half that weight, Mum over?
