We went some where new today - Ratby Burroughs. For once we got there first, then George, Winnie and Harry with their mum Julie turned up next, quickly followed by Tom and Cheese with a new friend who answered to Fisbee among other things with their mum and dad Lynne and Colin - Troy ued to live with them for a bit. Then Cassie and the "terrorist" (which meant Jackie - one of Kai's hareem - was also there). Last of all a couple of new beasts turned up, Billy and Foxy, with their mum Sue; she's a DogPages person.


Julie and Sue

We all set off into the Burroughs - really great place with trees to sniff and open places to run. Dad let Kai and me off, but I didn't fancy much of a run around to start with. Most of the other dogs were off too, including Jack, and it was all going fine. One of the big surprises for me was Cassie. Cassie is about 14, and defintely growing old disgracefully; if there was anything going on, that's where Cassie was to be found.


Cassie

We were all having a bit of a run, sniffing around for rabbits, when someone bumped into me and hurt my leg. I know no-one meant to hurt me, but they did, and I let everyone know in the usual greyhound manner. It took a couple of moments and some TLC from Lynne and dad before I was ready to carry on.

In the mean time some of the others had decided to have a bit of a mad bundle, and Jack was part of it; dad was not amused with him, but I think he and the others were just playing.

Once everyone had settled down, and my leg stopped hurting so much, we carried on.


Foxy

Ratby Burroughs is a fab place for a walk. There are big areas of grass seperated by patches of woodland; best of both worlds - places to run and places to sniff. And there's stuff to roll in like Frisbee found - it was rather wonderfully smelly.


Frisbee

The only thing that I didn't like (apart from hurting my leg) was some of the things we had to get through: the first one we all had to duck under to get through the fence. It was pretty low and Troy bashed his back. The next one there was a gap in a fence which we could all get through. Colin decided he wasn't going straight through, but went for a look at the bottom of a ditch; I'm not sure he meant to.


Colin climbs out of the ditch

Later we found a stream that some of them went into - not me though, water's not my thing. Tom went for big paddle and came out looking like Troy does after a muddy walk at Salcey.


Colin, Lynne and Julie

The rest of the walk was fairly uneventful, except when Frizbee tried running straight through all of us and nearly tripped up on our leads. Back at the car park it was lucky that Jackie had plenty of water as dad had been a plonker and left ours at home. Mind you he did make up for it with tea - lambs hearts, mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

So we had a nice walk in a nice place with nice people then a nice tea. That's what I call a good day - even if my leg got bashed.