Hermione the Vizsla pup

When Lottie Came To Stay

2010-10-09T07:07:00.000-07:00

My best friend Lottie has come to stay for a week, it has been so exciting.

I have even let her share my things!! Mum is quite amazed!!

We also had lots of lovely walks.

I am really going to miss her!!!!

I'm back!!

2010-09-12T07:51:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, sorry i have been a little quiet, unfortunately my mum was very poorly and is now trying to help me catch up on here! (Don't worry i looked after her with lots of cuddles and licks)

This year i have been on my very own holiday, it was fab. We went to the Peak District for a week and i stayed on a farm, i'm not sure the sheep were very keen on me though!!

here i am all ready and packed to go.

Me and my favourite Auntie Donna, It was very high up there!!

It was a very exhausting walk!!!

During Easter my friends Natasha and Tom came to stay, we had so much fun playing in the fields.

Lazy Sunday afternoons, having a sneaky snuggle with my Grandad.

I have been learning how to swim this year, i absolutely love it, although mum did panic the first few times, i think she was going to come in with me!

This is my new friend Lottie, she is very small, i have to keep looking where i am going incase i step on her. We have just started going on some walks together, as she is now old enough, she lives just round the corner, so not too far to go.

This year the fields near us have benn covered in poppies, mum really loves this picture of me, it even won first place at the local village fete. (I wasn't allowed to go and collect the prize though, not sure why they wouldn't have wanted a very excited vizsla there!!)

I shall write again soon. Keep posted!!

I just love the snow

2009-02-02T10:52:00.000-08:00

What a year we are having with all this strange weather. I couldn't belive my little eyes when i went out for my early morning wee!!! The ground felt very cold and wet but not like rain it was white again, it had been snowing. I thought i'd wait for mum to get ready before i ventured out again, well who can blame me when i have a warm blanket and an arm chair to snuggle into!!!

Luckily mu had been given the day off work because the roads were too dangerous to drive on so i had her all to myself!!

We went for a lovely long walk in the freezing snow and wind, even i was making a fuss by the end of it!!

Mum said i had to try and be sensible on my lead today because it was so icy and that some cars had actually been ice skating down our road and nearly into one of the houses!! I never knew cars could ice skate, you learn something new every day!! I was relatively good until i saw my horse friends and then nearly pulled mum into the field with them!!

I wasn't too keen on putting my bottom right down because it was soooooo cold on the floor!!!

I wonder if the snow will still be there tomorrow!!!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

2009-01-01T10:29:00.000-08:00

Wow Christmas!! what a word. I never realised that it was actually a day where you got lots and lots and lots of really cool presents. Mum had been talking about it for ages saying she couldn't wait but i thought she was just being silly, but now i know!! (now i can't wait until next christmas!!)

We had a huge tree just like the ones i weave in and out of in the forest on my walks in our living room!!! how weird is that. i was very good i only stole a few of the things that were sitting on it, but what do you expect when they put a robin in the tree!!! and it made a bird noise too!! (i thought that was good for me!!)

I had lots of presents from mum and all the family, i actually liked eating the wrapping paper best of all, it was so shiny and i could shred it all over the kitchen!! But my favourite was my new squeaky reindeer, if you ask me to squeak it i actually do it!!! the humans think this is so funny, come on i am intelligent guys i'm a Vizsla remember!!!

Here i am running around the garden with it.

For New Year mum surprised me with this huge bone, it was great and it actually lasted me more than a day!! Hurray. (that was mum by the way) The trouble was i wanted to take it outside and bury it in the garden however whenever i tried to get through the back door i kept getting stuck in the door way, it was very frustrating as you can imagine!!!

I hope you have all had a wonderful christmas and i wish you all a happy, healthy and peaceful new year.

Vizz Wizz

2008-12-07T20:00:00.000-08:00

I went on my first ever Vizz Wizz, it was brilliant. I met so many other Vizsla's who look just like me!! I even got to meet two of my brothers Duke and Dillon, which was great, it was like we had never been apart. Duke and i look identical, mum and Christine were worried they were going to take the wrong pup home!! Luckily i've got my famous birth mark on my bottom so mum can't loose me!!!

This was all of us at the beginning of the walk, we couldn't wait to get started thats why we couldn't stand still (well thats my excuse anyway!!!)

The views were amazing whilst we were walking and I even saw some goats, they were new to me, very strange looking.

Here we are at the top of this really steep hill. I loved running back down it.

Mum and I posing, everyone kept saying that we look like each other, i don't think i look like a human!! I'm not that hairy am i?!!

I got to run around with my new friends and i even ventured into the stream, it was freezing, but so much fun!!

I think Archie quite liked me!!!

I can't wait to go on my next Wizz Vizz and see all my friends again. See you all in April.

I'm 1!!!

2008-11-26T10:40:00.000-08:00

Its my birthday!!

Everyone keeps singing to me and saying i'm grown up!! (not sure about that one!!!)

I've had a really lovely day, i had a nice lay in under my blanket, then went for a long walk were i sneaked into someones garden and ate the left overs they had thrown out to the birds!!! Very tasty. Then mum gave me a birthday cake (it was called a pup cake, from a dog bakery!!) that was even more delicious, i also remembered to make a wish before i blew out my candle. Mum also bought me a new bed to go in the car, which i promise not to chew!! Now i am snuggled up with mum enjoying a cuddle and a rub. This is how life should be, i like having birthdays (although it does feel like this most days!!)

What a difference a year makes...

This is me with my birthday cake.

I even hid under the table to eat it, just incase the humans tried to steal it!!!

Snowball Fights!!

2008-11-23T07:04:00.000-08:00

Its been snowing, horray. When i woke up this morning everything was white, at first i wasn't too sure and kept running back in, but then i remembered just how much fun it is.

I went for a long walk, where i kept taking Grandma ice skating!!! and then i chased a hare and left my mark through the fields.

Mum, Grandma and i played in the garden, having snowball fights and eating the snow (me of course, but you never know!!!)

Now i'm snuggled up by the fire, watching the snow from the window.

Happy Halloween

2008-10-31T11:43:00.000-07:00

Happy Halloween everyone

I decided to dress up as a devil (my normal self!!! haha) We went for a halloween walk and scared a few humans, although i didn't get any of the trick or treats that the children were getting!!! And i was doing all the work!!

But mum had some yummy doggy treats instead.

I wasn't so keen on the witch costume, apparently that should have been my favourite as it is my name sake from Harry Potter!!!

When Natasha and Tom came to stay

2008-10-29T03:02:00.000-07:00

I have had so much fun this week with my new friends Tom and Natasha. (Natasha even looks like me, but in a human version!!!)

We have been for great walks in the countryside, we even went to Pets at Home, i met a mouse in a cage, how strange, usually i can chase them, but this one was just going round and round on a wheel!!! Mum quickly dragged me away before i joined them.

I even helped with some baking, Tom wasn't too impressed though, as his spider cake didn't quite look like a spider after my help!!

We are just off for a run in the fields, will put some more photos on later.

We are back, Tom, Natasha, Mum and i played a great game of fetch, but i couldn't get the hang of Rugby!!!

so i just stuck to the tennis ball.

Tom even made some new friends along the way!! (they were rather smelly!!)

I stayed far away from them with Natasha and Grandma.

By the end of the day i was ready to just relax and chill out!

Sock it to them!!!

2008-10-10T10:51:00.000-07:00

Today was ironing day in our household, so i thought i'd help Grandma out.

To solve the problem of the huge ironing pile i thought that if i got rid of some of it then that would make life much easier!!!!

So i decided to eat one of the socks!!! Thats right swallow it whole!!!

Apparently my Grandparents were not too impressed with my make life easier trick!!!

So off to the vets we went. I was given an interesting drink, which made me very sick (it was soda crystals and water mixed in a small syringe) and then as if by magic my Auntie Donna's sock came back up!!! (Although i don't think she will be wanting to wear it again)

Mum was not too impressed either with my trick, but she was just more concerned that i was ok and that i didn't need anything drastic done. I don't think i'll be allowed near the ironing again (this is a little like the tennis balls again, i'll never be trusted!!! oh dear!!)

Car Wash

2008-09-27T10:43:00.000-07:00

Mum and I decided to wash the car today, well i don't think mum intended on me doing it too, but hey i thought i'd give it a go.

Although i don't think i quite got the idea of it, i'd much rather relax!!! Which i eventually did, from a safe distance in comfort.

Feeling sorry for myself!!!

2008-09-01T10:31:00.000-07:00

Sorry i've been quiet for a while, but i've been in Season!!!! Well thats what mum calls it, i call it a nightmare!!!

It was not great at all, my tummy hurt (but i got lots of attention and belly rubs) and i wasn't allowed off the lead for ages, just incase any male dogs got too friendly (if you know what i mean, i most certainly don't, i'm far too young!!!) I also wasn't too fussed about food, it wasn't that high on my list of things to do, i just wanted to sulk and be a little moody!!! Mum said i'm like a teenager already!!!

But apparently i'm all grown up now, so i thought i'd prove a point...

Tennis Balls!!

2008-08-21T02:30:00.000-07:00

Mum is never letting me near a Tennis Ball ever again (well not on my own again!!) Usually we just use them in the garden for fetch, but i managed to sneak one into the kitchen the other night and successfully ate half of it!!!

Mum was frantic, as you can imagine, me on the other hand didn't know what all the fuss was about, i felt fine!! At first she thought i'd hidden it, but when she couldn't find it anywhere (and it was purple, so its not going to be that hard to find) she feared the worst. Having read about Charlie and how poorly he had been after eating his, she began reading up lots of things on her computer!! So i was given some (actually nice tasting) salt to make me sick!! Trust me to actually like it, i kept wanting more!! This did not make mum feel anymore at ease!!!

Eventually though after many sleepless hours for mum (not me, i slept like a log) i was finally sick and out came the half a Tennis Ball. (Mum had never been so pleased to see sick, she is strange sometimes) But it saved me going to see the vet, which was a shame because i really like him!!

So now mum is really watching me closely with everything i'm chewing, especially when we are playing fetch, i think the balls are going to be getting a lot bigger from now on!!!

In the field

2008-08-03T13:17:00.000-07:00

Me and Smudge (my labrador friend) decided to play in the corn field during our walk today, it was so much fun, we were bouncing around all over the place, sometimes you could see us and then you couldn't.

Then my cousins decided to join us...

I'm not sure who was having more fun?!!!!

Whittlingham

2008-08-03T12:58:00.000-07:00

We went for a long walk along the Norfolk broads today.

There were so many ducks to chase!!! and so much water, but mum wouldn't let me in, because she said the swans would eat me!!!! (surely i'm bigger than them!!!)

so i had to watch them instead. We did go paddling together and i got everyone soaked!!

Unfortunately the weather turned stormy and windy, so we had to abandon the walk a little earlier than expected, but we went home and i enjoyed a nice cuddle with mum instead.

This is me and my Nana, it looks like we are both going to be blown away.

The Beach

2008-08-03T12:47:00.000-07:00

I went to the seaside. It was rather wet and sticky, but so much fun. I even went in the sea, mum was so proud, it was the first time i have ever ventured into any water (well i was waiting for the right time, but i couldn't tell her that!!)

I played fetch with Grandpa and Nana and even had a little swim.

I really did enjoy it but i didn't like getting my bottom wet!!!

When i got home, everyone knew where i was because i smelt like a fish!!! Mum had to give me several baths before i smelt like me again!!! But it was so worth it. I can't wait to go back.

Duck

2008-08-03T12:26:00.000-07:00

A stranger entered my garden today!!! A duck!!! I was a little confused about what it was, but very intrigued!!

I thought i might want to play with me, but it didn't!!!

If only i had wings!!! Not sure mum would like that idea!!!

My Friends the Bennett's

2008-08-03T12:13:00.000-07:00

My friends the Bennett's came to visit me and they took me for a great walk in the countryside, although i had to wear my gentle leader (with great regret!!!) because this was the first time they had taken me out and ok, i can be a bit of a pain on the lead at times!!!

This is me and Tracey

Me and Helen

and of course Mick

We had a great time and i hope they come again soon, so i can show them some more sights of Norfolk.

Still Teething

2008-08-03T12:02:00.000-07:00

My teeth are still causing me pain!!!!

I thought i'd lost them all, but no such luck!!! Mum found quite a few laying around the house when i was smaller but all of a sudden i'm teething again, but now its my back teeth.

I just need something to chew!!!! (and she won't let me chew the table or chairs!!! what is a pup to do!!)

But i have now found the answer to all my prayers...

...a piece of wood. Practical and very useful.

Mum said i could really do with something called Bonjela!!!! A piece of wood will do for me!!!

Henry

2008-07-20T13:23:00.000-07:00

My cousin Henry came to visit. It was brilliant, he is so much fun and just loves to play.

He lives in Essex and is a Bulldog, his owner Andrea is my owners cousin. (I can hear you all saying we don't look alike!! so i thought i'd better explain.)

I gave him the grand tour first. (This is my house!!)

We then went for a walk and i was introduced to a new way of drinking water. Out of a bottle!! I've never looked back since, now when we go out i won't drink out of anything else (thanks auntie Andy!!!)

This is Henry strutting his stuff!!

Me standing proud at my favourite tree, waiting for everyone to catch up!!

Best friends.

All grown up and all dressed up!!

2008-07-14T13:41:00.000-07:00

Me in my new couture!! (Auntie Donna's clothes!! But don't tell her) We can share clothes now!! I'm sure she'd love to borrow my walking coat!!

Helping with the gardening

2008-07-14T13:33:00.000-07:00

May 2008

I've been helping with the gardening, well i thought i was!! I throughly enjoyed jumping in and out of the bags.

I managed to help Grandpa fix the gate, although he didn't trust me to use the tools!! Maybe when i'm a little older.

Socks!!

2008-07-14T13:27:00.000-07:00

April 2008

For some strange reason the socks in our house keep disappearing!! Don't ask me, i don't know where they are going!!

Unfortunately mum caught me in the act!!

They also found my secret stash behind the Summer House in the garden!! I think they might be watching me a little closer from now on!!

Snow

2008-07-14T13:13:00.000-07:00

April 2008

Its snowing!! Its white and wet. How strange!! I leave paw prints everywhere i go, its great.

We went for a really long walk on Easter Sunday and i was let off lead for the very first time!! Complete freedom!! (How trusting)

I found this great tree to climb and then surprised them all by jumping out of it!!

Mum and I then played football in the snow and destroyed the lovely white snow on the lawn!!

Thank You

2008-07-14T13:08:00.000-07:00

March 2008

Mum has been very unwell recently and has spent the whole of March in hospital, so my Grandpa and Nana have been looking after me.

We would like to say a big thank you to them for looking after me so well (oh and mum!!)

Visiting Hannah and Sophie

2008-07-14T12:52:00.000-07:00

Feb 2008

I went to see my friends Hannah and Sophie today. It was great fun, they played with me in their garden and even took me for another walk!! Life couldn't be better for a pup.

My First Walk

2008-07-14T12:41:00.000-07:00

Feb 2008

I'm finally allowed out. Horray.

Mum has taken me out to the woods for my first ever walk on the lead. There are so many different smells and humans and best of all dogs!! Its so exciting.

We only went out for a little while but i was exhausted. I didn't realise that fresh air did that to you!!

Although i can't wait for my next walk. I wonder where we'll go.

My Human Cousins

2008-07-14T12:28:00.000-07:00

Feb 2008

My human cousins came to visit this weekend, they were so much fun, they even played in my crate.

Although they didn't want to sleep with me in there!!

We played in the garden all weekend and i think i finally managed to wear them out in the end! or was that me!!

So much better

2008-07-14T12:22:00.000-07:00

Feb 2008

I am feeling so much better. The vet has given me the all clear and i am back on my normal food again. (although i am actually missing the vets food!!) and i am up to mischief as normal!

Lazy Days

2008-07-14T12:12:00.000-07:00

Feb 2008

I've got a virus! I kept being sick so mum took me to see the vet (who i actually love going to see!!) and he gave me an injection. Mum said i was really brave.

I'm not allowed my normal food for a week, only special tinned food, which is actually really yummy!

Everyone has been giving me lots of cuddles and kisses, which is great. I could get used to this. (apart from the being sick part)

My First Bath

2008-07-14T11:45:00.000-07:00

Feb 2008

Mum decided that i needed a bath as i was getting quite smelly!! However I look more like a rat in these pictures than a Vizsla!!

In the end i actually quite enjoyed it and even if i do say so myself, i smelt GOOD!!

Welcome Home

2008-07-14T11:16:00.000-07:00

18th Jan 2008

I'm Home!! I don't think they know whats hit them!!

I've left Leicestershire to move to Norfolk, it was really strange leaving all my brothers and sisters behind, but i'm looking forward to my new adventure in the country.

I went in a car, that moved on its own!! I wasn't too sure at first and cried a little, but then i fell asleep on my new mums lap!!

Then before i knew it we were home. I've got a nice new crate to sleep in, its HUGE!!! and loads of toys to snuggle up to.

I'll keep you posted on how I get on.