Sleeping with the Bears

Well, as some of you already know, in the cooler weather, I like to sleep with Her collection of something she refers to as 'the Bears'which, in the past, has been the subject of some disagreement between Her and me although, in fairness, She soon realised that my awesome ability to completely ignore Her when I don't agree with what is being said (it's actually more the fact that most of what She says, I simply don't understand - I'm a dog, I don't actually understand most of Her conversation - key words such as 'walk', 'car', 'beach', 'river', 'go', 'eat' and 'treats' tend to get a good reaction but the rest, it's white noise mostly!) led to me having quite a bit of leeway with the Bears BUT, what with the Arf-an-I-tis, She's decided that sleeping with the Bears is a good thing - it means I'm warm, all the time, and I snuggle right into them so my left leg, which is the Arf-an-I-tis inflicted one, gets extra warmth from the Bears. So, it aint all bad having Arf - in fact, I barely notice it but I'm certainly not above using it to my advantage if need be.

I'd like to thank y'all for the kind messages re Arf. I had my second injection over the weekend which was fine - the very nice vet nurse gave me the needle instead of the dog-ter which was much better - I like the dog-ter but I really don't like that cold table they put me on! And, I got a treat (although not a big one as I'm on a DIET - being a dog, like I said, I don't understand a lot of words but I know that DIET is up there with BATH - bad bad words) and then, on Sunday, we went to Her favourite part of the river with the plan that I would do some paddling but, me being me, now that I SHOULD paddle, I decided NOT to. But I had a great time anyway:

and I eyed off this bird as my next challenge - yes, it's a big bird but I'm a Westie, I have no idea I've no chance of ever getting it:

So, all in all, it's fine - Arf is being treated, I'm still using it to my advantage when it suits me (although being carried up and down the stairs every time is becoming a bit tiresome - it was fun at first but now, well, I see it as undermining my independence!!) and They are making sure my stunt-Westie tendencies are under control - I've gone a whole week without diving off a sand dune! Woof for now. Groucho