Hello Dear Reader,
We'd forgotten the dog crates we already had. It's a funny thing to forget about. Two of our rescue dogs came with crates that we dismantled and stored away. The bigger crate housed the Bichons and the Maltese went into the smaller crate. They came out and had a good clean and popped them in the back of the car and headed to Plymouth. We purposefully used the Torpoint car ferry so we'd be delayed and would need to queue. As I anticipated, each time we stopped the dogs got anxious and moaned and each time we ignored them as we won't be there when they are on the car deck on the ferry. We're also going to start leaving them in their crates at night so a five or six hour ferry crossing won't seem that bad.
We had a lovely sunny walk around Plymouth Hoe purposefully lingering near crowds, other dogs, noise so the hectic ferry with hundreds of cars just isn't that bad. We hope to go out for coffee in France and take the dogs everywhere we go. We stopped at Captain Jaspers for a coffee (cheapest place I know at £1 a mug) which is a well known biker hangout and the dogs just laid down on the floor totally unbothered by chrome, smoke and noise.
Don't be deceived by the sunshine in the photo as it was bitterly cold and that coffee, bikers and all, was greatly appreciated.
Well done doggies, you did us proud.
Added later - Blogger problems - it seemed on those with google accounts could comment, I've disabled that and any can comment although I moderate comments. I hope it's working now. Feel free to comment and you should be able to do so whether you have a google account or not. Thanks
Until tomorrow,
Love Froogs xxxxx