OOOO long time no blog! Busy, busy being doggies and having fun!

Look!! Mum bought us some new sofas that we can snuggle on.........We think we're cute!









Do you think little Charlie Beau has grown? We do! He is allowed out for walkies with us all now and can even go off lead when we're over the wood. We've all been playing a trick on Mum. She's been teaching Charlie Beau his recall and every time she calls him to her she gives him a treat....so we have all temporarily changed our names to Charlie Beau, so every time she calls him, we all come running so she has to give us all a nice tasty liver treat! yummy!





Charlie Beau and Penny are still best friends even though Penny is naughty sometimes. Charlie has found out that he can get up the stairs now.......but he can't get back down again and needs mum to rescue hm. Penny likes to make him chase her up stairs and then he gets stuck up there while she runs back down! Poor Charlie! I guess it makes up for him hanging off Penny's ears and tail all day long!


There's only so much a girl will take! :-)




Here's Lilly using Charlie as a pillow. Apparently he's a very comfy dog to lie on - mum and dad say that he's always lying on them so this makes a nice change!

And speaking of comfy...doesn't Buddy look a happy chappie on his sofa???

Today was grooming day. Penny got in a bit of a mess and so had to have a bath. When she had dried off she was thoroughly groomed all over and even had her feet trimmed today. She was ever so well behaved. Mum is doing a grooming course in August and Penny gets to go with her for a professional pamper - mum will be doing the pampering so lets hope she's not too bold with the clippers!! Lilly got her ears and tail thoroughly brushed and her feet trimmed and Charlie Beau had to go through the motions even though he has no fur yet!! Well not much anyway. He was well behaved though. We have no idea why we get bathed when all we do is go right out and get muddy over on our woodland walks!

Finally we couldn't resist this video snippet of Penny and Charlie playing tug of war with a cuddly lamb!


Disclaimer......The Beauclarke Brood do not advocate playing with real lambs in this manner...

Warning....... This video contains LOUD cavalier snoring courtesy of Lilly

Mum's written a poem..........

A cavalier obsessive is what they label me
I wish I had all four of them but right now there's only three
Lilly is a tri-colour with the softest silky ears,
Penny is a Blenheim who's antics leave me in tears
Then there's little Charlie Beau, the cutest ruby boy,
He'd rather chew my fingers, that his chewy puppy toy.
Soon I'll have a black and tan and then I'll have the set,
Please don't tell my husband, I haven't told him yet!
King Charles himself had lots of them and a special one called Fubs,
I want at least 15 of them - a football team plus subs!
A cavalier obsessive is what they label me,
I wish I had hundreds of them, but, for now, there's only three.

Don't worry Buddy, mum loves you just as much as us!

OOOWWWWWWW

Poor little Charlie Beau had to visit Uncle Steve the vet and was micro-chipped! He squealed like a girl! Have you seen the size of those micro-chipping needles??? They're monster, massive, huge and gargantuan! Hmm, they're big and he's little so no wonder he squealed. Mum used to be a nurse and even she was horrified at the size of the damned needles. She saw a cat getting chipped many years ago and since then has always has us micro-chipped while we are under anaesthetic when we got de-sexed. But a few liver treats I'm glad to say Charlie Beau was right as rain after a couple of seconds. He has to have his second injection next week and then he'll be able to come out with us on our woodland walks. He'll like that he will. And now he's chipped mum can relax a little if he gets lost. Well OK, if ANY of us got lost mum would panic like crazy and would have a search party organised in seconds!



Penny likes to do a runner every now and again, but mum's sussed out her hiding place now and knows where to start looking for her. Penny is all mouth and no trousers! She'll bark and bark at other dogs when she's on the lead, but when she's off-lead she runs and hides! Wuss!



Lilly is almost as bad, but she just runs down the road to chase off the stray cats that mum and dad feed by the front door. They have to make sure she is on her lead before the door gets opened other wise she's off like a greyhound despite having had 3 major knee operations on her back legs! Luckily, we don't live on a main road but it still scares mum and dad to death if she runs off because they don't want her to get squashed.



Buddy Bear is the only one of us (so far) who behaves himself. The worst he will do is run up to a stranger and slime them to death! Wonder what little Charlie Beau will be like when he's allowed off-lead????



Here's the three of us Cavaliers waiting for our treats....











And some video of Charlie Beau and penny playing...until next time........

Hello and Welcome!

Hello everyone and welcome to the Dog Blog!!!!

We are a family of 4 dogs and this blog is all about us.

Buddy Bear (aka Orlas Faithful Buddy) is a 6 year old Golden Retriever who spends more time in the vets than out!

Lilly (aka Clentview Chantilly) is a 3 year old Tri-colour Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who runs at the sight of a brush and snores like a train!

Penny (aka Hextonsview Bramble) is a 2 year old Blenheim Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who's white bits are constantly grey and dips her ears in everything!

Charlie Beau (aka Prince Red Alert) is a 9 week old Ruby Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who goal in life is to torment Lilly!

Mum is Lady C, an aspiring writer and Cavalier obsessive who is desperate to collect 'the set' (We need a black and tan pup to complete the set of colours of CKCS available). Don't tell Dad, but when mum wins the lottery or gets to be a famous writer she's going to have a football team of Cavies (12 plus subs!!) and there will be puppies coz she wants to breed Cavie babies. Mum has a bad back and can't always take us for walks so Dad looks after us all. Mum gets the cuddling and grooming job and Dad is in charge of walks and feeding - mmmmm - Dad is a GOOD cook!! Chicken, lambs liver and kidney are our favourites.

We live with LOTS of other furry creatures called cats. There are 15 in all. Rumblepuss, Felix, Willow, Poppy, Godzilla, Spookie, Mr Socko, Millie, Muffin, Noodle, Pan, Peigan, Spike, Cookie and Donut. There were a few more but Middleton, Lovely and Angel had to go to Rainbow Bridge. We miss them very much but its Ok though because we know we'll see them again someday.

We also want to mention a very special friend, who left us to go to Rainbow Bridge on May 4th this year. Charlie Beau never met his big sister but we've told him all about her. She was a proper golden Golden Retriever and left us when she was just 2 days short of her 7th birthday. This made us all very sad. Here's a picture of her so you can all see how beautiful she was....

That bit about Rainbow Bridge was a bit sad so Mum thought you'd like to see some puppy madness to lighten the mood again so here is Charlie Beau and Penny playing. Lilly 'hides' on the armchair coz Charlie Beau is a little too boisterous for her. (She had surgery 2 days ago and is still a bit sore). She was the same when Penny came to live with us but soon became firm friends and no doubt Charlie Beau will soon have Lilly under his tiny little paw. Enjoy the video......more from us another time.........