Photos from my friends

Thank you to all my friends that have sent photos of themselves with my littermates.

I love hearing from you.

 

Cameron with Poppy

Tyanna with Poppy

Philip with Spotty

 

Ella and Spotty Dog

Ella and Spotty dog have also been having some fun this summer!

Digging

Spotty Dog’s a cool dude!

Enjoying a tasty treat.

It looks yummy!

Rufus at the beach

My brother Rufus has been enjoying the sun recently with a trip to the beach with Megan.

Enjoying the view

A spot of sunbathing

   

Playing in the sand

Poor Rufus!

I think all that digging made him hungry

I love hearing about your adventures. Don't forget you can send your photos to my usual email address and I'll share them on here with my friends.

Love 

Dottie

Fire Walking for Post Pals

You won’t believe what I’ve just done! My friend Kwok said he was going to walk over hot coals for Post Pals and asked if I’d do it with him. It sounded really scary but also like a big adventure so I said yes! We had matching t-shirts made with the Post Pals logo on and asked lots of people for sponsorship. Soon the big day arrived. An instructor gave us a long lesson on how to do it. He explained that this would be very dangerous to do on our own but it was OK here with the instructor and firefighter looking after us.

Kwok and I were still really nervous though! We were the last to go and watched everyone else go across. My heart was beating faster and faster as our time came nearer. The instructor shouted out the number of steps each person took: “3 steps, 4 steps...”

The big moment came and we stood at the edge of the coals. I looked at Kwok and said “Come on, we can do it”, and we took the first step onto the hot coals!

On the first step I didn’t feel very much; the second step felt warm; the third step felt as if I’d been pricked by a rose thorn; the fourth step was hot; the fifth step was very hot; on the sixth step Kwok said “We can do this Dottie, even though our feet feel as if they’re on fire”; and the seventh step was the last – we had done the most steps of the day! I couldn’t believe that we’d reached the other side. We rushed across to the buckets of water laid out ready for us and dunked our feet in them.

We stayed in the water for a little while to let our feet cool down – it felt wonderful! Our feet were black from the coals and Kwok’s had lots of little blisters, but he said it was worth it. Kwok and I gave each other a big hug – we had done it!

Afterwards we counted up all our sponsorship money – we had raised over £1000! We wrote out a special cheque and presented it to my friend Ella on behalf of Post Pals.

It was a lovely end to our adventure!

With woofs and spots,

Dottie

At the Fire Station

Today was ‘Take your puppy to work day’ so I went to work with Sarah’s dad Mark – at the fire station! They said I could be a firefighter for the day. I was the first puppy firefighter they’d ever had so I knew I had to do a good job.

First I sat by the console upstairs and Mark showed me where we waited for the shout to come through saying someone needed rescuing from a fire. He said that as it was quiet at the moment we’d have a practice run. All the bells went off really loudly and made me jump! I read the print out to see where the fire was and then ran over to the fireman’s pole. We had to go down the pole as it was quicker than going down the stairs. It looked a very long way down from the top!

I gulped nervously and then went for it, and slid really fast all the way down! So much fun that I wanted to do it again, but we had to get to the fire engine. It was huge and red and gleaming. I put on my smart firefighter’s boots – I think they fitted me very well!

Mark said I’d done the drill in double-quick time, which would have been really important if we’d been getting to a real fire. I was pleased I’d done well! Next Mark showed me round the fire engine. I couldn’t believe how enormous it was, and how many different gadgets were hidden inside it. I climbed all the way up the ladder at the back to look at the other ladders kept on the roof, and looked at the really strong pressure hose for putting out fires. I wanted to try it and hose everyone down but for some reason Mark didn’t trust me with it!

Lastly I sat in the cab and pretended to drive the engine. I turned the wheel and said Nee Naw NEE NAW as I imagined going to put out a fire.

As we were leaving, the station watch gave me some stickers and tattoos to remember my day. They gave me enough to give to all my friends.

With love and spots

Dottie