Ruby Update

Hello Everyone,

Can you believe that I am nearly eight months old already and I now try to be the boss in my house but my mum won't let me.

She says I need to be a well behaved puppy and then she will take me to lots of places that she goes too but only if I am polite

Look how much I have changed in these few months since I cam to live with my mum and dad when I was nine weeks old

I was soooo cute then but now I am simply gorgeous ... don't you think ??

Me and my friend Dougal are starting a new dog training class next month and it is our Bronze Citizens award.

We will get a certificate at the end of it from the Kennel Club  ... if we are well behaved.

We can then go on to the next stage and I will be sure to keep you posted as to how we go on.

When I am a year old I can also go to Agility Training and run up ramps and through hoops and over fences. I will have a ball but my mum will be shattered !!

It's a beautiful day today and our mums took Dougal and me on the beach.

We ran around and played and walked such a long way for two hours.

Then we got back and we had been made clean and tidy with no sand on us we snuggled up on the sofa and had a little sleep.

Isabella came to visit today as she is going to a Christening with her Daddy and Jasmine

She dressed me up in her crown and called  me Princess Ruby ... she thinks I look lovely but I am not too sure !!

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Ruby Update ...

Hello Everyone,

S'me Ruby here and I am now fully recovered from my operation and back to mischief again

I have discovered that I am now big enough to climb onto the back of the chair and look through the window.

And then I have a lovely time watching the world and barking at everybody who passes my house.

It doesn't matter who is sat in the chair ... I will climb on top of them to see what is going on outside.

I am so pleased to be able to play with my best friend Dougal again

He is a Cockapoo and he is alomost the same age as me.

He has just been to the groomers and had his hair cut and I think he looks really handsome

We play together really well but we get a bit noisy and rough sometimes

Our mums take us in Witch Wood and we love it in there.

It is full of delicious smells and trees and bushes that we can run through.

When it has been raining it gets really muddy and Dougal and I love to run in it and we roll each other over.

So when I get back home I have to have bath and this is me after my bath

I am having a snooze on my mums knee in my lovely warm coat and I snore like a train!!

Lots of people have been asking my mum about this coat and so she has added a link for you to see them ....Ruff and Tumble Dog Coats

More next time ...

Bye for now xx

Ruby Update

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Hello Everyone,

Thank you all for your well wishes on my recent operation and here I am feeling a little sorry for myself once I came home.

But my mum has been pampering me and that is lovely and she made this BabyGro to fit me so that I can't bite at my wound.

She cut the legs shorter at the back of a baby's sleep suit so that I can still do what I need to do but it covers my tummy and keeps it clean .... clever eh??

I am not allowed to run around or jump so my mum is carrying me up and down stairs at present as I want to be with her all the time.

I am not allowed to go to my doggy day care just yet or play with my best friend Dougal until I am a little stronger.

But Vickie came to visit me and I was soooo pleased to see her. I kissed her all over her face and ears and made her laugh.

By the end of the week I was feeling much better

Here I am relaxing with my mums favorite magazine but I have to admit though that I am getting a little bored now and need to go out and play.

I especially want to see Dougal as I have really missed him and we have such fun together.

I will be back to  my old self again soon and then I will share more of my adventures with you

Bye for now xx

Ruby Update ...

Hi Everybody,

Here I am ...  it's me Ruby again looking as cute as ever ... and I am nearly six months old now.

I am growing  very quickly and I have lots of adventures each week.

On Monday I am going to the vets so that I wont have unwanted puppies and my mum is going to pamper me and take care of me while I recuperate.

So gentle walks only as I get better and I wont be able to see my best friend Dougal for a while as we play rough and run around all over the place.

This lovely photo was taken by Sally from Tail Waggers  and I am with some of my friends from doggy day care

We have a lovely time and Sally look after us and takes us all out for a walk in the fields and parks I go every Wednesday and I love it

Dougal goes there too and he is sitting behind me in the photo and he's going for a hair cut today !!.

Do you member me telling you about my unexpected swim the other week in the lake in Stanley Park?

Well Dougals mum Vickie has bought us both a jacket that dries and keeps us warm at the same time ...  just in case we fall in the water

It keeps my long ears covered and wraps around me and over my back and legs and is quite thick and snugly

It may be warm but we are not too sure at the moment of this new fashion

More next time ...

Bye for now xx 

Ruby Update ...

Hi Everyone,

Well here I am again and I am now five months old and I still look like butter wouldn't melt in my mouth.

I am waiting here for a treat that my mum has in her hand and it's sausages and I looove sausages !

I have had quite a few adventures since I was last here and one of them is that I now go to Puppy Training classes every week

I am learning to be a good puppy but sometimes it is hard especially because Dougal ... my very best friend ... is also there and all we want to do is play.

We have so much fun together and the other day my mum and Dougals mum Vickie, took us in Stanley Park.

We ran around and played in all the leaves and mud we could find and we were both really dirty

But I stood on something that I though was grass and it wasn't

It was what my mum called the algae on the lake and I fell in ....  I soon found out that I could swim

I had my lovely blue jacket on and my mum thought it might drag me under and she was calling my name from the side.

I tried to swim towards her but there was some wood in my way and when I touched the wood it moved so I had to take the long route and swim around it.

My mum was hopping about on the waters side and Dougals mum kept calling "Don't panic Mum ... Don't panic... " to my mum.

Coz of course my human mum is Vickies mum too.

As soon as I got close to my mum she scooped me out of the water and hugged me really close.. I had to take the jacket off and she put me in her coat to keep me  warm.

I was praised for swimming so I might just have to try that again some day ... but when the weather is warmer.  And I was really clean of all the mud when she got me out.

Once I warmed up I wanted to go and play with Dougal again and after the panic my mum and Vickie ended up laughing about her trying to get me out the water ... she can't swim as well as me !!

More next time ...

Hugs xx

Merry Christmas ...

Hi Everyone,

It's me Ruby just popping in to wish everyone a really Merry Christmas and an extra good New Year. This is my first Christmas and my mum has some lovely things wrapped up for me to open later

Yesterday I went to the groomers and had my hair done and my nails clipped and don't I look pretty in my Angel Wings. I have never been to a groomers before and it was really good fun especially when my friend Dougal came in too.

Dougal came to my house to play too for Christmas Eve and then later we were both tired after all that running around so I settled down for a sleep.

I may have big Spaniel ears but you know they do come in handy sometimes when a girl needs forty winks  in all those fluffy cushions



So I will catch up with you again in the New Year and tell you more of my adventures as I grow up in my new and happy home

Bye for now

Hugs xx

Ruby Update ...

Hello Everyone,

S'me Ruby again today and I am now four months old and growing all the time

Here I am with my lead on ready to go for a walk

I love to go for walks especially on the beach but when I get home again my mum has to wash me when  my feet get really dirty ... coz I like to dig.

This is the bowl that I am still big enough to fit into and this is good to practise digging in and it makes a lovely sound too

When I get out of the water I like to have a good shake and get everybody else wet too and my mum has a big fluffy towel that she wraps me in to get me dry and cosy again

But if I hang onto one corner of the towel while my mum tries to dry me I get all tangled up in it and it is so much fun trying to get out again.

I can roll around and make my mum and dad laugh as I growl at the towel

I like to go shopping too and I always make sure that my mum has all the shopping bags she needs

I get inside and count them for her and 

"Yes Mum there are three in here .... "

Then I drag them all over the hall so that she has to collect them all up again.

I love being a puppy and I have so much fun 

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx

Ruby Update ...16 Weeks Old

Hello Everyone,

It's me again today Ruby and I have had such exciting times with my new mum and dad.

I am now three months old and growing even more beautiful than I was before ... and you must agree that I am beautiful ??

 Here I am in my new coat ready to go for a walk with my mum and I was so excited to go out.

We went down to the sea front but I am too young to be let off my lead yet

It was a lovely walk  and when we got home I curled up in my special bed and went to sleep

The other night my mum had some of these chocolate things and I am not allowed human chocolate.

But I had so much fun shredding the empty box that it was all over the floor when I had finished

I also like my pink toy basket that is in the background there.

But when Dougal came to play he chewed the handles off it and now there's none left.

It is still fun to sit in although I am getting a bit too big for it now.

I was weighed at the vets last week and I am a whole 5.4 kilograms so I am growing really well.

I will bring you more stories as I get bigger and thank you for reading them and writing messages back to me.

I feel really special

Bye for now xxx

Ruby Update ...

Hello Everyone,

I thought I would pop in to tell you about my latest adventures in the big wide world

This is a new toy that my mum bought for me and it has lots of treats in it for me to sniff out.

 She said it would keep me quiet for ages ... but she was wrong ... I can clear all the treats from it in half an hour!!

Can you see my pink basket with all my toys in it?  I like to throw all the toys out and sit in it. It's just big enough for me and I can chew the handle while I am in there.

I also like to help my mum in her craft room and I get things out for her to play with coz I am really helpful !!

A new game I have discovered this week is to jump onto the drop down door of something my mum calls a dishwasher.

It's really good fun and as I hear the door opening I race across the kitchen floor  and launch my self on to it

Then on Tuesday my friend Dougal came to play and I stood on the top of the foot stool and that made me bigger than him so I barked and growled twice as much

We played till we where tired and then we both fell asleep on the rug until Dougals mum came to take him home

Bye for now ...

Ruby Update ...

Hi Everybody,

My name is Ruby and I thought I would pop in to tell you all about my fun day yesterday.

 I made a new friend called Dougal. He is only two weeks older than me but he is a lot bigger and bouncier.

We had some good fun racing around the garden and we even got to dig a big hole in Vickies lawn.

Then we tramped all the mud into her kitchen and it was so much fun to hear her squeal as we made a mess.

Here we are having a doggy chew when we were getting a little tired.

We had a lovely time and Dougal is so friendly.

I like to bite his ears as they are nearly as long as mine



We did a lot of barking and growling .... well I did a lot of barking and growling and I didn't know I could make that much noise.

Barking is fun though and I liked doing that bit !! I even barked at the postman yesterday too.

And after this I needed a good nap to get my beauty sleep ... well  I am only eleven weeks old

My mum loves my eyelashes and I know how to flutter them at her to get what I want.

This morning I have had my breakfast and later today I am being taken for a little walk on a lead but I don't really know what to do with that yet ... except chew it.

I have found a new toy at home too and this was fun to chew after I had had a good sniff at it.

I have a lot more adventures to come as I grow up and there is so much to learn.

But I like my new home and I have been here now for two weeks.

I will be back with more things to tell you

Bye for now xx

Ruby Update ...

Hello Everybody,

It's me  Ruby again and I am settling into my new home really well.

I am a nine week old English Cocker Spaniel and my colouring is Blue Roan Sable.

Now I might look like butter wouldn't melt but I can be very loud when I want to.

Here my new mum is trying to take some  close up pictures of me but the strap looks really inviting to chew

I went up to the craft room and helped my mum pick out some things that she wanted to work with

I am too little to climb the stairs on my own yet so I was carried up but there are lots of new things up here to sniff

Then when she was busy I took myself off to chill in my comfy bed

OoooooH !! this is the life

See you again soon.

More tomorrow ...

Hugs xx