BMAD festival

I have seen the BMAD bikers in Paignton in the past on their weekly Wednesday bike nights and knew they had an annual festival on the bank holiday weekends but had never been to one befores. Den I did fink now I live real close by I should go check it out. So off I went.

Here I am arriving at the festival.

I looked at alot of different stalls - Here I am with the ride of respect 2012 stall

Here's a MOD bike wiv ALOT of mirrors (above) and here's me infront of the bike (right)

I met some other greyhounds who were also checking out the bikes.








I bought my own self a biker bandana and a biker skull cap - here I am modelling it.

There was ALOT of bikes all over Paignton this weekend. All different sizes and shapes and colours.










It wuz luffly to finally get to go along and see the festival and I yam looking forward to going to one of the weekly bike nights when they start up. I wonder if anyone will recognise my own self. :)

You can check out the BMAD website for more information on them own selves.

Whippety doo dah collars

So my fwends Whippety doo dah wuz doing haffing a competition to win one of their bootiful collars. You had to do telling them what the name of the painting dey showed you wuz. Well I did trying real hard to find the answer and eventually worked it out and sent in my answer (even though Whippety doo dah duz make whippety collars and  I yam a greyhound!) and I received an email back fwom them. This what dey said.

"As the first person (or really that should be very intelligent greyhound) to successfully answer the first ever competition question, let me know your collar size and address and I'll send a free collar specially to fit you.  Just let me know the measurement around your neck where your greyhound collar normally lies - or your bandana normally fits..

I've got a great blue bandana style fabric (Sam has a collar made from in the FB album 'The Leas') or - if you really wanted to be ironic a cat/kitten pattern :)  Sam and Lilah reckon that one of the paisley pattern collars would look fab on Cat.  Of course if you'd just like a surprise... :) (Something suitable for such a great greyhound of course)."

I wuz so hexcited to be getting my very own speshal collar fwom my fwends Sam and Lilah and der hoomam Anne. So I sended dem an email back wiv my neck measurements (which turned out to be 14" which is pretty whippety after all)  and did waiting in anticipations to see what collar I wuz to receive.
A few days later the post hooman arrived wiv an envilope fur my own self. I ripped it open and out fell ... TWO collars fwom Whippety doo dah. TWO collars just fur my own self.

I got the Hippy Chic and  the Multi Paisley collars.
Dey do telling me the multi-paisley iz 14" and  the Hippy chic is a little bigger. They both fitted me luffly.









The Whippety doo dah people do making lots different collars. (they also make cushions!) Here's what they say about themselves (Taken fwom der website!)

My husband and I acquired a whippet cross as our first family dog shortly after we were married and were advised by our vet never to use a 'straight' (or normal) collar on any type of hound as, if she/he pulled on his/her lead, a normal collar could damage the delicate tissues of her neck.

Like many whippet owners, we soon became a little bored with the 'run of the mill' leather whippet collars that were around.  Even though there is now a wider range of leather collar colours, we don't like 'breaking in' a new leather collar, and we wanted something different.

We looked around for something a little different but could only find collars that were based on un-shaped webbing collars.  Yes, there's loads of lovely ones out there, but the vet's words always lingered at the back of our minds about damaging the delicate neck tissues. 

This led to me having the brainwave of making fabric collars (usually 100% cotton, but some silk or faux suede) which are based on the shaped traditional hound collar style.

The result has been that there have been several owners of other whippets (or should that be human pets who belong to whippet owners?) who have asked where we got the collars that our dogs were wearing.

So ... to help out... we decided to start making our own collars (and cushions).

The result has been ...

Whippety Doo Dah collars and cushions!

And here are some more pics of their other collars (again taken off their website!)

They haff lots more and are always adding more. and you can haff dem on buckle collars or martingale collars. Dey also say dey do "bespoke" collars which I think means dey can make dem how you want dem speshally. 

I duz luff mine collar fwom my fwends at Whippety doo dah. Here iz me wearing the hippy chic collar sunbathing on a cliff (yeah!) 

The collars fit luffly as dey is speshally made fur houndies with us speshal houndie necks so dey dont choke us or cut us like what some collars can do to houndies and dey be soft materials so dey dont feel yucky when we wearing dem. Also look how pwitty it is. 

Once you start wearing it the material loosens up a bit so if it tight when you 1st get it be okay once you walk on it for a bit. 

I give the whippety doo dah collar 4 out of 5. It maybe be better if you could adjust the size of it yourself at home for when you haff more furs in the winters and less in the summer but it not really matter coz dey be soft fabrics so dey not be real tight and if dey a little loose it okay too. Other than that its pawsome. :) you should all buy one fur your own selves. 

The whippety tea party

Yesterday was the whippet tea party and family dog show at Port Eliot estate in Cornwall (just in Cornwall!!) I did hearing abowt it on the facebook from a couple of mine whippety fwends and fawt I would like to go along. So I packed mine bag - wiv mine treats and mine noms, 2 coats and a towel, my bandanna, some pocket money and mine camera - and off I went.

Some of the stands

We got to Port Eliot and parked the wheelies, got out the car - I had a real qwick wees coz I wuz BURSTING! and walked down to the gardens where I could see lots happening. There wuz tents full of exciting things, a wookie and darth vadar wuz der too and there wuz agility and doggy dash and a show ring where you could show the judges how bootiful you wuz. 

Met a labradoor next to the good dog guide stall

First we looked at the games tent (but I didn't want to catch crabs or anything so we didn't play) then we stopped to chat to the good dog guide people and entered their competition to see if we could win some shopping vouches for Dougal's Den, I did some sniffing wiv other doggies too. 

Then we moved on to a stall which wuz selling all sorts luffly doggie things, it wuz called Freckles  We had a look around and I did inspect all the pots and boxes and sniff all the noms and toys before deciding I wanted to buy a new brush/comb to do my furs wiv.

Next on the list wuz the traildogs welfare stall where they had a "doggy dip" which I had a go on (I won a rawhide bone!) and a tombola which hooman boy played and won a camera (not a bery good camera but it a camera none the less!) 

So I spotted a "have a go agility" course and thought it would be a good opportunity to see if my jumping on the beach and walking on walls had paid off. I lined up behind the other dogs and did waiting my turn and the lady came over and said I could have a go if I paid my money - which I did - Hooman girl told the lady I would be ok to jump but wouldn't go through the tunnel. Well the lady insisted I try the tunnel and I screamed at her to stop shoving me. But  I did the jumps and the "dog walk" (it was 3 planks of wood balanced on some boxes. Here's a video. 

Any way I got some sample pack of treats for trying and I'm quite proud of myself for doing it.

We went to look around the rescue stalls too, I saw the Scruples stall which wuz belonging to a lady I wuz talking to on facebook. We bought 2 fridge magnets off them and I did sniffing with some of the scruples hounds and met noodles who wuz preparing herself fur the whippet tea party.  

Then we got some food and went and sat on the hill watching the goings on, before I went fur a walk with hooman girl to look for my fwend Mervin who we did finding eventually back by the scruples stall. 

Me and Mervin did some talking and sniffing of each others, we dizcussed us bandannas what we both did get from Elfie's muvva. and we dizcussed about the tea party and about the greyt dog meet what he comed to in March and then we both did lie down whilst the hoomans chit chatted a bit. 

and finally the moment we had all been waiting for....the whippet tea party. 

Cake

The noms didn't last long though 

Disappointed Pointy Face - no noms left!

I got chance to sit down and sun bathe wiv Mervin before we went home and we got rosettes fur attending the tea party too. 

Me and Merv wiv us rosettes :)

Before I left I bought a hounds4hero's fridge magent/dog tag which I shall wear on mine house collar and the lady from Red hounds for dogs came to say hi to me (she's one of my avid followers hehe) 

And here is a video montage of the day

Jenn's Knits, Knitted with love Berry Bandanna

So my good fwend Sir Elfie Grey Miles wuz doing showing of his bandannas what hims muvva duz making and I did thinking to my own self I would luff one of dem fur my own self. 


My fwends Sweep and Mervin were wearing bandannas at my greyt dog meet too.


So I did speaking to Elfie about where I could do getting my ownself a bandanna and what coloured bandanna him did thinking would suit my moo spots. 


We decided on this one ...  

It haz strawberries on black backing on one side and the other side is a nice greeny colour. 

Here is me wearing my bandanna in various fashions. 

Modelling the Bandanna in the garden

Keeping the sun off my face

Little berry riding hood

Pirate gaaaar  Catty

All Jenn's Bandannas are £5 each (except some the very hextral speshal ones mite be a bit more I duz fink) and hers be getting new ones in all da time. hers haff got ones wif flowas and ones wif anipals and ones wif honkypusses and dotty ones and camouflage ones. so many luffly ones. 

They be luffly colours and the fabriks be greyt quality, dey nice and thick but not so thick dat dey be heavies. Dey is tie fastening so you can do making dem as tight or loose as you want to be doing. and as you can see fwom da fotos dey can be worn in different fashions depending on what you want to be doing. They be quite long down the back so you can show off lots the luffly design on your ownself. 

Also Jenn's Knits duz make jumpers fur hounds in lots luffly funny designs. Like knight armour and sailor navy man and royal robes, and also more "normal" jumper designs in pretty colours. you can do taking a look at the facebook page here 

Charley Chau Blankie

So I was on the girls laptop the other night when my Ontie Claire sent me a message on twitter about this photo competition what Charley Chau was having on facebook. We had to send funny photo's of our own self to Charley and they were going to choose their favourite. The dog with the funniest photo was going to win a pure new wool blankie.

This is what Charley says about the blankies

Classic 100% Pure New Wool Blankets in contemporary colours at a very reasonable price

Our fabulous Pure New Wool Blankets are available in a range of bold, zingycolours and perfect for adding a splash of colour!

There is something about Pure New Wool that we find irrisistible - perhaps it's the timeless tradition of wool blankets around the home that goes back hundreds and hundreds of years.

Pure New Wool is wonderfully warm but breathable and a lovely natural fibreto have in your home.  Dog blankets don't have to stick out like a sore thumb and Charley Chau's Pure New Wool Blankets are a wonderful addition to any home interior.  Especially perfect for your sofa or your bed!

Charley Chau Pure New Wool Blankets are also machine washable too (expect 5-10% shrinage on the first wash as with any machine washable wool).

Available in two sizes and six fabulous colours, Charley Chau's Pure New Wool Blankets just make us smile - we hope they make you smile too! 

So I thought to my own self lets join in the fun times and submit some photos - I wont win but it looked like greyt fun. There was soooo many amazing photos entered. So much so that Charley and Jenny couldn't pick just one winner. They chose 3 dogs to win a blankie each. 

1st was Dermot with this foto "Quick the baby is coming get some water and charley chau blankets"

Next up was Peanut with "window shopping" 

and *drum roll* the 3rd winner was ME!!!!! 

Charley said "we loved Catty's expression - it's just a great, fun photo which is what this competition was all about!" 

I was sooooooooooo hexcited to be a winner!!! I did choosing a large Orchid pure new wool charley chau blankie and waited eagerly for the postie to visit. 

well I had to go hexploring so I had to move away from waiting for the postie... when I got back there was a package waiting for me at the door. IT WAS MY NEW BLANKIE!!!

The Blankie is snuggly and warm. It's luffly to lie on if you not allowed to go on the sofa or bed covers. It comes in luffly bright colours. you can lie on it...or under it...or roll it up and use as a pillow. it folds up quite small so you can pop it in the hoomans bags (or your own play again backpack if you lucky enough to have one). 

If you want to do getting your own blankie like this, you can get from charleys shop http://www.charleychau.com/ They also haff lots other beds and blankies, etc.