Friday 24 July 2009

... she's a real hound!


So she's coming up to 8 months... and being a small French hound she's starting to follow her nose. We walk 3 to 5 miles a day and much of that is on the Hatfield House Estate. Running free across the fields and woods, Ella has recently come back with a rabbit leg and a Magpie wing, not that she goes for the kill, just that her strong hound sense of smell finds any carcass that's left to ground. She also chases Crows that are foraging on a large hay field. They take to the air and hover, but Ella goes not give in and can be seem running around with her head uplifted toward the crowing birds! - Also she's into puddles... first for a drink of fresh rainwater then to run back and forth through, making for a very muddy hound, bless.

Saturday 11 July 2009

Brighton - Edward to stay

Nephew Edward, who is nearly 8 years, came to visit Kathy at Brighton. These were taken on our under cliff coastal walk from the marina to Rottingdean - it was a great sunny bright day. Ella is just over 7 months old now!