Bon Voyage Monkee...

Well, today’s the day that Monkee leaves us for his new home in Florida. We arrived at the airport at 1pm but the agent meeting me wasn’t going to be there ‘til 2.20pm so rather than have the dogs sitting in the van in the 32°c heat I decided to drive the few miles over to Ryecroft farm and take them for a walk. This is a flyball venue so I knew there were shaded footpaths under trees and a river for them to cool off in and it was the perfect opportunity for Monkee to stretch his legs and toilet before his flight. I just had Ethan, Spark and Dottie with me so I thought they’d enjoy a nice gentle stroll….hmmm…seems my dogs really don’t understand that concept and they proceeded to charge around the thick undergrowth in the woodland like complete idiots and I kept losing them! At least Monkee was well behaved despite Dottie and Spark trying to teach him all the best bad habits!

Remember those two beautiful clean dogs from the show on Sunday???


Didn’t last very long did it?! lol

‘Ok Monkee…pay attention…
….first you have to make sure you find the deepest dirtiest puddle and then make sure you tuck all your nice clean white bits into the water and get them all well covered….’

Thankfully he declined to join them in their mud wallowing! lol

We got back to the car and he just found shade under this tree and really didn’t want to come out to get back in the van…bless him

At least he’s been getting acclimatized over the past few days, sure it’s going to be much hotter out in Florida!

We met the agent at the cargo depot, folded the big purple fleece blanket that all the dogs have been sleeping on for the past week and placed it in his crate so he can take the smell of home on his journey with him, and saw him off…always feel a little pang of sadness as the roller shutter door goes down and I see them for the last time but I know he’s going to have a great life out in the ‘sunshine state’ with his new family.