January racing along. This morning no less than three C-A-T-S sitting on the doorstep enjoying the sunrise. As Sophie steps outside she has to do a double take. The sheer audacity of it ! There then follows one of those awful silences that lasts all of a split second but seems like an hour . Two of the C-A-T-S head off at high speed. The third seems rooted to the spot. This gives Sophie the chance to gather her wits, emit the PON 'howl' and throw herself in the C-A-T-S direction, head high, ears flying, tail waving. Sophie plots a course that is pretty much a straight line. The intruder heads off at a 90 degree angle . Hunter and pursued go their separate ways. It takes Sophie some time and considerable effort before the realisation dawns that the C-A-T has gone.
Still no news from the wonderful people at Volvo France. As they remain incommunicado, despite lawyers letters, there is no way of knowing whether the car is being repaired or whether we're getting a replacement. This corporate silence is a an unusual way of dealing with customers. The last thing we heard was a terse one liner on Christmas Eve saying the car had a problem that required it to be taken to one of four Volvo specialist repair centres in France.
A sense that there's another major, nationwide, lockdown on the way. The French who are usually pretty efficient seem to have been caught by surprise. 2.4m vaccinations in the UK, an uninspiring 138,000 in the whole of France.
Angus thinks Sophie needs grooming.
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She really does look upset! I hope the trip to the water part helped make up for the unwelcome grooming and that Sophie is feeling better by now. We were never able to groom Cherry. Early on I bought all sorts of combs and brushes, shampoos and sprays, but her resistance never flagged and we finally gave up and turned her over to the pros (so long as we were paying someone else to groom her, she somehow loved it). With Charlie, we were determined to do better, and I was happy to read that all poodles love to be groomed. Well, I think that book was written by the same folks who wrote that PONs were good apartment dogs, and I also suspect that Cherry has been whispering in Charlie's ear from the great beyond (she's also told him where we keep the socks), and we are not making much progress. He's actually outdoing her, as even the groomers have been impressed with his determination not to let them near the hair in his ears.
This was one of those days when even showing Sophie the brush caused her to howl in a way that tells all our neighbours that we're torturing her with electric cattle prods.
Good to hear that Charlie is a puppy who know his own mind. Bertie's (standard) poodle cousins have always ADORED being groomed.
Bertie and Sophie have in common an expertise in ineffective hunting strategies.
Miss pops is not a fan of the brush either. It is a bit shameful that Volvo cannot even send you some info. Surely someone is working from home somewhere.
Recently a check up with the vet revealed that Inca has cataracts, which would explain why she doesn't always see the
C-A-T-S in her garden, even when I point them out to her! She isn't ready for an op. yet, but her sight is somewhat diminished, and she often goes chasing the offenders in the wrong direction.
Volvo France possibly have a strategy of dealing with problems such as yours - it will go away if we ignore it!
Oh dear Angus. You do so seem to be in her bad books.
Merlin hated being groomed, especially his paws. Both Lala and Lily love the attention.
The only brush I found that Merlin would tolerate was a 'Tangle Teezer'.
Shockingly bad service from Volvo. I do hope you receive at least some communication very soon.
Hari OM
Perhaps Mlle Sophie has Rastfarian inclincations? YAM xx
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