This dog is a one off – Sunday 29th March 2026

This dog is a one off

This dog is a one off. And as you realise, I’m talking about Pebbles. We just never know what she’s going to do next. Even when Mum tries to second guess what the problems will be, Pebbles comes up with a whole new unexpected scenario.

As the herding ball idea wasn’t going well, Mum decided to try Pebbles with the biggest size of Boomer ball. I was going to bring you a photo of her playing with it, but events overtook me. Pebbles does love the ball. She loves it so much that when Mum came inside she insisted on staying outside in the orchard playing ball. Mum went out twenty minutes later and Pebbles was still running around with it.

Mum’s first mistake

Mum’s first mistake was to assume that when Pebbles got bored she would come to the back door and ask to be let in. That is what normally happens. What Mum did not think was that Pebbles might get her ball stuck in a thorny hedge. That wasn’t the actual problem. Pebbles was still so hyped from playing that she had energy to expend. That was when she found a large length of wood, which for the record Mum can only just lift and move about. Pebbles decided she wanted to take it off the pile and bring it down to the end of the orchard – where she was going from there I have no idea.

Causing damage

In the process she has completely bent two of the iron fence posts that Mum has used to put a fence up across the orchard. Mum has absolutely no idea how she has done it and can’t bend them back by hand. This morning she wants Dad to go out to help her to straighten the posts. Now she doesn’t know what to do with her wood pile. She is planning to use some of it to repair the compost bins, but can’t risk Pebbles deciding it’s fair game in the meantime.

I should probably add that earlier in the day, Pebbles decided a very large broken plant pot with sharp edges that is waiting to go to the tip, would make a good toy. It took a lot of effort for Mum to wrestle that away from her too.

Love and licks

Wilma

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