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The story of Spike the Wonderdog

I did something new today!

Coco has talked about our little train adventure in her diary so I've only got a couple of things to add to that.

I'd like to point out that She Who Mustn't Be Obeyed did not have to pick me up and plonk me on the train! To be fair, I was no keener than Coco to jump across the big gap between the platform and the train - what if I'd missed and slipped down into the darkness below? Ugh! However, once SWMBO had subjected Coco to the shame of human intervention, I decided to jump onto the train before she tried the same with me!

It was interesting, going to Lisvane - we've never been there before. It was quite a nice walk from the station, up a hill (we don't normally do many hills) and there were some good new smells around.

Then we saw Uncle R and he showed us his new Italianate garden. It isn't quite finished yet, which is a shame as I could have had a drink out of the water feature if it had been working.

Anyway, SWMBO bundled us quickly into the car to go home - and just in time, as at that moment it started to pour with rain!

Drink problem

I know, it looks dramatic, eh? No, I haven't been secretly raiding the drinks cabinet, but I have been drinking quite a lot and She Who Mustn't Be Obeyed decided to mention it to the vet. He did some tests, and it seems that my urine is very dilute. This means that the part of my kidneys that deals with liquids isn't working properly, so it just goes straight through without being filtered.

So, I was put on a special, expensive diet. I really liked it for a few months, then got tired of the dried breakfast version. Eventually I also got sick of the tinned food, which SWMBO added hot water to so it wasn't so claggy. In the end, I wouldn't look at it, so now we're given proper food - chicken, fish and vegetables! Yummy. Now and again, SWMBO sneaks some of the renal diet stuff in, but I can live with that occasionally.

A good wheeze, eh? The only thing is that Coco gets it too, and she really doesn't need it for her kind of illness. But SWMBO has decreed that we must have the same, or we'd fight. I expect she's right.

A sticky moment

Sometimes I feel like running after a stick, most times I don't. It depends on my mood, and She Who Mustn't Be Obeyed usually doesn't bother throwing them, as she gets embarrassed if I just look at her and don't react, especially if other people are watching.

However, when I decide I'm in the mood, I will pick up a stick and look at her expectantly. That's what I did this morning, and she was delighted! She kept throwing it for me, I kept running after it, and each time she called me a "good boy", even though I didn't bring it back to her. I like that.

Then I got bored. So, as soon as another person came close, I decided to make SWMBO look stupid by standing and looking at her after she'd thrown the stick, as if to say, "I hope you don't expect me to run after that." Works every time.