13th April

Day 4 at Pets At Home.  Our final day is Sunday 15th April do come and join us.

The weather is still varying from one extreme to the other throughout the day.
I took a photo of the buds on my flowering cherry tree with frozen droplets on first thing this morning.

Gave Chance,Angel and Boycie a run early at the ponies then went home and swapped Angel and Boycie for Sapphire and Spryte.
Sam was left with the job of taking the dogs at home into the garden in the middle of the day, the girls came with me, helping between having their haircut.

We arrived to find the raffle tickets had been misplaced and we only had six left to sell  and no stickers to give out, disaster! However, they turned up after half an hour and it was business as usual, proving quite busy with lots of children.
Spryte came out and did a good job, sitting on a chair which made her less likely to jump up.

Spryte Meercat.com

The girls went off for their haircuts and I got Chance out but it proved just too difficult trying to hold him and talk to people and write out tickets. I put him back in the car and now it was suddenly very warm. He became agitated and barked when people talked to him, then he and Saff had an altercation. It was getting too hot to have the back of the car closed and suddenly people were crowding round the car and talking to the dogs and making comments about them being shut in, Chance becoming more and more wound up and vocal!
I couldn't stand it and when a quieter moment came took Chance and Saffy home, surprising Sam who now had two extra charges.

It is unfortunate as it is nice to have the rescues there to meet people and show them off but when it is busy with children you need a bombproof dog, ideally with a handler, and someone else to chat and sell tickets/ give out stickers etc.

Roxy

So that is how we did the rest of the day. Samantha came with Roxy and Sara came back after her haircut and helped with Spryte.

It turned cold and then rained.

Sunday we do it all again.