Good day pack,
I don't have much to say at this time as the current lockdown has curtailed my socialising other than patrolling the streets of Los Garcias and exchanging greetings with my doggy chums as we take our staff for their walks.
Fortunately due to my close connections with the government I was given a nod regarding the current restrictions and I managed to take both my staff down to Puerto Laguna so they could run on the sand before the boundaries came in place. However the restrictions have given me time to think and to perfect my glare !
I don’t know whether you remember my Male staff's poor efforts to arrange a weekend away in Carbonares which resulted in tantrums all round and a double glare from myself. I was first aware of ‘the glare’ when I noticed my female staff member subjecting her colleague to one. I then saw glares being given by my good friends Carol and also Debs. Now when a glare is administered by an expert it is like a Klingon death ray, leaves on trees behind the victim curl and go brown on the tips and it can be felt 25 metres away. I have been practicing my ‘ glare'. First of all on inanimate objects (yes includes Male staff) but I am saving the full force for a suitable moment such as my supper. Male staff tootles off to the supermarket and with the stealth usually reserved for putting his cooking sherry out of sight secretes my food pouches in the back of the cupboard. I always know when he is up to no good as he hums tunelessly to hide his embarrassment. I checked the receipt of course and cannot identify the source of my food.
The following morning I get up around 9.45 to check on staff’s work list and to have my breakfast. Well I go to my bowl and there is nothing I can identify. It doesn't look like my food or smell like my food, I gingerly take a morsel and walk away, now it comes, I give Male staff ‘ The glare', not 100% but about 70%, I am fair and want to give him a chance. The food stays all day, I refuse to touch it. I hear Male staff discussing with female staff the issue of my food. Oh when she's hungry she will eat it I heard female staff say. Now this is not why I employ them ! I go into the sitting room and give both staff a full force 100% glare for about 10 seconds each, a glare of Olympian proportions. Carol and Debs would be proud of me. I went out to lie in the sun (well to sulk actually). That evening I was served my scrambled egg and biscuits by Male staff with much apologetic bowing and scraping. I sat on my couch watching ‘ New Kennels in the Sun', and I heard my staff muttering what shall we do about Skye's food.
Go on our local FaceBook site, I instructed them, someone must sell my special, ‘By Royal Appointment ‘, dog food. Thankfully the lovely Jackie of Sol Supermarket had my food AND delivers to Arboleas so an order was placed and the following day my food was delivered to Arboleas. Male staff was sent to meet up with the delivery driver at Maloans and I went back to practicing my glare on a log in the hearth.!!
You may remember Roland the fruit rat who decimated lovely Alan's grape vine? Well having despatched Roland we had another rodent issue. We all pile in female staff's Clio to go shopping. Funny said Male staff this car always starts immediately. The Clio eventually started and off we went. A smell of diesel fuel became evident , whoops said Male staff let’s get back home. Back at base we opened the bonnet only to discover that one of Roland Rattus' relations, probably Errol the ratsafarian had started to disassemble the fuel system . Later we heard that Errol had been busy elsewhere working on a windscreen washer system as well as testing his wiring skills on a Jaguars wiring loom. Thankfully it wasn't a petrol engine in the Clio or we could have been barbecued !
When I take staff out for the evening walk we pass a family of kittens who are being looked after by Mr and Mrs Aldous. I am told by staff they are very pretty and I see them playing , they don't bother me and I have never had issues with cats. However having been cast upon the streets when young I have a soft spot for the homeless and these kittens now need a good home for Christmas so if there are any cat lovers out there who would like one or more of these kittens please get in touch. There are 2 Tabbies, 2 Black, a pretty Ginger and a Tortoise Shell.
Well after all these restrictions it was a busy month after all, Good to see the rules are working, keep safe and aware pack, Dogs rule (whatever the cats say).
A Happy Christmas and Three Kings to you all and a special thank you to my male staff, Holman Blackburn for checking my spelling.
� Skye of Los Garcias
