Gus’ 12th Birthday Walk

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Well we did go out on a birthday walk, and a thoroughly lovely one it was. As usual Gus took the lead straight away. We did our normal walk, then decided to try and find Codnor Castle. These only a few walls left to see, but its under a mile from our home “as the crow flies” but in 15 years of living here we’ve yet to stumble across it. However, today, being a “special day” luck was on our side and we found it at long last.

There’s an array of photos, mainly highlighting Gus (as it was His Day). You’ll see two other scotties invading the photos every now and then: Bobby and Finlay, younger brothers to Gus. They’ll have the own post page knocking around somewhere, so keep an eye out for their activities.

On our return, all boys had to be cleaned up. The baby bath was used to wash down their little legs etc. They then get wrapped up and sit quietly for a while awaiting a “chopped carrot and apple treat”. They then sleep/rest/potter quietly around for the day.

This is the normal daily routine anyway, just that today we sought and found Codnor Castle. Monday will be back to normal – just the grassy pastures and the woods – not bad for three  scotties!

Gus, XII Clan Member

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Gus is 12 today (12th February 2011) and thus is the right age to join XII Clan. Today he had a very nice breakfast, opened his present – a bag of tennis balls and had a little play with one of them. He is very excited as he knows that there is a bag of tennis balls just waiting. We only let him have the one until it’s no more. We hope to go on a walk later, if the weather holds. Gus is always the track leader on our walks and often choses the path to follow. He’ll romp ahead, then turn to see if we’ve taken the same path, then twirl on his hind legs and trot off. If he stops to sniff, and he does that regularly, then finds himself behind, he’ll then barge his two younger brothers (Bobby and Finlay) out of the way. He just wants to be in the lead all the time! He is such a great character. Everyone in our village know Gus and they always stop us on our walks so they can have a chat with him.

 

XII Clan

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Welcome to the XII Clan

These posts are dedicated to all those Scotties that have reached the wonderful age of 12.

We would like you to add your own post together with pictures. Tell us what you XII Clan member is doing. Of course, please feel free to make a “reply here”, but it would look much nicer having your own “post page” about your XII clan member.

Happy editing!