Dear Springer Rescue

Thank you for finding me my new forever home, I like it very much and have settled in.

I have a new brother Sam, he tells me that he was part of the Springer Rescue family 13 years ago when he came to this forever home and has loved it here.  We go for lead walks together, but he can’t manage the long walks as he is now 14 years old, so I have to do those on my own.

I have discovered two lovely walks on my own.  One is a large field with a railway line to one side and strange things fly by on it, but they are far too fast for me to chase after so I have learnt to ignore them for now!  The other walk is a 5 acre park with lots of trees, a pond and mud puddles so I can have mud baths and keep my skin soft and smooth.  I’m sure my new family don’t mind because they have a plaque near my bed that says I’m a mud magnet, among other things.

I’m training my new family.  They now know that they don’t need to pull on my lead when we are out for a lead walk.  When I’m let off the lead at the Park I love the fact that they have a whistle, which is great because they blow it when they get lost and it helps me to find them.  When I first arrived, I couldn’t get them to understand me, it must be the difference between the Lancashire and Yorkshire accents.  Now that we do understand each other I don’t have to bark as much and the house is much quieter.  Outside though, when I’m on my lead, I feel that I still have to tell other dogs that my new family are nervous about meeting other dogs, so I bark a lot with a high pitched bark.  Hopefully one day we will get things sorted.

I went to church with my new family, on the first Sunday, as they don’t feel confident at leaving me on my own – they must have some sort of separation anxiety.  It was fine until I decided I was bored and somebody else was as they came to talk to me in the aisle.  We had a conversation which had to be cut short when my new dad must have decided he was bored too, so we went for a walk in the park – when we got back to the church, it was treat time so I didn’t miss out on a drink and some dog biscuits.

I’ve struggled with the size of the keys on my new family’s lap-top so I have had to dictate this letter to you so that they could type it up.  Hopefully they will either buy me a computer with larger keys or will type up another letter when I can find time to dictate another one.

Lots of licks and barks
Blaze