Mummy is so bad at writing posts!

Hmmm...we are not impressed, Dizzy and I (Lily) are really not at all pleased that Mummy has not written anything about us for so long. This is an intervention! With the help of some new doggie technology we are taking over this Doggie Blog and writing our own posts.....

We must thank the lovely Beekeeper or Sarah from Crafting4Greyhounds in Norfolk, who has knitted us these lovely new snoods above. Mummy was too lazy to knit replacements, after Daddy washed our blankets and threw the snoods in the washing machine. Mummy donated some money to Action For Greyhounds for Sarah's snoods and we recommend that you support them too. Sarah's hubbie, has made some lovely cards from his humorous greyhound sketches and these support the cause, see the details below from Sarah.

Greyhound Cards for Sale
''This wonderful set of cards designed by
my talented husband Nigel is now available to buy.
Each pack contains 8 blank cards 2 each of 4 designs
and come complete with envelopes.
Price per pack of 8 cards £3.50 plus £1 postage in the UK.
Profits from the sale of these cards is donated
to Action for Greyhounds UK.
Payment by cheque or paypal,
please email for details''

Anyway, Good News for us, we have officially managed to move up a peg or two since Mummy last posted, and have managed to sneak onto the two sofas downstairs at regular intervals as well as their bed, and we can do this even with Daddy in the room. It seems that he is the weaker of the two and is willing to turn a blind eye to our misdemeanours. Mummy comes in and says 'What is going on' and we hide our heads in the cushions but somehow, acting invisible does not work with her.

Dizzy tells me though, that he managed to sneak onto the bed today when Mummy was actually in it. However it wasn't a very good sneak and she has a bruised thigh and knee. He just leaped on like a rhino, then did his favourite spinning around and around trick digging into her legs. He says its not his fault if his nails need clipping again. 

Anyway we will sign off for now, and leave you with a hint of what we would like for Christmas. Well, the tables are lovely and if carved in our image all the better, but what we really want is snacks on them that are head height (can we suggest prawn crackers?).

Must dash...its prawn cracker night tonight (we think? The parents need reminding!). Lets not let on to our Mummy, that we have learned how to type with our large paws eh? And you will have to admit, this post is more doggie and interesting without Mama being the author of it.

Princess Lily Blue

Dizzy Rascal

Lils and Dizzy have harnesses

These seem to be the safest kind and are available from Jan's greyhound gifts in specific sizes.

These harnesses with the martingale collar helps control Dizzy Rascal when he is with me.

Just to add....the harnesses are really to stop Lily when totally spooked slipping her collar.
She doesn't often get spooked, but if we are on hols (like above) walking on busy roads or more importantly on motorway journeys the harness is a good thing. Even if they are in the back of a car it is good to have something on their body you can grab easily. I was (horrified when we first got these two) of a story I heard of someone losing their greyhound because their car was rammed up the rear in an accident and it damaged the hatch which sprung open...the dog was so terrified it jumped out and ran off and they never saw it again....it was in a heavily forested area. As you open a hatch, well trained dogs will wait til you pick up the leads but if they get spooked...and this happened to us once...they might just jump out into a carpark to escape and grabbing the harness as they slither by is handy. It is very hard to grab a greyhounds collar quickly.

When they are good, they are very very good.....
and their Dad spoils them with a takeaway Chinese.


Look how he has made a little dinner out of our left over rice, and meat with a prawn cracker on top. He goes to the trouble of washing off all the grease, and washing off the sauce so that it isn't unhealthy for them and we usually give them less dinner on the Chinese day.

Lils has got so good at working out which day it is she knows when its Saturday....she will often, after Stevie has telephoned the Chinese, sit by the front door or pace up and down trying to look out the window to find out where that delivery bike could be. She gets most disgruntled though if Saturday comes and there is no Chinese......or in fact no takeaway.

When they are bad they are very very bad......but not often though.


We have a chewer. He only likes to rip up bits of paper or books though, if they are left on the sofa. The first time he did it was when he went up to the sofa, as bold as anything with us watching, and picked up the paper to move it to one side so he could get on. We didn't deduce from this he was a ripper too but some time after that, we would come into the living room hearing ripping noises and he would be tearing strips off a book or newspaper. However.....he did it to his Mummy's knitting pattern. I never buy knitting patterns having mostly designed things myself. This was to be a break from designing and a chance for some easy mindless knitting. Dizzy thought it was outrageous though that a knitting pattern author should be using someone else's pattern. What is wrong with Mummy he thought, I know, I'll rip it up and she'll have to start improvising again......

Lastly, sometimes they are neither good or bad....
and just comatosed sharing the same sun patch.


They love a warm day with the sun coming into the living room....trouble is that sun patch shrinks and moves and they have to try and share it.



Either that or Lily just hogs the whole patch to herself and warms her belly under it....after all, it is falling onto her bed, so perhaps she has the legal right to it. Nevertheless, Dizzy backs down for an easy life.

Dizzy's Dad

Some of our greyhound knitting folk, were discussing genetics on a forum....and just by chance, I looked up Dizzy's Dad and found this poster of him! Dizzy's Dad a dog named Cool Performance I mean. This is an advert which was placed in a racing magazine, for people to hire him as a sire. Shame that his pups, including Dizzy didn't really live up to their champion father's fast track record! The pups were all beautiful though and mostly brindle. They are all called Smooth something, so Dizzy was Smooth Design.

Knitting Patterns for Greyhounds

Sofa Hounds

These two have got their own double duvet each, on top of a doggie mattress. We also started letting them on the one sofa upstairs in my little studio....but eventually, we gave in, got throws and have let them up on our furniture.....now we often have nowhere to sit...what did we start eh?

Anyone got a leather or wipe down sofa we could buy? I am fed up of brushing the hair of this one.

Here is a pic of a stained glass window I had made for my partner's birthday.
It is huge and made in the style of a tattoo. As you can see it has a greyhound on it.