Mucky Pups!

This is Reba our girl Berner sleeping soundly on the sofa, she does this a lot at the moment, she might be pregnant.

This, if true, is not a planned event, we were planning next year to let her and Rocky have a litter and so when she was in season we kept them separate. Not separate enough as they managed to get it together in the bracken three weeks ago. She now shows signs of being pregnant, sleeping more, very affectionate and morning sickness. Its hard to tell if she is without having a scan, Berners do sleep a lot anyway and its hard to find a more affectionate dog so the sickness thing is perhaps the only real clue until we get her scanned.

If only there was another way.

What we need is an electrician!

Many in our valley have talent we can call upon should they be needed, Steve the stable sprite, Steve the rayburn repair man, Steve the hedge trimmer, Steve the post, and Steve the electrician who when we spoke today disclosed his neighbour was also a Steve. The Steve's are multi-talented and can multi-task. Often the case in these parts, people have more than one string to their bows, even the shops tend to sell more than one range of goods, such as a sweet shop that is also a cafe, a fish monger that rents DVD's and so on.

So it came as no surprise today to find that Steve the electrician, currently trying to solve the Gordian knot like wiring circuit in our walls and floors is also a puppy diviner. By deftly waving a crystal over Reba he was able to confirm that she is pregnant and has around six puppies. Now under normal circumstances I may have taken this with a bit of salt, but as Reba sat quietly and let him do the crystal dangling without heading to the hills like she does whenever a stranger appears to me speaks volumes.

So watch this space!

If Carlsburg made puppies they would be Berner pups!