Ain't No Mountain High Enough!

All the biting beasties were out in force tonight! I am now covered in bites, with one particularly bad one on the back of my neck.

Poor old Tommy also came in with a bad bite on his behind, and I have a strong suspicion it was given to him by something considerably larger than a mozzie! Both Tilly and Faith are pleading ‘not guilty’ to that one, so investigations continue. Poor Tommy had to suffer the indignity of having Dermoline rubbed into his bottom. Not very macho at all! The girls just stood sniggering quietly.

I had another lovely session with Faith on the yard, and this time she managed not to brain herself on any stationary objects. I managed to pick up all her feet, and I even managed to give her tail a bit of a brush. She doesn’t seem to mind it if you brush it hanging down, but she gets a little bit worried if you lift her tail away from her to brush it out. However, this is a step in the right direction, and I am thrilled to bits.

Another development which is making me very happy, is that Faith is starting to follow me when I invite her with my body language. This evening was the first time that I genuinely felt that Faith was more interested in me than in chatting to Tilly and Tommy.

Now don’t get me wrong, I have no desire to have her more attached to me than the other neds. It is my dearest wish that she feels strong bonds with my other two. However, it is obviously important for training purposes that she considers me a comfortable presence, and one that she is happy to listen to.

So she will follow me up and down the yard, but one thing she will not do is cross the (to my mind) innocuous drain in the middle of the yard. To her credit, she was really thinking about it, and while watching her wrestle with the problem, I couldn’t help myself but break into (to my mind again) a dulcet version of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”. This at least helped Faith make her mind up – she turned her back on me and walked in the opposite direction.

So, note to self, Faith is obviously not a fan of Motown.