October absences... (news and updates)

We're back! We're sorry for our absence, it's been a difficult few weeks with family matters/illness, but life does have to go on and we'll slowly but surely get back into the swing of things around here. We have a mountain of pictures to share, as well as updates and we have some exciting things in the pipeline that we can't wait to share!

A brief update for now though...

We're all doing well at the Hilton household, Monroe went for her booster jab a few days ago and Lola is due to be micro chipped next week, although we'll post about that properly when the time comes :) All the girls are well and looking forwards to the up coming occasions, "howl-o-ween", bonfire night and of course, Christmas!

We'll be doing some special posts for each, so be sure to keep an eye out for those! We'll be doing everything from a 'how to guide' on keeping your pet safe and happy this time of year, to sharing our own holiday experiences.

And as far as holiday experiences go, we're hoping this Christmas will be as fun filled as last years, with our extra special gift! It might be a touch early, but our main present to the girls arrived this week and we can't wait for them to 'unwrap it'! (Thank you so much to Amanda of The Pawhaus Pet Boutique for all her help and our amazing friend Rissy for getting it to us!) We'll be sure to do a huge post about it soon, for now we're keeping it a surprise ;)

In other news, the Hilton clan will be moving, yet again! We'll be waiting until all the festivities are over, but yes we'll be uprooting and finding another house early 2012. We're hoping to get something a touch bigger, with a nicer garden for the girls, so we can expand their 'outdoors-y' toy collection (pool anyone?) and have their 'ani-pals' over for play dates.

Seeing as we've been gone so long we'll  share a few pictures and hurry back soon to post some more!

Love & licks,

Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe, Lily and Lola.
xo

News and Updates! (with pictures and videos)

It's been ages since we've done an update/picture type post! We've been so busy with PAW and our reviews and things around the house/garden...

We've had a lot on lately anyway, but we managed to put some time aside to play with the girls :) We had a blast playing with Lily's birthday toys, the Aikiou and the Dogit.

This is how they did the very first day we got the toys -

 And this is them now, 2 weeks later, this is roughly the 4th time they've used them :) -





I love how excited they get when we get the new toys out, even if it is only Lily and Lola who seem to have mastered them :')

To give Monroe some credit after 2 weeks of not seeming to even notice the new toys, she did this -



It makes me laugh that she didn't even bother to take the treat after, she just wandered off with a satisfied look on her face. We call it her 'I did it!' face :')

And look what Buffy learnt to do!



Still got a bit of work to do on her 'crawl', she's supposed to do like an army crawl, but she gets over excited and just skitters about :')

We also had some work done in the garden! A few months ago our area was flooded with dog thefts and we almost had our girls taken. Our garden only has very low wall, about 4 foot and to cut a long story short they were out to pee late one night and a guy came over our wall and tried to grab them. Luckily we interrupted him and he ran. Since then we never let the girls out into the garden alone, even during the day. We've been thinking about sorting some fencing since that happened but never got around to it.

Everything was quiet for a while anyway and then a few days ago we had our gate unbolted in the the night (it had a heavy pad bolt on the inside, but was low enough for someone to easily lean over) and we were worried about the girls getting out if it happened again. So, we decided to have some fencing panels put up on top of our existing wall, making it about 7 foot and a new taller gate put on with a padlock. My dad and Jonny did it Thursday morning and we all feel more at ease :) We're looking at moving again in a few months, hopefully we'll get a nicer garden, until then our new fence is exactly what we needed!

This is our new fence! You can see just how low our wall really was :(

We'll be back in a few days with some training updates/videos of Lola, plus we're hoping to do some more baking, so we'll have more pupcake info and pictures soon, but until then...

Love & licks as always,
Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe, Lily and Lola.
xo