The Cast List: Nugget The Wonder Hound

1. Leave your much-loved puppy at home with food, water, something to play with and a place to lie down and be quiet until you return.

• Make sure you close the dog gate behind you.

• Leave the house. Make sure you put alarm on correct setting and lock the door.

• Get on train.

• Spend next two hours fielding calls from alarm company whilst trying to enjoy friend’s birthday drinks.

• Rush home when police are called to house.

• Find dog- to be renamed Houdini- sitting on sofa looking out of window waiting for your return, with dog gate wide open.

• Wonder how the hell a dog with four paws manages to open a gate that requires two free adult hands to open.

• Answer doorbell to tipsy neighbour from 31 who recounts in great detail the entire evening then INSISTS that you give her your phone number in case it should happen again.

We are so moving house.

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This was one of the first posts I wrote when I started blogging four years ago.

It’s amazing to think that The Wonder Hound was just a little puppy when I began. Now 5, she is the doyenne of the house, shepherding The Girls and sighing repeatedly at their antics. I suspect she has forgotten that she once used to be like that