Mini Spiderman

They say that flatcoats are the peter pan of the dog world. They have a truly loving and cheeky nature. Marco has a certain way to him that can have you biting your tongue with frustration and then laughing in the next breath.

As a young pup (8 weeks) i used to drive him to my friends farm for the day when i knew we would both be out for the day at work. He was so loud those first few times. I tried everything from loud music to soft music window open/closed. Eventually i would learn that BBC Radio 2 or BBC 3 would work wonders.

So his little nose for the first 2 days, until i fitted his guard grill properly, would be permanently wedged in the little gap at the sides howling all the way there. (its a 35 min drive there....and back) . Clearly he got to be a better traveler when he got too big for my boot and we moved him to the back seat, wearing a harness. But those first couple of months which i look back on now as funny were pretty traumatic. However when i used to be driving i would be checking on him in the mirror and although he was ear splitting loud he used to have a cute way of clinging onto the grill like a mini spiderman. My friend once drove behind me and left me a voice mail of her simply laughing down the phone, after she had witnessed him doing the spiderman trick.

Marco 8 weeks