Our Flatcoat and Us: Playing with a Friend

Today we hot footed it down to my friends farm before the rain came in. We timed it right to take her dog jay out with us on our walk. Her farm is on the same lane to a national trust campsite which is on the shore of Lake Windermere. From our home its about a 34 min drive which is only a 12 min extra drive on top of what i do to work which incidentally is on the opposite side of the lake to the farm.

Marco loves to come back to the farm on a regular basis. Even if we go past a farm on a day out his nose can be found pressed up against the window loudly sniffing.

So off we set on our walk with Marco and Jay walking proudly alongside each other. Marco loves his Jay, Hes always licking him in the chops as we walk along, making us chuckle. Anyways we met a few people using the empty campground to train a husky dog in sledding using a 3 wheel bike contraption thingy. That was one beautiful dog.

As soon as we got to the water they were raring to go. However Marco is a little water shy when its very deep. We threw some sticks out for them. Jay is off like a shot quite far out. Marco followed the first one and quickly realised 'oh no!, I'm too far out' a very quick paddle turn around and he was soon bouncing along to get to the shallower end. From then on in he was quite certain not to go to far out.

Not staying long due to the bitter cold rain coming in we soon brought them out, and if you've ever had to encourage a flatcoat it was time to stop playing and put his lead back on you will know how the next 5 mins went!! :) Walking back Marco and jay enjoyed many a moment of stealing each others sticks. Until we found a large one for them to share. And then it broke.