Well if Millie insists on sleeping in my bed I will just have to sleep in hers!!

So hard to believe I have been living with Jill and Gerard for over 12 months, it still seems like yesterday when I first came for my visit to this wonderful place.

I have a great life here, yeah really I do. In the morning I usually wake when Gerard starts to rise and I rush up the hall to greet him, hitting my tail on everything that is in my way. I can hardly wait for him to get some clothes on and go to the loo before we go out for our first walk for the day, I am so excited. Milly is a pain, that is the little black dog, she just won't let me get out and run coz she wants to control me and hovers over me every time I go to the toilet.

When we get back from our walk sometimes it is time for Gerard to go to work and after he shuts the door Milly runs up the hall to be with Jill and jumps on the bed. When I come running down Milly starts this awful growl which does intimidate me, but I keep going and go around the other side of the bed to see Jill, she is usually asleep and I rest my face on the edge of the bed and make little noises to wake her up, I look so adorable and she usually reaches out her hand to pat my face.

During the day I love being with Jill and Gerard, I like sleeping on the floor close to their feet and getting in their way. I love being indoors and just love wagging my tail all the time.

Sometimes when they go out I tend to get up to a little bit of mischief, but nothing too bad. I love curling up on their lounge chairs when they are not at home and at night time when they forget to put something hard on them then I can't sit on them.

GT Gerards mate came and stayed for about 10 days and brought some of his washing to do while here and for some reason I just could not help myself and I found I was drawn to the laundry and rummaged in the bags of washing to be done. When they would come home, they found the odd sock or other clothes on the floor in the lounge room or at the front door! Hey it was not me!!! Oh no... It happened a couple of times, I just don't know what happens to me when I do it.

Jill has been having a lot of back problems and has been using a wheat bag for over a week and then she went to Melbourne for a few days and when she came back, I just happened to find the wheat bag, and when she got up the next morning, there happened to be wheat all over the lounge carpet with the wheat bag in the centre feeling a bit damp and chewed. When Jill asked Milly and I "who did this??" I just stood back and kept quiet while Milly was all over Jill with licks and love. So they decided it was Milly who made the mess. The next day while Jill was outside in the garden she started to laugh and there on the grass were big poos full of wheat! So the game was up, I was guilty. Yep I did it and boy did it taste good. I just could not help myself.

I was so rapt to see my Mum the other day, she made a surprise visit and I just snuggled into her and she me. It was so good to see her. I am such a gentle girl and when it was time for her to go home, I restrained myself from jumping in her car so as to not upset her again. she just has tears running down her face all the time.

Honestly Mum I am a good girl and I really do understand why I am living here with Jill and Gerard. As they have said you are welcome any time to come down and see me, as long as it does not upset you too much,

Every day Chloe calls by to say hello, she has been a good friend to me ever since I stayed at her place when the floods were on, she finally decided I could be her friend and she likes coming to say hello.

Bunz the rabbit has settled down now and does not circle around me and try to snuggle into me at long last, I think he finally realises I am not his mum!

At the end of the day when Gerard is getting my tea for me, I just cannot sit still, I keep running to the laundry door and then back to the lounge room making little noises and then back to the laundry and so on until Gerard appears with my food. I still sit and stay and wait for my food, I am such a good girl.

After tea, I am inside again as I am all day and have a lood sleep indoors. When Gerard gets off his chair, I know it is time for our night time walk around the block, just love going out.

Jill sits in her chair for hours more and when she finally gets up to go to bed we expect to go outside again for a pee, sometimes she lets us out other times she just goes to bed. I either go to sleep on my bed in the lounge room or if they forget to cover their chairs, I sneak on them. They leave the door open for me to go out if I need to, but usually I sleep through the night in the warm.

Well I had better go, looks like Gerard is going out the front door to check the letter box, that is a walk time!!

talk soon

luv Missy xxx