When suddenly it got hot

Cor, who made it so hot so quick? certainly not helping our new routine thats for sure.  We should be walking Custer and Jaja now, instead we are 'hoping' it will cool off in an hour.  The boy is a bit of a lightweight it seems in the heat, so is Jaja who is currently even more bad tempered than usual as he is too hot.  Before you think I am a typical Brit complaining about a bit of sun, our house just cannot handle it, many have cool houses in summer so thats fine for escaping the small amount of hot weather we get, mine however is just a total hot house with no air and excrutiating heat as soon as the weather turns over 20 degrees.

I walked Jaja and Bailey on the beach today, which is how I got so muddy (see below pic) - I went from our velvet trail across to the sand through mud that I thought would have dried up, got that one wrong.  But it was cooler for the dogs nearer to the sea, I say nearer... still cant actually get to it.

Custer did very well on his walk with Daddy today, he met a little dog called 'Oscar' who he lunged at and it went for him, what did Custer do? he rolled on the floor on his back and the two of them were then friends, hopefully this is a lesson Custer will learn about socialising.

We also learned today there may well be another story to Custer's background.  My hairdresser is also of the dog owner set, one of her customers took in a dog a month or so back she collected from "A PLACE" were he was not being cared for, the owners had him tied up in a small yard day and night.  We are to verify this story hopefully this week.  Would explain a lot about his behavoir if this is the case.

Not easy to do much in the way of training today, we did a short lead exercise and some ball play, teaching retrieve - not mastered it as yet, but Custer has stopped running off with the ball now, so its a start.

Here we are after that having a lesson on 'sit quietly' I thought it was a good one...