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Clumberdoodle Archie Diary Aged 6 Months Onwards

26/09/2017 By Karen 7 Comments

Clumberdoodle Archie Diary Aged 6 Months Onwards

Pupdate 20th September 2017 – Archie’s 1st Groom

Archie has just turned 6 months old and it is time for his 1st proper groom, so an appointment was made a few weeks ago at a local Ivybridge Dog Groomer A1 K9. I have to say that I was a bit apprehensive, as Archie has a beautiful long wavy puppy coat which is a bit different to the normal curly coats that this breed should have which needs quite short clipping. However this is necessary as when the adult coat comes through it could start to matte with the puppy coat causing knotting. However as I can manage his coat at the moment with daily brushing there are no knots yet!!! [Read more…] about Clumberdoodle Archie Diary Aged 6 Months Onwards

Clumberdoodle Archie On A Short Break To Cornwall

26/09/2017 By Karen 4 Comments

Pupdate 21st & 22nd September 2017 – Archie’s little break away in a National Trust Cottage

Now Archie has joined the family, holidays in the future would be a little different from past holidays as we want to include him, so decided on a short trial run to see if he enjoyed being away. As we are now National Trust members we looked through their brochure where listed are lots of dog friendly places to stay and we found what looked to be an ideal little cottage near Fowey in Cornwall.

We left home at about 11.30 am on the 22nd September 2017. As we could not access the property until 3.30 we decided to go to Lantic Bay which is owned by the National Trust and is only a short distance from the cottage. It is a beautiful dog friendly beach and Steve had read reviews that this was a fantastic place to visit although the 20 minute descent to get to the beach was very steep it was well worth a visit. [Read more…] about Clumberdoodle Archie On A Short Break To Cornwall

Ivybridge Donkey Sanctuary 10 Year Celebration Function 2017

13/09/2017 By Karen Leave a Comment

Ivybridge Donkey Sanctuary 10 Year Celebration Function 2017

The Ivybridge Donkey Sanctuary was opened in 2007, so this year 2017, we decided to commemorate 10 years with a big celebration. A Committee was formed, of which I was one, and planning started for the big event way back in 2016. First of all the Committee had to decide what sort of celebration it was going to be and we all agreed that it would be a nice meal, with live entertainment and we were hoping for a good turnout of current staff and volunteers and also previous staff, volunteers and anyone who had been involved with the centre during the 10 years.

The next step was the venue and each of the committee members had to research one for us to make a final shortlist of 3. This was quite difficult because at this time we had no idea how many people would attend, we were hoping for about 60 – 80 but didn’t really have a clue. We whittled them all down and when we got to the final 3 visited each one, but it was an easy decision as once we had visited Boringdon Park Golf Club at Plympton we knew that this was the place. Final numbers didn’t matter at this stage, as they had movable walls to make the very large room accommodate however many guests there would be, which was absolutely brilliant. The staff were also most accommodating and nothing was too much trouble and a good deal was done!!!

The next job do to was to sort out the menu with good choices to suit every taste. This was quite difficult as the 10 members of the committee had difficulty in agreeing what the final choices should be, but a decision was finally made. [Read more…] about Ivybridge Donkey Sanctuary 10 Year Celebration Function 2017

Clumberdoodle Archie And His 6th Week Onwards

23/07/2017 By Karen 4 Comments

As stated in my previous post, pupdates will be a lot less, as there will be fewer “Firsts” so I will only pupdate when anything interesting happens.

Pupdate 19th July 2017

Well things were going quite well until last night. Archie had been sleeping quite happily in his crate down in the kitchen for weeks but it all changed tonight. He begrudgingly went in to the crate, we closed the door started to walk up the stairs and he became very vocal. We thought he would calm down after a while, but no he went on and barking and crying for ages. He was really distressed, a bit like his first night with us. [Read more…] about Clumberdoodle Archie And His 6th Week Onwards

Clumberdoodle Archie And His 5th Week

08/07/2017 By Karen Leave a Comment

It is hard to believe (as it seems a whole lot longer) but little Archie has now just started his 5th week with us.

Pupdate 9th July 2017

Although he is very good on the lead, I thought it was kinder for him to now have a little harness instead of his lead being attached to his collar, so it was a trip down to Jollyes, where they have a small branch in our local Wyevale Garden Centre here at Ivybridge. [Read more…] about Clumberdoodle Archie And His 5th Week

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