Well Pip (The Mop) is not the only one to get a valentine, there, see I got this off two lovely ladies, Martha and Bailey, Thank you. The Mop is not a loyal little thing anyway.

He is sending Valentines all over the place, here is one he sent to Sasha because he said that's who sent him the one on comments. [he thinks]

Sasha thank you for the Valentine,
I'm glad you think my ears are fine.
I think I'm as handsome as can be,
It is no wonder you fancy me.
But I am afraid you will have to stand in line,
So many want to be my Valentine.
Only joking, my dear with you,
It's you I love, my love is true.
You had my heart from when we first met,
What a shame we had to go to the VET.

Daft dog he thinks he is clever, but I am going to tell the truth about him.

Look with Martha he said

I will love you Martha till the end of time,

You will always be my special valentine.

Then to Tilly

Tilly you are the best girl I have ever known,

you have my heart just you and you alone.

You will always be my love my Valentine,

and I will be yours till the end of time.

He has even thrown himself at Molly

He said.

Even though your older and bigger than me,

Please be my valentine and make me happee

Even Samantha he declared his love for, and Flossy in fact every dog that has come here to stay for a while.

Now he is on about little Ruby, I said she is far too young for you, he said he will Wait until she is older.

The stupid little thing, I blame John for letting him watch the film Casanova.

This is my furends Oscar the Beagle and Susie the something, I have not seen them for ages, I saw them on the beach with Oscars new sister, little Ruby.

I am more worried about the amount of treats I am missing, John said, may be with the credit crunch their mam's can not afford any treats to give to me. If I don't see them soon I will be greyhound shape.

This is little Pip at three months old, notice his ears, one up one down, the muscle in his left ear must not be very strong. When he had his first hair cut it went up.

Then as his hair has grown his ear has gone down again.

So there he is, the little brave Mop, going up to big dogs and a bit of hair on his ear flattens it. I will have to wait for his spring cut to see what happens.

At the park this morning John was trying to take a nice picture of Molly to go on the pawzforthought web site, to try and get her a new home. I saw him and I thought if I get my photo took I might finally get adopted too.

John said to Molly every picture I take you have laser eyes.

He said to me move out of the way, will you try lying down Molly.

I shouted to Pip, I always call him Pip in the park in case his big friend is there. I said come and get your photo took.

Molly said John just wants me in the picture, will you two move, but we ignored her. John said forget it I will take some later.

Wow look at the snow it was fine this morning, now we are running about in the snow, even me.

Molly was just about to pick her ball up, the Mop came flying by her and snatched it right out of her mouth.

You can even see his little skid marks in the snow.


There were lots of people with sledges, enjoying the snow.

The Mop came up crying he was very cold, he had run in the stream with the ball and lost it so Molly had said Bobby is right you are a daft Mop of a dog. So we came home.

He has been telling Molly he is sorry ever since we came home.

Here is the Mop with a pretty little pink thing in his hair to keep it out of eyes, he is not very happy.

This is us at the park it was all weired Molly and the Mop were running after the ball. I don't know how they could see it. All this mist started swirling about.

The Mop wants Molly to be his friend, he keeps lying beside her.

Here is our 3 legged furend we met at the beach, we met a lot of furends some we know and some we have just met.

Then one furend found a great use for the Mop
He was not amused, I would have laughed my socks off if I wore them.

The Mop shouted you dirty dog if you were smaller I would bite your butt.
On the way home John got a carton of soup, the Mop asked could he have the empty carton. He said he was going to invent something, guess what he invented a muzzle

He was trying to talk and it was all muffled, I said oh I bet every dog will be pleased with you that's all we need another muzzle.
Then we got a surprise Brenda came back and Molly of course, they had been driving a few hours, so Molly said could she go to the beach.

John said we could go but the tide would be in, we all said we don't care .

We could not walk where we normally go, the tide was running up the beach.

We normally go along to where all the sea is up to my wall, but it was good because the Mop and me got to go to the beach twice today.

The Mop went in the water and started swimming, you can just see his little head, Molly shouted for him to come out, he came out when John shouted, but then we had to go home, he was shivering.

How patient is this cat, I would have bit his bum by now.


When the Mop got up this morning, I said good morning Pip, we are going to the park. I let him jump in to the shed on wheels first. When we got to the park I said come on Pip you can get out first. After all my effort to be kind his furend giant was not there. But he saw his other furends, I inspected my trees while he plays.
We left the park and went home and it got all sunny John said it is much warmer today do you want to go to the beach, well even the Mop knows beach, so we said yes. When he tried to jump in the van first, I said get out of my way. I knew he would not see his big furend at the beach.

Even the snack hut was open and people were sitting there enjoying the sun. The Mop said I am going in the water, John said no it is still too cold but he went racing off. John told me to stop him so I chased after him.
I even got my toes wet shouting at him to come out, but he just laughed at me.

I walked along beside him but I tried to keep dry, and I stayed right on the edge.

There were lots of people coming on to the beach they all were feeling the warmth.


The water was still very cold no other furbody went in only the daft Mop.

When we came in yesterday the Mop ran and got his dolly, he has had it from being little. What am I saying he is still little, he will always be a short house. I said to him your big friend should see you now with your dolly if he knew you had to take it to bed with you, he would laugh at you. The Mop said no he would not he is a nice dog, not like you, and he said you should not call me Mop, I will tell him you are still calling me Mop and he will sort you out and I will tell him your real name is Tess. I said I don't care he does not scare me.

This morning I said to John can we go to the beach today I don't want to go to the park, so we went to the beach.

It was freezing, I said to the Mop this is your fault it is more sheltered in the park.



The Mop said I am warm enough, I am going to run about and keep warm you can stand and freeze.

He went off chasing his ball and running all over the beach, every time he passed me he said I am hot.

Then he said I will have to sit in the snow to cool down, I was cold but I said it is warm with the sun out.

Before the Mop gets up in the morning I will ask john if we can go to the park. I will call the mop his proper name before we go in case that giant dog is there, not that I am scared of him.

Today at the park the Mop was playing with his furends, and we saw a big dog coming I was going to grump at him but I changed my mind he looked like Rocky and the Terminator all in one. So I gave him a wide birth, Herminy said I will go and ask him to play.

But he was even bigger than her and she got frightened, so she went back to play with the others.

The Mop said why is he not coming to play Herminy said I was to scared to ask. So he said I will go and ask him, he is very brave or just a daft dog, I shouted you daft Mop.

He went and sat in front of this giant dog , he said would you like to play with me, or all of us if you want.

I thought he would say fee foe fie fum and eat him, but he just said he was a bit shy.

He said is it okay if I watch you playing, the Mop said yes and you can join in if you want, the giant said who is that calling you a Mop. The Mop said Oh! that's grumpy Bobby, my name is Pip really.

I heard the giant say well he should not call you Mop, I will walk over with you and see if he calls you Mop again.

I spoke very loud to John so all furbodys could hear me, here comes little Pip, can we go now.

The Mop was showing off and went and did a judo throw on one of the Boxers, I think she only let him because of his new friend. I am going to ask if we can go some where else.