Happy New Year!

Well, here it is, my first post. I've been a bit slow to get into this blogging thing but I've enjoyed reading some of the other vizsla blogs out there, and I've decided to get one myself. So, better late than never, here I am! I hope it's gonna be fun.

It's all part of my New Year's resolutions, you see. I've got four:

1. make friends with some other vizslas. Hopefully I'll meet some through this and my people will take me to meet up with lots of other vizslas somewhere, soon.
   
2. eat less grass. I love grass, but it makes me sick, and my people tell me I shouldn't eat it because i'm not a ruminant, apparently.
3. don't whine when my people are eating at the table. I got quite good at this over christmas so we're going to keep up the good work, or so I'm told.
4. don't roll in fox poo. Yeah right.

I'll let you know how I get on with these, although I'm not doing very well with number 4 so far. We went for a nice walk on the common today. It was a bit wet, but there were a few fat squirrels to stalk, and plenty of interesting things to sniff out.

I was being very good and well behaved. But then I found a little pile of something really, really smelly. Mmm, it was soooo good, I just could resist having a little roll in it. It wasn't a really serious, four legs in the air, coat myself from nose to tail, kind of a roll. I just wanted to get a little bit behind my ears, to make myself smell nice. But apparently I wasn't supposed to do that. Oh dear.

I had to have a bath when I got home. I'm a bit fed up that they had to wash the smelly stuff off me. I thought I smelled great! What do they know anyway? I'm the one with the highly developed sense of smell. Grrr.

I can't really decide whether I like having baths or not. I like to give the impression that I'm really suffering, but actually if the water is nice and warm, and it doesn't go in my ears or in my eyes, I actually quite like it. Just don't tell them.

The other thing about baths is that they make me quite sleepy, especially if I've been out for a long walk. So I usually have a snooze afterwards, curled up, nose to tail on my bean bag. I think it's important to snooze a lot, otherwise how would I have to energy to charge about the place the rest of the time?

Well, I think that's enough for now. It's been a hectic few weeks, but I quite like Christmas, especially because my people are around all the time. It's like a really, really long weekend.

I've got high hopes for 2008. I'm gonna make friends with some other Vizslas, I'm gonna find the perfect stick and, somewhere out there, is the squirrel of my dreams...if only I can catch it.

Happy New Year!