Is THAT a Chihuahua???

As a regular visitor to the Marvellous Adventure of Max & Millie you will already be more than aware that we take the dogs for walks through Camberwell New Cemetery which is across the road from us and next to the allotment. On these walks it's pretty much the norm that we don't really bump into anyone and have the entire place to ourselves which is bliss. However......one evening last week we were walking through the Cemetery and there were a group of young people (how OLD do I sound?!?!) sitting down on the grass, probably planning their next robbery no doubt, and one of them asked us, "Is that a Chihuahua?" pointing (condescendingly) at Maximillian Sydney Bruiser McEllis!!!

Does I look like a Chihuahua to you?!

Well, you can imagine my horror as I responded with, "Does HE look like a Chihuahua to you? He's a miniature Rottweiller thank you very much!" and I then promptly flounced off....Max is not an 'It' or a 'That', he's a cute little dawg and it's more than obvious that he is in fact a Boy!!! I'm pretty sure I also heard a doggy-style snigger from Millie after this unwanted question of Max's lineage but perhaps that was my overly fertile imagination....

Me and my "Chihuahua"...

This week also saw another milestone for Millie - she now uses the dog flap automatically, with no help or guidance from us....*Go Millie, Go Millie*......

Millie gets in a flap

The Girls (Poultry Stars of http://hensinthecity.blogspot.com) have been VERY lucky this week...in fact they escaped with their lives, literally! On Thursday evening my Husband called me at work and asked me, "What would be your worst nightmare?"....I was thinking along the lines of another perm would be quite bad or indeed wearing banana yellow corduroy trousers with red patent leather shoes in public again would be a rather hideous crime against fashion, but no, not THAT sort of nightmare (by the way, both examples given are fact not fiction, from the memory archives of Mr John McKenna!!!).

 Millie, Max and The Girls

When Dad 1 got home, there were no dogs in the house, so he checked their outside area and again, no dogs, BUT, the barrier to the garden had been opened and they had got in with the Hens!!! Dad 1 feared the absolute worst and ran to the garden and found 3 hens and Max all alive and well but no Millie or Tallulah. After a search of the garden, the missing culprits were found in the shed....they were both alive and unharmed (Tallulah can be quite formidable when the mood takes her!). So, Millie is fine with the Hens and there's nothing for us to worry about.......HOW lucky were we??? It could have been sooooooo bad!

 Miss Millicent Hermione Oprah McEllis

This only reinforces what we as their 'Dads' already know....that we have the best little dogs in the world, little diamonds who are a joy and a pleasure (except when they're really bloody annoying!!).

Max & Millie ROCK!