Good Luck!

That is the usual response we got when telling people we were getting two puppies at the same time. We were aware of the problems – bonding too closely with each other rather than us, teaching each other bad habits, being hard to control together and hard to train. But that didn’t put us off and it seemed the right thing to do. Finding two perfect puppies so soon after our return from travelling was a great stroke of luck, finding two that were ready to be picked up at the same time was even luckier. So welcome to Charlie, our chocolate labrador, and Champa, our border collie.

We then discovered the benefits of having two puppies – they get on really well together and keep each other company when we are not around or are too busy to play with them, they wear each other out nicely when playing and they (sometimes) teach each other good habits!

This blog will aim to be irregular, but frequent, updates on their progress, and on ours! Brief posts will be the order of the day, with photos as we get good ones. The puppies are a new venture for us (though both myself and Emma have had dogs around the house in the past, and I have owned a lovely border collie, Inca, a few years ago) to go along with the other changes in our lives – returning from a year travelling, Emma looking for a new job, myself looking to make myself useful doing volunteering work and starting up a ‘labour of love’ business doing some dog walking locally – www.chocolatetortoise.com.

Please add comments as you wish. We hope the blog will be of interest to our friends and family, for us to re-read in later life when the puppies are no longer puppies, and maybe of interest to visitors on our dog walking website. Join us on our journey through puppyhood!