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Outside the supermarket was a vehicle from a foreign place. This was a busy, bustling, city supermarket. The vehicle was from a different world. It had a tray back and a bullbar. The suspension was raised and the tyres were built for rough terrain. Somewhere under the dust traces of white paint could be seen.

Inside the cabin was the dog. Everyone from the land has a dog. This one's back legs were on the seat and its nose was pressed to the window. Its narrowed eyes looked meaningfully at everyone who walked by.

This is my vehicle, it was saying. A working vehicle from the country. A tough vehicle, it said. And if you want to find out how tough I am, just trying coming closer.

There was just one problem. The dog was a small, white and fluffy. A Maltese terrier, perhaps. His pink tongue, as he wagged it at the strangers walking by, held all the menace of a lollipop.

Try as he might, he didn't match the vehicle.

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Maltese terrier

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Scratchy’s Diary: Australia Day

January 31st 2010 03:16

All the bosses stayed home on Tuesday because it was Australia Day, which is a celebration of sorts. It’s like Greyhound Day with lots of food and, also, those drinks hoomans like which increases the volume of their speech.

I don’t know what it’s called. Noise juice, perhaps.

I wish I could eat as much as I want just once in my life, let alone every Australia Day.

Not only did the Bosses stay home, a lot of their friends came to visit, including the family of Prilly. She’s a Maltese Terrier. Prilly is short for Priscilla. I said to her, "Hey Prill, if you were addicted to ice-cream, would that make you ‘Priscilla, Queen of the Dessert’?”

But she didn’t laugh.

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Greyhound, Maltese terrier, Dog Diaries, Scratchy, Pet interaction

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Christmasandnewyear report

January 4th 2009 06:28

Hi, Big Brindle here. Just thought I'd pop in and say hello. Short Black says hi too. (That's us above, up close and cosy, settled for a nice nap.)

If you'd like to know what's been happening, we've just been through something our Humans call christmasandnewyear, and I have to tell you, it was tiring. People everywhere, and not one of them understood that patting hours are 6-8am and 6-8pm. The rest of the time, of course, is for sleep, but every time we dozed off some new Human would arrive and want to pat and fondle and coo. You'd think they had never seen a greyhound before.

Especially a sleeping one.

The thing is, all these Humans walking through our front door, and only one of them had the courtesy to bring a dog. Here she is, sitting on her Human's lap.

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Her name is Prilly, and she's a frilly Maltese terrier. Something of a difficult house guest, too. We tried to be nice, sniffing subtly and panting politely, but, well, I think she prefers dogs who stand closer to floor level. When I first said hello, she cringed. I thought she was about to make a little puddle. She calmed down pretty quickly, but spent most of the afternoon camped on her Human.

It's the old communication problem: how can you bond with someone who's too short to sniff your bum?

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Greyhound, Maltese terrier, Christmas

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Meet Pudding and Porterhouse

August 31st 2008 05:55

There were some interesting new faces at the dog park this morning.

Scruffy is an active Maltese cross who zipped here and there, keeping up with much bigger dogs. "What's she crossed with?" I asked her owner. "We don't know," she replied, "but it was something energetic."

Labradoodles seem to come in all sizes, and occasionally you get one which looks like a shaggy Newfoundland. One arrived at the park shortly after us, and it was the most huggable dog I have seen for a long time. So hug it I did, which was a mistake because all the rain which had fallen in the past hour was, I think, collected in the depths of its vast and curly coat.

Dobbie is a boxer. He is young but already walks the streets off-lead. I saw Dobbie and his owner approaching the park from the other side of the street. Suddenly Dobbie, seeing the other dogs, forgot his training and darted across the road. His owner bellowed, but Dobbie was already nose-to-nose with Scruffy through the fence. Naughty Dobbie. Some off-lead work to do yet, it seems.

Next to arrive were Pudding and Porterhouse, two bandy-legged, brindle barrels of snorting, rollicking fun who both look like a cross between a pug and a tug boat. They were immediately awarded the Best Name of the Week Award, which they will have to share because both names are great.

Porterhouse is the senior and long-time lone canine resident of his household, and was apparently unhappy when his single-dog status was interrupted recently with the arrival of Pudding. She is much smaller, and was rescued just a few weeks ago from a miserable life, most of it spent in a cage. Despite this she has personality to burn, and such a sweet nature that, to the surprise of his owners, Porterhouse was first won over and then smitten by his new mate.

Then it started to rain again - leads on and we squeezed our two large greyhounds into our small European car. They looked tired but happy. Another fun morning at the dog park.
(Picture: www.cutedogbreeds.com)

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Posted By: Chris Champion - Category: Boxer, Labradoodle, Maltese terrier, Pug

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