Friday date night with the hairies #newzealand #doglife #dogwalk # #doglife

We get rid of one toy and another joins us. So we've got a few on the walk today. Long holiday weekend. Molly arrived at seven o'clock this morning, didn't you Molly? Yes. Ben's first to the gate. So she's been desperate for a walk since he arrived. Ran around for a couple of hours. Hey. So here we go. Hopefully I don't have to carry a dolphin around for this walk. Might be good. We've got the Ben, the Ben, the Opal, some Molly, Poppy and Bryn. Well if you let me get to the gate I might be able to open it. Move. Here we go. Straight over to fun. I get way too excited. I'm thinking I'm gonna leave this one open. We're gonna come back through here. Right come on you guys. The big paddock. I am not doing live. I'm doing this on videos. I'm gonna upload this to YouTube and I might even put it in the dog park. Purely because I'm just so over the lack of connection. So over the poor connection and we can't do anything anywhere. It's just miserable and doesn't help anybody. Bryn and Opal on a something. Molly in the trough. Poppy coming up beside me. Yes. Yes. You just want me to scratch your bum and I'm not doing it. Don't stop in front of me. It's very annoying. Molly go and take Poppy to play. Hello Ben. Yes. Good girl Molly. You take her away. Molly and the two boys were feigning around this morning when she arrived. Having an absolute blast. He's over there. He wants to be with us. I think that's Rocky. Telling everybody that we should be here. Looking up Poppy. The leaves rattling away. Nice. Very nice. And the other two are down. Down there. I guess that's why we're out here walking. The rustle of the leaves. It's lovely. Molly we're not going that way today. Come on. Ben just checking out who's where doing what. This weekend's a long weekend and yeah it's looking rather busy eh Molly. Hey. She's busy. It's good. It's good. You're a bit like popsicle that's working on so well with her. Yes I know. You are. Come on. Look at those two. You'd swear they were sisters. Absolutely. They're good friends. They get on well. If anything ever happened to me I think Poppy might have to go and live with Molly. Yes talking about you pops. Would you like to go and live with Molly if something happened to me huh? Look at your waggly tail. You're a happy little girl. And the boys get on so well. I'm really pleased about that. Because our other boys over there don't get on so well with these guys. Molly's usual. She's got half a farm on you haven't you Molly? Half the farm on you and something attached to your bum too I'm sure. Yep there we go. More stuff. Yep. Come on then. I'll go around the other paddocks. Yes I've got a photo of one of the cats sitting trying to sunbathe but all the cat hair was in shade by the time I got a photo of it. So Sheba's been outside which is nice. So I'll go over and feed them shortly. Once we've done this walk. The other guys are out in the paddock and complaining bitterly because they're not on a walk with us. However if you chase and eat cats I'm afraid you can't come for a walk. Unless you're on a lead. And when I've got this many off lead. I'm not having anyone on lead. It's Molly. Ben's asking for trouble and Ben thought he'd join them. Suddenly realised oh actually it's a bit bigger than me. Going to do the little paddock first. Going to the big paddock. Yes hello. Hello Savvy. Look at your head. I really do need to try and find some time to get out here and give you a bit of a trim. You know Molly. Don't bite her. Yes that's Molly. Roast. No Ben. Come on puppy. Hopefully you'll notice I actually don't talk to the dogs that are out walking. I just let them do their thing. That way if I do call their names or I speak to They know it's absolutely dire and there's a reason for it. I like them to go out and be dogs at my place. It's everything they can do themselves. No pressure. Do what they need to do and be a dog. Sniff lots of things. Hey you've puffed out Molly. The downside of me going out walking with everybody is you get to hear my body. It likes to make sounds when I'm out walking. From all sorts of things. Puffing out of breath. Usual body noises that come out of bodies. Mine seems to be excessive when it's exercised. This is our little paddock. I'm not going particularly fast. Let you get a chance to see everything that's going on here. I moved this lot and I think I'll leave them in that paddock for the weekend. I'm actually trying to reduce the food they're eating. They've ended up with quite crusty necks which is not a good thing in the horsey world. Ben. Ben. Not good at all. And particularly the one with the full white socks is Chevy. He doesn't need any extra food. Do you Chevy? No and you were leaning over the fence before. You're very good at helping yourself to food aren't you Chevy? You don't need extra food do you? No. Take it out a bit. There we go. Where's the back? What are you grumpy for? Where's your grumpy? How am I standing? I can't go backwards. Just stood on somebody didn't I? Molly. Don't stand behind me. Let's go a bit. She's looking quite good. Quite pleased with her weight at the moment. You're not too bad. You're just a bit crusty here aren't you? But you sir, the reason you're in a grumpy mood is because you're super crusty. That is just huge crusty there. Way too big. It has to go. Are you on a diet again? Hello roast. And your sister. She's got a massive divot below her neck too. Right shall we go and do the big paddock? Yeah? Come on then. Yeah we'll go do the big paddock over by the barn. Come on then. Let's go. We were in such a hurry when we left. Quite funny. Tomorrow's long weekend so the plan is to get some more bits and pieces so we can look at designing what we're doing with that stuff that we've dumped in front of the other gate so I can't do the winter walkway part. Once that's tidied up and got a place we'll be able to go back to the winter walkway. Now we're all ready to go through the gate are we? How about you wait until. No no no wait. Why would we want to do something as logical as wait when we can race around to nothing around the corner? Nothing. I'll leave that open because that's the way we're going to come back. We're all here and there's nothing happening. Come on. There must be something they all like the smell of here. Probably a rabbit. Is it a rabbit guys? Coming down here? That's it. I don't know if we had a chance to see any of the early videos that I've started doing the walks a couple months ago. The grass has changed quite a bit in the few months. We've gone from the end of summer to autumn. It was quite brown when we started with a lot of this brown all through the whole paddock and now it's sort of quite green with lots of broadleaf. Lots of broadleaf. I'm a bit faster here now. No one's walking in front of me. The grass is a little bit less and I think all the... here come the youths. The minute they catch up with me though, I'll be right under my feet. Here they come. Molly in front then Poppy and then Bryn behind. Did you find that rabbit Molly? Bryn did you find the rabbit? You still had to beat your sister and be in front of it didn't you? You did. Good girl. Come on Popsicles. Come on Popsicles. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Of course I can't walk on there because Poppy pushes me off. Walks so slowly in front of me. She's got something stuck to her bum now. Haven't you Poppy? You've got some dock stuck to your bum and of course if I want to get it off Molly. Three quarters of the dead dock from this paddock on her body already. This is the difference between a spade Newfoundland and an entire Newfoundland. The coat difference is quite a lot. So the amount of stuff they carry is a lot but also the the bloodlines do have different amounts of coat as well. And this is the winter coat so my girls are at the heaviest probably at the moment their entire coat and for the next few weeks and then probably in about 10 to 12 weeks they'll dump their coat in time for spring which is going to be yeah quite a lot of work also with a bit she's an entire bit. Now they're not going through the yards they might think they are but they're not. That's my slow-growing magnolia tree. Ah it's Opal. That's Opal. Hello Opal. You're on the scent of something. What can you smell? Oh you found some hoof Poppy. Are you happy Ben? Molly and our other Ben. Is it good is it? Very good. I still hear the rustles of the leaves here. It's lovely. She lives in a clumber. Very cool. It's brown Ben and there's white Ben. And Opie who's one of our regulars that comes with. No don't show them how to go through please. Come on. Poppy's gone through to eat some poo. The only reason she's gone through. Come on Bryn we won't go through there. Yeah we're going back this way. Poppy you didn't think you were starved? It's not like you didn't leave some of your dinner last night or the night before eh? Because you did. Yes and you don't need any extra dinner. You guys have got plenty. I'm coming Molly. I'm coming. So is Ben. So is Bryn. Oh you just about fell through that. I'm surprised you're in one piece. Come on. What was all that about? I see you're not going any faster than a walk. Yes she needs to be careful. She'll hurt herself. You're getting too old for that sort of stuff. Yes. You make sure she looks after herself Brynley. You tell her what to do. Molly's bum. Molly. Molly stand. Molly why would you listen to me? Molly. Molly come. Nope. Oi. Yes. Here. Try and catch your bum. She doesn't care. She's a rat bag. Very much a rat bag. Look at it. As much as I took off there's still twice as much back on there. Yes I know. Why am I shutting this gate? I don't know. I don't know. I have no idea why I'm shutting this gate. You know why I'm shutting the gate? Hey you. Stand still. Let me get this off you. Stand. Molly come here. Well I don't know what's on her front but that's similar to what's on her back. She's still got stuff on her tail. Stand still. Stand. Let me try and get some of this off you. No I'm not going that way Opal. I'm going this way. Come on. You are all going the wrong way. I'm going this way. Have you got anything on your front Molly? You have. Man. I can still feel something under here. Right. Is that everything? I don't need it. You know you don't need to bring the forest back. You just want to. Oh Poppy what are you doing? Stand still. Poppy stand. You've decided to copy your best mate. Yes I've got it off you. Poppy stand. Thank you. Good girl. Now the pool is closed at the moment. We've just have not had time to do much in there. I knew she'd head off to the big paddock again. So no swimming this time guys. Pool boys put his foot down. The pool is closed. We need to get some stuff done around here and if we're looking after the pool we don't have time to do maintenance around here. These gates being one of them. Hey we are getting some latches. I need to put latches on the list. Actually what are you up to Opal? I thought we could break down one of the other latches and just sort of jimmy something together but no. He doesn't want to do that. He wants to put a new one in place. I do get over buying all this new stuff and then having stuff that we could just repair but it's very frustrating. Look at how bright the sun is coming through there. There's Bea. Hi Bea. You waiting for us with bridge? That's good that bridge keeps you company isn't it? Very good. That's very good. Hey look at all the leaves here. We're not gonna get this place cleaned up at the moment are we? No. So we are back. I'm gonna sit down and try and upload this video for everybody bridge. Hi. And then they can see what we did. My Friday date night with the hairies.