The penny has just dropped.
Woof! Woof!
You know, sometimes things arent always as they seem. I've always thought that my furry little perspective on things was quite accurate and you'd have to be up pretty early in the morning to catch me out,(although apparently according to mum and dad anytime before about 11.am should do it) but today i realised that things maybe weren't as i'd assumed.
Now being a little fellah, i'd always taken it as a given, that i get up, have breakfast and then take mum for a walk. Usually dad comes too, but generally mum's the one who needs it and she's not happy until i've taken her out (even if it' only for a quick spin around the block).
Imagine my suprise today then, when taking mum and dad out for a nice walk, i heard them mention that they we're taking ME for the walk. Now ok, i can see how sometimes when i loiter along behind it might seem that they're the ones wearing the walking boots in this relationship, but hey! sometimes i'm not in the mood for walking them, what can i say? it happens. But to suggest that all this walking in the woods and hills is for my benefit? i dont know, there's gratitude for you. To think, all those times when i've gone out in the snow, wind and rain because mum needs a walk, when i could have just said "no way, i'm not going out in this" but didn't because i thought it'd be cruel not to. when all along i could have been snuggled up in a duvet or stretched out in front of the telly....
Anyway, here's a picture of me taking Mum for a walk in Queen Elisabeth Country Park