December 2, 2009

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The Teckel Housekeeper – Guest Post by Lucy Coats

Hero was always destined to be my Writer’s Dog (along with taking part in all those sporting activities like pheasant-finding which she’s still too young for yet).  What I didn’t realise (having never had a half-grown teckel before) was how useful she would be in the housekeeping department.  Well, I say housekeeping.  It’s more hoovering, really. It started with the Exploring of the Computer (and meeting Robin’s picture.)  Hero is, of course, a teckel of impeccable taste when it comes to choosing which blog to read.   

 Who is this nice looking lady? Does she like dogs? Why doesn't she talk back?

  Who is that nice-looking lady?  Why won’t she talk back?  I could be a hellhound too!

Then came the Desk Inspection, during which Hero decided that her Writer was remarkably untidy and disorganised.  And also that a Good Cleanup was neccessary.  Teckel paws are furry enough to dust keyboard keys very nicely whilst walking all over them–and a teckel tongue will clean out any crumbs that happen to be lurking within. 

 I'm rather full of flies, but I might just manage a tiny bone--if you insist.
  I’m rather full of flies, but I might just manage a tiny bone–if you insist.
 
The windowsill came next, and that was when I realised that my dog has the soul of an Aggie or Kim (and if you don’t know who they are, I can tell you that they are two terrifying British TV ladies dedicated to what they call ‘grimebusting’ Other People’s Filthy Houses).  There just happened to be several long-dead flies on said sill (well, they weren’t doing any harm lying there, were they?).  My disapproving new housekeeper hoovered them up with a long pink tongue in two wags of a teckel’s tail.  And then proceeded to take possession, just in case any more rogue insects dared to die where she’d just cleaned.  That windowsill is now very definitely Teckel Territory (also being a useful viewing post for spotting birds/intruders to the garden/giving warning-off barking signals).
 
  Is my tongue long enough to reach that? Maybe I could clean the window too. It's a little grimy.

Is my tongue long enough to reach that? Perhaps I should just lick the windows clean anyway–they are rather dirty….

  The flies have become rather an obsession now.  Teckels aren’t very tall dogs (well, let’s face it, the legs are shorter than a short thing in shortland).  So I thought that my piled up boxes of files would be just fine where they were.  How wrong I was.  As I was lost in a creative dream (translation: wondering if it was time for a cup of tea and a biscuit), I heard a triumphant sounding scrabbling from the corridor.  This is what I found.  It’s at least a 3 foot leap up by the way.  Spot that rogue fly…..

C'mon, people! Tongues out. Ready? Triple wash. Man! Those humans get the dishes dirty!

 Man! Those humans get the dishes dirty.  Tongues out, girls aaaaand….WASH.  

 Flies are not the only thing the teckel housekeeper tackles.  And the bad news here is that she’s enlisted others into her Cleanup Campaign.  I’m doomed.  My husband is a Neat Freak…and now my dogs are too.   HEAVY SIGH…. 

 

December 2, 2009 | Filed Under guest blog 

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