New Forest foal

Oh, I have to share these two videos with you all.   You see, I have been away again, down to the New Forest for a couple of days...again.    I have to take the humans away sometimes for a break, it does them good.  Well, during my stay I got to have a little one to one chat time with a young foal.

Mum reckons you should leave them alone with their mothers (they get a bit protective apparently!)...
huh!!...so wrong...as you will see this little chap came up to Me first....AND his mummy took NO NOTICE at all....

Okay, so I was a little bit scared of this very confident chap, well he was bigger than me!  Wonder if he will remember me next time we visit? 

Surfer watch

having found the surfers' vans, I got dad to help me look out to sea for them!

ah....there they are

The Bench

Another visit to the New Forest recently meant I got to play at a famous landmark.  Boltons Bench in Lyndhurst, where people, horses and cattle can roam together ....and of course yours truly

being fortunate enough to stay in the Lyndhurst Park Hotel right next to this part of the forest meant Dad took me for my morning walk there each day - and this is where my adventures began

and I forgot to mention Rabbits...they live there too, well I could smell them

and I kept looking for them 

but no matter how I tried I couldn't seem to find them

and then I met something a little larger

 when I got VERY close to them I went back to Dad for protection

all that excitement first thing in the morning certainly
makes a dog thirsty

a good start to my day!

New Forest visit

I have just returned from a visit down to Lyndhurst in the New Forest....staying in a lovely Hotel right on the forest itself , the Lyndhurst Park Hotel.

I do so like staying in Hotels, and I get to make new friends along the way.

My walks are full of new sights

and sniffs

with long walks

and vast amounts of space

I couldn't understand why the Cricket Pitch at Lyndhurst was fenced off though!

AND the fence had wheels - very strange...

but I have a feeling it was fenced off because of these.....

who had just stopped off at the water trough for a drink

The wording reads:

"A merciful man is merciful to his beast"

Erected and endowed by lovers of animals  1902

We had a great trip and caught up with friends for a pub lunch too....

yes, of course, I went in the pub!