Search

It’s pretty cold and miserable outside, and I get as bored as the dogs do indoors. So we play games!

Search is the absolute favourite game, where I hide treats in the other room. I hold my hand cupped around the dogs’ noses, and they take a deep breath, and then get let lose to find the treats. But it gets a little competitive, these days. We can’t play all together any more, because things like vases and sofas tend to get overturned by the rampage.

I’m not entirely sure Dylan gets the game, although he actually has the best nose of anyone and is great at Search when we’re hunting down lost toys on the field. He doesn’t take a deep breath like the girls do! Mollie and Kim are so cute, they both shut their eyes and take big sniffs before setting off … not that it helps Kim in any way whatsoever, she has a terrible nose. I have to hide some in easy to see places for her, otherwise she just runs around frenetically shrieking at everyone else to stop eating her treats because she can’t smell anything.

Tires everyone out though, so maybe we should play it more often.