Tell Me Thursday
1. Julie would like to know one frugal tip this week.
Don’t buy new collars for your dog if you don’t need them. That’s probably a bit too obvious, but it is important. I tell myself every week.
2. What are you reading this week?
I’m currently mid-way through The Three Musketeers on the Kindle. I’ve never read it before and it’s a good read, I was missing out! I usually have a physical book on the go too to read before I go to sleep, and I’m nearly done on a re-read of At Home.
3. Barbara wants to know: do you hit the snooze button on the alarm clock, and if so how many times?
Hundreds. I usually set my alarm half an hour before I should get up, and then snooze for as long as I can. I can sleep anywhere and I need about 10 hours to feel properly refreshed. I’m also a night owl, so ideally I’d sleep all through the day and then get up at 7pm. Night time competitions really appeal to me for this reason.
4. If you had to travel in a sedan (or if you already drive a sedan type car) and you had five or six dogs, how would you handle it?
I had to look up what a sedan was before I could answer this question. It’s apparently called a saloon car in British English but I don’t know what that is either, the pictures all look like estate cars.
So, if I had an estate car. Firstly, I wouldn’t have one. Vans or van cars if I had 5/6 dogs, because they’re easier to cage, more suitably priced, and don’t have a load of stuff I don’t need. However, if I had to have one, I’d still cage it. Probably knock the back seats out and then have three seperate compartments, a double across the boot (trunk?) and third across where the rear seats would be accessed from the rear passenger doors.
From what I’ve read, the Americans (sweeping generalisation) don’t seem to do custom fit cages in their dog cars. They buy normal crates and then somehow put them all in the car in some weird combination? I don’t know. I’m currently shopping for a custom build for our new car and have some serious cage envy (yep, very sad). There are some beautifully caged vehicles out there. Like these! Except Barjo are really expensive, I will be going for a cheaper option. My Clio cage was a Dog Pod by Hamster Baskets and it was beautiful. I’d like another one of those but I want double doors, not a hatch.
5. How much do you filter what you put on your own blog?
I try not to write about me and keep the content focussed on the dogs and our interactions. That’s really hard sometimes, because I read or see something that makes me want to rant/vent/offer a rebuttal on an article, but that’s no fun to read back over in 6 months time. I try not to swear (which is really hard sometimes!), and I try not to post about other people. Some days I see a friend and dog conquering something and I want to tell everyone what an amazing job they did, but it’s not really my thing to blog about. I do sometimes make tongue-in-cheek comments that don’t come across in type, and everytime I do it I think I should know better now.
