Dogs, barbecues, and mobile phones.

It pretty weird how dogs personalities and moods can change. When we fist brought Lea home last summer, she was so friendly with other dogs, but now she seems to have changed her mind and barks at pretty much every other dog we come into contact with. I'm not sure when it started, really, but we always used to let her off the lead on our walks, and she was fine, but a few months ago, she attacked another dog, for no obvious reason. So now I'm afraid to take her off the lead, and she seems to have gotten a bee in her bonnet whenever she so much as sees another dog. Funnily enough, she seems ok when the other dog is off the lead, or she is on a long lead. We've tried tempting her away with treats, which works some of the time, as long as you can clock the dog before she does, and we tried her on a halti, but she chewed it in half the first day we used it. Short of paying for her to have specialist dog training, I'm not sure what else I can try.

I'm writing another article this week for Cosy Home Blog, giving information about the pros and cons of both charcoal and gas barbecues. I was sitting here on my laptop this morning with the TV on, and overheard that it's barbecue week this week! And with the promise of nice weather this weekend, perhaps I should get David to drag our barbecue out of the shed. Yum!

I also heard on the news this morning that this worry about mobile phones and cancer has reared its ugly head again. I remember that this was a big worry when mobiles first became popular, but it seems to have been forgotten about for quite a while now. It makes me wonder, really, after all this time, and with the millions of people who are using mobile phones these days, surely this issue must have been researched and improved by the mobile phone companies? Where is the evidence that there truly is a link between the technology and the illness? This article from the NHS website seems to think that it's all been blown up out of all proportion - what do you think?

Anyway, lots to do! Bye for now,
Tereasa.