In Hertfordshire in England, a fundraising has started with the aim to raise a statue of a late former police dog. The dog, a German Shepherd, was injuried while saving the human police officer he worked with. He was cured from his injuries and resumed his job, until he later retired.
This is a good cause for a statue. If I lived in Hertfordshire, I would contribute to the statue.
Mexican Formula 1 driver Sergio Perez came second in today’s Belgian Grand Prix. We were a little disappointed, because he started in front of his team mate, but was overtaken. They have equal cars, but I regret to say Morran is probably right when she says Max Verstappen is just a better driver. Perez is still second in the standings, which is not bad.
Sweden won against Italy, 5–0, in the FIFA football World Cup for ladies. Pepe said it would have been a more meaningful victory if it would have been in the gents’ World Cup. I guess he is right in the way that Italy is normally much stronger than Sweden in gents’ football, while Sweden is stronger in ladies’ football. Pepe said the gents’ World Cup is also more important, but I do not agree. This is as if you would say dogs’ classes are more important than bitches’ classes at dog competitions, and everybody knows this is not the case, they are equally important. Oh, well, Pepe was as happy as the rest of us for the victory, anyway. At least he said he was.
Daniel is responsible for hiring ring stewards to the dog show in Askersund in two weeks. He is now done with it and have told the others who help administrate the show about this. As long as nobody has to cancel with short notice, this is it until the show starts. I can understand that it feels nice to be done with it.
Paula and Daniel were away on an important meeting tonight. It was about the upcoming annual dog show in Askersund, that they help administrate. When this is the reason for them not to be at home, we cannot blame them. We watch the house in the meantime. As soon as they were back, everything was just as good as usual.
Pepe, Viola, and I have one important thing in common with Paula. We all have Latin American roots. While every Chihuahua has roots in Mexico, Paula was born in Colombia. It is not very far between these countries, Colombia is just a bit further south east.
Colombia played South Korea in the World Cup today, and won 2–0. Paula is happy about it, and so are the rest of us, because we also root for Colombia because Paula does. Besides, Mexico failed to qualify for this World Cup.
We will have to see what happens if Colombia will face Sweden in the knock out matches.
It is interesting to note an article about long working hours for humans. As a watch dog and as a pet dog, I am on duty around the clock. My predecessors as bloggers noted the same thing once in a while. Why do articles like this never mention the long hours of dogs? It is not that we dogs complain, we love what we do for our humans as much as we love them, but it would be nice if our long hours would be recognised.
Japan played Zambia in the football World Cup, and won 5–0. Polly, who rain this blog before me, and her mother Hailey, who started it, would have loved this result. As Shibas, they always rooted for the home country of their breed, Japan. They would also have liked that Denmark beat China, 1–0. Denmark is Sweden’s neighbour and friend, while China is a dictatorship with a culture where many humans are cruel to dogs. I have to say I also liked the results, even though I do not have as strong opinions on the matter of many countries as Polly had. I believe Hailey had about the same strong opinions as Polly.
Sweden will play tomorrow. Then we will root for Sweden.
Both Hailey and Polly used to write about the FIFA Football World Cup. There is another one that has just started, but it is the ladies’ World Cup. There are not as many humans who follow this World Cup, as far as I can understand because the ladies do not play quite as well as the gentlemen. The games can be interesting, nevertheless, such as when New Zeeland beat favourite Norway.
I believe that if there would be football World Cups for canines, the bitches would play better than the dogs.
We have had some trouble with the router and its connection to the Internet. A new SIM card arrived today from the Internet provider. They were the ones at fault, but it seems to work properly now. This is good, now we get what we pay for.
The Internet connection is important. Without it, Daniel cannot work from home. We all like it when he does. The Internet connection is also good to have when we write blogs et cetera. Now life is easier.
A dog and her human were saved by Mexican fishermen after spending a long time on their storm damaged boat far out in the Pacific Ocean. Here is a short video about the rescue. The human says his dog is much braver than he is. It is a sweet story.
There is a Waffle Day on the 25 March every year, but you can eat waffles any day. We had waffles today.
One might think a meal of waffles does not fit on a day in the middle of summer, but it fits very well. Waffles are great food any time.
It was raining here at home in the afternoon, but we talked to Daniel over the telephone. He was at the office, which is in the centre of the town about 5 km from here. It was not raining there.
Rain can be very local. This is quite interesting. I had never thought about how close you can be, and have rain in one spot, but no rain in the other. It is still logical that it can be this way, so I would not say I am surprised.
A spectator at the Tour de France bicycle race held his mobile telephone too far into the raceway, knocking a cyclist over and causing about twenty cyclists to crash. This is dangerous, it is unsportsmanlike behaviour, there is no excuse forint in my mind.
On dog shows, you are not allowed inside the ring when dogs are judged, unless it is your turn to be judged. This is despite that such an infringement would not be as dangerous, because the dogs do not run fast in the ring, like cyclists in a bicycle race.
I hope people are cautioned by this.
When Daniel came inside, he told us he had found something on the ground when he mowed the lawn. It was a metal sign saying VOLVO. Daniel says it is likely a Volvo car that has lost this on the road outside us. Somehow, it must have found its way onto our lawn.
Neither Paula nor Daniel has ever owned a Volvo. Now Daniel has a Volvo sign, nevertheless. I wonder what he will do with it. Time might tell.
There are posts around on social media where Swedes State they celebrate the French national holiday today. This is a little odd, if you consider that Sweden was against the revolution, Swedes tried to save the French royal family, Sweden fought France and her allies in the Napoleonic Wars that followed, and lost Finland because of it.
I would rather celebrate the birthday of Crown Princess Victoria today.
In an event to celebrate that it is 155 years ago the first recorded litter of Golden Retrievers were born in Scotland, hundreds of Golden Retrievers have gathered there with their humans.
It is amazing to have a fixed historic starting point of your breed. We do not have this for Chihuahuas. Polly used to say she was proud that the origin of Shibas were so old they could be the oldest breed ever. Chihuahuas also have an origin before things like this was recorded. Nevertheless, I congratulate Golden Retrievers for their jubilee. It must have ben fun to be there.
We may complain that it has rained a lot lately in Sweden, but it is nothing compared to what happened in Kurume, a town on the southern Japanese island Kyushu. The recorded rainfall was 402.5 millimetres. This is much more than the 30 millimetres we noted in our rain gauge the other week. Floods have followed the rain and there has even been some deaths due to it. This is not even a record for Japan. While rain is usually good, there can be too much of it. I hope we do not get such heavy rains here.
Paula got a strange error message today. It said she had no surf pot left. We have a service that gives us unlimited surf. As if this was not strange enough, in a little while, the surf worked properly again.
Why did Paula get the error message? Why did it disappear again? Life is full of mysteries.
Whenever we got minced meat and Polly was in charge of this blog, she used to praise the food. You had to watch your piece of minced meat for her, otherwise, she ate it quickly. I came to think of Polly tonight, because we got some minced meat. It really is great food. I hope Polly gets a lot of minced meat in Heaven.
Mexican Formula 1 driver Sergio Perez did climb from storting position 15 to finish sixth in today’s British Grand Prix. If he had made a better result in the qualification, he could have finished much better. This is not good enough, we believe. Perez’ team mate Max Verstappen won and is worthy of leading the Championship. All of us Chihuahuas were disappointed, we want the driver from the home country of our breed to win, but he was far from it. How could it become better? Unfortunately, we do not know.
Viola, Pepe, and I root for the Mexican driver in Formula 1, Sergio Perez. We are of a Mexican dog breed, so this seems natural. Sergio Perez also drives for Red Bull, which has the best car on the grid. Nevertheless, he made a terrible result in the qualification today for the British Grand Prix tomorrow. He did not even go on from the first qualification round. You can blame the difficult weather with constant changes between rain and a dry track. This is no excuse, when Sergio Perez has the best car and every driver faces the same weather. It is even far from the first terrible qualification of Sergio Perez. The other Red Bull driver, reigning World Champion Max Verstappen, got the best result and will start from pole position tomorrow. We are deeply disappointed with the Mexican driver.
Daniel wanted us to go out in the late afternoon. It is just that rain was really pouring down at the time. We told him we could stay indoors for a little longer, so he let us.
Rain may be good for nature, but if I can chose, I stay indoors when there is heavy rain falling. I wish it can be a lot of rain in the night, and no rain tomorrow during the day.
In the rain, none of us were interested in leaving the yard, like Pepe did yesterday for a while. We just wanted to get indoors again.
The second time we went outside this morning, the gate from our dog yard was open. Pepe ran out to watch the rest of our land. There is a stretch of land between the house and the road, but Pepe ran down to the road. This is where Daniel later fetched him.
Indoors, later, I asked Pepe what he did, when he got down to the road. He said he secured the property from intruders. It is not that we often have intruders, rather the opposite, actually. Pepe like to claim this is to a large part thanks to him. Chihuahuas like us are watch dogs. So are Shibas, by the way. I still do not think Pepe is a large contributor to the fact that we almost never have intruders. I play a greater part myself, I believe.
Paula and Daniel were upset today. A classic pastry, Mums-Mums, will go out of production. Apparently, there is not enough demand for it.
I have never had Mums-Mums. There is a chocolate topping on it, and chocolate is said to be poisonous for dogs. This does not mean I cannot feel for my humans. I know what it is like to love a special kind of food.
For Paula’s and Daniel’s sake, I hope the manufacturer of Mums-Mums changes its decision and continues to produce Mums-Mums. There must be more humans who would also like this to happen. They all need to buy more Mums-Mums, to show that there is demand for it.
Paula and Daniel had the Swedish take on Mexican food today, tacos. Some of the minced meat went to us dogs, which was great.
Rumour has it, tacos is much better in Mexico. It should be, since it comes from Mexico. Since I have never been in Mexico, I do not really know. I can imagine, though. Chihuahuas are from Mexico, so many other Mexican things are probably great as well.
We really got a lot of rain today. It was as if all of the rain of June was saved until the 3 July. The rain gauge got full in four hours before lunch, this is more than 30 millimetres of rain.
Nature needs it, we did not have to go out in it, so we are happy about it. Rain is good, when you can stay indoors.
Potatoes for dinner, and I am reminded of the fact that potatoes come from the Americas, just like us Chihuahuas do.
Polly was proud of food from Japan, where Shibas are from. She used to raise this issue when sushi was served. Sushi is great food, I can understand her pride, but potatoes are more spread around the world and come in many more forms. Can you compare them? Perhaps not, but both are food for thought.
