Cows and helicoptors

We took Inko for a walk down by the Blackwater river a couple of evenings ago. It was a chance to do our first bit of off lead practice as it's a really nice big expanse of meadow (it is a flood plain for the river so a nice big space). We weren't brave enough to have her fully off lead the first time so clipped a 5 metre lead onto her collar and let it trail on the ground while she was wandering around so we could easily step on the end if we had to go after her.

In part of the meadow we had to pop her on the shorter lead again as one section is used as grazing for a few cows! Inko spotted them from a way back and stood staring at them woofing quietly half under her breath - not sure she was quite sure what to make of them!! When we walked past them she was really good and apart from a small amount of tugging on the lead at one point she was very good. Unfortunately, having cows, also meant there was cow poo everywhere and, like all lappys who have gone before her, Inko seemed to think this was quite the delicacy and we spent quite a bit of time pulling her away from the piles so she didn't eat them!!

As we were walking back towards the car we noticed up on the road ahead that it looked like rather a nasty accident had taken place. There were lots of cars stopped and several police cars and an ambulance. The next thing we knew, an air ambulance was landing in the field that we were just walking out of. We thought that this might startle Inko a bit as it was very noisy and there was lots of dust being blown about but she didn't seem even the littlest bit phased by it, which was good, and she just continued pottering around on her lead sniffing interesting things on the floor. Unfortunately we very sadly found out on the local news later that the air ambulance hadn't been able to help - a man on his motorbike had been killed when he rode into the back of a car :(

We are very much looking forward to the lappy walk up near Bath tomorrow morning - it will be great for us, and Inko, to catch up with loads of lappys, especially as it's going to be somewhat of a litter reunion!!