Hunny Labradoodle's Helping Hand

HUNNY LABRADOODLE’S

HELPING HAND

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by

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LEONIE VAN DE VORLE

Text Copyright © 2013 Leonie van de Vorle

All Rights Reserved

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FIRST THOUGHTS

WELCOME HOME WINNIE

OMA

FIRST NIGHT

THE FENCE:

CHALLENGE NO 1

NAMES

GAMES

WATER WOES:

CHALLENGE NO 2

OBEDIENCE:

CHALLENGE NO 3

THE GRAND LIFE

ENTER HUNNY

MEETING WINNIE

I’M AN ARIES

THE VET

A BIG SCARY PROBLEM

DIET

THE POND

NEW RULES

WINNIE TEACHES HUNNY

THE NEIGHBOURS

and

OTHER LOCALS

WE LOVE GARDENING

BARKING; WE LOVE IT!

SEATING ARRANGEMENTS

MOTHERS LITTLE HELPERS

CHALK AND CHEESE

or

THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE

INTRODUCTION

This ebook was first presented as a four volume short story series called WINNIE AND HUNNY SPEAK.

They are still available as individual ebooks and were created in the following order:

Hi, I’m Winnie

Winnie’s World or The Fence and Other Challenges

Hunny Love

Chalk and Cheese

They have been altered slightly for compilation but the content remains essentially the same as the original volumes.

Please note further that this is Hunny’s work. She is more into the Arts than Winnie, who is sporty.

Yeppoon, Australia, November 2013

FIRST THOUGHTS

Hi,

we’re Hunny and Winnie, two chocolate Labradoodles who live with our mum in Yeppoon, Queensland, Australia. Our story begins with Winnie’s arrival home, way back in November 2011. Her tale takes up the first half of the book because I didn’t arrive until she was about nine months old, then I have my say. So let’s get this story started.

Winnie speaks:

I was born in the Australian state of Victoria on the 1st of September 2011. I didn’t know it then but my mum was looking for a new baby. She’d had babies before, but they’re all grown up humans and have left home. She’d had fur-babies before too, and I think she was still a little bit sad about her last fur-baby Lea who went to fur-baby heaven in March 2011. She was an Airedale Terrier and she was really cool. She’s like my big sista fur-guardian angel in the sky. Mum doesn’t think Hunny and I know but every now and then we catch her looking at Lea’s picture, and we know what she’s thinking. We can feel the love they had for each other because we feel that love too.

Ha-hem, back to the subject. Oh yes, fur-babies.

The story goes, mum told us, is that one day about two years ago, she was having lunch with her friend Elaine. They were joking about being techno-grannies which is a bit of a joke really. Mum and Elaine are alternative lefties into natural ways of doing things, not mainstream at all.

Elaine is a granny to a fur-baby too, and they were having fun at their own expense as they do when together. At about that time Elaine had just bought a new iphone 4 and mum had a new android phone and they were comparing notes. They were talking texting and things techno which I’m not really interested in, but since this story related to me, I was all ears. One thing lead to another and next thing they were talking about having designer this and that.

Haha, as if that was them! I’ve only met and sniffed Elaine once and I knew something was up.

Mum said they started talking and joking about sitting at their café, doing lunch in their designer gear,-clothes, shoes, phones, dogs. Yep, right in the heart of very casual, small Queensland coastal town Yeppoon, nearly the last place you’d find anything designer

But right after lunch when mum was home, she got on her computer and googled Labradoodles in Australia. She didn’t tell anyone she was looking for me; she was only looking after all. She told us she also googled Airedales, Welsh Terriers, Soft Coated Wheaten Terriers and Poodles. She rang her Airedale breeder but she wasn’t breeding anymore. She rang other breeders, got lots of info off the internet too. She even drew little pictures to compare us against the heights of the other breeds.