We recently had the joy of looking after two german miniature schnauzer terriers in the South of France. These two intelligent dogs are excellent guard dogs letting you know as soon as there is someone anywhere near the house! They like to sit and look out down the driveway to ensure that no one comes into the grounds at all. They don’t bark unless someone is there so that’s a great way of knowing if someone is in the grounds around the house.
Philippe is quite a strong-willed little dog and likes to let you know that he’d like his walk at exactly four-thirty, he will bark at this time to ensure you know it’s now walk time! And he then likes to have his supper directly after his walk followed by rough and tumble play with Gertie. Then time for a cuddle with the humans in front of the TV, and a scratch around the ears and under the chin off course.
Gentle little Gertie can be quite timid and one needs to ensure that she gets to eat her food and Philippe doesn’t steal it! Both dogs love their walks, so after discovering that their leads were nowhere to be found we made two walking ropes from our car tow ropes! The dogs didn’t seem to mind in the slightest and were tired out afterwards, probably due to the extra weight of the tow ropes and the lovely long walks through the beautiful vines and countryside surrounding the house. Although it’s a quiet area there are still cars around so we needed to walk them on leads or ropes in this case!
We thoroughly enjoyed looking after these two beautiful, gentle little dogs in their wonderful home near Draguignan in Provence for the long weekend, our only complaint is that it was too short! We would happily look after them again at any time.
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Eadie Rockets 
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Hector the lively Lagotto Romagna 
Bailey loves balls
21 Oct 2019
Philippe and Gertie and the walking ropes!
We recently had the joy of looking after two german miniature schnauzer terriers in the South of France. These two intelligent dogs are excellent guard dogs letting you know as soon as there is someone anywhere near the house! They like to sit and look out down the driveway to ensure that no one comes into the grounds at all. They don’t bark unless someone is there so that’s a great way of knowing if someone is in the grounds around the house.
Philippe is quite a strong-willed little dog and likes to let you know that he’d like his walk at exactly four-thirty, he will bark at this time to ensure you know it’s now walk time! And he then likes to have his supper directly after his walk followed by rough and tumble play with Gertie. Then time for a cuddle with the humans in front of the TV, and a scratch around the ears and under the chin off course.
Gentle little Gertie can be quite timid and one needs to ensure that she gets to eat her food and Philippe doesn’t steal it! Both dogs love their walks, so after discovering that their leads were nowhere to be found we made two walking ropes from our car tow ropes! The dogs didn’t seem to mind in the slightest and were tired out afterwards, probably due to the extra weight of the tow ropes and the lovely long walks through the beautiful vines and countryside surrounding the house. Although it’s a quiet area there are still cars around so we needed to walk them on leads or ropes in this case!
We thoroughly enjoyed looking after these two beautiful, gentle little dogs in their wonderful home near Draguignan in Provence for the long weekend, our only complaint is that it was too short! We would happily look after them again at any time.