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Monday, January 28 2013

Fae the Fat Fairy and Miska look for good deeds episode 12

By Raewyn Saville on Monday, January 28 2013, 07:50 - The Adventures of Fae the Fat Fairy

Fae and Miska have discovered from the Fairy God Dog that if Miska does two good things then she will forget her past and can move on with her life with her new friend Rose. Miska's past is so bad she cannot talk about it, so nobody knows how badly she has been treated or how neglected she has been. We all think we know that she had one really good owner who died and that she has at some time had a small companion dog as a friend. After that she won't tell.

Fae knew she would have to get the help of her person for this to work. Of course she couldn't tell her person exactly what she was up to because she wasn't allowed to talk about the Fairy God Dog to 'people' only to other dogs.

So the next day after the training day at the dog park where she introduced Miska to the Fairy God Dog, Fae asked her person. 'Umm can I have Miska come and play at our house'. 'Sure' said Fae's person. 'How about tomorrow, because it is a long weekend and the weather looks good'. 'Yipee' said Fae and raced off to the computer to email Rose and Miska.

Rose replied that she would like to come out to the farm with Miska and have a doggy play day, and she could work on Fae's person's computer and sort her out - again and maybe get the Good Dog Training newsletter organised.

So next day Rose and Miska arrived at Puddlduck Farm and the people immediately decided on a cup of coffee and a natter, so Miska and Fae wandered off to see what they could get up to.

Fae had sort of decided that the best way to get Miska the German Shepherd Dog, to do good things was to teach her farm work, like she did. Now Fae had been helping other dogs with her person, to learn how to be around farm animals, all her short 14 month life and she reckoned she could teach Miska how to be useful on the farm.

'Come with me' said Fae to Miska, so Miska followed. They went into the Donkey paddock. There was Sam Donkey eating his hay and just watching the dogs out of the corner of his eye.

'What is that?' asked Miska looking a bit worried about the big brown donkey busy munching his hay. 'This is Sam the Donkey' said Fae ' he is the best first farm animal for you to meet'.

'Looks dangerous to me', said Miska 'I am outa here'. 'No wait' said Fae 'I'll show you'. So Fae walked up to Sam's house and went in and got a lead rope then she jumped up on the top of the gate and put the lead rope through Sam's halter. Then she jumped down and took the end of the lead rope in her mouth and walked along and Sam followed her. 'Sam' she said 'Meet Miska the German Shepherd Dog'. 'Eeyyyore helloooo' said Sam. Miska ran to the gate of the paddock and tried to get out, she had never heard such a horrible noise in her life, she was shaking like a leaf. 'Steady' said Fae 'look it is okay see, he doesn't do anything, he quite likes dogs - don't you Sam?' Sam nodded quietly so he wouldn't frighten Miska again. 'Come on Miska come over here to where me and Sam are'. Miska very quietly with her ears back and trying hard not to look at Sam - eased herself a bit closer, then a bit closer again. 'Come on Miska' said Fae 'He really will not hurt you - Sam is one of my best friends, him and me and Paddy the Cat spend a lot of time just mucking around together'. Miska was still pretty fearful and hearing the word cat didn't improve matters, she had never liked Cats much scary, spitting, clawing things. 'That's better' said Fae 'Now my person really likes it when I lead him along for her'. 'No' said Miska 'I can't do it'. 'Yes you can' said Fae and she dropped the lead rope in front of Miska. 'Now pick it up' said Fae 'No can't' said Miska. 'That is stupid' said Fae ' If I can do it and I am really little then you can do it Miska'. 'Why am I doing this' asked Miska 'Because you have to do some good deeds,remember?' said Fae.

'I don't like this game', said Miska 'Can we play something else'. 'No my person sayes no other Farm Games can be played if you don't get to know the Donkey first'. said Fae. Reluctantly Miska picked up the lead rope and moved forward and Sam started to move. Miska dropped the rope and ran to the gate again. 'Actually' said Fae. ' I am really pleased with that on your first lesson, that was very brave'. Fae had heard her person tell other dogs that when they came for their first lesson and the dogs always looked quite pleased. It worked well. 'Okay' said Miska 'what's next'?

'Come and meet the Goats' said Fae. 'Hello team' yelled Fae from the gate into the goats paddock. 'Blaaa' said Jojo the Mother Goat. 'These goats have horns' said Miska 'Do they' said Fae. 'Listen pup if those guys get those horns going we will be mincemeat'. 'Nah' said Fae, 'I play with them all the time'. 'I don't understand how going into a paddock with six goats, all with horns, is going to help me get rid of my past' said Miska. 'This is stupid'. 'What I do' said Fae 'Is I go with them down the farm and watch them and play with the twins Dingle and Dewdrop, and make sure they stay on the farm and don't go through the fence to the neighbours. Then when it is time for the goats to come up for milking I bring them up to the shed and my person is very pleased with me. She is sooo pleased she gives me a little drink of goats milk and one for Paddy the cat as well.' 'Yuk' said Miska 'I don't want to do this game either'.

'Oh look over there', said Fae ' One of the Muscovy Ducks is bringing home a whole troop of new babies, now we really can be useful'. Miska looked bewildered again and rolled her eyes to the sky, she had no idea what harebrained scheme her friend Fae would dream up next. 'See that pen over there with the door open' said Fae 'Well we have to carefully round up the mother and babies and herd them into that pen'. 'What for'?? asked Miska. 'Because' said Fae 'That pen is rat proof and hawk proof and the babies live in there until they are big enough to come out'. Well at least Miska could understand that reasoning, Hawks and Rats were horrible things and she shuddered.

So the two dogs went way round the back of the Mother and ducklings. Mother duck looked suspiciously at them and squirted a fowl poo in their direction. 'Oh poo, poo' said Miska 'That smells awful oh yuk again'. 'What smell' said Fae 'Oh that poo tastes delicious, but we will have to go back to it cause we have to keep going with this brood.'

About this time Rose and Fae's person looked out the window from the house and saw the dogs stalking the Mother duck and ducklings - all 10 of them. 'Goodness' said Rose 'Miska will probably kill them'. 'I don't think so' said Fae's person. 'Lets just sit here quietly and watch'.

So they watched as the dogs - Miska copying Fae - inched the Mother duck and ducklings closer to the pen. Bit by bit they got to the pen door and then on the first try the ducklings all filed in through the door . 'Quick Miska' said Fae ' Move forward and force the Mother in behind them and I will shut the door'. So Miska jumped forward, and Fae grabbed the door. The Mother duck got such a fright she went in through the door with Miska's nose right up her bottom, but Fae was a little slow with the door and the Mother duck, quick as lightening turned around and reached her head out the slightly open door and pecked Miska's nose so hard it started to bleed straight away. 'Ooo ouch snuffle snuffle sneeze sneeze ooo ouch again' said Miska. 'Hooray' said Fae ' We did it'. Just then Fae's person and Rose came to the gate from the house to the farm. 'Well aren't you both clever girls' said Fae's person. 'That was a very good deed'. 'Did you hear that Miska' said Fae 'You have done a good deed, that is one of the good deeds you needed to do, Wow, whoopee'. Poor old Miska had her head down with the blood still dripping off the end of her lovely black nose.

'Looks like the duck got Miska on the nose' said Rose. 'Oh dear a bit of first aid needed here' said Fae's person. So the hose got turned on gently and Miska's nose got washed and then sprayed with Vetadine Iodine. Miska's eyes watered a bit when the iodine stung her pecked nose but then it was fine.

Rose looked proudly at Miska 'You have a good head for farm work by the look of it Miska, I am so proud of you'. Miska went all coy and happy, it was such a long time since she had been useful and told how good she was and a big smile broke out on her face. 'Miska's smiling,' said Fae's person ' what a change from that stressed face we usually see. Good work Fae'. Fae wagged her whole fat little body and smiled as well.

'Guess what we are going to do now' said Fae's person 'we are going to take a picnic lunch down to the lake and play in the water as it is such a hot afternoon.'

'Oh boy, cool, great, yes, bark bark yap yap' went all the dogs and Chan rushed off and got his favourite ball to take to the lake.

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Thursday, January 24 2013

Fae the Fat Fairy meets Miska the German Shepherd Dog - Episode 10

By Raewyn Saville on Thursday, January 24 2013, 02:06 - The Adventures of Fae the Fat Fairy

Quite a while ago now Miska the German Shepherd came into Fae's life. It was a bit like this, Fae had made friends with Rose. Rose is a Computer Guru who Fae's person has to have help her with her Website and her blogging and her newsletter about Dog Training.

Rose and Fae got on really well which was just as well because when Fae does her own blogging, not having fingers means that she needs Rose just to guess what the words typed really are and sort it out. Anyway Rose and Fae got to talking and Fae learnt all about Rose's special Dog Friend Buddy, and the adventures Rose and Buddy had together. Only thing is every time Fae went 'Tell me about Buddy Aunty Rose' - then Aunty Rose got really sad because her best friend dog Buddy had died in her arms when he got a huge twisted bowel problem in the middle of the night. The Vet could not fix it and Buddy had to be put to sleep. Life had not been the same for Rose after that because she lived alone and Buddy, a fifty kg German Shepherd, had been her very best friend.

One day Fae said to Rose, 'Aunty Rose, why don't you get another Buddy'? 'Thats what my person did when Pai died, she got me and she is happy again now'.

'Yes' said Rose 'You are right, but I might find it hard to be able to relate to another German Shepherd, there will never be anyone like Buddy'.

Anyway between the two of them they checked the Rescue Shepherds websites and sometimes nice looking dogs would show up looking for a home. There was a nice Black one and a nice white one but somehow Rose couldn't get motivated about them. Then there was one that had been rehomed a lot, she looked like a nice dog, pretty head. When Rose rang about her she was in Hawkes Bay in the care of an Animal Shelter and apparently her best owner had died and she had found it hard to re-home and had kept running away from her re-homes. Rose still wasn't sure, but the Shelter people agreed to bring Miska to Taupo so that Rose could go there and have a look at her. Well of course when you see a big beautiful dog looking completely confused and unloved and knowing she was probably grieving for her past life then Rose could not walk away. So Rose brought Miska home.

Miska was very confused for quite a long time, but Fae really loved her. Fae rolled on her back in front of Miska and was always trying to cheer her up. Miska didn't say much, she kept looking behind her and around and she didn't know anything about where she was. She knew she had come here in a green car though and that green car was her link to her past, so she was going to stick to the green car and get in it as much as she could.

Rose and Fae worked very hard on Miska and bit by bit she stopped looking behind herself and started to relate to her new life with her big soft bed in the bedroom at Rose's house and the warm fire all through the winter and the walks to the Park and the Lake and of course going to Dog Training.

Fae could see Miska and Rose coming for miles at the Dog Park and she would turn herself inside out to get there and greet them first. Miska was very patient with baby Fae, especially as she had enough issues of her own without having this Border Terrier thing throwing herself all over her.

'Come on Miska' said Fae ' We are doing tunnels at the park today, whoopee its such great fun'. Miska would look at the tunnel and as long as she had to go through it because she couldn't get away, she would do it, but as she came out the end of the tunnel she would put on a spurt and run to the Dog Training Gate to get close to her green car. Miska came to German Shepherd class with all the other Shepherds, but she didn't really want to be part of class or make friends with the dogs. She pulled on her lead to get away and head for the green car. Rose had to make sure she couldn't run away because that seemed to be what she wanted to do.

Bit by bit through many months Miska really started to show her true self. A loving protective friend dog who doesn't like a lot of fuss and nonsense.

One day Fae was sitting with Miska at the Dog Club and they were having a heart to heart. Well Fae was telling Miska her life history and how she wanted to be a Fairy and she was trying so hard to be good because the Fairy God Dog had said...... 'The What' said Miska, 'The Fairy God Dog' said Fae. 'Good Grief pup do you believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy too',' yes said Fae 'I do'. 'no such thing' 'is' 'not' 'IS' 'NOT. So then they didn't speak for a little while. Miska looked at the pup after a while and thought maybe she had been a bit hard on her, afterall when she was a pup she probably believed the world was full of Fairies as well, who knows she couldn't remember. So Miska smiled at Fae and asked 'So you have seen this God Dog have you'. 'Oh yes' said Fae. 'There is a puff of purple smoke and sequins and then there is the Fairy God Dog all dressed in purple and gold with a wand and a star on the top'. Miska was starting to enjoy this now 'Any tatts or piecings visible', she asked. Fae looked at her not understanding the joke and Miska was rolling around on the ground laughing and laughing.

'Come on I'll show you' said Fae getting up and heading for the Dog Training Ground Gate. Miska followed on a little puzzled. They waited at the gate and then when a lady came in with two jumping up barking german spitz dogs called Coco and Zulu , there was so much confusion that they were able to slip out the gate unnoticed. 'Keep walking' said Fae and Miska followed dutifully on. They came to a little group of trees and bushes near the road and Fae went in under the bushes. ' Miska followed. 'Sit here'. said Fae and Miska sat. 'Fairy God Dog' called Fae softly, 'I need you'. nothing . 'Please come Fairy God Dog, my friend Miska really needs you too'. nothing. By now Miska was wondering how she was going to get herself out of this corner and she was sure she shouldn't be in the bushes and that Rose would be looking for her soon and she would get into trouble. Also by now Fae was getting a little tearful -'please please come... and then there it was a cloud of purple sequins, the bone star wand came first and then a big tall dog with lots of golden hair and wearing purple tights. Miska's heckles rose on her back she was about to bark and attack but the FGD touched Miska's lips with the bone star wand and she felt calm and didn't want to bark any more. 'Now Fae' said the FGD 'You know how busy I am, what is this all about'. 'Well' said Fae 'This is my friend Miska and she is very sad and unhappy and I want her to be happy again'. The FGD turned to Miska and spoke very quietly to her in GSDspeak which Fae didn't understand, then the FGD said mmmmm after Miska spoke back to her. Then the FGD spoke in ordinary Dog and said. 'Yes I understand Miska that you have terrible nightmares about your past and you are very frightened. I can grant you the wish that your past will disappear completely from your mind, but first you have to do two good deeds. I know you are a strong helpful dog really so you will have to find some jobs to do that help others. I am sure you can do it and when you do then your past will be gone from your mind and body.' Just then POOF the FGD was gone in that puff of purple sequins.

Right at that moment Rose and Fae's person stuck their heads into the bushes. 'What are you two up to' asked Rose. 'How did you get out the gate is what I want to know' said Fae's person. Fae looked smug, Miska looked bewildered and they followed their people back in through the gate to do their Training class with the other dogs. 'See you later Miska' said Fae all smiley.....'Yeh' said Miska still in a dream wondering what on earth had happened just then.....................

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Tuesday, December 4 2012

Fae the Fat Fairy episode 8

By Raewyn Saville on Tuesday, December 4 2012, 00:00 - The Adventures of Fae the Fat Fairy

Dogs Still at the Dump......

In the last episode the dogs had managed to plug in the Robot Dog at the workers shed and had fallen into an exhausted sleep as it had taken quite a lot of the night to organise this act.

At first light most of the dogs awoke and they realised that Robot dog was well charged up and ready to go. 'But first' he said ' I now have to be unplugged'.

Then the dogs remembered that only Fae could fit through the hole in the wall above the drainpipes to unplug the Robot Dog's cord.

While they were looking for Fae and Tyson, the dogs heard the workmen arriving at the Shed and knew they would be in trouble if they didn't unplug the Robot Dog very soon.

Then they found Fae, fast asleep in a little hollow. 'Fae, Fae' said Chan 'Wake up'. But she snored on. 'Come on Fae' said Tyson, ' We need you now'. Fae jumped up as they prodded her and squeaked 'Help help, Oh what's the matter I was asleep and dreaming'.

'Fae' said Boney ' You have to go through the drain hole and pull the plug for Robot Dog'. 'Okay' she said.

The dogs looked at each other and thought they also ought to tell her that the workmen were in the shed but they didn't. Perhaps she would change her mind if they told her there were strangers in the shed.

Fae toddled off to the hole in the wall above the Drain pipes and popped through. It was a lot easier to get through this morning as she had worked off some of the feast and her waistline had reduced a little. She came into the shed from the cupboard under the sink in the lunch room - pushed open the door and walked over to the plug in the wall. She pulled the plug with her teeth and it went zip zip zip -just like a recoiling vacuum cleaner cord and zipped all the way out the hole and into the chest of Robot Dog.

Suddenly Fae was swept off her feet, she screamed, and all the dogs outside the wall froze and stared at the hole. Fae was coughing and screaming all at the same time, there was smoke all around her and it stank. She looked up and found she was being held by a great big red people hand. He had a piece of paper stuck to his lip and it was smoking all over her.

'Well well well, look what I have found Boss, that little Fairy Dog that appeared on the front page of the newspaper, well aren't you a find - you are probably worth quite a lot, and he chuckled and held Fae tight and puffed some more smoke in her face from the paper on his lip'.

'What are you doing Man', shouted the Boss, 'Get out here and get that Bulldozer going, I hope you are not smoking in that shed again'.

While the man was listening to the Boss,Fae relaxed just enough for the Red Man to relax his grip, then she bit his thumb with all her strength. The Red Man yelled and dropped her and Fae shot out through the cupboard and out the hole and kept on running for a while.

When the man yelled he spat his cigarette from his lips and it dropped in the litter bin in the lunch room, he had blood all over his hand. The boss by now had come to see what the trouble was. 'I can smell smoke' he said 'I've told you before, smoking is outside. Get out here and get to work you lazy sod'.

'What happened to your hand', asked the Boss. 'Bloody Fairy Dog bit me' replied the Red Man 'Oh yeah sure, and it flew away on a magic carpet, are you a nut or something', said the Boss.

The rest of the Dogs caught up with Fae and slowed her down, she was still shaking and coughing and they listened to her tale quietly and she cried a bit. 'Where's Robot Dog' Fae asked 'Oh we left him at the shed and came to catch up with you' said Tyson, 'We thought the people had killed you by the way you screamed'.

Fae started to cry, so they all sat down and felt a bit sad together. Chan looked at Fae, and said,' I hope you have had enough of this adventure because this is the day we go home'. Fae cried even louder as she held on to Tyson because she didn't want to leave him behind at the dump.

Just about then there were sirens and people yelling and the dogs looked towards the sound and a big curl of smoke was rising into the sky. The Dump people were running towards it. 'Looks like the bulldozer shed is on fire' one yelled as he ran by. The dogs turned around and ran with the people back towards the Shed. There were even more sirens. As they got close they could see the fire engines and the flashing lights and the police cars with flashing lights and big hoses of water spraying the shed.

The dogs saw Robot Dog standing down by the Fire Engines and went down to where he was. One of the Firemen was using a screwdrive to take a plate off the back of Robot Dog who was smiling and wagging his tail. He then reset a blinking light and screwed the plate back down. 'There you are boy, as good as new' said the Fireman to Robot Dog. The Fireman turned to the Boss of the Shed and said 'Bit of a lucky break you have one of these Robot Dogs on duty. He has a smoke detector and GPS signals to tell us where the fire is'. The Boss of the shed, looked puzzled at the Robot Dog 'I've never seen it before', he said. The Fireman continued 'If he hadn't been here, this Shed would have been burnt to the ground, you have lost no machinery at all. If I was you I would keep it here, it only costs a few cents a week to plug it in and keep it charged and he will tell you when the shed is being interfered with or if there is a fire, I have a manual about them back at the station, I will drop it off some time so you can make best use of him'.

'Okay' said the Boss ' Well it looks like you have got yourself a job Robot Dog'. All the real dogs jumped up and down and cheered.

'Now' said the Fireman, 'we need to have a look and find out the cause of this blaze'. So he and some of his men headed into where most of the smoke had been coming from and where the damage was - the lunch room. 'Ah' said the Fireman 'Looks like it started in this litter bin, as it has completely melted, none of your people smoke inside do they? The Boss of the Shed turned around and looked at the Red man and yelled.

'Speaking of Fires - you are Fired, get out of my sight'. The Red man grumbled and walked away towards the entry gate. The Boss turned towards the Fireman 'He was smoking in here this morning, looks like he dropped his butt in the litter bin to stop me finding him smoking, he had some story about a Fairy Dog biting him, he was covered in blood....' however the Shed Boss stopped at this point because he was starting to sound a little bit silly as well...................

Chan started herding the dogs that were with him towards the ring fence of the dump. He had promised his person they would return to the place she had dropped them in the early afternoon. The light looked about right. One by one the dogs dropped away, some of them running along the fenceline, some of them doubling back into the depths of the dump, but Chan kept Fae moving 'Time to go' he whispered. Fae looked back over her shoulder and there was Tyson on top of a mound of rubbish with his ears back and his chin resting on his paws. The further they walked the smaller Tyson became as Fae looked back. She was crying now so Chan grabbed her by the collar and ran as fast as he could towards the fence.

Just then he noticed there were lots and lots of cars and trucks all along the roadside. Not dump trucks but ordinary family cars and wagons. People from the cars were talking to the dogs, and some of the dogs were getting in cars and trucks and wagons and being driven away.

Chan saw his person and his truck in the distance, so he grabbed Fae's collar again and ran even faster. He dropped Fae at his person's feet, leapt into his truck and reached up and licked his person all over the face. 'Steady Chan' his person said'I have never seen you so pleased to see me. What's the matter with my little Fae. Fae baby, you have done a wonderful thing' her person said picking her up and cuddling her close. Because you got photographed by the people in the whirly birds and your picture was in the paper looking like you were flying, all these people have come to offer to give the dump dogs a new chance of a family life, isn't that wonderful'.

A nice lady came over to Fae and Chan's person and said her name was Kate. Kate had a little girl called Jade. 'We have come to the dump to find a dog just like her' said Kate pointing at Fae. 'Although we would quite like a boy dog'.

Fae's person looked up to the top of the rubbish heap some distance from the fence and saw Tyson still lying up there with his chin on his paws. 'What about Tyson over there, he is a bit of a Cairn Terrier and a nice little dog'. Fae looked up and called Tyson.

'Tyson Tyson' Kate and Jade called out, and Tyson, unsure, came down to the fence. 'Oh he is just lovely' said Kate. Tyson's ears went back to happy normal. I think he is just what we want.

By now Fae was licking Tyson all over the mouth and face. Fae and Chan's person was talking to Kate about Agility and how she was an Agility teacher and suggesting that Kate bring Tyson to learn. Kate said she always wanted to do Agility and yes she would come to class. 'Do you hear that Tyson' whispered Fae ' You are coming to my Agility class, now we will see each other forever after'.

So Tyson went home in a flash white car with Kate and Jade, and Chan and Fae settled into the back seat of their truck and went to sleep immediately. Their person smiled and drove off towards home wondering how exciting Fae's latest adventure had been and thinking there were probably plenty more to be had if she knew her little Fat Fairy who so badly wanted to fly.

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