Exciting News

After my emotional out bust the other night and my want to put the breaks on I am know looking forward to September. WHY you ask?

Because..................
Small Furry Hotel has made it to the final of the Pet Care Trust to say......

We are a finalist in the Boarding Establishment of the year. I am so thrilled and proud all rolled into one.

In September I have to attend an award ceremony in Birmingham apparently it is like the Oscar's for the Pet care industry. I am soooooo excited.

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The Royal Wedding

Well it's all over. My best bit, the bride and groom leaving in that little convertible. I must say the maid of honour ( Kate's Sister) might of out did her for a few moments as she carried her dress!! Anyway we had a nice relaxing day here, there was a party at the end of the road that looked good fun but I wanted to hang round the house and go shopping. Also I get on with most my neighbours but not the one that chased me up the road 4 years ago and accused me of allowing my dogs to poo outside her house. Apparently there was a "steaming poo" by her house. My darling husband produced several poo bags of evidence that we had picked ours up and informed her that poo doesn't steam on a summers afternoon when it is 25 degrees. So not keen to drink pims with her... The other neighbour to avoid is the one who blames me for every car in the village when actually they all belong to the people that live down the private road. Not bad only fallen out with two neighbours in ten years but not willing to do pims on the green with them. Also my husbands jobs means he works every bank holiday. Infact he has worked every bank holiday for the last 15 year. It's part of his contract not that he is avoiding me!!! So I am a bit or a Bar humbug when it comes to Bank holidays. We have our holidays when everyone else is in work. Well I hope you all have a lovely weekend and hope to see some of you at the dog show on Monday on the Bransgore playing fields. Enjoy my little video of Deedee doing her royal wedding wave


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Virus

Well I have managed to suffer with both sorts over the holidays. My computer gave up last week and had to go to the shop and I was told we had 500 viruses. Since then I appear to have caught one of the viruses and I have been feeling pretty grotty. I am on the mend but feel tired more than usual and have had some sinus pain. I have tried a few things to make it better and a trip to the beach has helped no end. I got to catch up with a friend and the children had a ball.

We are so lucky to have such lovely beaches just a mile or so away, the girls have had a great time in the sea.

The Small Furry Hotel was busy last week but it is a lot quieter this weekend. Last Saturday we raised £200 for waggy Tails rescue at the small furry show. It was lovely to see adults and children alike taking pride in their pets.

Our next show is a Dog show May 2nd for the Bransgore Funday.

We have also had all our bouncy castles up including our adult size castle, as we have a few hires coming up over the next few weeks. I even had a little bounce on it myself. I can see why children get worn out on them - great fun.

Well the holidays started off with a bit of tension between me an my eldest. Not sure if it was excitement of the holidays or tiredness from late nights. But as we are nearing the end of the holidays I will miss them both when they return to school.

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School Holiday...............................

Well that's it we are free of school for a while. I like the holidays as I get fed up of the 3pm school run, it kind off cuts your day in half especially in the summer. I find the traffic so bad in Bournemouth and Poole that after lunch I am too worried to drive anywhere just in case I don't get back in time.

So I am going to enjoy the freedom not that I will go far but I could if I wanted to.

School holidays also means a break from dog training as our classes try to run in line with the school holidays although Easter is so late this year we are only having a week off. I love the last week of training as it is Progress test week. I am always pleased with progress. For some dogs it's being happy/quiet in the room with all the other dogs and for the advanced dogs it's them achieving some thing fang dangled. I love to see the pups go from a blank canvas to taking an interest in their owners regardless of other distractions and concentrating on pleasing/ working out what their owners are asking of them. There is nothing better than seeing those lines of communication opening up as dog and owner start to understand each other. Our new course starts April 18th and we have a kids club for any dog mad children out there. Some children bring their own dogs others borrow ours.

Had to take a bunny to the vet today as it's vaccine ran out whilst she was on her holidays . I am not a huge vet fan, what I mean is they have to prove themselves to me as I have met a few hopeless vets in my time. Well the guy at companion care in Pets at home in Christchurch was great. Really into rabbits and a bundle of knowledge - he was talking about a new vaccine that will last 6 mth for Myxi and a combined myxi and VHD jab, can't be bad. He was supper efficient and printed off a copy of the details for the Small Furry Show on the 16th and put them on the notice board. Great Vet I will have to get his name - he also keeps rabbits himself.


I am hoping to do a bit of intensive riding with my eldest daughter to get her going a bit on her pony. We started when she was 7 and she has far more fear than her kamikaze 4 year old sister which she finds a bit frustrating. Mind you if she listened once in a while and didn't argue Black is white so much we may get further, I think it's a phase that I remember going through myself, although highly frustrating I am glad she has so much self belief at a young age.

Voting closed for the langtry Manor Business awards today so I am excited to hear how I got on. My Mother has already sent me a dress for the final - now is that confidence in your daughter or what?



P.s picture just because I like it and couldn't find the one I wanted

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A little introduction.

Well what a privilege to have my blog on Whats 0n 4!

Ok so who am I? Well that can change by the hour or so it seems.

Firstly came Madeleine who is slowly approaching 34. I live in the New forest and as you can tell my main hobby is my animals.

Then we have "Madeleine the wife" who is married to a lovely man that I have been with since I was nineteen. We have had our share of life's ups and downs like everyone, but I pleased to say everyone has made us stronger as a couple.

Then if by magic I became Madeleine the Mummy. We have two daughters my eldest is 8 in a few weeks, she is at the eye rolling and considering what she looks like before she leaves the house stage. My youngest is 4, desperate to start school, most things start with " I'm a big girl Mummy" and she is still quite happy to sneeze and say " oh! I've got snot everywhere giggle giggle". My Youngest has a "take life by the wotzits and go for it" attitude more so than most four year olds.

As a family we have 4 Bearded Collies and a Yorkie. I had my first Beardie at 14, this year after a lot of work within the breed we had our first litter of puppies. The puppies were the great nieces and nephew of my first Beardie who died roughly 3 years ago. Our Beardies can be seen at www.ceilmearbeardedcollies.moonfruit.com . Our yorki's owner died when she was 10 years old, she came to us to foster and she has never left!! For such a little dog who lived in a flat for such a large part of her life she has taken to a busy household like she has always been here.

Before children I worked in an office selling advertising. Even before my baby was born I had her booked into nursery so I could get back to work asap. That didn't last long, I hated leaving my baby, eventually I got out. I began studying an advanced diploma in Canine behaviour management. Later I opened the Small Furry Hotel www.smallfurryhotel.com a purposed built small animal boarding facility. In 2009 I then went into partnership to launch K9tac www.ktac.co.uk - Dog training. 2011 has seen the launch of Party Bounce www.partybounceuk.co.uk.

In 2010 I made it to the final of the Hampshire winning woman awards in the Mumpreneur of the year category and since then I have been refereed to as and Entrepreneur may times, something I am very proud of.

So you can see I can be :
Mum
Wife
Small Animal Boarder
Dog Trainer..........

and I love it. I love always being here for my girl and contributing to the household, doing things that I love and have a passion for. It's been a rocky road getting to this place, I have missed my montly wages many times. But I feel the future is bright I have put a lot of work in over the last few years, so when both girls are in school I wouldn't have to return to work.

Thought of the day: I'm like my 4 year old I take life by the wotzits and go for it. I'm slightly more cautious than her, but then she hasn't experienced life's knocks. I think it's all about resilance to the bad stuff life thows at you ( box it up, file it, move on) and not being scared of making a few mistakes. I think it was Tony Robins that said the man that invented postit notes was the biggest failure as he was trying to develop a super (sticky) glue and got the postit glue instead.