So I was meant to help my mum do a bit of house work, when Breagha (our Samoyed) goes totally nuts. She's hyper affectionate, barking and snuggling up to me. When I go up the stairs to my room, she blocks me off and rolls over.

After a few minutes of wondrous belly rubs, I give in and tell my mum I'm taking Bri for a wee walk. Of course when she hears this, Breagha goes mental. I grab a wee baggy, put her lead on and off we go!

Breagha did her business immediately (right by a dog waste bin I might add) then dragged me to the wood park. As I'm a big guy and I keep her on a short leash (dog walking brings out my inner fascistic) I am used to walking her. She had me jogging!!

Moment I let her off the lead, she was dancing around the park, stopping only to passionately dig up some dirt and do some extreme sniffing around.

I can honestly say I haven't seen her this excited before (and she's no the shy retiring type).

She went mad in the dirt, then had a drink from a puddle, then dived into some mud!

As she is a white dog, the mud was just a wee bit obvious.

We walked towards the burn, and she ran right into it to wash her paws and bark enthusiastically. After a few minutes of playing in the water, she ran out, walked right next to me and gave herself a shake (thanks love).

I got her back on the lead and we walked home slowly now. She wasn't tired though. She was doing it for a reason. Sniff sniff.

We walked past my mother's cousins houses. Now at this point, Bri often jumps on a wall to look at My mum's cousins ducks. This time, she met one face to face! It popped it's head over the wall and gave Bri a start. Fortunately, she was still on her lead. If she wasn't, it would have been a former duck. . .

She resumed her sniffing around the side of the road, when she suddenly dived into the side, and pushed her head into the dirt. I thought it standard insane behavior, until she brought her head up and I heard frantic squeaking.

Her reason for taking it slow earlier? She was mousing!

She caught a wee shrew, and proceeded to *edited for wusses*. Then she gave me the biggest happy smile you have ever seen and rolled over.

Took her home, gave her a wee treat and left her to chill on the step.

Good day.