FPF competition entry from Bluebeard.

The Foot, Paw and Fin competition!

Hi Everyone,

I simply adore feet, as many of you will be aware. They are my favourite part of the human body. I love to lick them and smell them. Apparently the health reason behind me licking them is to get salt, which is supposed to be good for me, but even if that didn't happen I'd still lick them cos it's such a nice thing to do - and most of them have some sort of cheesy smell, which is my favourite thing to eat. I think I'm also helping my humans cos then their feet get washed but they don't seem to see it that way cos they find it a bit annoying and ask me to stop or put shoes, socks or slippers on their feet to stop me, and then often Peter goes off to the bathroom to wash his feet afterwards with soap and water and some sort of human medicine thing.
Anyway this all made me think it'd be fun to run a competition to see who has the best feet! And so as not to leave out dogs, cats or fish paws and fins are also allowed. If you are an octopus you can send in a picture of your tentacles - anyway you get the idea - please submit pictures of your appendages for consideration. Ideally I would then lick all your submissions in person, or in dog, cat or fish or what species you are, but that could be difficult and require a lot of travelling! So instead I will look at the pictures and imagine I am licking them and you can describe to me what yours smell like. Emma will also be a judge but I think she will judge more on the aesthetics and quality of your pictures - which both really mean what they look like - which I think are silly things to judge on and won't get anything like as high a portion of the marks as my judging - in other words what I think matters a lot more!
The prize will be a treat according to your species and personal tastes and something to eat!
Please submit your entries to our email address Emma.Knight08@googlemail.com.
Good luck!

Love and licks and sniffs, Ted and Emma XOXOXOXOXOXOXOX
The Blogs of Ted Terrier © 2009 by Emma Knight

Sun Fun Here We Come! :)

I am a frolicker - which doesn't mean that I lick fros and I don't even know what a fro is or if it really exists - when it comes to the sun cos I love to run about in it and it's sunny today and so I've been doing a lot of frolicking! Emma doesn't frolick in it quite so much as me as the sun - as she puts it - plays havoc with her freckles, making more of them - or makes the bits of her that don't have freckles go red. I don't have freckles so I don't have that problem. For anyone who doesn't know - cos I didn't - freckles are like much smaller versions of the brown patches that I have on me. I am mostly white with brown spots. Emma is mostly light pink with tiny brown spots. And of course I have a lot more hair than she does, although hers is longer than mine even when I'm scruffy Ted. And when I'm tired of frolicking I will rest on the garden seat as you can see... What do you enjoy doing in the sun? Love and licks, Ted and Emma XOXOXOXOXOXOXOX The Blogs of Ted Terrier © 2009 by Emma Knight

It's ME! :)

I am demonstrating how nice it feels to be tickled!

Love and Licks, Ted and Emma, The Tickler XOXOXOX

The Blogs of Ted Terrier © 2009 by Emma Knight

Bo in The White House

Dear Dog Friends and Companions, I just heard - well actually I heard a while ago but as usual had to wait for Emma to come to type my thoughts about it - that the Obama's Special Advisor Dog in The White House will be a Portuguese Water Dog and they will call him Bo. I was very disappointed at first - why not a JRT cos we are so good at everything and I thought they made a mistake - but it seems that one of the young humans he is looking after is allergic to dogs - which means that whenever she (the human girl) is near him (the dog) she sneezes and feels ill which isn't a very desirable thing to happen cos then they're not happy companions cos friends don't make each other ill, or at least if they do it's not very good really - and Bo is hypoallergenic, which means that he doesn't make her allergic. I understand this sort of thing cos Emma is allergic and would normally be allergic to me and Yorky cos we wear fur and that's one of the things that makes her allergic, but she says her level of allergicness is controlled by tablets she swallows and drugs she breathes in with her nose, but it would seem that Malia Obama is more allergic or that she doesn't have drugs. Anyway whichever it is Bo is also a gift and so that's probably another reason why he was accepted cos it's not nice to reject a gift. He may not be as intelligent as me but he will be useful cos he likes water and catching fish - I hope they like to eat fish!! And they are calling him Bo! 'The face of Bo, they called me' said Captain Jack to The Doctor and Martha. That made them think that he was the character called The Face of Boe. Actually, as Emma says we're not very sure about the spelling cos we think the face of Boe had an e rather than just Bo, but we also thought that Captain Jack would be The Face of Beau cos that means beautiful in French and we both think he is. Anyway, given that this dog has the face of Bo, then maybe he will be very brave and live for a long time and serve everyone very well. Good Luck Bo and remember to contact me, Ted, any time for advice on supporting humans. Love and Licks, Ted and Emma XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

The Blogs of Ted Terrier © 2009 by Emma Knight

Wishing a Merry Christmas and Plenty of Babybel Cheese!

Dear Friends and Family,

This is just to wish you all a happy christmas and merry new year - I wanted to write it the other way around than usual, but apparently humans don't say merry new year, which probably explains why many of them don't find it very merry at all, so I'm going against human rules, as I often do, and wishing you merriment for 2009!
Oh and plenty of presents to make you happy and pleasantly stuffed - though not like a turkey or you might get put in the oven, which wouldn't be very good - on Christmas Day. I am looking forward to lots of Babybel cheese, which is my very favourite thing of all time! I'd like to get Emma her very favourite thing of all time, but John Barrowman isn't available to us cos he is being looked after by another JRT called Captain Jack, and also I think he'd be too big for her stocking, which isn't a real stocking at all cos it'd look very silly on someone's leg especially as each person has two legs and only one stocking so one leg would be bare - for dogs it'd be even worse cos we have four legs, but maybe that means we should have two stockings and get more presents!
What are you all looking forward to for Christmas and what are your new years resolutions?

Love n licks, Ted and Emma XOXOXOX


The Blogs of Ted Terrier © 2008 by Emma Knight

Small Creatures Taking Care of the World

America has a new president! Well, of course, that is old news but I had to wait for Emma - as usual having to wait for her I mean - to type this for me and I suppose also it might be old news that it's gonna happen, but it hasn't actually happened yet cos he won't go and live in the White House until next year and when he does he will be there with his human family and a new dog. The dog is supposedly for his daughters, but I am very pleased he has asked one to live with him, cos he is going to need a creature in the White House, with just the right amount of intelligence to help him make sense of all that the humans with two much intelligence will say to advise him on how to rule the world! Okay I know that's a contentious - that's a very big word but Emma assures me it's what I mean - thing to say that he is ruling the world but effectively being the American president you are taking care of the world cos America is the biggest super-power - which doesn't actually mean that it has super powers like the people in Heroes or like Superman or anything like that - but cos it's a large, rich country with a lot of influence on all the other countries. Barack won't really rule the world at all cos nobody can but many, many people have a great deal of expectation that he will change it for the better and make them feel happy cos of that by making changes to all sorts of things that people do to govern their lives - dogs don't make rules to govern each others lives, which I think is why we worry less about ourselves and more about our humans cos the rules they make are often wrong for them really. Anyway all that expectation is cos Barack is different. One of his differences is that he is the first black coloured (well really he is a light brown colour) president that America will have had. As I've discussed in my journal before now humans make the colour that they are really important and very sadly it has caused so many difficulties in their history. Dogs don't worry about the colour that another dog is. I will play fight with a dog of any colour or breed as humans categorise us into based on how we look and size and colour and amount of hair and what sort of personalities they think we have and all that - but it makes no difference to me, except that if I am interacting with a larger dog I usually feel I need to be a little more fearce to make up for my lack of height. Actually Barack seems to be quite small in width and height for a human being - I saw him standing next to Gordon Brown and thought that. I then felt a little anxious for him cos of all he will have to deal with, but then I reminded myself that even though I'm small I am able to carry a lot of emotions and sort out a lot of problems for my humans, so I'm sure he can do that too. If any of you have any thoughts on Barack please do share them with us. Woofs and hopeful wishes for a better world, Ted and Emma The Blogs of Ted Terrier © 2008 by Emma Knight