Just for my own reasons, basically that by doing this, Cody will be in the World for ever, my beautiful, trusting and faithful friend Cody crossed the rainbow bridge on 16th September 2023

He got old, as we all do and got slower and slower and I knew he didn't have long in this place. We put him in kennels, where he loved to go, and he trotted in there with out looking back. Five days into our holiday, we had a call from Kate who runs the kennels to say Cody had collapsed, and she had taken him to the vets at 10:30 in the morning. His condition worsened, and he was put to sleep at 15:30. They believe his bladder may have ruptured and cause peritonitis.

Kate arranged to have him collected by a local pet crematorium and he was individually cremated and his ashes will be spread in a woodland where he loved to go. He is still with us at the moment and every time I walk past his container, I give it a pat and speak to him, as I did every day of his life. 

The very worst thing about owing a dog is this, loosing them. People say it like having a child, but as children get older, they become more independent whereas dogs rely on on you all their lives. It is so hard to say goodbye to such a faithful friend and a member of your family, but I can take comfort in knowing Cody had a great home from the day he arrived until the day he did.

Sleep well lovely boy

Long Long time

Well Cody fans – been a long long time eh – but, I have got my paw out of my butt and thought it was about time I did an entry on my blog. Things have been pretty quiet really and I have just been chilling out and well ….. sleeping mostly and giving where my gonads used to be an airing !!

We have been doing the usual – going to dog shows with Rhea, but I hate it in the car and stand up all the way so by the time we get there, my legs are knackered and what do they say as soon as we get there …. come on then …. lets go walkies …. lets go bloody walkies after you have been standing in a moving car for the past three hours ….

We went to one show in the year and the Judge was Frank Cain who is on the telly when they do Crufts. He is from up North and always says eeeeee that's a luvlyyyy little bitch this is – you know who I mean ….. this geezer,know to his friends as puffing Billy as he is always puffing his cheeks out - - unless he had a curry the night before !!!

We have been out in wind and rain and as usual, there is the usual mix of people at the shows – and you certainly get a fair selection of  …….. well, have a look at the pictures !!

He didn’t actually win anything with his dog, but he did win a rosette for gayest waistcoat !!

And this bloke won the first prize in the I have got a bald head and no teeth class !

You do get ‘em eh?

We have been stopping in the caravan and it’s nearly as bad there ….. We were at Malvern and another bloke with a bald head (who didn’t win a prize as he had his own teeth!) covered in tattoos pitched his caravan and Chris thought he looked a bit of a tasty geezer and a bit of a roughy toughy …… well ….. as you know, the routine is, pitch the van and then take the dogs a walk (even though I have been stood up all the bleedin’ way) – well Mr Tattoo and his wife appeared, each with a lead in their hand and we expected at least a pit-bull or Rottweiler to appear ……… what did we get a German Shepard – No, two dogs with bleedin’ dresses on !!

I ask you …..

I thought I would include a couple of videos for you as been as you’ve had such a long wait …. so here is one to demonstrate the grace, poise and deportment of a top class show dog which demonstrates her ability to agile with quick reactions and razor sharp ability to turn -One minute your up and the next your down ! !!

One minute your up and the next your down !

Now here is another as a special treat ……. When Victor and Maureen go out, they lock us in the hall and kitchen and I couldn’t figure out how to get back on the settee …. I went and told Rhea and she sorted it straight away – unbelievable !!!

Door Opening Dobermann!

Well Cody fans – that’s about all for now except one piece of news and that is, last night, I became an Uncle  …….. It’s a long story but Rhea’s breeder said she was go up the the Midlands to have puppies and last night, she delivered 3 new Dobermann’s to the World. Maureen is up there now with her and says she is being a good Mom and is obviously pretty pleased with herself …..

Well done Re Re and I am surprised you managed to stay awake long enough to get your oats in the first place ……..

Take Care and hopefully, it wont be so long next time

See Ya

Cody xxx

Been a long time eh?

Hi Cody followers – How are you all then?
Well, it has been quite some time since we last ‘spoke’ but there has one hell of a lot been going on for Chris and I have been walking around following him everywhere, so I have not had the paws on the keyboard since just before Christmas !!
Where do we start – Christmas was the usual whooopee time we always have, as Chris’s Mom and Dad came to the house for the two days, because it is the Law and has always been that way, they slept all day and then said thanks, we have had a wonderful time !! – It wasn’t too bad for me and Rhea as we had some nice presents and slept most of the day as well !!

 

Things went really bad for Chris from then on because his Dad, Paddy, took a turn for the worse and was in and out of hospital all the time, and Chris was visiting Barnstaple hospital all the time to see his Dad. He was up and down like a whores draws on a Saturday night !! – Chris’s day was up to see if his Mom was okay, shopping, doing the washing, cleaning, gardening etc. etc. home for a sandwich, take us two us and then up the hospital visiting and that went on for months. His Mom, decided she didn’t want to be left out, so kept pressing her alarm button so Chris got plenty of calls in the middle of the night to go a pick her up off the floor. Eventually, they admitted her into hospital as well just so Chris could visit even more !!!! Paddy came home but ended up on an oxygen machine all the time which was a real strain for him as before, he was on the go all the time. Paddy died on March 19th 2012 and we all really miss him. Chris had to organise his funeral and all that, and then to scatter the ashes which was a pretty difficult time. Chris’s Mom & Dad had known each other for 70 years and because she missed him – went on hunger strike, kept falling over and pressing the alarm button AGAIN, and once again – ended up in hospital  - so Chris could go visiting again!!!!
Anyway, enough of all that …. what else has happened? They sold the kennel on wheels … I mean the motorhome …… it was okay, but because it was 24 feet long, they could never find anywhere to park it – so, next plan is to tow a trailer with a motorbike on the back …… It was something from the bloody fairground going down the road ……. gypo’s on the move.

 
 

We went down to Exeter and ended up getting a another kennel but only two wheels this time …. talk about embarrassed, they bought a flamin’ caravan ……. that’s my street cred gone down the pan. Last time they had one, way, way before I was their little pain in the ass ……. and they took it for a trail just across the Devon / Cornwall border to try it out. Chris pulled into a layby in the lane to let another pass and when he got along side the car, the driver undid his window, Chris’s little chubby face smiling to think he had be so courteous to let someone past, and the driver of the other car said “alright mate” …… yes thanks….. “ Well, why don't you f**k off home” and then drove off leaving Chris boiling like a kettle but couldn’t do nothing ‘cause he had the caravan on the back …. classic.
Rhea was at Crufts earlier and actually got a placing, a Very Highly Commended or 5th in other words, and she has qualified again for next year. She also won Best Bitch and Reserve Best in Show at the South West Dobermann Show, so is doing really well in the Showing World

 

We have been away in the new van a few times and it is really comfy and now, we can all jump in the car and go to explore the towns and get to leave deposits in all different doggy waste bins !!

 
 

I thought it was bad enough being members of the bloody Caravan and Camping Club but now, they have gone and joined the Caravan Club as well !!! It is still worth it though because you get to watch all the proud owners of a tin box on wheels whose first job it is when you get on site, is to clean it but under Health and Safety at Work and on Caravan Club sites Act of 1974 – you must wear protective clothing, namely, the wife's green marigolds !!!!

 

It’s amazing how house proud they all are and of course, there is the Caravan Club dress code where, like on the golf course or something, you have to dress accordingly while walking around the field !!

 

Well, as you can see, it has been a bit of a crap year so far, so sorry this is not so funny but I will try harder next time. I hope you are all well and keep smiling and don’t let people say to you – “ Why the long face” !!!!

 

Take Care

Cody

Seasons Greetings Cody Fans

Well – How are you all, ready for Christmas I hope – if your not, it’s your own fault as they have been on about it and had stuff in the shops for the past four months !!

Life here has been okay … well I say okay but it has been a bit traumatic for me really. Yes, you’ve guessed it, I have been to the Vets. I love it there and when they said “come on Code – we are off to the Vets, no sweat, I jumped in the car and off we went. They made a real fuss of me when I got there but Heather, the Vet Nurse locked me in a cage and Chris & Maureen disappeared and I noticed Chris was walking a bit funny …… now all became apparent when I woke up after having a bloody operation !!! Why was Chris walking funny and why did I have an op. well here are some pictures to see if you can guess ……

A nice pair of bells

A fair pair (pear!!)

A nice pair of apples

A nice pair of oranges you got there !

A pair of red hangers

A fair pair of nuts

A big pair of Conkers

A load of old balls

Have you guessed yet? – They have had my bloody nuts cracked – I went in the Vets happy and go lucky (and dangling) and came out a bleedin’ Eunuch !!!

I can’t believe it that they would do that without even asking me if it was okay to chop my grillocks off. Apparently, they did it because they didn’t want me and Rhea to be at it and because I didn’t like The Show Ring very much, I am not doing that again ….. I would have behaved myself a bit better when I was Showing if had known that was going to happen.

I had stitches in for 10 days and wasn’t allowed to have a lick or anything …. talk about kick’em when they are down … On the first night, I got my own back a bit and cried ALL night … I was not allowed to walk up steps either, so at 4am, Chris is carrying me up stairs and I got to sleep next the bed …. but kept poking him with my really cold and wet nose just to make sure he was still okay – better than me anyway, at least he has still got his !!

To be honest, I haven’t really missed them at all, in fact, I have chilled right out and even like a bit of fuss now which I never liked before – I’d still prefer my naggers than a pat on the head though!!

They lopped ‘em off just in time though (if there is a right time!!) as Rhea came into season, so once again the house was chaos as she kept coming onto me “you fancy a good time Johnny, all night in only 5 Honk Kong dollar” !! Fancy a good time – your have a laugh, last thing on my mind …

As we are no longer puppies, Victor Meldrew has bought a new carpet cleaner and spent two days cleaning all the carpets in the house where Rhea and me left our marks on when we were growing up …. they looked really good – UNTIL – Rhea, who is now in season started dropping spots all over his precious carpets !! – He was in his usual good mood when that happened I can tell you …. anyway, Maureen came up with a brain wave …….. we are waiting until the next series of Dragon’s Den and they are going to see if they can get Hilary to invest …. Do you think her shoulders go the the edge of her jacket or what? – Scary !!! – I bet everybody says “Look at that poor deformed woman – Yes …. but doesn’t her jacket fit her well”

Maureen’s invention … Genius, the simple ideas are always the best …. a pair of old pants and a cable tie !!!

Worked a treat and Victor’s carpet looks as good as new again, he is not moaning – happiness restored.

Well it is now 23rd December, so only a couple of days until Father Christmas comes down the chimney (if we had one) and hopefully, as I have been a really good boy, he will bring me a lovely present and something I would really, really like – yeah! my bloody cobblers back !!!

So Cody fans, I wish you all a really Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Take Care of yourselves

Cody

I have not been very well !

Hi All - Cody calling - How are you then?

Well - I just thought I would drop you a quick note to tell you .... I have not been very well - Ahhhh I hear you all say …. I don't want your sympathy …. SEND MONEY.

I was fine and then I had my meal in the morning – same old thing as every other day …. those two much be soooooo bad at cooking as I get the same thing day after day, after day, after day – I thought to myself, I know what I will do, just to change the routine a bit, I will throw it all up on the living room carpet. Chris cleaned it all up and got the carpet cleaner out and spent ages sorting it out …. I was well impressed, in fact so impressed, I threw up again just to watch him do something useful !! I felt a bit jippy during the day, so when it was time for walkies (they call it passagata …. Italian for walking as they think I wont understand that – dummies) they thought it best to leave me at home, nice and quiet in the kitchen to catch up on the old beauty sleep. While they were gone, only an hour and a half, ohhhhh I did come over peculiar and I was off …. throwing up like nobodies business, and I also had the squits really bad (get that up in your Vax carpet cleaner fat boy!!).

I didn’t think too much about it until they came home and the look on their faces – I must be ill …. I had sicked up and squited out loads of blood. There were about 6 or 7 pools of blood on the floor. Now you have heard the saying "The bottom fell out of my World" well I felt like the World had fallen out my bottom !!!! – It got worse and worse - - Chris has made a video for you to have a look at ..... this is how I thought, turn on your sound and click the triangular play button ......

 

 

I was up the vets quicker than a Romanian down the dole office on pay day …… When we got there, in the waiting room was a nice family, with Mom and two young kids and a cute little dog  … they all looked far too happy, so I threw up all over the floor right by ‘em  - the look on their faces was worth a million ….. so, being a bit of a show off, the  lovey darling type I am, ….. I squat down on the floor and covered all the areas I hadn't been sick on …… what a gem !! They closed the waiting room off after that … just me and Victor in there with no other company but the overpowering smell. All the other punters had to go through the side door because I might be infectious – Shame really because I would have blamed the smell on Victor. I got in to see the Vet and she gave me the once over, and then produced this long stick, a rectal thermometer, which she promptly stuck in the old rear end …. think that's funny do you Miss Vet ? – showed her my latest trick and crapped all over her room as well !!! She got the upper hand as she made me stay in the vets and stuck needles and drips in me and locked me in a cage for the night … perhaps I should have kept my butt cheeks a bit tighter and I could have gone home. I had to stay there for 24 hours and the sickness and squits stopped and they said I could go home. Chris came to pick me up and walking out of the Vets, there was a kid, about 11 years old, his back right up against the wall – I thought the vet maybe after poking him with the bum thermometer like she had me – but no, his Mom explained to Chris, he is scared of dogs – Not the best place to take him for a trip out is it, the bloody vets !!!

I was a feeling quite rough for a few days but all fine now you will be glad to hear. I you do feel the urge to send me £200 or £300 so I can go the Bermuda to convalesce, feel free …..

Anyway – good to talk to you again and hope your all okay

See ya

Cody xxx

Anybody a First Aider?

Hi All,

Things have been going pretty well and smoothly, well until last week ! – We went away to Cornwall for a long weekend and met up with friends, Denise, Dave and Lewis and their two dogs, Eva and Tilly - remember Tilly, I had the hots for her last year, but that was before I had my hormone implant and my grillocks shrivelled up to nothing! We were at a campsite by Padstow and there, they have got a beach which is virtually private, so we all went down and was having a great old time …..

….. now Eva, who is not so old, decided to go for a paddle in the water’s edge and while she was not looking, a great big wave went right over the top and dumped right on her head …. poor old thing, she came out the other side completely shocked by it all. Denise and Dave thought she was in trouble, so dived into the water and was up to their thighs trying to grab her, so that is where I thought I would do my Sir Galahad bit and I rushed in as well ……. It was all a right panic for a couple of seconds, but glad to say, she is fine. They all had a laugh about it and then started to do ballet lessons emptying out their wellies !!

Dave would look even more dapper with a nice pink ballerinas too too on as well !

Anyway, while they are busy draining the water out of all the places it shouldn’t be, Chris, old Fat Boy, thought it only right and proper to play with me on the beach …. now what he didn’t know, is that Tilly and me had hatched a plan …… while he is giving it all “Come on Cody, run around Cody, Fetch Cody ……. Now me, I am quite happy licking up as much sand as I can eat, I pretended and played dumb…. 

Tilly got into position and when Fat Boy turned around, there she was, in just the right position to trip him up ……. now, if that wouldn't have been funny enough, he had his camera in his hand and instead of just stumbling gracefully to the ground, he had to make an ass of himself and proceeded to do a Max Wall tribute act as he travelled about 30 yards across the beach ……. check out the video ……

Fat Boy doing the 30 yard dash !!

You have never seen anything like it …. some short fat bloke, defying gravity by doing a Max Wall at a 45 degree angle nearly the full length of the beach but managing not the brake the camera …. but then ..… as Sir Isaac Newton said “What goes up must come down” …. Chris’s little short legs were eventually overtaken by his big fat belly and whoooooof …. down he went – LAUGH … I didn’t think I was going to stop … he hit hard sand like a ton of bricks …. wallop ….. I bet they recorded about a 7.8 on the Rhichter scale and enough to cause a 20 foot tsunami in the Scilly Isles !! Once the Earth had stopped trembling he moaned and groaned and got to his feet and said “ I think I have broken a rib” … well that made it even funnier …… lots of sympathy from the crowd of onlookers !!

anyway, a week and a half later and he is still in quite a bit of pain with it and insists he can’t Hoover, iron, dig the garden, clean the windows or anything like that ….

Right, I am off, hope your all okay – Take Care – Cody

 

Third World Problems !

Hi Cody Lovers – How are you all?

It has been quite a long time since we caught up but it’s a job for me to get on the laptop because Chris is always on it !

This blog is titled Third World Problems …… I bet you are wondering what all that is about eh? – Well ….. I think I may have a plan to sort of all the troubles in the Third World ….. How is that you all ask? – Lack of food, over population etc. so how do I come in to this …. well, I am not sure if you remember me telling you we went to Yeovilton Air Day and watched all the planes etc. and stayed there in the motorhome …. well, when we packed up, Chris took me out for a quick walk before we started the journey and I had to go …. because when you gotta go, you gotta go – right? He picked it up in a Dog Poo Bag and put it by the steps of the van for disposal later … anyway, there was no bins or anything nearby, so he hung it on the back of the van to put it in the bin when we drove out of the site. Ideal … we packed up the rest of the gear, put it all in its place and Rhea settled down for the trip home …. I don’t, I am … and I quote “a real pain in the backside” because I won’t lie on my bed, but insist in standing, panting and dribbling for the complete journey, no matter how far we are going !!! – We came back along the A303 and then onto the M5 when we could get up a fair old lick for a big motorhome even reaching the blistering speeds of 80 + …. we then went on the North Devon Link Road which is 60mph and then onto the road home. So how does this all sort out the Third World ? – well they forgot to chuck my bag of dumps away, and when we got home, there is was, still swinging on the back of the van in all it’s glory !!! – Could have been embarrassing if it had dropped off onto the windscreen of a 5 series BMW or better still, a Police Traffic Car …. anyway, my plan is to use doggy crap bags which must be as tough as old boots, only cost about 99p for 200 and make condoms out of them and send them to India …. if they are that tough and can take all the bumping around on the motorway ….. they should stop lots of unwanted brown babies and bingo, all sorted with enough food etc. to go around – Cody, your a genius.

We went for a walk the other week and down in the woods, and Rhea and me were running around like loonies and all of a sudden ….. whoooooosh, one of us had stood on a bloody wasps nest !!!

They were all over us ….. we ran up a path because old fat boy had legged it and left us behind, so we followed him up there, only to find it was a dead end and the only way back was past the nest again !!! – We all got stung to hell … Chris in the arm, his belly (big old target!!) and on the inside of his thigh …. not sure what is talking about but he hopes the pain goes but the swelling stays !!! – I got stung in the side several times and on the face – I looked like I had done a couple of rounds with  Muhammad Ali, although the picture doesn’t really show just how swollen my mush was !!! - and Rhea, well she got several in the side ….and, right next to her butt hole !!! – She nearly won Bullies star prize with a winning score of ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY !!! ….. She ran around and around trying to get to it …. I thought she was going to disappear up her own backside ….. it was REALLY scary I can tell you ……. they were swarming all over and because we were up a dead end, we had to fight our way through all the undergrowth and brambles to find a route back without going back down the path …. we eventually found a way out but had an eight foot drop to get back on track.

About the only other thing which has happened is that it was Chris’s Dads Birthday and we took him out for a meal …. they arrived at the restaurant and his Dad made a ‘B’ line for the waiter, shaking his hand, asking him how he was, was everything fine and it was a long time since he had seen him …. it was, they had never been there before !! ….. after explaining what all the things on the menu were, he decided on the curry. His new best mate arrived with it and Wally (Chris Dad) asked why it had got a great big crisp with it …. he normally hardly eats very much and only eats like a bird – that night he was like a bird alright, a bloody vulture and proceeded to down the lot like he hadn’t eaten for a month. When we stood up to go, the people on the next table said hello and Wally and he pounced on them, shaking their hands and telling them all how it was his Birthday tomorrow and he was going to be 100, they went on and on congratulating him and telling him how well he was doing and how he didn’t look that old et. etc. they on for ages ….. a remarkable achievement to still be able to go out for a meal etc. trouble is, it was his birthday the day before and he was 91 not 100 !!!

This was me and Wally when I was younger ………..

Anyway, better be off as me tea is ready ……….. hope your all well and being like Rhea and me and chilling out – think she has taken up flamin’ Yoga !!!!

Take Care – see you soon – Cody xxx

Get Well soon Kaz

Hi Cody Lovers – How is it going  then?

Well,  what has happened then? – I think the last time I was talking a load of old dribble …. nothing new there then, so I think the next major event in my life was Yeovilton Air Day at RNAS Yeovilton – coincidence that eh? – Victor, decided it was just too far to drive 100 miles, walk around the air show all day and then drive home again … give him something else to moan about … so he decided to stay up there in the motorhome. We got there and we parked in the campsite – well actually, it was a football pitch, and he said the best place to park is in the corner, under the shade of the trees, so, that’s where we headed. He messed about trying to park a 24 foot motorhome in a 20 foot space and eventually managed to get it in, despite being constantly watch but some big fat bloke who was staring through the back window of his camper. We had to listen to Victor going on about that at that big fat tw*t, ‘ain’t he got anything better to do than watch me trying to park, ‘aint he got a telly to watch instead of me, perhaps if he didn’t just sit there staring and moved around a bit, he wouldn’t be such a big fat porker, and then, Chris noticed the invalid cart ……. felt guilty !!! At this point, Maureen got out of the van and told him the branches on the overhanging trees would tap on the roof all night. He had the right hump … nothing new there then, and said we will have to move, watched by Mr Lardy (didn’t feel that guilty then) ….. because he was ‘on the spot’ being watched by  Mr. Ten Bellies, he caught a branch and took half the oak tree with him !! – Anyway, we parked up near the fence and settled in for a nice peaceful evening, all excited about the Air Day. That is until all the lorries, trade vans, ice cream vans and every other type of bloody van used the road by which we eventually parked. We had that all night, it was like sleeping on the central reservation of the M25 !!! – It eased off around 06:00 when they were all in the air station, so caught up on my beauty sleep ……. well, for an hour !!!! – Without warning, a 7am, a jet went screaming over like he was about to bomb Kabul, if I wore ‘Y’ fronts, I would have filled ‘em for sure !! …. I stayed in the van and them lot went off to the show and met up with Denise, Dave, Lewis and his mate from school …. a real little ray of sunshine – NOT … you would have thought he was waiting to go into the dentist instead of a nice day out and instead of watching the planes, preferred to watch the tarmac !!!!

 

We went to visit Chris’s Mom and Dad one day. They are 89 and 91 this year, so it is always an adventure !!! – When we got there, his dad made a real fuss of me and asked about how things were – the conversation went something like “how is the whatsit down by the thingy me bob” and getting the arse ache when they didn’t know where he was talking about …..  Chris asked where him Mom was …. “she has gone upstairs for a sleep” his Dad said ….. and right on queue, she appeared trundling down the stairs of her stair lift ….. “Good Morning” she said …. Your here early – it was 5 o’clock in the afternoon and she thought it was 5 AM !!! – Not looking good for Chris in his old age is it !!!

We went to Dunster show in Somerset, and stayed up on Exmoor again, and I got to do a bit of swimming … but Rhea … what a baby, if the water even touches her belly, she is straight up in the air like somebody has dropped a concrete block on the foot ! – Here’s a picture of her – big Nancy!!

 

I could stuff his camera where the sun don't shine at times …… me, being as handsome as I am, and all the delightful pictures he could get of me, me , me, he took this …. not exactly my best side !

Apart from that, we have just been doing the same old stuff although Rhea is going to ring the RSPCA as it is quite clear, we are being abused and mistreated on a daily basis….. how can you get comfy on the settee when them two wont sit on the floor

Mind you, I cant complain …. while Fat Boy is doing the meal, I make myself pretty comfy … It’s a dogs life eh?…..

Just one last thing before I get off back to sleep, Chris & Maureen’s friend Kaz is not too well at the minute, so Kaz, keep positive, do what your told (that will be a hard one!!) get well soon and come and see us and take us for a walk ….. thinking of you.

Catch up soon Luv Cody and the Gang xxx