A skint girls guide to feeling great.: Filling the time

Puppy Love...

Bruce, less than a year old. Dark Brown coat with lighter brown stripes and a white streak down his neck and stomach. Loves to lick people and jump up on them. A heavy lump who will cause a bruise from standing on your leg. Will sit begging at your feet when you have food, and for some reason has a foot fetish (80% of what i say to him is 'stop licking my feet'). Barks at the TV when a dog comes on screen and runs to window at the sound of danger. He destroys his dog toys within hours of getting them and when he's let of the lead in the dog park he'll run after any old thing until you chase him and bring him back.

Running like the wind on his walk

My dog is a huge part of my life. He may be a tyrant and toerag but i love him.

I was never one of those children who ran away from dogs (from what i can remember) i ran straight towards them. I have always been a friend of the animals, be it cats and dogs and bunny rabbits or the elephants, zebras, lions and tigers you see on the TV and in safari parks on days out. I love animals so much that on new years eve 2010 i decided i no longer wanted to eat them, i became a vegetarian, none of my family are or have been but i made a stand, i was no longer going to eat meat and then 11 months later after lots of Quarn consumption this all came crashing down with the order of a domino's pizza order where i requested tandoori chicken as appose to my regular cheese and tomato. I have definitely considered going back to vegetarianism, especially now i live solo and can food shop what i want, but for now its more practical to be a carnivore. anyway im going off track.... My dog...

I spend months away at university and when i get to come home at Christmas and Easter (im fortunate enough to be friends with someone who actually lives 10 minutes away from where i live and i travel back and forth with her and her dad and get to come home for weekends when she does) i am greeted by my mum standing at the door, arms wide open and after i have put my bags upstairs and had a moment to breathe i will come down into the living room and be 'attacked' by a very excited puppy (i say puppy, hes nearly a year old and huge as can be) wagging his tail, and trying to lick my face whilst running around my feet and jumping on and off the sofa, and if im really (un)lucky he'll even pee a little over me.

After being away for so long ill need to go straight to the kitchen and wash my hands up to the crease in my arm, if i have not mentioned yet i suffer a small irritation of my skin when i am around animal hair, when we first got Bruce this same thing happened but i got use to his fur and the allergy wasnt as bad but after being away and coming back i am covered in small red bumps all over my arms, legs and neck.

Exhausted after a walk

After refreshing my arms ill go and sit on the sofa and look at my beautiful puppy, and i'll realise just how much i have missed being home.

Today i was playing about with my camera and windows movie maker and put together a small video (only a minute long) dedicated to my beautiful Bruce. I will link it below and you can check it out of you like.

The video took around 40 minutes to make and i am so proud of it, im quite a creative person and i really enjoyed making this video, and after 40 minutes i was inspired to write this blog post about my dear baby.

The feeling of accomplishment after having finished the video was great and i showed both my mum, brother and my step dad (were all equally as obsessed with Bruce as each other) and a bonus, with windows movie maker already on my laptop and youtube being as great as it is it was a completely free way to pass an hour.

do you guys have any pets your just as mad about? have you filmed and uploaded pictures or videos of your animals online?