Ridgeback Behaviour

Here’s a nice pic of the hound licking his lips in readiness for his share of our lunch. Louis quite often worms his way through the gap between your legs; more often than not when he’s p*ss wet through after a walk in the rain. Far from being endearing at that time I’m more convinced … Read more

Touch wood but Louis seems to be on the mend. He’s on a strict diet of tinned chicken and rice and his “constitution” is much stronger. Thank God for that. He’s on three big tins a day, morning, noon and night, but he considers this is not enough; volume-wise it seems more than we usually … Read more

We’ve been very lucky with Louis; he’s never really chewed or damaged anything that didn’t belong to him. He does have a habit of spotting stuff and then deciding it needs checking out. Louis checks a lot of things out by having a chew on it. Plastic, paper, Smudge the cat’s furballs, anything on the … Read more

Louis can now forecast the weather. If we are getting ready to go out for a walk and his red dog coat appears it means the weather is going to be miserable. The dog coat is red; I know he doesn’t see colours the way we do so he must associate the coat itself with … Read more