MEET THE FAMILY! FUSSPOT

This is the youngest member of the family (for now!)

Meet Fusspot, a tricolour Cavalier bitch born in April 2006 who came home 8 weeks later. What a character - the day she came home it was as if she unpacked her bags and decided this was home!! Instant bonding!

I wasn't planning on having another dog this year - but suddenly it seemed appropriate to have a puppy and get it trained before small people come home. However because I wasn't planning another puppy I hadn't given names much consideration - she came home as Dizzy (but then I realised that phonetically this is easily confused with Daisy) so she became Fusspot, I'm not overly keen on the name but it stuck before I could come up with a better one! (Don't worry, I've been planning daughters' names for several years!) Unfortunately her name holds true at mealtimes, she is a very fussy eater and unusually for a Cavalier she doesn't have a great appetite.

She has got an very long tail and is a happy little puppy. She's incredibly affectionate and even demands a cuddle first thing every morning (she can't function without it!)

She's still very much a puppy and loves her dog toys. She has some atrocious habits - the worst being bringing things in from the garden, these then become treasured objects - not too bad in the case of an old section of garden hose or thick twig, not so pleasant when it's a rotting toad though! Oh, and she loves crunching snails, ugh!

She's great with the other dogs - her body language is appropriate and submissive, but I can tell she wants to be just like them (follows after them and copies what they do!) She plays great chasing games with Boo and is giving Boo a second chance at puppyhood.