Staying in an unfamiliar place without our humans...

Hi! It's Cinnamon.

Today I am telling you about what we were doing recently.

Over a week ago, we were told to get in the car and driven to somewhere we had never been. When we arrived there, Mum told us to wait in the car for a while and went into a nearby building. After a while, Mum came back with two leads, put them on us, and told us to get out of the car.

Because it was a new place, we had to check everything and every smell. Then, a man came out of the building and guided us through a gate into the backyard where several dogs were barking at us over a fence.

Next, the man opened a gate to an empty enclosure and let us in. Again, there were so many new interesting smells that we got very excited exploring the place.

But, when we realised, Mum had gone. We didn't know what was happening.

At first I thought that Mum would come back to take us home soon, but she didn't. Then, I knew that it was a so-called boarding kennel or pet hotel. I had stayed in one of them with Cookie before, but Mint hadn't. Being an older sister, I decided to take the responsibility to look after my younger brother, Mint, until our humans came back.

In fact we had a great time, playing with a couple of Spaniels and a Border Collie in the daytime while we were staying there. I have to admit though that I missed my humans a lot especially at night.

Six days later, Mum finally came back and brought us home! Nowhere is better than home after all!!

This is me resting at home after a week stay at a kennel.

This is Mint.

When our humans saw us at the kennel on their return, they were smiling of course, but those smiles seemed to have a somewhat different meaning. What do you think they said to us, as soon as they saw us? They said "You both have gained weight!!" Hmmmph! How rude they are!! Yes, it is true that we had lost our beautiful waist lines, but let me tell you that I had them back as soon as the next day. We just had constipation, staying in a new environment... Hee hee.