Moss the Dartmoor Dog – Blog spot!

Moss has become rather famous on Facebook for all her interesting daily antics and she has kindly agreed to introduce herself here, before writing for us regularly on our new website:  dartmoorlinks.co.uk.  We are very excited to have her as our newest edition to the team!!

Hello! I am Moss, a German Wirehaired Pointer and I live on Dartmoor, not far from Moretonhampstead. I will be two in December, so I am still young which is pretty handy as it means I can get away with being naughty. Goodness knows what will happen when I am officially meant to be ‘grown up’!

I am a true country girl and live next to a farm so I spend quite a bit of time with other animals. There are chickens and a horse or two and lots of sheep. In fact lots and lots of sheep, so I am pretty blasé about them. I fact, I find them a bit boring, frankly. I often come across cows when we walk up on the moor and they seem to be a bit brighter then sheep and, as they are so big, I tend to be pretty respectful when I meet them and give them a wide berth. I am especially wary of those big woolly ones with pointy things on their heads. I mean, why? Looks like they are in fancy dress or something. Very odd.

Anyway, back to more important things – like me! I have been writing my own Facebook blog for some time now and people tell me they like it. The editor of this magazine, Lizzie, contacted me and asked me to write a few words and I am a teeny bit excited about actually being in print, I can tell you!

As I am not very old, I have only seen one autumn so far in my lifetime. After I got over the shock of seeing all the leafy things falling down and making a mess everywhere, I really quite enjoyed it. I was mostly concerned that She was going to get the vacuum out (which I hate!) and start tidying them all up but, fortunately, She didn’t. Leaves are pretty top things and are great fun to roll in, wet or dry. Wet is super slippery and quite often fabulously stinky, and dry is excellent as they make a great rustling noise!

My other favourite thing about autumn is frost and I get very excited about that too! (I get excited about a lot of things). Crunchy, frosty grass is great for rolling as it seems to improve my coat, which is rather luscious. I am not so keen on the drying off afterwards though. She can be very fierce with the towel.

She does go on about it being the time of ‘mist and mellow fruitfulness’ (She gets terribly soppy about things, quite embarrassing really), but I suppose I can see what she means. It has been nice and misty in the mornings and on today’s walk, I sampled a few blackberries, which were pretty tasty. I have also been eating the windfall apples in the garden and stolen the odd runner bean when She wasn’t looking. I am terribly healthy.

She says I am lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the world and to go on long walks on the moor and swim in the rivers. I have just leant to swim and am rather good at it, if I say so myself.

I suppose I am quite well known in my own humble little way. People come up to me in the street (or the pub!) and say “Hello Moss!” as they recognise me from my blog. I don’t think She approves much as they tend to make a fuss of me, and ignore her – ha ha ha! It’s a tough life but I manage!