Our summer holiday was spent at Astley Castle. Four photo nerds in a stunning house with our gorgeous little doglets ... the result was a series of beautiful photos which we've put together in this ebook as a record of our lovely holiday at Astley. 

This ebook is best viewed on a landscape screen.

We thought we’d done her in and she was never coming back but this morning we hopped into the car to go on our morning walk and when we got to the car park and climbed out, who should be there but the Doggie Dictator.

So it looked like our morning was not going to include the normal high jinks but actually things did not unfold as expected and I was pleasantly surprised, of which more later.

Any excuse for a bit of doggie fancy dress! It's Chinese New Year and what better way to celebrate than a sheep dog photo shoot to welcome in the Year of the Sheep! Wishing you and your hounds every happiness for this new lunar year!

Our New Year's Day photo shoot in the office earlier today - trying to capture a moment to wish all our friends well for 2015.

We're often asked how we "make" our monkeys sit still for photos. The answer is that they don't! Here's just a few of the out-take shots ... 

So the Doggie Dictator came to see us. She was one tough nut. I barked at her to try to make her go away but she wasn’t having any of it. She stayed for four hours and she says she’s coming back again.

I am working on a plan with Ninja to make it very hard for her because it seems the plan is for the humans to become mini doggie dictators. They keep saying this is not true, that they just want to learn how to make sure we're happy all the time. Well, I think it's all a cover for becoming DDs. The actual and DD hates that I call her the Doggie Dictator and she says she's going to make me change my mind about calling her that.