The day we brought him home was an exciting one! I'd never had a dog before and had been bugging my parents to get one for literally year. Seems all that nagging had paid off as we got into the car to pick up our little puppy.
The first night at our house Rory went through the usual behavior of crying and barking all night, but it wasn't long before he settled in to life in his new home. However, the more he settled in, the cheekier the little devil got! House training was never a problem, he picked that up in a matter of weeks, but like all puppies he'd have the odd accident. One particular afternoon his accident involved doing a poo on a rug in the living room. Well my dad really wasn't happy about this and gave him a good telling off. It was safe to say that Rory wouldn't be doing that again. However, there was a down side to this... Rory now became intent on showing my dad at how good he was at doing his business outside. So now and then, when my mum had put his poo bag on the floor for a second, he would pick it up in his mouth, trot inside to where my dad was, and drop the bag on my dad's lap as if to say 'Look! I did it outside this time!'. As happy as my dad was that he was house trained he didn't really want bags of his business dropped on his lap on frequent occasions!
Before we got Rory we knew Golden Retrievers love their food but didn't realize how much! Rory's life revolves around food. He can hear something drop off the dinner table from the next room! One of his worst habits is stealing food when we aren't looking. One day after my mum had been shopping, one of his greatest food thefts occurred... My mum had just returned from the supermarket and had bought some really nice bread rolls from Waitrose for sandwiches. She unpacked the shopping leaving the bread rolls out to use. Nipping out the room for one minute, she returned to find the bread rolls had 'mysteriously' disappeared. Of course there was no mystery to it, it was quite clear who the bread thief was. In the corner lay the evidence; the plastic wrapper the rolls came in. He had eaten the lot! You may be thinking; ' He ate some bread? So what!' The packet had 16 rolls! He had eaten 16 bread rolls in the space of two minutes. It is safe to say he didn't have a very happy tummy after that!
It isn't just food that finds its way into Rory's mouth. He will pick up literally anything in his path; we are constantly prying open his jaws to retrieve various objects; pegs, hair bands, iPhones! One particular day Rory came trotting in the room with something hanging out of his mouth; an e-cigarette of my brothers. I must say that I missed a prime photo opportunity there; whats better than a picture of a puppy with a fake cigarette in its mouth!?
So that's Rory.
Cheeky. Silly. Lovable.
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