DANNYMATT AND RICHARD

Thank you for making me feel less lonely!
You will notice that I'm not replying on the comment thread. This is because I STILL appear to have a problem with publishing my comments. I don't know why this should be, but will get my technical assistant (Charles) to have a look at it when he gets a minute.
The other thing that I'm not able to do any more is to edit my posts directly from the blog which I used to be able to do, so something strange is going on.
Anyway - I am well aware of the first AND second signs of madness and should point out that if there was indeed a third sign I would probably fulfil all the criteria for that as well. I DO try to appease myself by telling myself (!) that I'm talking to the pups really, but do I actually need to be telling them what's on the shopping list, where we're going to go, what I'm going to do next, what I'm doing after that...? Probably NOT is the answer.
Do I CARE that craziness is confirmed and the funny farm is just round the bend? Not a jot!
As for the helicopters - you could be right. They could be spy-copters, scoping the land for signs of Westie abuse. (I DIDN'T REALLY MEAN I WOULD BATTER THEM WITH BRICKS WHEN THEY WAKE UP SO EARLY, HONEST SIR)
I think I was feeling a bit down yesterday. It just seemed as though all the hard work I'd done on stopping the barking went to pot after the incident with next door's dogs. For the first time in a good while I knew I wasn't calm and assertive which is what Cesar Millan says I need to be in order to be an effective pack leader. Well, we had two little white pack leaders yesterday and I was well and truly left outside the cave in the cold.
So, we begin again today! Fortunately the jitters that the pups had yesterday appear to have been forgotten (by them) and they are once more being responsive to my commands, and hopefully we'll have a better day today.
Clearly, now that I'm not taking my bat home any more, I'll let you know later!!