The Pet Shop Ripon

Posted on January 8, 2017March 31, 2021 by The Pet Shop Ripon

A cold and frosty morning……by Dexter

We had a beautiful walk this morning. It was very cold, frosty and fairly foggy, until the sun started to break through. One the sun made a slight appearance, the lighting was perfect and mum’s phone camera was at the ready (of course!).

We took the balls with us too, which Archie particularly enjoyed. I preferred to waddle along, taking in all the fresh new smells around this morning.

This is me posing. Mum was standing in front holding a treat, which is why I was so obliging. Just wish she didn’t take so long though – crikey, its cold on one’s bottom when it’s frosty!

This is Archie posing. He didn’t need a treat holding in front of him – the ball was enough of an enticement!

We did enjoy ourselves so much. Papa (in the background) had lots of fun too, although he didn’t move around as much as we did….haha! Mum called him lazy!!

Posted on December 23, 2016 by The Pet Shop Ripon

Happy Christmas Part 2!

archie and dester, the pet shop ripon — Modelling the latest in Christmas coats!

the pet shop ripon, archie and dexter, christmas dog — Sitting proudly in my new coat….no dirty paws here!

Posted on December 17, 2016 by The Pet Shop Ripon

Happy Christmas

We are sorry we haven’t updated our blog in a while…..things are quite busy in the shop at the moment and mum has been tearing round like a headless chicken (?)

That’s what she claims, anyway!!

We do hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year (just in case we don’t get chance to post for a little while!)

We endeavour to do better in 2017 ❤️

Posted on November 29, 2016January 6, 2021 by The Pet Shop Ripon

Haircuts

Shock horror, last Thursday we were dragged to the groomers. We have no idea why, but mum said we didn’t smell too good, we looked more like sheep than spaniels and our fur was taking too long to dry. The cheek! I wonder what SHE would say, if we said that to her!

On Thursday morning we started off like this:-

By Thursday afternoon, we looked like this:-

You can tell by our faces we are not exactly ecstatic about this decision!

To cap it all, our jumpers and coats are apparently ready and waiting – eek! 😬😬😬

Posted on November 20, 2016 by The Pet Shop Ripon

Snow Day!

One day last week, we woke up to snow! This was quite a surprise, as we seem to have our own micro climate where we live and when everyone else has snow, we usually have none!

How exciting it was too!

Everything smells so different in the snow – we both love it!

Even Dexter gets a new lease of life and runs around in excitement!

Mum tried to take photos of us this morning, but we were just too giddy to stay still enough for a good picture.

At lunchtime, we walked to the park in Ripon (with mum) and met a new friend. This ‘friend’ was very icy and didn’t move or speak at all. I (Archie) was a bit scared of him but Dexter loved him and even showed his love, by cocking his leg on him 😂😂😂

Posted on November 6, 2016 by The Pet Shop Ripon

The Beach!

It was to be our lucky day, both mum and papa had managed a day off together! Not only that, they decided to take us on a road trip to our favourite place – the seaside.

archie and Dexter the pet shop ripon, Marske Beach — Family day out at Marske Beach Yorkshire

We went to Marske Beach in Yorkshire, very dog friendly and very quiet, which was just perfect for us.

There was plenty of time and space to play ball and chase each other around like little puppies. Even Dexter ran and ran and ran. Probably as much in the first hour as he’d done in the whole of the week before!

The weather was great, sunny and mild, so even the humans were happy!

We enjoyed plenty of digging and excavating in the sand – it was wonderful.

Of course the humans insisted we sat and posed for pictures from time to time. Why do they always insist on taking so many photos? Occasionally however, we do get a small treat if we’ve sat nicely and looked at the camera!

the pet shop ripon, archie and dexter, Billy+Margot — Our first Billy+ Margot Iced Treat

We had a wonderful day, which finished off with sometime we’d not tried before – a delicious Iced Treat for dogs by Billy + Margot. This was utterly amazing and mum said she might just start stocking this in the shop next year – we are keeping our paws crossed!

Posted on October 15, 2016October 15, 2016 by The Pet Shop Ripon · 1 Comment

Modelling….

Christmas is slowly coming to the shop. This can only mean endless days of being dressed up and photographed for all the social media sites mum uses! On the plus side, we usually get extra treats if we’re really good 😍

What on earth are these silly things? Why can’t mum model them herself?

I am not impressed!

This is getting very worrying. How many more does she have? We will be demanding extra treats for this!

What! I’m now a reindeer – great……. 😬😬😬

We think this is the final straw. Dexter in pyjamas!! 😂😂😂😂

***update…. we have been rewarded with extra sausages so we are very happy. Also lots of people have said we are such good boys – which makes mum happy too ❤️ ***

Posted on September 26, 2016 by The Pet Shop Ripon

A day in the life of a shop dog!

As you may or may not know, we own a small and very sweet (well we think so!) pet shop in the centre of the wonderful city of Ripon.

Us boys do many very important jobs when we are at the shop and would like to share some of these roles with you…

1. Models…

dexter and archie model dogs, the pet shop ripon — Modelling the lastest fashions…

2. Bed tester…

3. Product quality controller….

atchie and dexter, the pet shop ripon — Looks just fine to me!

4. Congratulators!

the pet shop ripon, archie and dexter — Our special congratulations to our local boy Jack Laugher during the Olympics 2016

5. Livestock supervisor!

We will maybe continue this next week 😘👍🏻❤️🐶🐶

Posted on September 9, 2016September 9, 2016 by The Pet Shop Ripon · 1 Comment

FRIENDS (Part 2!)

So…..all good things come to an end and our lovely friend Lola has now gone back home. It seems very quiet without her!

We all enjoyed lots of fun and frolics, for the 2 weeks she stayed with us.

We taught her all about being a shop dog….

….and the best way to ‘shoplift’ treats!

the pet shop ripon, north yorkshire — Yummy chicken feet…

We had some lovely times together.
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The seaside….

beach, archie and dexter, the pet shop ripon — We do like to be beside the sea…

Mum put Lola back on the lead at the beach, as she kept running into the sea!

We also showed Lola some other water, which wasn’t quite as blue as the sea!

Introduced her to our cow friends….

Best friends…❤️❤️❤️

See you again soon Little Lola xxx

Posted on August 21, 2016August 21, 2016 by The Pet Shop Ripon · 1 Comment

Friends!

We have our good friend Lola staying with us for two whole weeks! Her humans have gone off to Spain and said she could have her own holiday at ours….

So, Archie and I have been happily teaching her all sorts of things, which we are sure her mum and dad will appreciate when they are home.

Firstly, Archie taught her all about rabbit holes and how important it is to poke your head down them as far as it will go!

Secondly, we taught Lola how exciting cow pats are, even the old ones. Lola carried this one to the gate, until our mum said she had to leave it in the field.

Lola and the cow oat, the pet shop ripon — Yummy cow pat!

I very proudly showed Lola the muddy puddle and explained how tasty the water was to drink. She joined in very quickly.

yummy dirty water, the pet shop ripon — Mmmm, this water is so tasty!

I also taught Lola how to play tug of war. She was very good at this game and we had a lot of fun (of course I had to win 😉).

Finally, we taught Lola how nice it is to curl up close to each other at bedtime ❤️