
Hi, I'm Nella. I was rescued by GRSB after I was involved in a car accident and broke my front leg.
One of the volunteers has taken a shine to me and sometimes brings her dog, Jack the mad Labrador for a run with me.
Yesterday, she took me off in the car with Jack to their home. Jack lay in the back but I kept standing up, looking through the windscreen to see where we were going. This was exciting and I didn't want to miss anything. There were lots of hills and fields and trees.
When we got there I had a good sniff around the house and garden and met Jack's dad and then we all jumped back in the car for a short journey. We stopped in the middle of nowhere. There wasn't a house to be seen for miles, just fields and more fields and......birds!
I was tense with excitement and when Mrs let me off the lead Jack and I ran like the wind through a huge open field on top of a hill, running towards the crows in the middle of the field. They rose before I could catch them and laughed at us from above. We didn't care - we were happy. We ran around the field and found a muddy pond in a dip at the far side of the field.
Jack and I were hot so we jumped in and wallowed in the muddy water then got out and had a good shake.
It was raining now but it didn't dampen our spirits, even when Mrs said she had soggy trainers and socks because she carried on walking and even started throwing a ball for us to chase.
Jack started to tire before I did but I carried on running and sniffing and looking for crows. I found a hole into another empty field and had a run around it before finding the hole again and going back to play with Jack.
When it started to rain harder Mr and Mrs called us and we started back across the fields to the car. The wet grass had washed all the mud off us by now. I jumped straight in the back of the car but Jack needed a lift up. Even I was tired now.
When we got back to the house, Mrs dried us off and put down some comfy beds. She gave us each a chew and Jack and I played musical mats before settling down. I had to tell him off when he tried to pinch my chew but he's a bit of a softie so didn't give me any trouble.
Mrs had told me I would be going out again to meet some horses, chickens and a sheep who thinks she's a dog but it was raining so hard Jack and I decided to stay put and let her go out on her own.
I started wondering what my pals at the kennels were up to and, starting to feel hungry, wondered if I would miss supper. Mr came in to settle me down and he started pottering about the kitchen. I was tall enough to see the top of the kitchen table and checked it out in case there was some tasty morsel I could snaffle...but there wasn't.
When Mrs got back she gave Jack and me our supper. My Mum at the kennels had packed some food for me so we both shared some of that mixed with some of Jack's.
After supper we went for a play in the garden. There were lots of bushes and shrubs and patches of long grass so it was great for playing hide and seek and looking for rabbits and birds. The garden backed onto woodland which looked really exciting but Mrs said we couldn't go there.
After a good look around it was time to go home. We were both tired and I was ready to see my friends again.
I had to go to a boring GRSB meeting on the way home but I just lay flat out on one of Jack's borrowed beds, went to sleep and dreamt about our afternoon.
I hope we do that again...soon.