The Fantastic Five

A couple of weeks ago, Missus’ friend Shanni came to visit us in Rotterdam...

This is Shanni with me at our place.

When Missus told me that Shanni lives with her two dogs, I just had to meet them. So, I immediately started to plan my journey to Shanni’s place.

Shanni lives in a place called Boxtel, near to Den Bosch in the southern Netherlands. Here’s a map showing my one hour journey from Rotterdam to Boxtel.

And here I am, waiting for the train.

I was travelling first class of course. Tsk! (Somebody told me that there’s more leg room in first class. As I have more legs than humans, I thought that this was the place for me!)

We finally reached Boxtel where I met Shanni’s boys...

Let me introduce you to Kingsley, the Border Collie. Kingsley spent a long period in a Singapore dog shelter before being rescued by Shanni. Despite his troubled past, he is a very good looking boy who has turned out to be a bit of a celebrity. If you don’t believe me, check out the links here and here.

This is Kingsley’s brother, Robin. He’s a ten year old Irish Terrier. He may be getting on in years but he still has endless energy and he plays around like a puppy.

Missus with Kingsley and Robin.

After my brief introductions to Kingsley and Robin, we all decided to meet up with some of their regular friends...

This is Boelie, a four year old female Labrador...

...and here’s Mokka.

She’s a one and half years old Labrador.Our meeting place was the ‘Magic Forest’. Rumour has it that humans mysteriously disappear from this place.

Sure enough, within minutes there wasn’t a human in sight. So, the ‘Fantastic Five’ made a pact and vowed to seek them out...





Kingsley, being so smart, was the obvious leader for our mission.





I was the intrepid adverturer in the group. Don’t I look swashbuckling? (And dirty!)





Off we set on our adventure with ‘Smarty Pants’ Kingsley leading the way and swashbuckling ‘Me’ taking up the rear.





After a while, we lost the humans’ trail.





“Where the heck did they go?”

Pretty soon we’d lost the plot altogether. Instead we just decided to have a sniffing ‘free for all’.

Anyway, we eventually tracked down the humans (or did they track us down?) and it was time to leave the ‘Magic Forest’.

Boelie has problems with her hind legs, so she gets to travel in style.

Doesn’t she look pleased with herself?

As for me, although I didn’t have my own personal carriage, at least I did get to travel back home first class. When Missus wasn’t looking, I even managed to sneak onto a seat for a while.

It was a great day out and I can’t wait for my next adventure with the ‘Fantastic Five’.