Catch-up blog post 1

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Aug 182015
 

Apologies for the delay in writing this blog post, but I’ve been off recovering from a visit to the *whispers* “v.e.t.s” *sulks* However, I’m now well on the road to recovery, so it’s time to put paws to keyboard and write this, the first in a series of 3 blog posts detailing what I was up to in July *wags*

The first of these is going to focus on two outings as Spot – one in Central London, and one when I was away camping with friends.

On the Friday 17th July, I was asked to help out with E-Stim Systems doing a demo in Regulation, which I jumped at the chance to do – as I’d had to miss the previous year due to work commitments; there was off course one problem with this – I was due to be in Norfolk, camping with friends on holiday. However, some quick research revealed that the train down to London and back wasn’t ACTUALLY that expensive, return and first class – a point that will be pertinent later on 😉

As part of the trip to the demo, I’d agreed to bring all our E-Stim kit with me on the day, which meant some time during the week before we went on holiday sorting it out – 4 carry boxes worth, which thankfully fitted in to one of our holdalls for ease of transporting! After getting dressed in a sprintsuit in the morning, and driving to Norwich Train Station, we got settled in our seat in First Class… and my phone buzzed indicating a Twitter notification. This was from @devilwuff saying that he thought he’d seen me walk past the coach he was in on the same train, which was a bit of a surprise – and after some Twitter conversing it turned out he was definitely on the same train! Unfortunately, due to the timing etc. we didn’t actually get the chance to speak to him in person though!

We headed down in to London, navigating the Tube Network to get to Regulation where we arrived slightly earlier than Caz & Wayne from E-Stim Systems so we had a browse around the shop while we waited… They turned up, and I got changed in to the zentai with 2 sets of 2 sticky pads – one set on my thighs and the other set on the buttocks, the appropriate boxes got plugged in and away we went for a few hours.

It was fairly quiet to be honest, so it became a game of teasing the puppy … I do enjoy playing with E-Stim Systems equipment, and I know that they enjoy having fun with it too … there’s a fun video that shows what the E-Stim Systems Series 1 PowerBox can do on pulse mode …

… and this was the box on almost full power (I had been allowed to acclimatise first)! This was fun and a good laugh on pulse mode, but when the Power Box got switched to continuous mode (forgetting it was on pulse) I ended up going absolutely solid in the leg muscles and buttocks, and dropped to the floor; much to everyone’s amusement (and mine after the moment!)! I spent quite some time on the Series 2B PowerBox too, on various different modes, but mainly on the Microphone Mode. All in all great fun! Near the end of the demo, Regulation was offering the chance to try their stand up vac cube, and not one to miss a chance, I said I’d have a go 🙂 … the catch was, I was still wired up to the Series 2B PowerBox! I could just about see the Power Box by my head as it was outside the vac-cube, but the cables ran inside to me – which also caused much giggling from people, as a) I was twitching with the E-Stim, and b) my tail from my outfit had become very apparent between my legs, and it was almost looking like I was embarrassing myself! I thought I had good self-control, *wags*. Also during the day, Pup Gizmo dropped in to say Hi, which was nice, as I hadn’t seen him for ages, and so he was offered GIGANTIC choc-buttons – however, he was to close his eyes, and wait for the choc-button to be put on his paws before he could look. When he saw the size of them he was ecstatic (they were huge!).

From the demo, it was great to catch up with a few people I knew, and also just a great day out in all.

At the end of the demo, I had another look around the shop and ended up buying a baseball cap with “#woof” on the front, as well as something else (more details in a later blog post!) 😉 I then got changed out of my zentai and paws and hood, but decided to keep the sticky pads and cabling on. We all then went off for dinner, and then started heading home.

The train on the way back was slightly busier, but when the first class coach quietened down a bit, my owner dragged out the Series 2B PowerBox from the bag, put in a new 9v battery and then connected me up – so after hours in the shop being teased, I continued being teased on the way home on the train! *whine*… actually, I secretly enjoyed it 🙂

Thanks to the guys at Regulation and also to E-Stim Systems for giving me the opportunity to do this 🙂

Spot’s other outing during the week in this post wasn’t quite so public, but was also enjoyable. The campsite where we stay has a pool that is available to use, and after having packed everything up on the Sunday before we left, I decided it was time for Spot to have a bit of a dip, as it meant the gear could be washed the moment we got home. I wandered off to the pool, fully kitted out and had some fun in the water, which hopefully these pictures and short videos show.

(If the embedded video doesn’t work, then they can be downloaded underneath the embedded video)


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London Pride – 2015

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Jul 212015
 

Sorry this has been delayed, it’s been a hectic few weeks doing lots!

Saturday 27th June saw the London Pride parade taking place, and this puppy was out walking. Unlike last year, the weather was a little nicer – with glorious sunshine and warm temperatures compared to the rain of last year.

We set off from home, with the intention of getting the train and that I’d travel in as a pup… which meant I had to change in the station car park and then board the train *wags*. I’d decided that, as much as I wanted to do full hood and paws, this was probably not a sensible idea due to the heat.

The puppy assembly point was near the o2 “Be More Dog” bus which meant the opportunity for a photo was just too tempting.

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After the picture wast taken and before the walk, I went off to find a tree – 25 minutes later standing in a queue, I hadn’t had the chance to use one so I had to come back to assemble for the parade, and get fully kitted up. Then we waited… and waited… and waited.

During the waiting period, someone threw me a bag of chocolate buttons, which I tore my way in to, but unfortunately, the heat had got the better of them and they’d just turned in to a big chocolatey puddle 🙁 *whine*

Eventually we got a chance to set off, but progress down Baker Street was quite slow – with lots of stops and starts, so I was alternating from 4 legs to 2 legs, and due to the heat, I curled up lying down on the road, as it was too hot to be on all-4’s

We then turned on to Oxford Street and everything started moving that little bit quicker, and again, I was alternating from 4 to 2 legs – barking all the way.

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Somewhere down Oxford Street, we gained a blow up football which a few of the pups started playing with at various slow points during the route – for some reason, it seemed to keep re-appearing with us even if we ended up throwing it in to the crowd! *wags*. I also found a cardboard tube, which I was using as a big stick, chewing my way through it … but after a while, I gave it to another pup, who put it down 🙁 … A different blow up beachball got thrown at me, which I went to pick up with my mouth, as all good pups should do, but it went flat … *puppy eyes* it wasn’t me … … honest!

The rest of the walk was uneventful, to one extent – with a lot of walking and barking – with the heat making it slightly unbearable at times! This also meant that I had to keep alternating between being on all 4s or walking on 2 legs. A fun but hot parade making myself known to the crowds 🙂

After the parade, we did a few photos then went to join the rest of the pups in a nearby park for a quick lunch. After a quick bite to eat, I got re-pupped up to head for Nandos with my hood and paws, when a small ball arrived at my front paws. It came from a small child who was shouting happily ‘dog’ at their mum. i bopped the ball bck, whereupon it got thrown back to me with a happy ‘dog’ from the child. A photo with mum and the tot followed, before heading off for Nandos. Both Marbles and I rode the tube as pups, sitting in front of the door much to the amusement of other passengers.

After the Nandos, I headed home, on the train, fully dressed up as Spot… we took a stopping service so that there’d be quite a few people getting on and off the train, but it actually turned out to be remarkably quiet 🙁

Yet again, another fantastic day out – and with more pups than previous years as well.

And here’s a pic of all the pups that attended from @lonchastitysub 🙂

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*wags*
Spot

Pup Social, a Social Weekend and UV Photography

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May 032015
 

This post ought to have been posted a while back, but I’ve only just got round to editing the images!!!! … …

With my job, finding time to meet up with friends is often not as easy as it could be – with evening and weekend work a given. However, at the end of March, we had arranged to visit F0rester up in Leicestershire, along with Marbles and Acey. What we didn’t know when we arranged it though, was it would also be a chance to head off to Birmingham for the Pup Social.

The afore-mentioned work issue meant that we weren’t able to arrive at a normal time on the Friday night, instead arriving around 1AM in the morning – although everyone was still up, they were in the process of retiring to bed. Only the essentials were unloaded from the car – my dog cage and a bag with clothing in it! As we set this up, I had a need to go to the toilet and while I was up stairs, I went and jumped on the bed, as puppies do, with poor Acey – who insisted I had far too much energy for 1AM!

We retired to bed, and over a leisurely breakfast the next morning, we made arrangements for going to Birmingham. For ease of space, it was decided I’d drive as I have the largest car. We set off, and arrived in Birmingham, and while I put the contact lenses in which have become part of the Spot image, the others (Colin (my owner), Marbles, Acey and Frosty) went off to find a cash machine, and by chance, met up with Scamp and Rex while loitering on a street corner 🙂

We all headed off to Boltz, and to the Pup Social, where we arrived and started getting changed and after that immediately joined in the fun playing with squeaky toys! Fuga joined us later on as well, and was enjoying playing with the toys. The great thing was, there were loads of pups there, but in the main, we were all playing together, batting toys around and generally making a lot of noise! A small paws (sorry, pause!) occurred while BossBear presented a pup with his collar, and we all sang “Happy Birthday”. After this, play continued, and with a few drinks consumed, the 5 hours of the main part of the afternoon was soon over!

We all headed out to a local “All You Can Eat” Chinese restaurant and had dinner, while my group debated whether we’d go back for the evening bit. We eventually decided we would, but only for an hour or so… 2.5hrs (nearly 3 hours!) later, we were still there getting ready to leave! Although there were less pups in the evening, the same good natured atmosphere continued with pups playing and having fun. At one point, we changed one pup in to a game of “Puparoo” as we loaded all the squeaky toys on his back!

Marbles also encouraged us all to do some dancing, so a group of pups ended up doing The Timewarp, YMCA and generally dancing to other songs… on all 4s!

All in all, the pup social was a fantastic event, and given it’s all organised free of charge, I think it is a credit to the organising team… as circumstances permit, we will definitely be going back again.

Again, Sunday started as a lazy day (getting home at 2AM and having the clocks change to 3AM, due to British Daylight Saving time, wasn’t quite part of the plan!) where we enjoyed some breakfast… then we got started on the other aspects that we wanted to do, with Forester wanting to do some experiments with gunge, and some UV plans. As we got the room set up and others started mixing up gunge, I took the opportunity to “test” the UV (nearly 1kW of UV lights in a small room!) and the camera by doing some test shots in some Lycra, which have come out really well. You can see the pictures of this at the end of this post.

We then carried out the gunge experiment, but didn’t have time for the artistic UV that was originally planned – so I guess we’ll just need to arrange another time to go back 😀

As we cleaned up, a nice social discussion around the table with Pizza meant that the weekend drifted to a nice, comfortable conclusion – and we had to set off home again.

Theres a few more UV images from the day, but they are worthy of a separate post of their own!

SLOSH, Heros and a Party

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Apr 112015
 

The first Saturday in March saw me attending two events… a SLOSH meeting in Rochester, and then Club Heros after.

On the way to the SLOSH event, I travelled in the customary lycra, and gave Moogal (who we were meeting on the way) a bit of a surprise as he wasn’t expecting me to be wearing what I was 🙂 This was the same outfit I wore to Birmingham recently, with a picture below from the Birmingham outing.

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We eventually arrived at Rochester, and as the event got underway, I got involved in taking photographs for publishing on the club website and in the magazine… but somehow, my owner and Marbles and some others convinced me to get involved, being told there was only one bucket of gunge for me!

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The evidence in the image shows 3 buckets, so I was quite clearly conned by my fellow pups *sulks* (sort of 😉 ). However, the one benefit of attending these events is that I can go off and relax in the heat of the sauna and the steam room – something which I like doing.

At the end of the event, we left as we had to head off to Heros for the evening – unfortunately, not joined by my fellow lycra lovers in SLOSH, but a great time was had in the social atmosphere, and it was nice to also speak to a few newbies there for the first time.

A few weeks later, I actually had an outing as Spot, being invited to a party where I was welcome to be puppy due to the nature of the attendees at the event. As well as a great chance to relax and let my hair down as a pup, it also showed me that I am apparently quite proficient in the game of ‘Giant Jenga’ as a pup – oh, and being used as a drinks table at the same time!

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As the party descended in to more serious fun, it was a chance for my owner and I to demonstrate our E-Stim Systems kit on one of the guests who wanted to try it out… something which I think he was enjoying 😉 I also managed to get to spend some time in the cage at the party, but it was far too big for me – too much room to spread out 😀

All in all, a great start to the month 🙂 *wags*

February BBB & Demo

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Feb 252015
 

Last Sunday, I went along to the Birmingham Bizarre Bazaar for the first time in a long time due to various work commitments… however, this month I had extra motivation to go – I was taking part in the demonstration on ‘Pony and Pet Play’ as one of the pups involved.

We were running slightly later than we wanted to be, so we arrived at the venue, paid our admission and I went and got changed before heading up stairs to the demo room. It was there that I met Sir Guy, who explained what the format of the demonstration was going to be, and what was expected of me, and also my owner who was roped in to help.

At this point, I completed getting changed, putting the knee pads, pup hood and paws on and meeting some of the others involved in the demonstration. Thankfully, there were two other puppies, a cat and quite a few ponies – along with two carts. One of the other pups had a squeaky ball ….. oh dear … puppy wanted to play! As the start time approached, the room started filling up (which I hadn’t noticed as I was deep in my pup mind state now!) and the ponies made their way on to the ‘stage’ as they had to get their carts on too. As the demo started, the pups were called on and my owner and I led the other pups out.

Sir Guy did a bit of speaking about pup and pony play, explaining that you don’t need expensive ‘gear’ to make you into a pony or a puppy – for pups it could be a simple as a collar, right through to full outfits, paws hoods etc. The same for the ponies, you could be a pony in as little or as much ‘gear’ as you like and / or could afford. There’s no right or wrong way of doing it.

After this small explanation, the first thing I was involved with was leading everyone; pups, ponies and owners; around the stage area as if on parade – we wandered around 3 times, before the pups stopped and I had tried to interact with the audience by going under the edges, but the people I picked on did not seem to want to engage with me straight away. After the parade, we stood at the side, and I lay down like a pup while Sir Guy carried on explaining and talking about Pet Play. The pups and handlers were then asked to demonstrate some of what they do in pup play… so I played tuggy and fetch with my chew ring, and then I was given some chocolate buttons as a treat for being a good pup! Though I did get side-tracked by that wonderful squeaky ball!

On the sound of an air horn, the previously mentioned cat broke ranks through the crowd and the three pups all chased after, me barking loudly and we ended up running round the top floor through the crowds. The car took a break for freedom by heading out from the top floor, and down the stairs to floor below, where I stayed in hot pursuit! By the time the car and I returned, there was a Question and Answer session in progress, so I sat by my owner… but then became distracted.

For the last 10 – 15 minutes of the demonstration, I was in my own little world, pushing a straw around the floor and playing with various things, wandering around to the edges with the crowd, and almost tripping the presenter up *paws over eyes*. It’s amazing how in the pup world, even the simplest things amuse me!

At the end of the demonstration, we hung around for a bit longer on the top floor so that people could come and ask us direct questions if they had any… Quite a few people came up and spoke to me asking me questions about my kneepads, my puppy hood etc. and also commenting on my behaviour (in a good way!). I was also told that my bark was very true to a real dog, and when I’d disappeared into the crowd and they couldn’t see me whilst I was chasing the cat, they would have been convinced there was a real dog on the top floor.

I was also able to show my puppy hood off to one of the ponies who liked the looks of the RubberDawg hoods, which meant she could now see them ‘up close’, while also getting a chance to talk to a few more people socially, since I’d taken my puppy-hood off as I was getting too hot!

After getting a drink to cool down, we proceeded to have a wander around the rest of the BBB and look at anything we might want to purchase… While wandering around, there were still people coming up to me and asking me questions about pup play or the demo, which was nice.

The big question, I’m sure you’re all asking, is ‘Did you buy anything?’ and the answer to that has to be ‘Yes’… but probably not what you think. A couple of years ago, I did a photoshoot for Naughty Art and I bought a print of one of the pictures of me that I really liked.

I also ended up travelling to and from the BBB in some potentially rather revealing lycra (and sat in a restaurant having food)… “N2N Bodywear PX Sports Runner Blue” running tights and a t-shirt:

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Sorry the picture isn’t great, but it was taken on the way home – by which point it’d become dark …

Hopefully in time there may be some pictures from the demo… and so when they arrive I’ll add a post with them in 🙂

*woofs*

Spot

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