Two dog bobsleigh team.

Who says Bernese can be a little bit slow on the uptake, who says Bernese  can be stubborn , and who says we don't like sports? We love sports.... bobbling , hedgehog hustling, stick renovation, snow ploughing and now bobsleighing. You can forget fetching a ball or football.... We go for the unusual and the hyper active. Just like the girls at the moment......  Normally we stick to the lovely cool tiled floor in the heat, but the last week or so Freya and Asti (mother and daughter team) have taken to sleeping with the troll. I know, I know but somebody has to do it! I personally think they have taken it into their heads to do a bit of troll sitting while he comes to terms with his little problem. Anyway, her indoors is still insisting we go out at some undogly time while it is still cool. Now the girls are torn. Walk or lie in, the upshot being they don't get up till the last run, when their names are called for the last time. They fly off the bed, bunch up at the top of the stairs and come down with Asti in the lead and Freya supplying the speed at the back. They toboggan  over the ridges on the stairs, hit the rug on the bottom, and let it slide as fast as possible towards the solid wood front door.  Marks are given based on 1) the speed at which they jump off the rug before it hits the door. 2) the number of wrinkles the rug ends up in piled up against said door and finally 3) the grace with which they pirouette  and change direction by 180degrees to ice skate the wooden hall floor towards the kitchen door. Time of course is also a factor as is the number of step edges that contact is made with (less being more speed so therefore more points.) marks are out of 100 , split up into five sections of 20. Bit like your ice skating really. Excellent especially as I am thinking of adding an extra category based on how much they wind her indoors up by doing this.... She says they could get hurt but I don't think so. Too sharp by half those two! Then of course there is the ancient sport of Bobbling. This a much maligned sport and can be played from dead slow to excess speed. It's origins are hidden n the bones of time, but basically it's very simple. Points are awarded for the number of green round bobbles OR the large variety thistles collected by the sports dog based on location , amount of matting caused, and difficulty of removal. Sports dogs have a prescribed distance they can travel ( irrespective to the dogs size or coat type) at their choice of speed. Extra points are awarded if bobbles are placed on the inside of ears, in the feathers just to the sides of a tail, or in the long fluffy bits by the ears, OR the bobbles are damp and disintegrate during extraction. The use of  scissors is of course an automatic disqualification . Any large thistles are of course ten points each  and the one with the most points wins. PLEASE NOTE! THIS IS BOBBLES NOT GRASS SEEDS AN ENTIRELY MORE DANGEROUS AND EXPENSIVE  GAME, as is WASP SNAPPING  BEE BAITING and TOAD TAG! ALL OF WHICH WILL GET U VISIT TO THE VETS AT BRAKE NECK SPEED. My personal favourite is Hedgehog Hustling, but I will tell you about that another day. Cool runnings Gryff.                   PS. Merlin just cleared of motorbike and sidecar racing with uncle Rob. Who says speed is not genetic?