This evening, when I was taking out Alison for her long exercise period we went to one of the nearby small hills. It was after 21.00, but as it's summer, or almost, it was light enough that I could let her run around without any lead.

As opposed to the others, she very much liked going down into holes under tree stumps and the like, and staying there. Had me worried a couple of times, but as I could hear the bell in the harness weakly, I knew she hadn't disappeared totally.

Snakes I'm not much worried about, nor mice or gophers. Polecats are a risk for rabbit hunting ferrets, but there aren't many of those here. Foxes aren't likely to bother her when I'm near. It's badgers I'm worried about. I do know of one case where a free walking ferret got bitten by what most likely was a badger. The ferret was taken to the vet and was OK.

After walking around on the hill for some 30 min, we found a still burning abandoned "camp fire". Not beeing totally sure the fire couldn't spread by lighting the needles on the forest floor, and not having any means to put it out, I called the fire brigade and had to go meet them and show the way. So Alison got to ride a fire truck for a minute or two.

This was the record walk this week, a little over 1 h 30 min, but of course Alison didn't walk by her own at all times.

When we came home, for a change both Carmen and Rustan decided to stay in my bed, something they practically never do when I use it. Wish I could figure out why today and not other days.