More madness from the Luxury Pet Department office!! this time it involves a £3000.00 dog collar or rather the lack of one!!
Ok you may think that I am mad when you read this, but I think the term “stupid” would be more suitable.
A couple of days ago my new puppy Sandy, decided to eat a load of my stock on her first day in the Luxury Pet Department office, if you didnt read about you can do so on my blog entry here. After destroying hundreds of pounds worth of stock, I decided to keep sandy at bay until she is a bit more grown up and better trained, my first good decision as a “responsible” pet owner was soon upstaged by another stupid idea….
A friend of ours is in the photography industry, he mainly works with children but wanted a taste of working with animals so he approached us about taking pictures of Sandy. I thought, what a good idea! we can take pictures of Sandy laying in a Luxury Dog Bed or wearing some Designer Dog Clothes, she could then be the model for the website homepage. This would save us having to pay for images of dogs we know nothing about and Vernon (the photographer) gets his experience, I agreed and arranged for a photo shoot day.
Vernon arrived with his camera equipment ready to take pictures of new model Sandy. An hour passed and everything was going fine, Sandy was being well behaved and Vernon was getting some great shots of her laying in her Wallace and Jones Dog Bed and wearing her new designer Dog t-shirts, we were getting some great shots for the site and all was going swimmingly well, then Vernon came up with a suggestion…
“Have you got one of those expensive dog collars you sell in stock?” Vernon asked, I replied, “put it this way, at £3000.00 a pop we do not have a box full but we do keep a couple, why?”
“why don’t you get Sandy to wear one so we can photograph her?” he said ” it would make a great main picture for the homepage”.
At this point I wasn’t sure what to do? it is an expensive dog collar so letting a six month old puppy near it is probably a bad idea, however Sandy will be with us all the time and as long as we keep an eye on her everything should be fine, I agreed and fetched the collar from the stock room.
The 18 carat dog collar looked beautiful on Sandy, I was so proud of her sitting there all well behaved while Vernon took his snaps, everything went perfectly and we had some beautiful pictures ready for the site plus Vernon found out the easy way what it was like to take pictures of animals!
We packed away Vernon’s equipment and helped him load up his car, as we stood by the car Vernon said ” where is Sandy, I would like to say goodbye to my model!” I looked around and my heart dropped, no Sandy.. no dog collar. We started calling her but we didnt get a response so out came the dog treats and the search began, after about 30 minutes we decided to start searching further afield but we were not having any luck, I was starting to worry about her. Just as I was about to call the police a soaking wet golden Labrador puppy walked up the drive, I wanted to strangle her but I was so relieved that I just gave her a big cuddle, I was so pleased to see her back, Vernon gave her a cuddle and said his goodbyes and I chucked Sandy in the shower, at that point I noticed something was missing……
You guessed it, there was no collar, no £3000.00 18 carat dog collar around my dogs neck. It was gone.
So there I am, showering my puppy that has lost me over 3.5k of stock over the last week.
It is true what they say, owning a dog is expensive, but we still love her…………