We made it!

We made it!

It looks like we have finally come through what appears to be the wettest winter for hundreds of years! I feel we are starting to come out of hibernation, out of our homes and we have certainly started spending more time at my favourite location. I think Mummy is getting me to meet lots of new doggy friends and wearing me out as much as she can at the beach so I don’t woof so much at home.

Love learning new beach activities

We have started with some fun activities which has included Stand Up Paddle boarding (SUP), which I wasn’t so sure about at first, but as long as I remember not to jump head first into the sea I will be fine and will probably enjoy it more as time goes by. Mummy tells me there is a Dog Surf competitions coming up at Praia do Guincho in May and would like me to take part. Do you think I can get myself trained in time?

Fun and Frolics at Praia do Guincho

The beach is coming back to paradise after it took some serious battering from the storms in January and it even looks like the sea is starting to deposit the sand back in its rightful place. With the plants coming back to life and Easter on its way we definitely have a good positive feeling about the new season ahead.

New and exciting projects and developments are happening at Zuma the Dog HQ and the most recent to be rolled out this month is our new Zumathe Dog – Books at Home programme. We have designed this for our customers who enjoy our books, can sell them and earn commission for sales of our Zuma the Dog Book series. With the world becoming smaller we recognise that foreign language learning for small children has become more of a necessity to get ahead in our competitive world. Our original book series have been made into a bilingual range to include popular European languages like Spanish, French, Portuguese and German. More are on the way and teamed up with our product partner Popagami we have come up with a tight range of books both parent and child can enjoy and learn from.

We are encouraging people worldwide to join and become team leaders and develop their own network where commission can be earned on team sales. We would love to hear from you, so please get in touch with me at zuma@zumathedog.com

 

 

The sun is still beating down on the garden and this blog post is taking up precious sunbathing time. While mummy has her back turned I’m going to sneak off and get some more sun time before it disappears behind the fence.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Much Love

Zuma XX

 

Happy New Year and happy year of the horse! It already seems like ages ago and January seems to fly by so fast. For many it’s been an interesting start to the year. With snow storms in the USA, high winds and rain battering most of the west coast of Europe bring destruction and floods to many households. It’s almost in a biblical sense.

Boardwalk blown away by winds

High tides destroy Praia do Guincho

The destruction we saw in Portugal was sad. The beaches torn up and we lost my favourite boardwalk to the beach from high winds, but I am fortunate that the beach is still there and I am able to run and play like any other day. My thoughts go out to those from home who are not so fortunate. My home county of Somerset has been hit so badly by the storms almost all of the levels are submerged in water. Mummy recalls times as a child when the river near her home would burst its banks and the field below her childhood home would fill up with water, but never in her days has she seen such massive floods and so much devastation. She remembers that after the floods came the freeze and the field below her home would freeze over and all the children from the neighbourhood would come to ice skate. The floods brought fun and fond childhood memories not destruction of homes and loss of business to the farmers.

Burrow Bridge Mount in the Floods

Somerset Levels overcome with floods

I was told by a family member that the local council stopped the dredging of the rivers in Somerset many years ago due to cutback by the government. With global warming and the extra rain that has been falling the rivers have not been able to cope, bursting their banks and causing these floods. I’m sure there is more to it than that, but surely the cost of this devastation out ways the cost of keeping the rivers clean? Here Mummy has found and interesting video which touches on the real cause of the problem.

It’s so sad to see my home where I grew up covered with water and seeing very little help coming. It’s been almost two months since the start of the floods in Somerset and will anything be done to compensate these people? A message to the UK government: Remember, Charity begins at home!

 

Much love

 

Zuma XX