Boyd's behaviour is becoming increasingly frustrating. K is on a walk with Boyd in the Clough and before she can let him off the lead he sees a squirrel and runs with full pace and strength over the embankment in his attempt to catch it. K is suddenly whisked off her feet and finds herself in an terrible situation where she is now slipping at full speed down the muddy and extremely steep embankment, not thinking to let go of Boyd's lead in her terror. Realisation hits and K lets Boyd run free as she now lies face down in a muddy ditch at the bottom. K lies here for several seconds before she lifts her head up to see Boyd happily playing with a stick, oblivious to K's rage. K now finds herself unable to climb back up without slipping back down into the mud. This remains the situation for the next 15 minutes in which K becomes increasingly distressed and angry at Boyd. K has a moment of hope when out of no where, she sees a man look over the side. He looks in alarm at K, who is head to toe covered in mud, and then disappears. K's cries. Boyd howls. It is only when she manages to get into the mindset of Bear Grylls that the escape happens. Boyd runs off with glee into the Clough and K wants to run home and abandon him there.
It is becoming apparent that Boyd is obsessed with my mums glasses. The first instance was one day when J came home from work and could not find Boyd. He looks all over the house and no Boyd. J assumes someone has come to take Boyd for a walk. J settles down to have his breakfast until he hears a small barking from the other room. J goes in to find Boyd sat in the dark with my mums glasses on. He takes them off him and thinks nothing else of it. There is another incident where Boyd knocked out K's mum. He ran at her with such force that he took her legs out and she fell to the ground. She then demanded that Boyd returned to dog training. So K and J find a new training class and Boyd is extremely excited to be going. They arrive and everyone has to introduce their dog. Unfortunately the trainer misheard Boyd's name and continued to call him Floyd for the rest of the session. K and J tried numerous times to shout BOYD very loudly but this was in vain. It seemed that Boyd in fact preferred Floyd, as his alter ego emerged and he was the star of the show revelling in his new role as 'Good Boy Floydie'. So K, J and Floyd set off for home and went to tell K's mum what a good boy he had been. Floyd trots in and within a split second the real Boyd was back, with K's mums glasses swiftly in his mouth, hiding under the table refusing to emerge. There was nothing anyone could do but listen to him crunching them up.
