Olli & Skip
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Skip the goldendoodle sitting and smiling, cream and apricot curly coat, white blaze down the centre of his face, floppy apricot ears, wearing a yellow bandana with blue dots and a blue paw badge
Meet Skip

Skip

A goldendoodle with strong opinions about sandwiches.

Skip is a cream-and-apricot goldendoodle with a white blaze down the centre of his face, floppy apricot ears, and a yellow bandana he is enormously proud of. Nobody is entirely sure how old he is. Nobody has ever needed to know.

He is not a clever dog. He is a good dog, which is a completely different and far more useful thing. He does not solve the problem in the story, he stays next to the person who is solving it, which turns out to be the whole point.

He cannot sit still. He has never sat still. Episode two is entirely about him attempting to sit still for one hour, and it is the closest thing we have to a thriller.

He believes, with total conviction and no supporting evidence, that every bag in the world contains food. He has an ongoing and unresolved dispute with the postman. He steals exactly one sock at a time, never a pair, which suggests a plan nobody has yet worked out.

Skip in every mood

  • Skip sitting and waving a paw
  • Skip in a play bow
  • Skip tilting his head
  • Skip running forward
  • Skip jumping straight up
  • Skip leaping through the air
  • Skip sitting up on his back legs
  • Skip curled up asleep

Watch Skip

    Skip things

    Now meet Olli

    Seven years old. Four hundred questions a day.

    Meet Olli