Loving my Oldies

I first saw the stupidity of more and more laws being enacted in 1999 when I became a volunteer at Burwood Animal Shelter. Up until that time, I had no knowledge at all of the terrible underground of dog farming and abuse. This was around the time when the Companion Animals Act was being put into legislation and being pretty wet around the ears, I thought this was going to put an end to lost dogs. How naive can one be? In my naivety, I put together what I called my Seven Point Plan and one of those points was, @tdierikx, enforce the legislation that already exists. After a few years, I realised that people actually don’t want to do anything. Little frogs, big frogs, all desperately protecting their own little pond or puddle of water. The politicians at all levels are useless. They talk, make big announcements and most of the time nothing happens. As Greta Thunberg says, we don’t need any more, “Blah, blah, blah.” So succinctly put, Greta. I have said on many occasions, if DOCS can’t protect little children, even those known to be in danger, what chance do our animals have.

She is quite good, still timid and nervy, but very lovable. I’ve written her story, taken heaps of photos and just waiting for her story to go up. Her photos don’t really show how small she is. Loves her ball (doesn’t bring it back outside but does in the house LOL)

Right. After I’d asked, I wondered if you meant them.

Which one is that? Perhaps she doesn’t know about it??

Yes, she is much better, thank you. Still follows me slavishly, but can be distracted by the other dogs doing something, which I take as a positive.

Winnie is settling in beautifully.

You should see her IRL. I was looking at her last night and the depth of colour is extraordinary as is the shininess of her coat. She is such a sweet little dog … someone is going to be very lucky.

Lucifer was in the final show and the trainer gave him to Frank who won the championship with Annie because he didn’t feel he could give Lucifer the life and training he deserves.

I watched bits and pieces of it. Started off with six dogs, finished with 5. Anyone know the story behind that?

I miss them too and I miss posting about the little dogs who come and go. Sadly, the stories are all gone because Troy doesn’t archive, just deletes, which is understandable. Did you see the story about Megs? It was around about April last year and before you made a comeback . I’ll find the link. I will definitely try to get a video of her doing zoomies. It was so unexpected and had put my iPad down.

We did. It was lovely having a little dog to cuddle on the bed. Shala doesn’t like being on the bed and The Dirt Girls can’t get up and down on their own. Yes. Can’t see any Poodly curls, though. She is 4.8kgs, but I think she could put on a couple of hundred grams. OMG , I am sitting in my garden and she has just started doing wild zoomies. So wonderful to see.

New little girl arrived yesterday, a surrender by a brave but broken hearted couple who realised they could not give her the life she needs and deserved. There were copious tears. Little Winnie is a tiny little Mini Dachshund x Toy Poodle (turns 3 soon) with the glossiest black coat I have ever seen. Very timid with severe separation anxiety, she is a sweet little dog who clambered up onto my bed last night and slept in the crook of my arm. Tsk tsk, I am sooooo bad. Here she is enjoying the front garden. Mower man did not turn up on Friday and my mower Is kaput.

Is my message box full? You can email me on [email protected] Not sure if you have read the post in full, but Dazzy (now Ralphie) is in his new home.

Good luck on Thursday. Do “report” back. We are always interested and concerned.

I’m pretty sure I will, @mita. In fact, I saw him yesterday when I met him and his dads at our vets as he still had one small procedure (removal of an Adenoma) and already the huge patch of damaged skin and hair loss on his back is decreasing. I was absolutely thrilled at his progress. His dads are hilarious. We had coffee after we had left Ralphie and I asked them whether there had been any other topic of conversation in their house in the last week. They looked at each other and said, “No.”

@mita, Bobby Dazzler came from Denise (DAP) who always asks her foster to name the dogs. I was playing around with a few names because I could see how great he would look when his coat came back. He has such a glorious white “bib”, so I finally came up with Dazzy and Denise said that we would advertise him as Bobby Dazzler. It didn’t come to that because one of DAP’s foster carers knew of two men who’d recently lost their beloved dog. She told them about Dazzy and that was that

I just saw it being paraded, @Diva, and assumed it was Crufts. Heartbreaking.

The Dirt Girls are clipped …. you just might guess from their nickname why. .

It can certainly be just lucky, @Rebanne or it can be that certain breeders, against all odds, continue to do the right thing and their interest is purely breed enhancement. unfortunately, just about everything is market driven My girls, Bunches and Beatrice, were from a puppy mill. Their personalities are sheer delight. It never crossed my mind that I would be the clucky, lucky, giggling mum to two Pekingese

I have just adopted two Pekingese sisters (foster failure ) and before their adoption they each had already had two surgeries: entropion and skin folds reduction to stop hairs rubbing their eyes. What is the solution for many horrors perpetrated against dogs and other animals when Crufts has a BIS German Shepherd whose back elbows are almost on the ground and who can hardly walk properly and another year a Pekingese who could hardly breathe?

@tdierikx, for many years, my brother lived in a small house next to his hospital and was on call 24/7 for all that time. Even when the growing family moved to a larger house 10 minutes away, he continued this practice. I am glad your experiences were so positive. @Luvapoo, my brother regularly got the “you are supposed to love animals” reason for querying accounts and expecting a free service. Bad debts were par for the course . Another problem was clients who knew better and those who refused to follow rules for helping their animals heal. One such memory. I remember being at his hospital and wandering around looking at the animals. One of the patients was a beautiful Dalmatian whose owner had to be supervised and handbag taken away before she visited because she could not be trusted not to feed the dog and consequently making him violently ill. She was feeding him handfuls of peanuts. The stories, both heart warming and horrific, are endless.

A wonderful series of photos . I love the ones of them in the water. Just beautiful.

It is disgusting how some people treat others. He is long retired now, but my brother was a vet with his own hospital and anyone who wishes they had a vet in the family let me assure you it is a double edged sword. Some of the stories he told me still give me the horrors and always will. They had to call the police from time to time.

If I say that Dazzy is now Ralphie will that answer your question ? In fact, I have just arrived home from delivering him to his new home. Ralphie now has two (retired) daddies whose sole aim in life will be to make him happy. He will just love having two people to dote on him.

My latest little foster is a severe neglect case, but once he is back in full coat he is going to be gorgeous, hence his new name: Dazzy, the Tibetan Spaniel. @mita, @Wiz's Mum His list of ailments is long but all are being steadily addressed and with medication and Malaseb baths already the coat he does have is starting to shine. Dazzy on arrival. N Back from the vet. Cherry eyes fixed, desexed, dental, hernia repaired, biopsy taken of little mass at anus. This turns out to be an Adenoma and will be removed shortly. Settling in. Well, what can you do? The coffee table has long been a favourite of fosters over the years. Dazzy has a meeting tomorrow with prospective adopters, so we are keeping our fingers crossed. He won’t be ready to leave until his Adenoma surgery has been done, but, in the meantime, I have a really sweet, happy loving little dog keeping me on my toes.