Loving my Oldies

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.

@Boronia, fancy you remembering Danny Yes, he was a bit of a legend - he will always be My Boy. As for the Cheeky Peekies (as the groomer calls them), when the rescuer, Denise at PAWS, asked me to start writing their adoption story, the first thing I wrote is that despite being totally gorgeous, they were not ornaments. @Deeds, I do the easy bit. The really special people are those who start rescue organisations and see the horrors day after day after day. They person I am fostering for at the moment has been doing this for 30 years!!! And the really tragic thing is that she and other rescuers say it is getting worse.

On 28 December, my precious Sooty crossed the Bridge and my heart was broken. She was such an amazing little girl who’d graced my home for just short of three years. She was so brave and resilient having coped with starvation, untreated broken leg, blindness and neglect before old age and dementia overcame her. I am so thankful that a managed a decent selfie a few weeks before she passed away, so I have this photo of us together. I had been fostering two 8 years old Pekingese sisters for a few months who had brought Shala (adopted in June 21) out of her shell and despite telling myself 1000 times, “No, no, no, no!!!” I felt I could not take them away from Shala and am now in the process of adopting them. So this is Shala jumping up on the couch and giving me kisses for the first time ever. And here are the little sisters, Bunches (mostly white) and Beatrice, who, despite coming from a puppy mill via the RSPCA, are happy, confident little girls who bring so much brightness into any day.

Devasting Deepest condolences @Katdogs. Coogee said it all so meaningfully. You are in my thoughts.

Yes, I was wondering the same and hoping she is much improved.