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Goodnight Kendra

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We are so sorry to hear that our wonderful friend, Kendra passed across the Rainbow Bridge on Wednesday. Our thoughts are with her family. Although we only passed comments between our blogs, its just like loosing one of your own. We unfortunately know the pain and sorrow they are going through and that’s why we shall be thinking of them and hoping that through their grief, they are able to remember the twelve & a half years of life they had with Kendra.

We would like to use a quotation taken from Great Scots Magazine, which sums up, certainly our feelings about our beloved Scotties. We hope you feel the same way …..

“A loyal companion is hard to find, hard to lose and impossible to forget”

Goodnight Kendra …… from your faithful Sparhawk Boys

Merry on Mondays!

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Dog for Sale . . .

A  guy is driving around the back woods  of  Montana  and he sees a sign in front of  a broken  down shanty-style house:

‘Talking  Dog For Sale ‘

He rings  the  bell and  the owner appears and tells him the dog  is in the  backyard.

The guy goes into the  backyard and sees a nice looking  Scottish Terrier sitting  there..

‘You  talk?’ he asks.

‘Yep,’  the Lab replies.

After  the guy recovers from the shock of  hearing a dog talk, he says  ‘So, what’s  your story?’

The  Scottie looks up and says, ‘Well, I  discovered  that  I could talk when I was pretty  young…….. I wanted to help the government, so I  told  the CIA.

In  no time at all they had me jetting  from  country to  country, sitting in rooms with  spies and  world leaders, because no one figured  a  dog would be  eavesdropping.’

‘I  was one of their most valuable spies for  eight  years  running…….  But  the jetting around really tired me  out,  and  I knew I wasn’t  getting any younger  so I  decided to settle down. I signed up for a  job  at  the airport to do some  undercover  security, wandering  near suspicious characters  and  listening  in. I uncovered some  incredible
dealings  and was awarded a batch of  medals.’  ‘I  got married, had a  mess  of puppies, and now I’m just  retired.’

The  guy is amazed. He goes back in and  asks  the  owner what he wants for the  dog.

‘Ten  dollars,’ the guy says.

‘Ten dollars?  This dog is amazing! Why  on  earth  are you selling him so  cheap?’

‘Because  he’s a liar.  He’s never been out of  the yard’

Finlay update

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You might recall that Finlay had a scan and x-ray a couple of weeks ago. The x-ray showed a “shadowy mass” and was sent off to an expert. We had to wait 2 weeks for the results. In the meantime he was given Denamarine to support his Liver as there are doubts over its viability.

Finlay in his perky alert mode

Well, we returned to the Vets on a couple of Tuesdays ago, to be told that the expert could not conclusively identify the “shadowy mass”. The thinking was perhaps it was a shadow of Finlay’s intestines. So we arranged to repeat the scan and xray today.

I’ve just been notified by the Vet that the “shadowy mass” is no longer there – and was just that: a “shadowy mass”. However, the liver is showing signs of being “diffused” and this is normally associated with chronic liver disease, which apparently, there is no treatment for.

We have decided not to open him up as there’s nothing to be done. He will have more blood tests this afternoon to obtain some base rate figures and then every 4-6 weeks to see what changes may be occuring.

He’ll probably need to continue with the Denamarine, and be supported by a liver diet.

Finlay actually shows no outward sign of having anything wrong; he’s eating, enjoying his walks, barking at passers-by and generally doing just what a scottie does, so I’m pleased with this side of things.

So kind of good news, really. However, if any of you out there recognise what we’ve just gone through and can shed more light on the matter, please get in touch with me

Reservoir Dogs

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By Finlay

Yap! I get to write an article – yup, we’ve got this site back in our control for a day or two! So I thought I’d write about my new favourite walk. Its around a Reservoir – hence the title Reservoir Dogs.

I like it lots ‘cos I get let off the leash all the way round. She say’s I’m a well behaved boy and that I deserve this treat. Gus and Bobby have to remain under closer supervision – Bobby because he usually barks first, and Gus because if he wasn’t attached to Her he’d still be sniffing the very first blade of grass!

The Reservoir is very peaceful, unless you take a bag of bread with you to feed the dogs ducks and swans. We NEVER get any bread, it’s soooooo unfair, but then, as we don’t visit the Reservoir daily, I should be more considerate in allowing the ducks and swans to have some of my the bread.

I shouldn’t be too ungrateful about the food I get, especially on a Friday night (which tonight is a Friday night) as we get home-made pie from our local chippie. We get soooo much that there’s still plenty o’ pie left for Saturday night dinner as well. Yummy, although we could eat it all in one go if They let us!

We’re just waiting for Him to finish doing something on a computer, and then we’ll lobby Him to get going for our pie, whilst She gets our dishes ready.

Hope ya’ll have a great weekend. Woofs, wags and rooOOooodles to you all.

Snoopervising Scotties

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SWAT's then

She has asked us if we’d mind taking a break from “blogging” for a short while. Of course we were rather upset at this, however, She’s told us that she’ll promote us to “Editing Snoopervisors” whilst She works on our sister-site scottiedognews.com

Well, this is an opportunity not to be missed – so don’t worry fur-ends, we’re not that far away. In fact we’ve not moved at all! We’re still all sitting in the same place, but now we are Editing Snoopervisors we can tell Her what to do!

We’ll pop “back” every now and then to let you know what we’re doing, but if you want to see our “Snoopervision” at work, jump over to scottiedognews.com.

RooOOooodles