Tag: Scottish Terriers

Chatty Tuesday

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Oh! If only! Now that She’s got her own blog, we can’t get to the computer anymore ….. its so unfair! We’ve got things to do, like replying to the Award thingy that Kyla mentioned and we need time to be able to do that right. So I suppose that whilst we can’t get our paws on the keyboard, we’d might as well start to jot down a few notes. Okay – so we’ll do it that way.

Finlay & the Cygnet

We’ve still be out on our walks, at least She’s not forgotten about those! The Blackbirds and Robins are building nests in our gardens, so we’ll have lots of babies to sniff out later. A Heron took one of our Ghost Carp (Jacob or Marley, she doesn’t know which) and so theres a big trellis board placed over part of the new pond to try and discourage any repeat performance. It seems that the fish like to “hang” around under this so They are thinking of putting in another bridge thingy – that’d be fun, it will be another way we can get over the pond to the other side – hope it will have paw rails like the other one – we’ll speak to Her about that.

Went camping in our motorhome last week – great fun – lots and lots of walks (not that we don’t get lots anyway – but these were different walks, with different smells and lots more pee mail to leave) She saw 4 pesky squirrels whilst we did manage to catch a glimpse of one!  Not got many photos of our long weekend, simply because we went to this place last year, and we’re going again soon, so we hear.

Anyway, She’s off the Tai Chi now. We’ve noticed that She’s not fed us …. we’ll it is rather early and we did have a late breakfast, so we’re sure we can wait a little while longer, well maybe me & Bobby can, but Gus? Now that’s a different matter.

Gus has a girlfriend!

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By Finlay

Wow! That’s something. Now, if you know Gus, like we do, you’ll know that he’s not into cuddly stuff or sitting on laps. He likes to stay on the floor and sleep. Every now and then he’ll let Her roll him over onto his back so that She can tickle his chest. This isn’t something he wants – it’s something She thinks she needs to do. So, today we go for a walk with a friend of Hers who’s brought along Eric, a Jack Russell. After the walk, They have coffee and Bobby and Eric start playing and it’s at this point that Gus decides that he wants some cuddling. So, he jumps onto the settee and sits with Her friend …… for ages and ages!

Bobby and I (Finlay) think he’s going soft in the head – well he is 13 after all.

Anyway, less of the picking on Gus; we all had a really lovely walk and Eric is fun to be with, he’s got oodles of energy and “springs” in his legs ‘cos he can’t half jump high!

We all had carrots and bonios on our return. Eric was a little doubtful about the bonios (he’s got little teeth, not like us Scotties) so he had to have his bonio broken up into small pieces. He didn’t eat all of the pieces though ‘cos Bobby kept “lobbying” Eric – it was fun to watch.

We all had our half baths after Eric and Her Friend left and now we are happily awaiting our tuna, rice and cottage cheese dinner.

Hope you all have a great weekend

RooOoodles

In Memory

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William, Sparhawk Storm from the West

12th February 1999 – 28th February 2012

It is with a heart heavier than lead that we report the passing across the Rainbow Bridge of our brother William, today at 5pm.

He had been unwell for some time, but the Vets could not pinpoint or identify anything concrete. Therefore they struggled with a prognosis. Don’t get us wrong, he was on plenty of “sweeties” as She calls them : Denamarin for his Liver, Thyroid tablets, Bile tablets and apparently plenty of other things.

He became seriously unwell last Friday and since then had not really taken to eating at all. He was skin and bone by then, so with not being able to eat this week, he became more and more weak.

His Mama texted us last night with :

Thank you for such an amazing and handsome dog. He’s a star man.xxx

Gus is the surviving Scottie from this litter. Our beloved sister Kelpie crossed the Rainbow Bridge in June 2008; Tali our other sister (who lived in Ipswich) followed in October 2011 with William joining them today.

William’s Mama is a very good and dear friend of us and our Mama. They both sobbed yesterday when they realised that William’s time was close. It is unbearable this evening ….

Here’s only a few photos ….

Fins Foto Fun

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We’ve been messing around with another photo-editor ‘cos we can’t get befunky.com to work for us at the moment. We’ve helped Her get them onto the computer so that we can share them with You. So here goes, this is the first, of many we hope. Enjoy!

Have a great weekend fur-ends. Yap! Yap!

Gus, me, I’m 13 today!

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Woof! Woof! I’m a teenager today! She says its a special day, so I’ll let you know later just how special it was.

I also want to wish my litter brother William Happy Birthday too. Yup! he’s 13 as well. William and I are the last two left of a little of 4 born in to Izzy 1999. Our sister Kelpie (who lived with us) died in 2008 and our other sister who moved to Ipswich with her new family, died last October – a sad day as we remember them all very well.

But lets all remember the good times, not only of our immediate scottie family, but of all our friends who have crossed the Rainbow Bridge. Whoa! aren’t I being a philosopher – perhaps thats what happens when you reach 13!

Anyway, I’m going to wish myself (Gus) and my brother William the best of wishes today, and as woofed before, I’ll be remembering all our Scotties companions, near and far who are residing across the “Bridge”.

Hope you all have a woofly day!

PS: the card has been made by William’s Mama (She’s a very very good friend of our Mama, and we like Her alot!)

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