Loving my Oldies

4 years !!! So beautiful

I received these photos of Ralphie (ex DAP rescue Dazzy) yesterday. Hard to believe the transformation. Wonderful new "parents". Go back to the opening post to see the difference. Amazing. I am so happy.

After a few "meet and greets", we have a family who wants to adopt Winnie. I really hope it works out as they are lovely people and have a very placid 6 y/o female Cavalier. So in a couple of weeks, Winnie will be moving to Wahroonga (very close by) and will have a family of five (2 adult children and one nearly adult lovely lovely lad). I am so bloody cross though. When they came over for their meet and greet, after a while I suggested we take Harley and Winnie for a walk and we were all really enjoying it. Barely around the corner and about 100 metres on what do we come across but a woman with her unleashed, very large, unfriendly dog. People in a house (where the dog had just wandered into) came out and kept on at the woman until she very grudgingly took the dog away. I haven't walked for ages, but I know the little Dirt Girls would love a trot around the block and just when I get myself psyched up, this happens. Apparently the woman doesn't live nearly, so hopefully this is the first and last time she is around. .

What a lovely old boy and what a wonderful life he has had. I had never heard of Sippy Creek until some years ago I visited an elderly relative who lived in Buderim and volunteered on occasion there. They were doing a fund raiser which entailed “selling a brick” of the extensions they needed doing. I was very proud of my efforts: I managed to sell one brick!! Lovely to see all pets mingling

Good luck @BDJ. You are onto the cause immediately, so should be all good from now on. Old age sucks !!!

No advice, just happy you are taking your boy to the vet. Anything to do with eyes - vet immediately. Good luck and let us know what the vet says/thinks.

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