 Please Meet RoxyCould you have resisted such a pleading look. This is the look the puppy gave me before she came bounding up, I fell in love with her immediately. The girls and I have called her Roxy, she looks like a Roxy, don't you think?. Having spent such a long time looking at every kind of pedigree pup, from Westies to Labradors, and deciding that I really could not afford the several hundreds of pounds that are being asked for these puppies, I did what I should have done from the very beginning I gave a home to a lonely little pup of unknown origin, who looks remarkably like a beagle, but isn't. She has a lot of fox hound in her, but so gentle and such a lovely nature. Rescued from certain death by a local lady who travels all over the country saving puppy litters from being 'put down' because they cannot be rehomed. Roxy was one of a litter of 14 being brought up in a very small flat somewhere in Wales. She had not been neglected or ill treated but the local authority's Environmental Health Officer had to remove them for very obvious reasons. The owner still has 3 of the puppies. Roxy was the last of the litter to be rehomed and I was so lucky to have been given the opportunity to keep her. Roxy is 15 weeks old, full of fun, piddling everywhere, and just the most adorable little pup. Ellie and Bea, just love her to bits, and it will be so good for them to have a little dog to grow up with them. The vet has given her a clean bill of health, and has declared her an 'exquisite little poppet'. She still has to have all her injections before I can even think of introducing her to the wonders of Canford Heath, and the beauty of the Purbeck Coast Road, but once I have trained her and I am confident that she can be safely let off the lead, then I can take her and show her the peace and tranquility of the local nature trails. I am going to be very busy in the next few weeks so wont have the time to post much..... but if you like I will keep you up to date on her progress. Please Meet Pickles I know, I know, yesterday it was Roxy, today it's Pickles. If you had seen what she got up to today you would know why Pickle suits her so well. I am absolutely exhausted....and it is the most wonderful tiredness in the world. Pickles is fast asleep now so that I have a few moments to catch up with eating, a hot cup of tea, and a post or two....  
  29th January 2004. Can you see how much Pickles has grown? She just loved the snow, but trying to clear up with her around was an impossibility...John and I just gave up. The drive to the Vets this morning was a bit hairy, we don't get a lot of practice in icy conditions like this morning, too often. Pickles is now Vaccinated, de-wormed, de-flead (she didn't have any but one has to be sure) and de-manding....      Don't be alarmed, Pickles just couldn't resist the sound of the frogs.....She just had to partake of the French Delicacy but couldn't wait for them to be sauteed...(all a trick) Adventures on Upton Heath
           Pickles and the 'Bazonker' May 2004 Wassat?..wassat?...Pickles first encounter with the Maybug. What looks like water is just the blue of a very large plastic sheet, used to cover the earth. The Cockchafer beetle was lying on it's back, with legs twitching and Pickles was so entralled at first she carried it gently around the garden, until the tickling legs became too much.  This is Pickles showing great curiosity about a Cockchafer beetle or Maybug, in my house commonly known as a 'Bazonker' because of the noise they make when they crash on the lamp shades at night....this one is 37mm long and....she played with it, then ate it...   This is photo taken today, May 12th May 2004, on Canford Heath, a little misty but showing the contrast between the skeletal trees of only a few weeks ago, and the now fresh green growth. May 18th 2004  This picture is taken deep in Delph Woods, another favourite place of mine, very different to the Heathland, but today the temperature is in the middle 20's Celsius and that is too hot for walking on the open heathland where there is little shelter. Here in the woods there are streams and lakes a plenty and everywhere amongst the trees are large Rhododendron bushes, mostly the common mauve wild variety but now and again it is possible to see the remnants of ancient cultivated varieties from when this was one huge private garden....It is so green and cool and so very peaceful.  A not very focused picture of a deep red Rhododendron, not clear but it is more beautiful than I can show it.  Yet another picture of the peaceful woodland walk, you can just about make out Pickles in the undergrowth.  Just one of the many lakes in Delph Woods. Looking murky but this is due to the pollen, shed from the trees, it is really very clean water and later there will be the wonderful heads of pure white water lilies that cover half the lake, there are also many fish here....Pickles caught only a twig... |