Flashback Tuesday (5)

Or here before Blogging photos.
This week is Mandy. We dont have a lot of photos of her she wasnt a dog who liked having her photo taken and of course in her day it was the slow have to take to be developed ones, She came into our lives about 1978, she was about 9 months old, kids then 3 and 6 were not to keen on her as she was very mouthy and just wasnt Udo, it took awhile but she proved herself to have very special talents, one being tracking, not sure if they found that good or bad but there was no hiding from her, she proved a very wise, careing and adaptable dog who took house moves and traveling in her stride, because of town living she was an only dog for the first half of her life but being in town she had plenty of other dogs to play with.

This chair was in this house when we bought it. Its been the DOGs chair for many many years and still exists, but on the veranda. Theres always been a bit of an "ownership" about it, at the moment it belongs to Ailsa. This was taken about 1986

A town dog she may of been but she loved country life, she did eventually learn that furry creatures where not for her entertainment. She discovered a large grub that she would sniff and dig out, she would stand beside us when ever we were digging in the garden to grab them eventually the youngsters she had to keep her company also learned to like them, none of the dogs who did not have her lead has ever eaten them. We used to have strawberry plants around the garden but never had a strawberry off them till the day she died then we couldn't eat them as it was to sad that we had them, she could eat a bucket of apples at a blink of on eye, she would go through the fallen walnuts and know what ones had a nut in the shell, tomatoes were devoured, just on the turn, not to red but past the green. She would pluck all the blackberries without getting a scratch, found a couple of mineral spots that she would eat the dirt from, a trate passed on to each of her followers. She had heartworm TWICE, yes she was been given medication, we couldn't work out how she would of got it, she was treated successfully but a few months latter on another move we were packing her bed and down in the crease were all the tablets, we never figured out how she kept them in her mouth so long.

This is Lamby, one of many Lambs she cared for, we would give them there bottles but she looked after them, washing them, checking on them in there pens, she would be seen walking across the paddock with her "babies" following behind her.

2002
And this pair, well they never met Mandy but both eat the soil at her mineral patches.

Flashback Tuesday or Here before blogging photos

Whens we started with Flashback Tuesday is was from a packet of photos Mums found in the desk, most of me as a baby sucking up to Ailsa with a few photos of my Tanya and the Wilmot whos I didn't meet. It was looking through the photos Mums realised hows much were all linked together, a continuation, Mum had dogs all of her known life, Goldy, Rex, Judy, Ricky, Udo, Mandy, Wilmot, Tanya, Tara, Ailsa, and me Brodie. Mandy to me have all lived at this place, yet Udo is linked to Mandy as he died from heart failour while Mums, Dad and skinsibs were on holiday, in the next kennal was a dog he made friends with who a few weeks latter was on deaths row as she had been dumped there as her mums had had a skin baby so had no time for her. The kennal asked if our Mums an Dads would take her. So its "Here before blogging photos" They will be all mixed up.

Udo 1972/1979

Because most of the other photos are of me as a kid this weeks is Ailsa's turn.
Ailsa on the front steps
In a Sunbeam.
Same spot, just bigger.
Her first Spring in 1998
11 years latter and she still lays in the flowers.

Flashback Tuesday (3)

More old photos, taken in 2002

First week ins my new home, wonder if she likes me.

Yous found me!! ( cant even gets my head under there nows)
My Tanya when she was bigger then me using my teddie as a pillow. (if you scroll down to last Tuesday youll see me with its)
Me and my big sis sunbaking.

Flashback Tuesday (2)

Somes more fotos from the packet Mums found in desk, first one is Wilmot who I never met but heard a lot about as it seems he was a bit of a character, his mum was a German Pointer an his father was a Labrador or cocker spaniel, they never did works its out buts he was a skin kid chrissie presant, and Tanya who was a Cocker Spaniel but the runt of the litter so never grews very big, she was a very sick pupies she was a crissie presant to froms dad to mum.

Wilmot Oct 1986/Oct 2001 and Tanya Oct 1988/Sep 2003

Me in 2002 whens I was a baby an my big sis Ailsa.
Mys Tanya, I loved my Tanyas and looked after her, she used to lets lost as she was blind an deaf buts still wents wandering, I used to go looking for her and nudge her in the right direction. I fretted and pined so much when she went to rainbow. She got a sore paw in this photo as she never used to tell whens she was hurt.
Ailsa in 2001 before she went golden.
Mes again, an i didnts do it. Teddy dids.
Ps, I thinks I still gots that teddy.

Flashback Tuesday (1)

Cleaning out the computer desk I found some old photos, so Flashback Tuesday is born, its a good reason to spend some time scanning.

Oks Mums I've played wiv it, you cans take it back now.
Taken Feb 2002

Just chilling out with big sis, cant quite get the paw placement right.