Twenty one years is amazing, that's a large chunk of your own lifetime that she was your companion.
To lift the sadness just a bit, here's some pictures of my new foster border collie, Checkers. He's a great guy, about 6 years old, looks like he's had a rough life til now, but as a friend once said about animals who make their way to our house "he's fallen into a vat of butter" now. My most recent foster puppy, Annelie, went to her new home (with 3 and 5 year old girls) and they love her already!
When I sweep, he circles me while intently staring at the broom, and when a cat sits on the sofa, he circles the living room, warily eying the cat for possible advances. It is hilarious to me, but the cats are like "for pete's sake, another border collie, really?". Hoping to find him a great home where he can be a companion to a busy family, as he's an active scoundrel!
Don't know if I mentioned this before, (apologies if I have)...but...true story......guy in an RV park had watched my Border Collie and I playing for a couple days.....finally he asked "Does he ever get tired?"and those are energetic dogs.
To lift the sadness just a bit, here's some pictures of my new foster border collie, Checkers. He's a great guy, about 6 years old, looks like he's had a rough life til now, but as a friend once said about animals who make their way to our house "he's fallen into a vat of butter" now. My most recent foster puppy, Annelie, went to her new home (with 3 and 5 year old girls) and they love her already!
When I sweep, he circles me while intently staring at the broom, and when a cat sits on the sofa, he circles the living room, warily eying the cat for possible advances. It is hilarious to me, but the cats are like "for pete's sake, another border collie, really?". Hoping to find him a great home where he can be a companion to a busy family, as he's an active scoundrel!
Ooh, pictures of the baby doves, please!
And I took Checkers to his new home yesterday, drove 8 hours round-trip. A single guy in his 40s, wanted a dog to take with him every day to work, and really has been reading up on Border Collies. I told him your story, Nemo!
They took to each other right away and I am so happy for this boy, getting a whole new life, after spending all of it up to now in a pen outside, with no vet care or much in the way of attention. This is why fostering animals is so very rewarding--you get to see how life-changing it is for both the adopter and the pet, over and over again. Checkers is maybe our 60th foster, I guess--you lose count after a while!
Seriously, how cute is our cat Bob? Took this pic of him just the other day. We adopted him from a rescue group years ago. We think he's about 15 now but not sure since we was all grown up when he came into our lives. He's our old soul. He snores a lot too.
He's a bit portly, but his vet thinks he's in fine shape for his age. Bob says "I'm not fat, I'm FLUFFY!"
Cute kitty. I knew a cat that would fatten up for winter. I mean this cat was slim but come October he'd start bloating and in winter he looked about twice his normal weight. The vet called it fat pouches and not to be worried, some cats do it but I guess most don't cuz Sam was the only one I ever saw do it. Talk about a Fat Cat!