Sef's Mum

My first oldie came from Dog's Trust. Our eyes met through a wire fence. He was black, a bit bald in places and had half a yellow hedgehog on his nose. The staff obviously thought I'd change my mind when I found out he was 9 but he stoled my heart. He was a full on collie cross I named Seth and I had him till he was 17. He is still my soulmate. And then I tried my hand at fostering for the Oldies Club. Very unsuccessfully. And now I have the delightful Grace (Alice). She is a little bit of heaven on 4 feet and makes me smile just looking at her. Ali

You're not wrong. I like art and I think it has it's place but the lottery money should be divided proportionately according to need. Did you know that hospitals have to designate part of their budgets to have art projects. Our 2 local hospitals are having to decide which one of them is going to keep their maternity unit open but both have arts budgets. Unbeleivable. Ali

Grace is going away for a long weekend in May and has her ticket and camping booked for the Wag and Bone show in August as well:biggrin: She keeps asking for sunglasses and matching luggage but I'm trying to teach her to pack light. Ali

We covered everything in sight but they didn't really get that muddy. We had lovely weather which helped too. The site we went to was very dog friendly and although it was only a small place there were over 20 dogs on site and very little barking. Ali

Grace(the artist formerly known as Alice) has just had her first weekend away in a caravan. And she loved it. It was mine too and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it too. All the dogs were soooo well behaved, I almost didn't recognise them. I kept forgetting to take the camera on our walks but I did take a couple in the caravan although they both look very similar so I'll just post one. You have to look carefully to see all 4 dogs. And this Grace all tuckered out when we got back yesterday. Alison

Thank you all. It didn't take me long to decide but Rena and Lucy had other ideas for a while so I just wanted to make sure they got over their snotty behaviour. They did and they all lurve each other now. Ali

I have done something terrible. I have decided Alice (now Grace) is going to stay with me. Bad foster mummy. Ali

She is no longer sore or feeling sorry for herself, in fact she's back to normal except for licking the drain from one of her wounds. She is being very active and not very co-operative about taking it easy. The huuuuggge wounds look like they're healing nicely already and no signs of swelling, so fingers crosse dit will all be plain sailing from here. Ali

Oh what have I done to her She has got 2 of the biggest scars I have ever seen The vet said that luckily they were just lumps and cysts so nothing sinister and they found another cyst under her tummy too but felt that it was better to leave it. Teeth were not bad either. She has a drain in her side and is dripping everywhere but it's just her way of paying me back for taking her in. She was ravenous when she got back and the other dogs let her finish off their leftovers too. She is very tired and a bit sore now so she's trying to sleep it off bless her. Ali

She's had it done and came round well. Can't pick her up until 5.30 though. Spoil her? Moi? She has chicken fillets and rice everyday. Ali

Alice is at the vet's having a bit of work done . She was making me cry when they took her away because she doesn't like the vets. She is getting on so well with the other dogs, she was even play fighting with them yesterday. She won't be allowed to do that this evening. Ali

Sef hogging the sofa and Alice stuck on the floor She was looking up and smiling but by the camera snapped she'd moved. I'm working on a decent one. Ali

My horrible dogs are giving poor Alice the cold shoulder treatment at the moment but Sef did sit next to her on the sofa today so things are looking up. Alice seems a lot less confused today and showed me how to 'kill' a stuffed bunny without so much as leaving a mark on it. She has got to be one of the gentlest dogs I've ever met. My cats love her Ali

Happy gotcha day!! Ali

Thank you. They don't normally sit so nicely together especially if I'm taking photo's. Normally they do this: Ali