Amanda Jvv

Lots of positive thoughts heading your & Poppies way. I know how you are feeling Dont give up on her - as you say she is bright and waggy so if something can be done for her I know you'll do it. Lots of love xxx

Hi Revels not well at the moment. He's not his usual bouncy self. On Sunday he had to have a bath as being incontinent he can get really smelly. Put him in the bath and getting him out I think he leaned on the edge of the bath a little to hard. No yelping nothing so assumed he was ok. Dried him off and he came upstairs etc. On his way down he seemed to be having problems with the stairs. Thought he was just a bit stiff. Next morning (yesterday) he isnt walking at all. He cant seem to get up and his chest seems a bit sore if we put pressure on it. He seems to be able to only lie on his side or flat on his chest and chin. Anyway we roll him over and manage to hold him up, move him about and he goes and has a little wee and drink and his breakfast. Back into bed. I think maybe he's a bit stiff and needs some rest. I came home from work early and he hasnt moved - not even to get a drink. I manage to roll him over, pick up his bum and he does a tiny waddle to get water & wee. I then tried to take him for a walk as he stays on the same leg and stiffens it. He walked but painfully slowly. Its not Revel. Last night he just lay there. By late evening we managed to get a tail wag out him and another wee and drink of water. Now whats worrying is he isnt even leaking as usual. Completely dry. Could this just be because he isnt drinking as much? I've got an appointment for the vets this evening but with his kidneys he is limited to the medicine he can have. Is there something I can rub onto an area if it is bruised or onto his joints?? Last sunday we went for a long walk and he managed fine. The next day he was a bit sore and stiff but got up as usual and then rested the one day and next day was fine so now I am really worried as I know this is serious and I dont want this to be the end for Revel. He hasnt had enough time with me yet but this is more than just his usual old man antics. :

Good article, a few flaws, but I get the good intentions it was written with. I cannot tell you how many times someone has said to me 'Oh I'm interested in such and such a dog' we're going to buy a puppy. Why do you want a puppy? So that we can train it/ i can be like I want it/ it will grow with the baby and they will get used to each other. I say why buy one, why not rescue one? Oh you dont get puppies in rescues. OH YES YOU DO. Oh no we wouldnt do that. You dont know where they come from, what they are like. I dont want someone elses problems. People automatically assume rescue= difficult old dog with behavioural problems. Automatically assume breeder = best dog with all the best behaviour already inherent and all the hard work is done for them. What they fail to see is so many puppies land up in rescue for the very reason that it didnt come toilet trained/ obedient/ not nipping and actually is 100% normal puppy WITHOUT behavioural problems- they are purely just being puppies.

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Revel sometimes gets like this. I try encourage him to at least come into the garden now and then and walk around a few minutes. When they get stiff they tend to lie all day in one position and make it a whole lot worse!

Oh no

I'm glad I'm not the only one Revel: wevvies, wevel devil, old man, revvies George: georgie, george the porge, porgie, Charlie: Charliey warley, Charlie Brown, Mr Brown, Charles

I'm so sorry. Thinking of you all today

Of Revel it has to be this one...he looks like he is having so much fun just having rolled in some mud George and Charlie together - its just them - always close and looking so sweet and happy. And of the three of them...because they look like they are having so much fun together.

Hello Cromwell & Arty Thought I'd join in(Any excuse for more photos.) Well most people know Revels story and when I talk about my other two its always George and Charlie and I guess its because Charlie is so much quieter but not less favoured. So meet Charlie.. 5yr old Chunk of chocolate labrador. Been with me since a puppy and is the dream dog (in comparison to his brother!). As a puppy He is very quiet. I've heard him bark only a handful of times in his life (usually when he is locked out of somewhere or wants George to come outside). He loves his cuddles and is the gentle nurturing one of the 3. I swear he was a mother in his last life. He always looks after everyones wounds, ears and eyes but hardly ever gets the same attention back from the other two. He loves everything that moves, particularly small furry things. But has the gentliest of nature. He is a bit scared of small spaces and gaps and wont go through a door if its partially closed. In training he is quick to learn and not stubborn at all (unlike George). He doesnt have a greedy nature and will never snatch food. He is utterly trustworthy with small kids and babies despite never growing up with them and is just my big little angel. Best of all he is mine and he looks so cute when he curls up on his bean bag. He will always be my little puppy. (Though I can swear that when he jumped onto the sofa last night and his right paw landed on my face causing me to look like I was beaten up momentarily - he weighs nothing like a puppy!!)

I am so sorry! Sleep tight Ailsa xxx

George looking like a big lump Charlie and Revel trying to share the tiniest bed

Hello all! to anyone that needs one. I just had to share my good news with someone (all of you really). My holiday is booked - going to South Africa in May to surprise my mum for her 60th birthday so sssshhhh she doesnt know. I wont have seen her for 2.5 yrs so I cant wait. YIPPPEEEEE Ssshh dont tell the dogs they cant come with

I would have to say your experience is worst case and as shown that woman went on to do it to many others. Your average woman or 'other woman/ man' I dont believe sets out to be manipulative to someone or someones family they dont know. Sometimes its just purely in pursuit of their own hapiness or what they believe to be happiness.

Oooh I couldnt agree more - I don't think a relationship can be so easily broken if the cracks weren't there already. Its like people who say, it was just a drunken night blah blah - I think sub consciously you already know whether you will or wont cheat on your partner - alcohol or anything else is just an excuse. I look at my ex and our relationship - it wasn't solid enough to with stand some flattery and flirting from a young girl. Yet now my current relationship - not one ounce of flattery, bribery or flaunting by another woman would sway him from me. Its really about your relationship and its solidarity not about the 'other woman/ man'. The other 'woman' other 'man' is just an excuse. My lesson was if he could cheat on her - he'd cheat on me. Blaming the 'seductress' was his excuse. Yet no one held a gun to his head. It just an excuse to justify what we feel guilty about.

Moving on... Perhaps sharing my story might change the focus I met my ex (husband) when he moved to the UK we became friends but I wanted more. He had a girlfriend back home but I figured he was far away and pursued him knowing full well he had a long term gf. He gave in and we saw each other for 5 months before I thought I had fallen in love with each other and I was mortified at a) him having another girlfriend and b) being the other woman and hurting someone. He ended it with her. 6 months later he went home to visit his family without me and cheated on me with her. He came home and told me he had just kissed her. I took me ages to get over that but I decided it was what I had deserved having done that to her. After 1.5yr being together we got engaged. The fighting started. His family didnt like me because I didnt meet their ideal of a woman. I was overweight, placed importance on my dogs etc etc. Unknown to me in this time he had started an affair with a 17yr old girl. He was 29. (I cringe at the thought). Wedding planned, invites sent out and I realise somethings not right. Long story but I found out the truth for myself. What was his excuse for doing it...I was overweight and nagged to much. Truth came out that the 'kiss' with his ex wasn't just a kiss. Threw him out. Once a cheater always a cheater. You'd hope the story would end here .... : He begged for a month, promised we could work on it and fix. So what did I do. (stupid stupid me). Married him. Months after marrying him.... it was clear I was never going to get over his cheating. It was clear he was sorry enough. The arguing continued and I was desperately waiting for a way out (waiting for what who knows...) He came home oneday after a weekend in Spain visiting his sister and told me he didnt love me and we should see other people. It was all I needed to hear. I agreed and sighed relief. I think he expected me ti cry or beg or plead. He then was looking to move out and in those two months I met someone who I would describe as my soul mate if one ever existed.(and I wasnt looking for it!) I told my ex straight away. He took his time to move out and it wasnt until he took my phone without me knowing and read text from new man that he actually believed I was seeing someone. It was then that the **** hit the fan. He accused me of cheating. Yet in his own words we were finished and he didnt love me??? Always want what they cant have. Long story short. It took the same time as the length of our marriage for him to get over the fact I had someone new and to stop accusing me of having affairs. I am so thankful I never had children to worry about. But for my mistake of pursuing a taken man - I paid a high price and not sticking to rule that no chances for cheaters. For it my mistake I got 3 yrs of unhappiness, disrespect and emotional hurt. What goes around comes around and whilst he was the one who had to answer to his gf for cheating, I had to answer to me. A lesson well learnt. I couldnt be happier now and am young enough to put it down to youthful experience. But trust me I wouldnt advise anyone staying in a relationship when you have doubts. Don't cheat and if you know you cant get over an infidelity of any kind - then dont think that that will change!

Helloooo. I like your little yellow hippo

Go look at the pics of my boys in doggie chat, that might help change 'mostly' to 'possibly'

Run free Tia.

Hee hee... The camera is charging, so expect lots of pics. Sadly the raincoats are packed too. My one worry is there are ducks on the farm... lets hope there are still ducks when we leave Lets just say I've cleared all 400 photos off my camera in anticipation....

6 more hrs of work but then home to pack...we're off to Pembrokeshire for the weekend!! Funny though how the luggage for 3 dogs is more than that of the humans!