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In November of 2006, on a cold winters night, I collected Lily from the Whippet rescue. She was so painfully thin, as her previous owner had died and his wife (of 2 weeks) didn't like dogs and tried to starve her. Fortunately a good housekeeper managed to persuade her to hand Lily to whippet...

The Lighter Side of Life - have a smile at these gems Tech Support Just in case you think you are TC (technologically challenged). The following is an excerpt taken from a Wall Street Journal article: 1.Compaq is considering changing the command "Press Any Key" to "Press Return Key" because...

Callie received a lovely new collar from jackie yesterday and here she is in it - I hope!! :)) I haven't tried putting on photos via photobucket before, so I hope I've done it right. She looks a bit fed up in the 'new collar' ones - wanted to go play with Polly - so I put one other of her...

Directions for Sleeping with Dogs. I will address myself mostly to the rules for sleeping with two dogs. For the few who have already mastered this technique, I will later add a cat, although I urge beginners to leave the cat out. To achieve any sort of success, certain arbitrary conditions...

Since Callie arrived a few weeks ago, she has been making Polly play with her (Callie is about a year old, Polly 6) and Polly has learned to choke off Callie when she gets too rough and even enjoys and starts the games sometimes. Problem is, Callie plays rough and chews and bites Polly's ears...

Today our Polly is 6 years old and to celebrate, she is still in bed!! :b This is a photo taken during the year, when she was awake. We think the arrival of Callie next door has worn her out. She now plays a lot more and is more active than she has been for ages. I hope her weight will go...

A little old lady from Dayboro had worked in and around her family dairy farms since she was old enough to walk, with hours of hard work and little compensation. When canned Carnation Milk became available in grocery stores in approximately the 1940's, she read an advertisement offering 5,000...

I wrote about 2 weeks ago about the problems we were having getting Callie to go outside, and other problems (mainly with toilet training, due to her fear of 'outside'). Well she now goes outside quite happily during the day and we catch pretty well all her wees out there :thumbsup: She...

It is now 10 day since we got our rescue girl, Callie. We were told she was 'semi' toilet trained, so didn't worry about the odd accidents. BUT she is terrified of going outside, and once we take her out on her lead (no other way of persuading her to go outside the door) she just wants to get...

When we got our latest rescue girl, Callie, a week ago today, I thought she was just starting her season - her vulva was swollen and her teats slightly enlarged, but it seems she must have been on the tail end of it, as her vulva and teats are now smaller. She was picked up as a stray and...

Many of you may remember we lost our dear Willow 4 weeks ago, and his 'roomie', our 14 year old Lily, missed him so much, so we arranged, through JR Whippet rescue, to take a little girl who had been found as a a stray. Unfortunately, Lily had to have an emergency hysterectomy last week, but...

Lily had a scan this morning and they found pus in the uterus so had to operate. Then they found discharging cysts on her ovaries, so she had a complete hysterectomy. :( She is home but not very comfortable when awake, and because she has kidney problems they wouldn't give any painkillers, so...

Today we took Twiggy to the vet, expecting bad news (it wasn't good, but we are just going to take it a day at a time at the moment). At the same time, we took Lily to have her anal glands emptied (as per earlier thread). It was discovered she also had a discharge and the vet suspects...

For several weeks now, Lily, our 14 year old, has been continually licking the base of her tail - underneath where it is a bit short on hair (ie nearly bald!!). It isn't red (except after a licking session) and isn't getting any balder, but she worrys at it many times a day. We bathe it with...

Was sent this by a friend in USA - drocve me crazy - can't get past 'bobbibg bobcat'!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sle...on_version5.swf

So couldn't answer your queries!! Will check later tonight and try again. Hope you had a good evening!! Janet

I wanted to say thank you to everyone who wrote on the forum and pm'd me re Willow crossing the rainbow bridge, on New Year's eve. Bea, his mum (well he had 2 mums - he lived next door with Bea and his 'sister' Lily, but they all spend a lot of time with Polly, Twiggy and me!!) and I were so...

Our old Twiggy is very restless all night now. I think she has doggy dementia ,and like humans with similar conditions, wanders and grizzles much of the night. She likes to sleep with me but is so restless - in and out constantly, and I've only a single bed, that I get little sleep. (w00t)...

Remembered this morning that is is 4 years ago today that Twiggy came to us. She was initially a foster as her owner had been hit by a car and the people in the flat below them couldn't care for her dogs any longer. After a couple of months, the owner decided to sign her back to whippet rescue...

For obvious reasons (losing Willow this morning) my brain is mush and I want to finish a quiz and need one more answer. It has to be in by 9 pm, so any help much appreciated from you clever lot What am I? a) if you push, I go in b) you have to pull hard to get me out c) I'm useful against a...