- Aug 4, 6:54am
Just a little story about me...
How i fell into owning Gun dogs three nearly four years back... i lost my little chihuahua called Sally coincidently .. i had put her through 2 major operations and she had a stroke on the morning of my birthday and she died in my arms on the way to the vets that morning..i was devastated...
Two months later a friend of mine ( a dog Groomer ) told me of a dog that was to be retired she was a gun dog Sally was her name.. i thought about it for a long time and decided i had to meet her .. the couple who have become firm friends of mine came up and brought her to meet me .. and from that day she looked at me i knew she was moving in.. i have got her half brother now woody as well now ...:)
Some time later another friend of mine a dog breeder wanted to go into a working line of dogs.. she was given the name of a gamekeeper which we went up to see.. and the other gamekeeper turned up while we were there ..and my friend said she always wanted to go beating i laughed my head off me being me ..and he said "i don't know why your laughing your coming with her" i said im not mad running about like a idiot over mountains covered in mud me of cyber purple hair fame haha... months went by and my friend had the call to go and we went up there... to be honest they didn't know what to make of me my friend is very quiet and im the total opposite.. i took to it like a duck to water my friend didn't stay the course.. on the first week i was going to down through a wood at quiet a steep angle and slipped and sat on my foot and heard a click i knew it was dislocated in some way and they were all like a bunch of concerned women trying to get me to go to the hospital.. doctors.. vet or witch doctor haha i strapped it up with veterinary tape and said it would click back which it did may i add and wow it hurt like hell !!! they gave me the nickname of Pambo after that haha... i said if i cut myself give me some thread i'll sort it out myself hahaha ... that year i also broke my toe jumping over a stream it has never set right no wonder i was back on it the next day i had strapped it with duck tape to the other one hahaha
On beaters day ( we have a party ) i was awarded the "golden stick" award a hand carved wooden crutch.. which has pride of place by the side of my fireplace... i couldn't talk for weeping when i was given that..
This season just gone i was given a silver hip flask.. to services to cake and scone making haha.. i can't wait until October being up there is like HOME to me and i miss it sooo much
I ended up there by a quirk of fate.. if it hadn't been for having Big Sally come into my life who incidentally is related to one of the gamekeepers dogs.. in fact they know the people both my dogs have come from.. also my friend wanting to go into a working line.. i would still be quiet sad and miserable i think being there doing that and most of all spending time with some of the most genuine and caring people that have entered my life has brought me so much happiness..,
this is just a little snap shot of me as a person... i'm pretty hard headed stubborn don't take bullshit..but other than that i'm ok..:)
I enjoyed doing this tonight...
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