Instead of turkey and trimmings,
we took a picnic to a river not too far from WB . . .
. . . as you see, paddling was on the menu, too.
Clearly exhaustion set in later for Bill and Lochie - poor old fellas.
On 13 December, Sue writes:
Lochie is one of the five puppyfarm dogs we rescued in March
(brother of Dookie, the boy who got lost & found).
There were four boys and one girl, all entire, underweight & ungroomed,
but extremely sweet-tempered. How often is that the case -
it makes me wonder if they are so grateful to be rescued,
a sense of relief enters their souls.
So . . . after eight weeks rehab/grooming/basic training/assessment,
they were all adopted into AireNet homes.
Lochie went to a couple some distance from Melbourne in a bayside suburb.
They adored him, but in June, the wife fell badly and
now is in long-term rehab (12 months)
with a broken hip & femur.
The husband called me in early September to say they were very anxious
about Lochie's welfare given that his situation was now very difficult to manage.
I said we could arrange a long-term foster,
but he said he felt it was only fair to Lochie
that they surrender him back to AireNet.
So we brought him back to our Blue Cross shelter
(which is where all the original work on the five was done).
He was very unfit, and overweight;
after about six weeks there we brought him home to WB
for an 'unspecified time' of fostering.
We've had him about five weeks now,
and last week made the decision to adopt him,
so yes, he's a WB boy now.
Considering all the upheavals in his life,
he is an amazingly sweet boy, not a nasty bone in his body.
He is rather like Chester in some ways . . . quite tall,
a very big bark when he wants to use it, and very affectionate.
He loves Emma & Chilli and they are very accepting of him . . .
I think somehow he has helped to plug their sense of loss of Aerem & Chester;
perhaps because he is young, and yet sensible.
He doesn't drive them nuts as a puppy might,
and while he loves to play, it's not mad play.
He actually has a remarkable sense of place and
is content to just 'be' quite a lot of the time.
It wasn't on our agenda to go back to three,
but it's happened, and I don't see him going anywhere now.
Neither does he, he says.
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