Alfie

Alfie has now found a home !!

progress update: 15/6/11

Well, I have been here at Jeff’s for three weeks and having myself a splendid time.
I get on well with everyone at the pub and whilst there have met a few shrunken humans I think you call them children – not as cute as puppies that’s for sure but entertaining enough and I was on my best behaviour with them.
I love my forest walks and racing round Jeff’s extended garden with his motley crew.
I hope that soon someone will realise what an entertaining and funny companion I am and offer me a home.

This is Alfie he is a year old Boxer , playful and full of bounce.
He gets on well with other dogs.
He is fostering with Jeff and his five dogs and is now partaking in a lunchtime drink at the pub with Jeff and his cronies.
Soon he will be putting the world to rights like Jess did before she went to her new home!

Gypsy

Hi Helen,

Was really nice to speak to You ! Despite it being for Sad reasons !

Thank you SO much for allowing us to have so many wonderful years with our Beautiful girl !!

I have attached a couple of photo’s for you.. Tho she has changed colour considerably, you should still recognise her !!

She was a lot more red around her neck and head back when we got her , 1995 I think !!! ( like all us old girls, the grey snuck in ! )

Hopefully you will still have the photo  you took the day we brought her home.. If you do have it , could you possibly let me have a copy ???

Thanks again ! xxxx

Jo ..

Snutz

Snutz has now found a home !!

progress update from Helen: 19/6/11

I met Shutz today and what a delicious dog he is.
We don’t think he is as old as 10 years as is teeth are quite good for a Yorkie more like 8 years old. He loves to lie on his back and have his tummy tickled as you can see from the photo,
he spent a lot of time like this when out in the car with us today.
He is good with dogs and children.

HollietheCollie (a.k.a. Holly, a.k.a Folly, a.k.a Foley)

Holly has now found a home !!

progress update: 15/6/11

Super little dog,
settling in well
regards
Jane and Steve Edwards

This is Holly with Dan, a young leader at cubs.
She had only just met him…all the cubs made a fuss of her and she sat in the middle of them and rolled over for a cuddle.
Holly is good with cats and good with children and other dogs.

NOW REHOMED

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My latest Lord Of the Rings update has been banned…

My latest Lord Of the Rings update has been banned…

14/6/11

Well, well well!

Who’d have thought it, I now have my own online diary!

This has come about because Mark is In Big Trouble with Helen.
He’s in trouble because I wanted to do an update which mentioned the bane of my life my good friend Spike.

Spike is the other permanent resident of the Rescue who has reached the hallowed status of becoming one of Helen’s own dogs and having a star collar.
At the time I was thinking of this, Spike was enjoying playing with one of his favourite toys – a large red rubber ring, which he constantly worries at and savages for being All-Kinds-Of-Imaginary-Snake-like-Creatures.

So anyway I suggested to Mark about writing a ‘Lord Of The Rings’ themed update, with me being Lord Of The Bonios because I’m obsessed by Bonios and like to order people around by demanding they feed me whenever I’m a bit peckish, Spike having the ring, and hence being Frodo ( because he is also much smaller than me and so to me is of hobbit-sized proportions and also because he has hairy feet ).

All was going well with this idea until Mark suggested with much mirth that Jackson could be Smeagol, on account of him looking rather like him.
Helen took great affront at this on Smeagols Jacksons behalf and my latest update was banned, censored, removed, evicted and generally forcibly done away with pronto.

Helen would also have liked to have confiscated Mark’s dinner like she often does with mine for good measure but since we live in Poole and he lives in the Far North somewhere up near the Arctic Circle Birmingham this wasn’t possible.

So instead my ‘updates’ are being removed from Smeagols Jacksons page and placed in my own Diary and Mark is forbidden from ever referring to Smeagol Jackson as Smeagol Jackson ever again no matter how funny he thinks it is to do so to wind Helen up.

Which it does.

Very much indeed.


Jackson now has added wrinkly bits

5/6/11

Hello again. In the interests of giving you all more information about Jackson so that I can get the end of my bed back that he can find a good home, I’ll let you all know ( since it isn’t on here already as Helen was trying to keep it a secret so that she could keep him herself “didn’t think it was important to mention it” ) that Jackson is a shar pei cross.
I must admit I didn’t realise this at first and thought that he’d just stayed in the bath too long and gone a bit wrinkly.
I’m sure I’d go all wrinkly if I stayed in the bath for too long, so I always make sure to run off and pretend to be deaf whenever it looks like Helen is thinking it might soon be bath-time to not over-stay my welcome during bath-time visits.

I thought that maybe we could cure Jackson’s wrinkly shar pei bits with a foot-pump as he reminds me of a balloon which is becoming deflated.
Perhaps instead of growing up, he’s getting smaller, like my mid-day meal always seems to.
Perhaps when he was younger there was a sale on and he bought a larger coat than was necessary, hoping to grow into it. He ought to go and ask them for a refund if you ask me, it is hardly Stay-Pressed.
I suppose he’s lost the receipt though else would have done that ages ago.
Young ‘uns don’t always realise the wisdom of always keeping their receipts.
I’ve kept all my old-Bonio receipts of course. I even buy old Bonio receipts off ebay and at car-boot sales when Helen is not looking. They are all filed chronologically in two-hundred and thirty-seven box-files in the back of Helen’s attic.
Helen doesn’t actually realise that is why she sometimes complains about having far less space than she thought that she used to have.
I think I’m safe for the moment though, she is On The Phone.
Helen is On The Phone so much talking to everyone about Dogs that I can quite understand why it is colloquially known as The-Dog-And-Bone.
I’d like to be known to the world as The-Dog-And-Bonios..

I’d also personally like to thank Pat who popped round the other day and brought us all presents after reading about us on the website.

She brought me some Bonios for my Pension Plan!!!!

She also brought toys for Jackson and the others
Thank you very much indeed, Pat, that was very kind of you, I’m much obliged!

Yogi

Yogi has now been rehomed !!

progress update: 5/6/11

Hi Helen, a quick update on the scrumptious little Yogi,
This little pup has settled extemely well since his arrival, he’s incredibly laid back and placid and will sit in your lap for cuddles
forever, he loves being with the other dogs and is very respectful around them.
Yogi is happy to go in his crate by himself during the day, he was a little vocal last night but he soon settled, he really is
a sweet boy and is very calm gentle around the children, he would make a lovely addition to any family.
regards
Niki

Hi Helen,
here are a few pics of Yogi, the kids thought he looked rather bear like hence the name,
hope thats ok
regards
Niki

( from left to right) Yogi, Jackson and Spike