Purdita |
Female |
This is one happy story that follows on from 14 wonderful years of sharing my life with Purdy number 1, or Lady Purdy as she is described on the Welfare ‘Happy Stories’ section. We sadly lost Purdy 6 months back, when she developed a cancer in her nasal passage, causing her to have massive nose bleeds, the inevitable decision had to be made with her best interests in mind, we had to make our last farewells. Daft though it may sound, but I still have moments of sadness at her loss.
I made arrangements to visit the owner on neutral ground with my boy Buzz, what they did not tell me was that she had just come into her first season. Now my Buzz had undergone his visitation to the Vets some time back, but he still knows what it is all about and made it his duty to demonstrate all he knows, but at least it showed us that he liked her lots. So the deal was struck and Purdy was coming home with us. Now right from the beginning we detected that she was very nervous, she would not come anywhere near me, but just ran around in wide circles around us. When it came to leaving the park I asked how the owner was going to call Purdy in, to which she replied “I’ll send my daughter to chase after her until she finally catches her”. None of these factors deterred me, I could see the beautiful nature of the animal under all of this wild fear and was determined to bond with her from the earliest moment it time. I might live to regret that last statement, my life is not my own any more. If I go upstairs, she goes upstairs! If I go into another room, my little shadow follows me and as soon as I sit down in my favourite armchair, I have this lump of a dog draped across my lap. As regards Buzz, well he must have thought all his birthdays and christmases had come at once. He couldn’t stop thanking me for having bought him such a nice present. Once he had got over his love affair, literally, and all of the displaced furniture was returned to it’s rightful place, he has now gone back to his questionable affair with Bingo, our Jack Russell. I always said there was a question mark hanging over them, but my wife says it’s more of the case of the son he never had. Purdy has now had her bits removed and peace and quiet returns to the Brewer household. Well almost. She is accepted into the group, but I still think that Bingo regards her as a distraction to Buzz, and as a result tries to ward her off when she plays with him, this only intensifies the game and Purdy cranks up the teasing even more.
She will never replace Lady Perdita, but then I never expected her to, she is a dog in her own right with her own different mannerisms, and that’s how I would like to keep it. This will be the second time I have Welfare to thank for giving me the chance to offer a new life to a young Dally again and both occasions have worked out as a good partnership. Many thanks again. Mike |