Let me start with a few photos:
This is me taken with the dog I have right now, Maggi-May, a sweet, sprightly Jack Russell Terrier. This was taken on 29Aug2011. Maggi turned 4 on Nov 5th, a couple of months after this photo was taken. I'll tell you her story in another post (all my husband's & my dogs over the past 18 years have been rescued dogs).
This is one of my favourite photos - taken in summer of 2005 with Skeena, Great Dane; Podero, Spanish Mastiff; & Salem, another Great Dane. All were rescued - not necessarily by me. All have passed on - Salem some years ago now at the too tender age of 6.5 years old - had so many health issues, poor, sweet, sweet fella. Skeena (black & white), 150 lbs, died this past July 25th at the pretty good age of 12 years & 9 months - wore a harness with a handle on it for the last 5 months of her life (I now have a hernia). Podero, 165 lbs, in front, died January 21st of this year, at the ripe age of 13.5 years; he wore the harness for the last couple of months he lived. These three loves are buried in our back yard.
This photo was taken a couple of winters ago when we had lots of snow - the year we adopted Maggi-May. See here we have a little jacket on her. Hoo! no more. MM will not wear jackets, no matter how lousy the weather. One time I fitted her with a little polo-neck sweater, long sleeves, expensive. The first time she wore it, she was gone about 10 minutes & came back without the sweater! I have no idea how she got it off.
This one with Great Danes Kaela & Cadillac was taken when I was fairly newly in Courtenay. These two guys (figuratively - Kaela, "my great golden girl" was a girl - & Cadillac was a fella) came with me from Calgary, Alberta, up the Alaska Highway to Whitehorse in the Yukon, down to Port Hardy on Vancouver Island & then to Courtenay with my new guy, Doug, to whom I have now been married for over 20 years. More about these guys - the dogs! - later.
This is a start on my life as a dog. More later.
