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molly the lurcher lover

Hello, July nearly ended already - where did it go? This is a very quick note to say I will be incomunicado for a month or so; we are headed North with the whole household [including my orchids!] Malcolm is there at the moment having left last night with a loaded trailer, loads of dog food, horse feed, tack, food for freezer................. we couldn’t get anything else in the car. He returns tonight and we start to load the next lot............ The lovely Flynn, the Wolfhound X has been sent to Dogs Trust Kenilworth. Any of you Lurcher Lovers????? He went on ‘The Chance of a Lifetime’ from N Ireland. He is about 2 years old neutered, and perfect in every way apart to a cat aversion!!! Housetrained, car trained and lovely and BIG, bit larger than my Molly. I better get started to post this. Thanks to everyone for your messages, treats and good wishes. The Jackies and Joni will be here watering the plants and letting the carpenter in [I hope!] I fervently wish all you bereaved ‘parents’ are recovering from the immediate grief and shock and contemplating the patter of little [rescued?] paws. Kind Regards to you all, Enjoy the rest of the summer, Lynda, Molly, Horatio, Alfred, Bert, Tallulah, Tig, Annie, Caiomhe and Ruairi, Plus Mouser and Wee Minnie [cats] Mr Splodge, Naughty Jack and Sammy [horses]. THE TINKERS ARE ON THE ROAD!!!!!!!!!!!
on 28 Jul 08

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molly the lurcher lover

Hi Vik, I've a notion I sent this to you last night, sorta remember asking how your mother was after the party. Feel free to delete!!! Still raining here, but it was dry at the wedding. Here's the latest....................... Tuesday 15th. July. Well, here we are again, Home from the travels again; this time it was the wedding of Malcolm’s nephew, Nicholas. This was a wonderful wedding in an ancient country house in the Essex countryside complete with lake! The bride looked like a fairy princess, the bride’s maids wore greeny turquoise dresses and the flower girls were in white organdy with green sashes. They all looked beautiful. It was a bit like the ‘League of Nations’, there were so many nationalities there; what was especially good was that there was no ‘them and us’ that one so often finds at weddings, everyone chatted to everyone else and a good time was had by all - a very special day, one to remember always. While we were away ‘The Jackies’ fed the dogs, Joni fussed over the cats and dogs; we were delighted to come home to no catastrophes! That changed this morning, we are home less than 24 hours and I’ve already been to the vet.’s!! Molly is in season, encaserated in the back yard, Bert and Alfred decided to fight for the right to non-available access! I roared from the kitchen and they both limped away. Upon inspection they both have bite marks on their forelegs, nothing serious but whoever heard of biting LEGS? Necks, shoulders, ears, face and eyes, yes, but legs?! Malcolm then took the pups, Annie, Bert Tig and Lulu out in the field with him while he was pulling ragweed [ragwort or Benweed], the dogs were tearing around out there as only Lurchers and Whippets do when Annie ran at full speed [awesome] into a wire fence. The ensuing noise was frightening, Malcolm scooped her up and brought her into the cool and quiet of the dining room where I examined her. She has a burn on the inside of one front leg and quite a deep cut, looks like a puncture on the outside of the other front leg. Malcolm thought at least she had a fracture of a foreleg. 2 hours later at vet. She had 1 staple in the cut, onto the anti-biotic and Metacam AGAIN!! She is currently sleeping in a basket next to me. The wire has been there for a least 30 years, fortunately it is not barbed wire. It is now being removed. Ruairi is going in to be castrated on Thursday, only one testicle has dropped and I’m advised that this is a known cause of testicular cancer; so now he is going to be ‘poor little Ruairi no balls’! Caiomhe has a lump [not a fatty one] and so we are investigating that too............... I have worm doses for the cats............ Jackie [female] has Labradors and one Lurcher. Tina has been unwell and appeared to have a Phantom pregnancy but upon further investigation it turned out to be a womb infection. Poor Jackie, she was ‘between a rock and a hard place’, Tina has a heart murmur and there was a big question mark about the anaesthetic, her condition had deteriorated quite quickly. Thursday she had a blood transfusion and then had ovaries [one with cyst/tumour] and womb removed. After more blood she is recovering slowly, never was there such a well-nursed dog [except Gissy?] Good weather today, dogs lying about all over the place. Better go and do some gardening, after I’ve bid on ebay for some fabric to re-cover the dog’s sofa cushions........... the kitchen looked like a snowstorm......!!! Love to you all and your dogs, special thoughts to the bereaved ‘parents’ from Lynda a.k.a. Molly-the-Lurcher lover
on 18 Jul 08

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molly the lurcher lover

Hi Wil and Vicki? Thanks for your message this is the easy way of doing this, still takes hours though! Nothing else for it, this is going to be a GANG NEWSLETTER FROM CHAOS CORNER! Happy Spring??? Bank Holiday to all my readers. As I write it is Saturday night and I was speaking to my friend [one of the Jackies] who took the little Whippet X Lurcher, she went to a Game Fair today with her and ran her in the Whippet Racing.......... her very first effort, slow to understand where she was meant to go but then.........................whoosh........ finished 3rd and just getting going! Molly: Wonderful as ever, her phantom pregnancy is over but I noticed blood on a teat last Saturday, mastitis... more anti-biotics! She is actually coming in season, the boys are sniffing about and their teeth are chattering like mad; Molly soon sees them off though, it won’t be long until she is banished to a stable out of the reach of the marauding males! Horatio: Lovely dog, being very good and loving. Bert: Mindless as ever! He has a Molly Fixation, if we did not know otherwise we would say that he had been weaned much too early. He spends as much time as possible SUCKING Molly’s back, he goes into a trance of ecstasy pummeling her with his front paws......... but......... when she gets to the ‘interesting condition’ he suddenly grows up - real problems for him. This time it will be worse for him than ever as Molly’s substitute, the late-lamented FLOSS R.I.P. is no longer here to be his surrogate mother. Tallulah: Thinking about coming into season too, she is now missing her ‘partner’ Floss, maybe Annie will step into the breach, though I doubt it; Lu and Floss were an item for years. Alfred: The Teddy Bear of the family, a big kind, gentle dog who lives to follow my husband around [they go on holiday together!] Tig: The mobile hot-water bottle, he was getting depressed about the pups taking centre stage and we had to give him extra time in BED WITH US!!! He is much cheerier now, he has been assured he is still TOP DOG. Annie: Settling in very well, she had not put a paw wrong until this afternoon when she CHASED MY CAT! Death at dawn was threatened, I grabbed a broom handle and chased her with it, she cowered away, she was given the lightest tap with it, you would have thought by her expression that she had been thrashed within an inch of her life. She retreated to the kitchen and has avoided eye contact with me since! She is currently fast asleep in the puppy cage next to me. She continues to sleep with us, all goes well until she leaps up on TIG who is under the duvet, then there is a growling session from ‘The Master of the House’, Tig that is!!! We then re shuffle round the bed and with luck all is calm. One night Alfred arrived too and landed on them both! I evicted him altogether so he trundled down to a visitor’s room and joined her - opportunist! Annie plays with a tug, she takes it and prods various noses asking to play, so far the only one to take up the challenge was Little Ruairi who was quickly defeated. She tears round the garden and field [just had slurry sprayed........................] she seems very happy. Ruairi: Is getting bolder, he has turned on Annie a couple of times when she took his tuggie, I don’t know who was the more surprised! Caíomhe: Is not feeling very well, this morning she had the violent gut-rot, fortunately the pups were in the cage and so it was not too drastic, the thought of that lot on the kitchen floor............ poor little girl, she is really off colour today. General News: The pups and Annie went to visit Elaine-the-Dog Warden to get their licences and be microchipped. Here in Northern Ireland we have DOG LICENCES! It costs £5 per dog and there are no exemptions. One can have a reduced fee for an OAP, but there are no block licences unless one has certified breeding kennels Ministry inspected. I believe that the reason there are so many dogs destroyed here is that if a dog strays and it is not wearing a collar and a current licence disc the owner is liable to a hefty fine or if any damage has been incurred, prosecution. Therefore, dogs are abandoned rather than being claimed, it is the efficiency of the system here. Ah well, Better get on here, time to feed everybody. Best Wishes to you all, here’s hoping Wil stays healthy and happy and so do you! Lynda.
on 05 May 08

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Sasha's Mum

Hi Wil + Vikchic, thank you for your message, sorry I didn't reply sooner, mum hasn't visited for a while (I think I need a new secretary!) I'm rather a funny girl on times and after living here quietly for about 18 months I have started to give little barks now and again. it really makes the family jump. Anyway here's a treat for you love Sasha XXX
on 28 May 07

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Angela M

glad you`re another sensible person, Finn also neutred, cant see point in leaving a dog whole unless they are for breeding, you`re dead right, theres so many unwanted lurchers about, just wish I could win the premium bonds! would end up wi loads of em! lol
on 08 Apr 07

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Angela M

Hiya Wil and Vikchic, tried to leave a treat but was beaten to it! never mind always tomorrow. Anyway, heres a bit of usless info for ya, did you know, greyhound x whippet is known as a bred down grew. Got that snippet from D. Brian Plummers the complete lurcher. oh well, time for me medication......... xxx
on 07 Apr 07

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