Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Thursday, 15 January 2009
We can relax now
The boyz have gone through their wildly enthusiastic welcome home stage and have now settled down. When one of us is away overnight they seem to be on edge - it could be a deeply ingrained, hard wired sheepdog thing about getting stressed over losing one of the flock. Wilf, who is a creature of routine gets particularly upset. Anyway, everything is back to normal and the world is once again a predictable place.
2004 - We sell the farm in Scotland and move to the warmth of southern Europe. 2 lively Polish Lowland Sheepdogs - Wilf and Digby - our patient and comical companions. After a year in Provence we head to Italy to restore a hilltop Roman watchtower . Following an unpleasant 'housejacking' in late 2009 we set off for new adventures in South West Franceto get to grips with a large and exceedingly rickety old farmhouse. Empty nesters life after the violence of Italy has a gentler tempo. Digby passed on from piroplasmosis in May 2010. HIs brother, despite being diagnosed with cancer and having become blind ,soldiered on for another two years. Bob and Sophie joined us in 2013. Bob passed on in 2019. Sophie enjoyed the fresh air in Scotland after we returned in late 2022 but ran ahead in the summer of 23. This blog records all those little things about living with dogs that are too unimportant to make it into a diary but which make life, life.
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