Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Friday, 27 February 2009
Polish Lowland Sheepdogs and food
Any dog owner will know only too well how their prize animals can move with all the speed and stealth of a puma when food is being prepared. It is uncanny how Wilf and Digby can segue from deep sleep to electric alertness in the space of a nanosecond when we move to start preparing breakfast, lunch or dinner. I don't know whether it is the sounds we make, the action of opening the fridge door, or the smell of food - or a combination of all three - but they have a 100% hit rate when it comes to being in place for meal times. The boyz have been trained so that they know that they have to wait for us to eat first but that doesn't stop them from sitting in the kitchen looking longingly and imploringly at whatever is on the menu. They really are the ever hopeful duo!
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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