Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Sunday, 19 April 2009
Bliss .. an afternoon of hunting in the garden.
The boyzhavespent a happy,if ultimately fruitless, afternoonhuntingforlizards in the lower garden. Wehavebeen splitting oursideswithlaughterwatchingthesetwo 20 kilobundlesoffurpractisingtheir 'stealth' techniques. Sufficeittosaythatanywildlifewithin a 500 metreradiuswill have heardthem and disappeared long beforethe two troubadors everseethem . Whattheylack in finessetheytrytomake up forwithenthusiasm - this hunting technique involves a variety of whines and other peculiarly canine noises culminating in the occassional bark of pure frustration. Ifyou're not a dogowneryouwillneverever know the simpleunallayedpleasureoflivingwithtwopermanentclownsandalwayshaving a smile on yourface!
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.
1 comment:
They are beautiful!!! such faces!
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