Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Saturday, 6 June 2009
Off to the vets for their annual shots.
It's time for the boyz annual checkup at the vets. I don't like having them injected with a dose of toxic chemicals but the alternative is having them exposed to a variety of mosquito and tick borne diseases that we don't fully understand but which are rampant in this part of the world. We are fortunate that we live on top of a hill where it is too windy and dry for mosquitos to hatch out . Lower down in the valley where water collects in large pools by the river after heavy rain, leischmaniasis is a real problem and tiger mosquitos make life unbearable in the summer.. I'll post later when we get back. It always takes a day for the two of them to recover from their shots so we'll be at home for the weekend.
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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