Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Monday, 22 June 2009
Wilf, an orange ball and a swimming pool.
Wilf is the perfect dog - alert,obedient,and full of character. He simply adores playing ball and particularly the variant of the game where he picks up the ball and drops it into the pool with a satisfying splosh. This morning he carefully placed the ball on the pool edge, stared at it with eager conviction and then pushed it over the edge with the tip of his nose. We must have spent twenty minutes repeatedly playing this twist on the drop and throw game . Wilfs energy levels were barely dented by all this frenetic activity and he would have carried on and on had it not been for my calling it quits .
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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