Hi everyone
I'm Gill, 45 years old and married to Neil who is even softer than I am about animals. We live in the UK in rural Northumberland and are approx. 200 yards from Harry Potter's castle.That's Alnwick Castle. It's a small market town with gorgeous countryside surrounding us and 60+ miles of long sandy beaches which are completely dog-friendly all year round.
I've always had animals in my life and had my first yorkie, Scamp, when I was 13 years old. He came to us when he was 6 months old and was SUCH a character
Definitely thought he was a much bigger dog than he actually was! We had him until he was 17 years old and he went to Rainbow Bridge in 1995, a year before our other dog Lady.
I've always been working in full-time jobs so the time has never been right to get another dog. My last job was horrendous as my boss never replaced anybody who left and just expected me to work six or even seven days a week!!!
I quit that job in December 2012 and am now working part-time in another shop. Just 21 hours per week over four days so we are now planning to get a couple of yorkies
Neil is just as excited as I am and especially because of where he works as a security guard. One of the staff has a wee yorkie who comes to work with him so Neil has been chatting away to this guy, in his 60's, and turns out he's had yorkies all his life and he had nothing but praise for them so now Neil is adamant they are the breed for him
We both wanted a small breed as we holiday in cottages and caravans in the UK and want to bring our dog along with us - going for hikes just isn't the same without a dog to enjoy it with, is it!
For the past 4 years we've been long-term fostering old cats for a local small charity. We prefer the oldies as they are the ones that nobody else wants....or has dumped onto the charity because of their age or ill health
Our current boy is George who is a tabby, approx. 4 years old and he has the Feline Leukaemia Virus (FeLV). Up until last Saturday, June 15th, we also had Suzi who had contracted FeLV after being used as a breeding machine. She suddenly, over a couple of days, developed kidney problems and the vet diagnosed tumours on both kidneys and despite treatment she wasn't responding so we had to let her go to The Bridge
We take comfort in that she had almost 8 months of being spoilt rotten with us. George was moping for a few days but has picked up now...I think he's enjoying being the centre of attention - especially as we now spoil him even more after seeing how quickly Suzi went downhill. 90% of cats with FeLV develop cancer so we know we have to treasure every moment we have with George.....thankfully he's as fit as a flea at the moment *touch wood*
Hopefully we'll have our pups within the next four/five months or so.....just having a tidy-up and decorating at the moment and then once that's done we can start looking for a good breeder
I just cannot wait to have dogs in my life once more - I've missed them SO MUCH!!!!!!
Anyway...waffling on again....off to explore the site and get tp know you all more and drool (and go all broody!) over pics of your gorgeous dogs
