What a wonderful response and thank you all so much America, really appreciated. My late wife and I repatriated a little beach mongrel stray from Spain in '81. He was only seven months when we found him, but due to our then quarantine laws and import procedure, it took 10 months to get him home. He taught us a lot about patience and love and lived a long and happy life passing when he was over 17.
We have had to have our Yorkie clipped because her coat was hopelessly tangled and matted with wood chippings, which obviously indicated she'd been kept in a pen or enclosure. She now sleeps in her little basket, either in my wife's room or mine. We are both retired, so she's never been alone since we got her, very important I feel, in the early days of a young re-homed dog.
We live right on the sea shore, so once she gains confidence the beach is only 30 yards from our door.
We live in a high rise Penthouse and currently we are toilet training, she was on pads, but kept missing the corners and pooing on the carpet near the paper! We got a 'Rascal' Little Squirt yesterday - early days but that's for another day.
Ps, She wags her tail a lot and is an enthusiastic licker, a real little treasure, who will probably be utterly swamped with affection.
Once again, lovely to read your kind responses and what a smashing place this forum is. |