Introducing Lady Lurcher
Dec. 16th, 2012 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fredbassettFive weeks ago, we said goodbye to our beloved Bonnie. We always knew we would get another dog, and after a week of sadfaced lurcher, Crisp, we went to Dorset to meet a rescued lurcher called Lady. The pictures of her on the rescue website hadn't done her justice and we hadn't been expecting to see Crisp's dark twin.
We took the two of them for a walk and they got on well. Crisp always recognises family, by which I mean other lurchers and assorted long dogs, including greyhounds and whippets. Lady was very shy and nervous and had a nasty infected cut on her ankle that had just broken open again the day before when the foster carer had thought it was healing. Lady was limping badly, but without complaint.
It was obvious that she was a gentle soul (she was in foster with two young children and a puppy) and that life had not been kind to her. She was brought over from death row in Kilkenny in Ireland, and was probably a failed courser as she has bugger all hunting instinct. We liked her and so did his lordship. The rescue centre weren't keen on us taking on an unknown liability with the ankle and wanted us to wait a couple of weeks to see if it healed OK with no underlying problems. But I was able to convince them (helped by a glowing report from our vet) that we were able financially to take that on, and that we didn't regard her as 'damaged goods', so to cut a long story short, she came home with us.
We've had her for exactly four weeks now and we love her a lot. She adores Crisp and he regally accepts her devotion and she has banished his sadface. She is a much more relaxed dog than she was a month ago, but there is still a long way to go to convince her that a) her food won't be snatched away (she eats in one long inhale) and b) that no one is going to hurt her. But Lady World is still a scary place at times where she sees and hears things that other people don't and gets frightened by them. But having travelled this far in a month, we know she'll be fine in the end.
Saying goodbye to a beloved friend like Bonnie is so hard, but Bonnie followed Beela, as Lady had followed Bonnie, and Crisp is the successor to Jake, who followed Scruffy, and they have all been wonderful dogs, as was Ranter, my first dog, and Bess, who we inherited from my dad. I wouldn't have wanted to lose any of them, but each paves the way for the next.
So, without further ado, I present Lady Lurcher.....
She's the dark beauty on the right.
As you can tell, they're pretty relaxed together!
And now the long face isn't because he's sad, it's 'cos he's a lurcher!
And as she's called Lady Lurcher, Crisp now wishes to be called Lord Lurcher!
We took the two of them for a walk and they got on well. Crisp always recognises family, by which I mean other lurchers and assorted long dogs, including greyhounds and whippets. Lady was very shy and nervous and had a nasty infected cut on her ankle that had just broken open again the day before when the foster carer had thought it was healing. Lady was limping badly, but without complaint.
It was obvious that she was a gentle soul (she was in foster with two young children and a puppy) and that life had not been kind to her. She was brought over from death row in Kilkenny in Ireland, and was probably a failed courser as she has bugger all hunting instinct. We liked her and so did his lordship. The rescue centre weren't keen on us taking on an unknown liability with the ankle and wanted us to wait a couple of weeks to see if it healed OK with no underlying problems. But I was able to convince them (helped by a glowing report from our vet) that we were able financially to take that on, and that we didn't regard her as 'damaged goods', so to cut a long story short, she came home with us.
We've had her for exactly four weeks now and we love her a lot. She adores Crisp and he regally accepts her devotion and she has banished his sadface. She is a much more relaxed dog than she was a month ago, but there is still a long way to go to convince her that a) her food won't be snatched away (she eats in one long inhale) and b) that no one is going to hurt her. But Lady World is still a scary place at times where she sees and hears things that other people don't and gets frightened by them. But having travelled this far in a month, we know she'll be fine in the end.
Saying goodbye to a beloved friend like Bonnie is so hard, but Bonnie followed Beela, as Lady had followed Bonnie, and Crisp is the successor to Jake, who followed Scruffy, and they have all been wonderful dogs, as was Ranter, my first dog, and Bess, who we inherited from my dad. I wouldn't have wanted to lose any of them, but each paves the way for the next.
So, without further ado, I present Lady Lurcher.....
She's the dark beauty on the right.
As you can tell, they're pretty relaxed together!
And now the long face isn't because he's sad, it's 'cos he's a lurcher!
And as she's called Lady Lurcher, Crisp now wishes to be called Lord Lurcher!