What Makes A Fosterer?
What makes someone become a fosterer? To foster a dog means to take a vulnerable, dependent animal into your home, to nurture them, allow yourself to fall a little, or a lot in love,...
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Angel the Nomad
Angel must have nomadic genes. She loves to travel. It would have been hell for her in the puppy farm just being confined, let alone all the other hideous aspects of that existence. She...
Why New Is Good
When we adopted Susie-Belle it was all new, for her and us. She had no concept of what life with us would be like. Or indeed life anywhere beyond the safety of the rescue...
Happiness, not in another place but this place
Two weeks ago I was on my way to the UK to collect Angel. She was in the care of the Diana Brimblecombe Animal Rescue Centre. It was a trip that would give me...
An Angel has Arrived
When Susie-Belle died I had an urgent sense that a new dog must join us and we adopted Cerise 6 weeks later. When Twinkle died in July I felt in no hurry to get...
Awe Is Too Small A Word
When I adopted Susie-Belle in 2011 she’d spent 6 months living with Janet, her foster mum. Janet is the manager of the Diana Brimblecombe Animal Rescue Centre but the care given to Susie-Belle went...
Good News For The Dogs at DBARC
Back in May, in Susie-Belle’s memory I launched a fundraiser to help the Diana Brimblecombe Animal Rescue Centre with a major project which has been in the planning for a few years. To rebuild...
I Can Write What I Can’t Say
Even when my heart is dark and heavy, weighed down by grief at Twinkle’s death I smile at the joy radiating from the brother she’s left behind.
Who ever knows what’s ahead?
Who ever knows what lies ahead on our journey through life? Who can tell if today is the last to be enjoyed or one of many before a mortal coil is shed? What we...
You Couldn’t Miss Us
There was a time when orange was a colour I barely noticed. I didn’t dislike it but didn’t particularly like it either. It was just there, a bright splash, never insipid, but not a...