Hi Susan

I came across your page today and had a look at your website.  Your loss of Beau is very sad and I had tears when I was reading what had happened.  I can't imagine what you have been through and I hope that some day soon you can find him and have him safe with you again.

Best wishes, Cheryl

Hi Susan, we are doing extremely well and have been very lucky to miss the flooding this time.  How are you where you live ? down the Goast Coast area?  I haven't heard anything on the news for your area. 

I hope you can make a difference on the dog stealing front.  It would at least give some consolation to such a tragic circumstance.

chat soon, Cheryl

Thank you for becoming my friend :-).

I really hope that Hammer is going to be ok, how scary to be told it was something so serious, you must have been out of your mind with worry.

We should start a new group called the Orange Belton Brigade :-) xx

Congratulations Susan, what you have done is already a great achievement and very happy to know that you have the support from this medical practitioner.
If I understand you properly you will consign everything on a book!!!! That is an excellent project, you are definitively doing all what could be possible!!!  warmest congratulations.

Best wishes and best of luck

Chantal

Hi Susan

Thanks for your concern.  We are doing OK here.  Just bouts of wind and squally rain, but nothing else yet.  Another 4 hours till it crosses the coast about 600-700kms north of us.
We are getting about the same amount of wind and rain that we got off Cyclone Anthony on Sunday when it crossed about 200kms above us.

We feel extremely fortunate at the moment as Mackay has been spared again this year (twice in a week!!!).  Just feeling very anxioius about what everyone north of us is going through.

chat soon

Cheryl

Well it was that behaviour from your English that made the photo so interesting. A much better photo than if they had all been well behaved and posing!

I came across your page ages ago when you first wrote about losing Beau and I added a link about him to my web site as I thought it might help.

Hi Susan

Thanks, yet it was hard to imagine that we didn't get a heap of rain and wind when the cyclone system covered the whole state!!!  We only ended up with 39mm of rain and some wind gusts.  Mackay has been so lucky.....!  I feel the same, I could never leave my animals.  It must have been horrible for the people up north who were told they couldn't take their animals into the evacuation centres.  I wouldn't have gone anywhere without them!!

Sorry to hear that you have experienced bloat first hand.  It would be just terrible.  I hope your fight with the VSB has a good outcome.  Some of our discussions on ES get quite robust and a little pointed, but usually everyone respects everyone, which is how it should be.  The debate should be about the issue, not the people.

I hope you have some news someday soon on Beau.  It would be so horrible always wondering, always looking.

chat soon

Cheryl xx

Ah well we get what we are destined to have. you English and me Irish....unlike what we first decided to get...I for one am very happy with the dogs that chose me...I suspect you are likewise contented with the dogs that chose you....

All the best Dee and the gang

Sam looks as though she is there to stay, I used to have a Jackdaw that would come and tap on the window each morning. But unfortunately I was the one that had to move on....I personally am ''into'' birds, so I would love to see the site of the two of them flying over..

You are lucky to be living somewhere that all this can happen,. I used to be in the country but ill health meant that I have to live in what is called civilization....

Hi Susan

Thanks for sharing your journey with Hobson's health issue.  He looks lovely now.  It must have been so horrible to go through the episode and then not have them treated appropriately and their long recovery...  and all the worry, etc, etc.

I hope you get the outcome you can be happy with, but I think it will be a hard fight against these boards.

I see Hobson is wearing something on his feet?  Do you put them on them all the time inside or just when he was not well?

Hope you are having a great weekend.

cheers

Cheryl

Hi Susan,

Thanks for your warm words on Mitch. I have just posted his biopsy results on the discussion, which were thankfully quite positive.

Just visited your website and am deeply saddened to read what happened to Beau. I can't begin to imagine what you have been through and pray that you and Beau will be reunited one day soon.

Best wishes

Tony & Mitch

Thank you again Susan for your kind words, and for adding me to your friends.

Enjoyed your "Sit" video of Hobson having a paddle and then coming up to you for a good shake. :) Mitch is not at all keen on water,  he much prefers wading through pools of mud and peat bogs (urgh), which are very easy for him to find in wet Wales!

Mitch is quite fine in appearence, at least compared to my previous ES Gus - who was a very big strong boned boy with a personality to match. There are four Engsetts in his line.

Best wishes

Tony

I have only just seen your comment on my Fins birthday blog...sorry if I didn't reply earlier, but yes they are very good at standing and looking really good until you take a camera out...then its every dog for itself...in every conceivable direction...

Thanks for the comment all the best Dee and the gang

I'm so sorry to read your latest news, what a terrible time for you and your darlings.  I've not been online for a while now but saw your message come through and had to let you know that I'm thinking of you all and sending lots of healing vibes xxx

I know it can be rough at time and that is when I held onto those special memories I shared with my boys........the last Shilo I had Pebbles ( the inherited Brittany that put me in the wheelchair for six months) also going thru a different illness...seemed like that is what I did then was take care of my old gentlemen.......but even with all that I treasure each moment I shared with them and for the life lessons they both taught me.  Pebbles message was a triple one....one Brittany's are as special as Irish Setter's are, St Louis Cardinal baseball is what you watch when it is too hot outside ( where I found my Molly a year later) and that rescued dogs can be wonderful pets.  So hope that soon you have them both feeling better so you can just relax a bit and enjoy them.

S

Oh my dear, very dear Susan, I am so very sorry to read about Hammer's departure!!!!! I had my sister visiting and did not open my computer for quite a while, sorry for the delay, I just cannot believe it ... what a tragedy!

My heart is with you lovely Susan, and I sincerely hope that the love of Rose and Hobson will help you to face this horrible time.

Susan, I have just found out this very minute that you've lost your beautiful Hammer. I am so, so sorry.  I have been wondering & thinking about him often.  Not hearing from you, I was worried. 

Please know you are both in my thoughts & prayers.  He was a lovely boy who will live on in your heart forever.

My sincere condolences.

I am very sorry to read the news about hammer.... He was a lovely dog and for sure a great friend to you... He will run free now and wish you alle the best

Best regards from Holland, Marjolein

That's a really lovely thing to say Susan,I hope you feel a little better today . I lost my beautiful Morgan june 2010

and the kind comments I received on ES helped enormously, nothing makes up for the loss but some how the knowledge that others understood the loss was comforting. I wept every day for at least three months , they are not just pets but more like children

all the best Peter

Lots of patience, love , strength and friends around you.After hard times come nice moments.Many hugs for your sweethearts, I can understand your feelings and worries now.Lots of love from Reni and Isis

one day at a time Susan ,there will be good days and bad days. I think it was about 3 and a bit months after I lost Morgan I realized "I didn't cry today". there is some peace in knowing that there is no more suffering for them.

best wishes Peter

Thank you very much for your comments.

How are you and all your animal friends?

Love

Reni