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Never thought I'd say this before but I am really glad we got rain. The weather was too extreme and I am a wuss in extreme weather either hot or cold I don't hold any preference.  So it's been really hard with the heat and my poor black dog was feeling it too, not to mention I have asthma and have been wheezing like mad, trying to keep an asthma attack at bay. Today is slightly cooler so I am more happier and the relief is good!. 

Discovered today how to do the css on Deviantart it's easy once you know how. 

Sitting here drinking my second cup of black coffee which is good for prickly heat btw which I get when it's summer. Only found out about black coffee recently doh! but now I have I am actually enjoying it.

One other thing I don't like about it being so hot are the dragon flies yikes they're bigger and scarier and ever and all the daddy long legs that come in, although yeah they're creepy I don't mind them as much as those blood suckers that come in and make a bee line for an arm or a leg, if you're in bed make sure you don't get a bite on your bum!! 

No holidays for me this year, struggling atm and need to get a car and hopefully I can get a business from it.. plans for the future, we all have to have some..

I will leave you for now just wanted to share some thoughts with you, have a nice day and don't get too hot!! drink plenty and walk in the shade as much as possible, leave your dog indoors until 8 in the evening even if they are giving you those eyes poor babies won't be able to take it too much.
 



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Louis

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I began to realize that life goes on and I missed having a k9 in my life, so along came Louie


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Soloman

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My tribute to my wonderful dog Soloman, I started it back in October just after he died and couldn't bring myself to finish it. But I'm happy I have done now. Miss him so much, dogs are so clever and intelligent. One of the greatest thing that happened to me was meeting him.

He was such a great dog

He came into my life on February 14th 2003, he was my Mums dog to begin with but because I had trained our doberman we had when I was in my teens he was quickly given to me in the August, I had been sharing the care of him before hand, but my home was more dog friendly and from the August I took sole responsibility for him. He threw our lives upside down at first, this bouncy doberman jumping all over the place but we loved him and my sons adored him.

He never had a care in the world and one night a burgalar broke into my house which was a 3 storey house and he was lying out side my sons room on the 3rd floor I am convinced the burgalar got in through my bedroom window,  I lived in an old Edwardian house with huge windows, my bedroom was on the 2nd floor and the window was above the wall outside my front entrance. It's my belief that he climbed the wall and jumped up to the window, which was wide open because of a hot summer. Because I was in a state of between asleep and awake and what was dream like I can remember a tall athletic handsome black man walking around my bed smiling a big teethy smile at me, chills me to the bone now. But in my unconsiousness I wasn't phased, I can remember him walking out the room too.

 Soon after I heard galloping down the stairs and the front door slamming, this woke me up completely and my first thought was my son had gone out at 4 in the morning and I looked out the window only to see this athletic black man running down the road. I thought it was his friend Paul so I rang Pauls number to have a go at him. Of course no answer, he was asleep at home in bed.

I walked out of my bedroom and down one flight to half way between downstairs and my bedroom. There was Solly standing on the landing with his head tilted to one side. Then it started to dawn on me it was Solly who had galloped down the stairs and scared someone off possibly a burgalar. So at this point all of us were awake and we went down into the sitting room and discovered it had been a burgular, as the ps2 had been taken and some games and videos plus keys out of a coat
The police were called but never found any finger prints. My unconscious experience wasn't remembered until a few days later because of the fact it was dream like. It took years for the full picture to be remembered though, and now I have pieced it together, I am convinced that is what happened. In my head it was like a normal day with this person there like I knew him, for all I know I might have smiled back.

But from that day he became a more serious protective dog who was more alert and took his roll as a guard dog seriously. He would now growl if someone got to close to the house. He always lie on the landing between my bedroom and the sitting room after that.

Sometimes Solly did be a bit over protective but I had to hold him tight on the lead, he was never quite the same dog who I had taken for long walks off the lead I had to be more aware who was around, he never bit anyone but because he had long claws as dobermans do he might scratch when he jumped up. He also learned a technique to run into peoples legs and knock them down so I had to be very aware as not many people will be good willed about that sort of thing.


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Today I pick myself up and continue on my path to where ever that leads me. My Soloman would have wanted that, he never liked seeing any of us unhappy, so in his memory I won't shed no more tears. My lips are dry and still partially chapped from all the crying.

I will think of the happy times we shared, the time you nibbled my back when I was lying on the floor and left me paralized in laughter like you aimed just for the funny places and you was the only one who knew how to do that to me lol.

The times you was in the garden with me and I was putting a mini fence in which was really hard and came beside me and offered your back for support.

The love you had for my sons, the genuine love in your face, the way you loved a roll around with them.

The fields I took you too and the fields I wanted to take you too, the parks you visited.

The time my Dad made a gate to keep you inclosed in your own part in their garden and you opened it lol such a clever boy. You would watch and learn, you was the smartest dog in the world.

The companionship you gave to me, through good times and bad, when I cried you were there to lick my face.

I will live on for you my faithful loving boy Soloman. R.I.P 20/11/2002 - 13/10/2012


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My beautiful beautiful doberman Soloman, 

 On the Friday 28th of September we took him to the vets to have a fatty tissue lump removed, the vet saw him and Solly seemed to be in perfect health, but upon arriving home that day he developed a cough.

On the Monday 1st October after I returned to the vets, the cough wasn't severe and he was diagnosed with kennel cough and I was given a course of anti-biotic which I gave to him for the next week the cough didn't get worse but hadn't improved either so I thought as I had read that it can take up to 6 weeks with an older dog it was just going to take time..

Thursday 11th October the cough suddenly changed for the worse but I just thought it had loosened up and was phlegm. From that moment he deteriorated so quickly Friday night he couldn't lay down or sleep with out the cough making him get up and that night he spent mainly on his feet I am only glad I was with him as I decided to stay up with him and I got about 2 hours sleep.

On Sat morning the 13th October, when I got up he was foaming at the mouth and wanted to stand in the garden, I couldn't help notice he was trembling then my son came into the room and said he had coughed up blood.

By that time and a couple of hours later by the time I got to the vets he was heavily bringing up blood and at first the vet hadn't seen this and listened to his heart and started along the lines of heart decease and telling me what my options were. But with that he coughed up a huge amount of blood and the vet said to me there was no doubt in his mind, my Soloman had cancer and the state he was in meant it was his time to go. (Put to sleep).

I stayed with him when they did it and he peacefully slipped away and he looked so beautiful, I am still in shock at how quick and sudden this all happened, I miss him madly.

R.I.P My beautiful Soloman 20th November 2002 - 13th October 2012

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