Hey folks!

Hi Pawsforthought nice to see some of the older members older members coming back.
I have Riley a Tri rough collie he is 10 now 🐶Elsa- Mae a sable rough collie who is 5 , Freddy a rescue cat 🐱 and not forgetting Mabel and moonlight our new additions to the family texel guinea pigs🐹🐹look forward to seeing you around the forum 😊maggie is beautiful 💕

lotsofcats, chantel, cazypops,

Thanks for the welcome back! I hope I will stick around! We’re currently buying a house, planning a wedding, both work full time (my OH works from home) and have holidays booked, so we’re very busy bunnies! I also volunteer providing horticultural therapy, which I’m very passionate about, and am studying for an RHS level 2 (horticultural qualification) 😂 basically, we’re trying our best to do all the most stressful things at once. It’s fun, but means I often feel a bit burned out. I’m hoping that a bit of forum time can be a bit of me time though ☺️

It’s really nice to hear from you all. I’m sorry to hear of the losses of Kiba-khan and your kitties too cazypops ☹️ I don’t know if any of you remember Finn, the Irish Setter but he also sadly died after an illness.

It’s been ages since I’ve had a puppy. She’ll likely be about 5-6 months when we can have her, so we’ll miss the real baby stages, which is a bit sad but unavoidable, but I’m trying to remind myself now of all the things I need! Any suggestions? 😆

So sad that Finn passed suddenly Pawsforthought, it is very hard to accept that your pet is here one minute and gone the next. I'm glad you are brave enough to get another dog, it will definitely help you come to term with your loss.

One suggestion for when you get Maggie is to have a large dog crate and get her crate trained - it is very handy. I wouldn't be without one. 5-6 months old is a good age - won't they part with her sooner?

Hi there , good to see you visit. Are you still in touch with Avansa ? I am sorry to hear you lost Finn , lm not on FB or any other social media ,so this was news to me. I lost Beau suddenly too , just over a year go . Sounds like you are living your life to the full ? Well ( sorry to say , there are so few of us still on here ) so we just chit chat away as its good to talk and some on here have been here since new forum 2013 , some from old forum before my time.

You will find no debates on here , no smokeybear no collislave although l note Bryan does pop in once a year , often wonder if Bryn is still with us eh CollieSlave ?

Anyways welcome back. Look firward to hearing all about your new pup xx

She is very beautiful 💕really glad you plucked up the courage to open your heart to another furbaby it took me 18 months to make the decision after losing my 2 girls 😢she will definitely help with your loss and time to make new memories 🥰
Yes I know scallywag exactly what you mean ❤️x

Hey alfiemummy - yes I do remember you! Aww, Alfie is the same age as my Monty and yeah, health issues aplenty! What issues have you had with Alfie? Monty, bless him, has escaped death twice now (at least!) - he had lymphoma, discovered by me when randomly noticing his glands were massively swollen around his throat - we made the difficult decision to put him through chemo. He had a bad reaction to it as he has MDR1 - common in collies, Aussies etc - and nearly died on the Christmas Eve before last. His medications were adjusted, and he’s now in remission from cancer. He still wasn’t really himself though, and it was once we came back from holiday in Greece (on which I proposed to my fiancée ) and saw that he was struggling to breathe, again, made the decision to give him an operation rather than sedate him for the rest of his life, because it turned out he had a laryngeal prolapse. Collapsed larynx. Once recovered from his op - he was a puppy again! He was bounding about, had a lot more energy, and was back to himself. He hadn’t been himself for a couple of years and we’d put it down to the cancer, but the poor thing was struggling to breathe too. My poor boy. My mum was so relieved though that her decisions, which some family members thought were inhumane, were clearly the right ones because he has his quality of life back and is going strong for now

Hey scallywag! I was sure I could rely on you to still be here, and I’m glad you are I’m not really in touch with Avansa - we are perfectly friendly if we do need to contact one another but don’t really talk. I don’t want to speak about someone who isn’t present so I’ll leave it at that

I should clarify though that I was not living with Avansa when Finn passed away, though I did go and support the family and say goodbye to Finn myself. I miss him a lot, and even though I was already missing him after moving out, it feels very different knowing his gorgeous little personality is no longer bouncing around in the world

I appreciate you all saying I’ve been brave having another dog, but honestly I can’t accept it because I’ve been DESPERATE for a dog, but just knew that where I was living was not suitable. Currently where I live, a lovely townhouse in a quiet part of Brighton, has the tiniest little courtyard that I am loathe to call a garden (though I’ve tried my best!) Its fine for Gus cat, but is not a suitable space for a dog considering my partner would probably rely on secure access to a good outdoor space to let the dog out to toilet while she’s working.