Hello Again
After my two questions of yesterday todays nosey one is for members (And I find all the answers absolutely fascinating ) with other pets so it is .
Apart from Cavaliers but mention them anyway and including other breeds of dogs what other pets live with you ,pls answer with as wide a range as possible and include any living thing .Private or embarrassing answers (thinking here if anybody owns boa constrictors that may be needed for work or similar) answers pls write on the back of a blank cheque and PM me for my home address , oh and of course any monies received will be donated to charity.
As of now I am low on stock so I can only say Three Cavalier Girls ,One White Girl Pussycat and If I can bend the rules as I asked first Eight semi-feral cats at work but I feed them 7/7 so they are partly part of my clan.
No Boa Constrictor I'm afraid, just a lot of boring old dogs.
Besides three resident cavaliers dogs, one young bitch kidnapped by my daughter, and a tricolour dog I part own with my friend ( he lives with her ) I have six Japanese Chins.
Fonzi my first chin is elght. He was shown and won a little when a puppy but then developed a wry mouth, so his tongue now peeps out the side of his mouth. He is very nosey, loves people, and is always trying to go home with my neighbours.
He is about 7lbs and has a wonderful flowing coat that reaches the ground. He is very oriental and cat like. He does not sniff things on the ground that interest him, he will put out a dainty foot and tap it.
He allows me to love him.
Tyson ( name is a joke ) is now seven. He did not make the show ring. Not typy enough & too large, but the smartest dog ever. The biggest of my chins, he probably weighs 10lbs and has a big bark & is a very good guard dog.
He knows the difference between chins and cavaliers & guards the other chins from the big boys. When we had chin puppies he guarded the whelping box, would let the chins near but not the cavaliers.
He gives enthusiastic kisses, climbs everywhere given the chance, & has a sense of humour.
Benny is about 6-7lb, aloof and unfriendly with strangers, and not at all cuddly. He is my pillow dog, and the one I worry about on the very rare occasions that I have to leave them in kennels.
He will climb any gate or barrier ( has got over an 8 foot chain fence gate ) &, at home, will scratch the door frames until he is allowed to go where he wants to go, which is with me. He sleeps on a shelf under my computer while I am typing.
Benny will occasionally give me a lick, but on the whole he is undemonstrative, but I am his life and he is always near me.
He did well in the show ring but is now six & retired from showing.
Bridgette ( the Midget ) was bred by me. Three & a half years old. Tiny little girl but now spayed & too fat. Bustles around pushing the others away from their food bowls if I do not watch her.
Poor girl grows fat on the sniff of a biscuit.
She loves to cuddle but spends most of her time putting Fonzi under siege because he guards his treats instead of eating them. She usually gets them in the end.
Confident bossy little madam
Hana, her sister, is beautiful but timid of strangers, noises, shadows. Was a wonderful mother and my daughter also kidnapped George, the little boy that I kept from the last litter.
Hana loves to cuddle & has sudden mad moments when she will twirl wildly in the middle of the room. Spends most of her time on the back of the sofa trying to avoid the advances of William, the oldest cavalier, who thinks she is wonderful.
Dandy is my show boy, part owned with a very well known breeder of cavaliers & chins.
Beautiful head, very pretty boy, and a cavalier temperament in a chin body. Covers you with kisses, always wants to be picked up & cuddled, happy, waggy, an absolute delight, who shows well and wins well.
Dandy was really a kennel dog who came to us when he was about 16 months, & he very quickly learned to use the dog flap & to be clean in the house.
He is now a bed dog, who likes to sleep on whatever jumper I had on that day. He scrunches it up under him and in the morning is usually fast asleep on it, upside down, legs straight up in the air. He often stays there long after we have got up & only comes out when he hears the breakfasts being prepared.
He adores my husband, who finds it very flattering.
As this is not about the cavaliers I will have to leave the 'big boys' until another time.
Margaret C
