Hello friends.
We’ve been wanting to for a while and have decided now is the time to start a new blog.
It’s still a work in progress but you can find us at http://www.laaldogblog.wordpress.com
Hopefully we’ll keep it nicely updated and get to visit our blog friends more regularly.
Hurro efurrybody!
Well, It has beed a while! But of course, I couldn’t let a Crisp-mas go by without checking on my family. Cos I is sure they need some Crispmassy help from me, Ludo!
Let’s have a look and see…
Arran be looking pretty fluffy as usual and I hears he got the new-ters and is doing well.
Molly and Faline my rabbit-dog siblings are relaxing as usual. Crisp mas does not be so exciting for them and they is getting old. Molly has cataracts now but he gets by ok!
Wait, what’s this! An interloper in my Crispmas pics!
Oh, That’s just Arthur, my new baby brother. As you can see he a not-a-sheltie. He being a good friend for Arthur and I has given him some Crisp mas tips already. Mum says he pretty like me as a puppy and so I will allow him to be in the picture. He goofy and sweet and he makes my pawrents smile so I guess he ok. He 7 months old now and growing up quickly.
I want them all to be happy at Crisp mas time.
Thinking of you all from across the bridge, my dear friends. Thank you for thinking of my too.
Love, Ludo.
Hello everyone,
Well, I said I had some pictures to share of Ludo’s last day with us, and here they are.
We decided a couple of days before that Ludo was in too much pain and not able to enjoy things like he wanted to and so we had booked his vet appointment. He was such a brave boy, right to the end and if anyone had seen him in good moments they would have thought he was mostly fine, maybe just a bit hobby, so we were able to enjoy our last day together.
I took the day off work and we headed down to the beach with a picnic.
The sun was shining down on us and it was such a beautiful day. The water sparkled in the sunlight, there were other happy dogs around and I let Ludo chase the ball as much as he wanted to. It felt like I was getting a little glimpse of where Ludo would be headed next and I am so happy we got to have that happy day together. I am sure my photos don’t do it justice but I hope they capture a bit of how beautiful it was.
We started off with an ice cream. The locally made kind and Ludo got a whole cone to himself. He couldn’t believe his luck! (Arran had a little bit in a paper tub)
We sat on the rocks and watched the world go by. A whole class room of school children were doing something with geography near by, but they didn’t come too close. Then Ludo sat and watched my lunch be eaten and helped out with the challenging iced bun cake part of it.
It felt like we were the only ones there and I thought of all the fun we’d had exploring these shores together.
I wonder if all those people know what a special day it is today…
Belly full of ice cream but ever hopeful for more.
Arran explored for a bit on his own, but we managed to get one photo with all 3 of us together. It felt like rather a timeless moment.
But time waits for no Mum, especially not when you have a shetland-rabbit dog, waiting to continue their last adventure!
Let’s go have fun Mum!
Wait for it…
Catch me if you can, Ludo!
The rock pools looked so inviting. He couldn’t swim but he still enjoyed a nice wade through the water…
Someone got very sandy! He usually liked to roll around on the dry sand or grass after being in the water to try off his face, but his tumour was stopping him going too far over so I dried him with some tissues.
I’ve zoomed in on this head shot, because I could see myself in his eye. 🙂
Running to the horizon
Seaside shelties
We stayed for hours, I didn’t want it to end, but it had to, as all things must.
My boy
So, he went with sand in his fur and some cheese in his mouth and I think he would have been pleased with that.
Thank you for sticking with me, through these sad days. My friends, what would I have done without you all and your kind words and your loving of Ludo?
I’m not quite sure what to do with the blog. It’s always been his. So I think this will be it for Seaside shelties. Arran still has some things to say, so maybe we’ll start again someplace else. I’ll be sure to let you know if we do. But for now, I guess all we have to do is wish you lots of Lickies, Love Ludo and Mum. (and Arran and TND and Molly and Faline too. xx)
Signing off.
Ludo was helped to the bridge at around 6pm yesterday. His cancer was just too advanced for him to be able to enjoy life in the way he wanted so we decided it was time for his pain to end. He went very peacefully, with his family at his side and some cheese in his mouth. I hope he knew how much he was loved and how much he meant to us.
Thank you for sticking with us. We made sure we had a memorable last day so I’ll be sure to post about that soon.
We really miss him.
-Dee.
Hurro furiends,
It me, Ludo!
Since I last posted I is not been doing so well. My cancer being very annoying and ouchy and not feeling comfortable at all. I is trying to not notice but it getting very hard. I still like to try and go out for walkies but we doesn’t seem to get far and I need to go to the toilet all the time, even though I can’t!
Mum has been trying to help me take my mind off it by playing little games on the floor and rolling the ball to me and we has been doing some tricks and playing find the treats and playing with my ‘brain game’ toys.
Mum and TND help us do them as I doesn’t have the same energy to figure out how to do them by myself.
Like me Arran, not with your feets for this part. You has to pull, push and nudge this one.
I make sure I tell Arran not to come near me when I is doing my treat games. He being a very good little brother at the moment and not being all annoying and sniffing me all the time, like he did be when I first got cancer. I hope Stella forgives me for my very mean face. Hehe! Don’t do worryings, he would not come anywhere near me when I show him my mean face.
We made a video but it not very good as Mum does not really has a proper video recorder! I has fun doing my tricks even though I cas not do some of them so well as I used to. My lump very big now. 😦 I is very happy when we is doing ‘take my mind off it’ things but when we is not I is not quite so happy.
I is going back to the vets someday soon and Mum says that maybe I will see my Auntie Penny. Mum is a bit teary about that but I will try my best to cheer her up!
~Lickies, Ludo!
pee ess: Thank you so much for sticking with us and all your nice comments. Sorry that we haven’t been by to your blogs in a while.
Hurro! Ludo here!
Last weekend some of Mum’s sisters visited and so we had a big family walk at Lake Ennerdale. Auntie Toni couldn’t come but Mum’s nieces and nephew brought Poppy along. Poppy is the other sheltie who looks a bit like Arran.
Grandpawents dog Rusty comed too and we met Auntie Tracey’s dog Wilbur who be a shitzu x yorkshire terrier and Auntie Tricia had Lily who a staffie x jack russel. It be a typical Cumbrian day. Not quite raining but just about to. Although it did get a bit sunnier at the end.
Here we is!
Seaside Shelties 