Friday, March 31, 2006
Okay. Peaches and Franky told me I should get my pack to do write ups, like they did. I can do it, So can Kita, and Mishka, but I think Inka, and that daft pup Shunya, might have a little trouble with it. But I am sure Mum will help them if they need it. So, here goes.
Hi. I'm Ben. Well, that's what Mum calls me, but my real name is Aaronby Vivid Colour. Mum said she is not standing outside yelling THAT at me to get me to come in. She says by the time she had finished calling it out, I would have run off! This is one of my Mums favourite picture of me.
Its not the best pic, but it was one of the first ones she took after I stopped being so frightened.You see, I didn't have the best start in life. The lady who bred me, and my brothers and sisters, is a lovely lady named Jackie. She is one of Mums best friends. She got my Mum and Dad together, and looked after Mum really well until we were born. Then she took such wonderful care of us. She played with us every day. For the first four weeks of our life we stayed upstairs in the whelping room. It was nice and warm there. And safe. So very safe.
But when we were four weeks old, we went down to live in the kitchen.
Jackie has lots of other dogs, and they all came to meet us then. They were VERY big, well, big to us anyway. Jackie still played with us every day. And never came past our pen without stopping to talk to us, and give some of us a cuddle.When we were six weeks old other people came to see us. They seemed to want something. Sometimes Jackie said yes to them, and sometimes she said no. I learned later that they wanted to buy some of us. But Jackie only ever sold us to people who she thought would look after us as well as she did. She said no to people who really only wanted a status symbol, or they wanted to make us vicious and nasty. We are not like that naturally you know. That is how people make us.
Anyway, a lady came to see Jackie. She told her that she had lost her GSD bitch. I thought that was really careless until mum explained that it meant her dog had gone to the Rainbow Bridge. That made me sad. The lady talked to Jackie for a long time. Jackie told her that she needed another bitch puppy. I had five sisters so there were plenty to choose from. But the lady said she wanted a dog this time. Jackie wasn't really sure, but she gave her the benefit of the doubt. Jackie explained that dogs need diffferent handling to bitches. The lady said she understood. She paid Jackie some money and took me away. I was frightened.
When we got to the ladys home there was another dog there. He was blind, and every noise made him bark. It hurt my ears. I have big ears, and they are sensitive. At first I tried to play with the other dog, but he kept biting me, and eventually the lady started keeping us in seperate rooms. She always took the other dog out for walks, but she never took me. She said it was too much time wasted. So I stayed in the house. Whenever anyone came to see the lady she locked me in a different room. So I never learned to greet people, and I started getting very, very scared. Of everything. The lady phoned Jackie and told her she couldn't do anything with me. She didn't tell Jackie about leaving me locked in rooms on my own so I never met anyone, or that she didn't take me for walks. Jackie offered to take me back and train me. Oh it was so nice to be back with my Mum and Dad, and all the other members of Jackies pack.
Jackie taught me to not be afraid, and how to walk nicely on a lead. She taught me how to greet people, by sitting down and letting them stroke me. It felt nice. When she had taught me enough, Jackie phoned the lady and she came to get me. I thought it was all going to be different. But it wasn't. The lady still wouldn't let me meet people, and she still wouldn't walk me. So after another month, she phoned Jackie and said I was back how I was originally. Jackie got very angry. She knew that I tried hard to be a good dog, and she knew that I needed lots of attention. I was a growing puppy. Jackie told the lady she would buy me back. The lady took me back to Jackies, and the next day another lady came to see me. She didn't chase me when I didn't want to meet her. She just sat on the floor in the kitchen, playing with my Mum and Dad, and some other puppies that Jackie had. She smelled of other dogs. Happy dogs. I couldn't restrain my curiosity and went over to sniff at her. She didn't try to catch me. She just talked softly to me, and waited until I put my nose on her arm before she offered me her hand. I licked her hand. I liked this lady. All this time, Jackie had been talking to the lady, and I found out she had four other dogs. All related to me somehow. The lady stood up. I went and sat by her side. She stroked my head. It felt so nice.
The lady was my new mum. THIS Mum, and I love her. She loves me too. I was still so very scared of everything when I got to my new Mums house, and would hide when new people came in. That's what I thought I had to do you see. Because the other lady took me away from people.
But Mum taught me not to be afraid. That she wouldn't let anyone hurt me. All the other dogs tried to be my friends, but I didn't know how to play anymore. Slowly, I learned. And I learned it could be FUN. So I played, and I met people, and I went for walks!! WALKS!! I love walks. People see me and want to stroke me because I am so handsome. I AM handsome you know!! Just look at me now! I know I look a bit scruffy in this pic. I was changing my coat. I call it my casual look.
But I am big, strong, bouncy and full of fun now. And I am Daddy to 15 little boys and girls. All who are good boys and girls. Mum made sure that they all went to very, very good homes. She asks people lots of questions when they come to see our puppies. And if they don't answer them all in the right way Mum tells them that they cant have one of our babies.I love lying with my head on Mums feet as she types on the computer. I know she has shown my picture to lots of people on the internet (that's what she says. I don't know what it means) because she reads me all the compliments I get from people.
So now I live my life happily. Surrounded by my family pack. Mum and Dad at the top, Then Kita and myself, then Mishka, then Inka, and finally the little furbucket Shunya. She is Mums newest baby. And even though she is a pain in the butt right now, she will become a big, beautiful, loving, friendly girl. How do I know? Because she has my Mum and Dad to teach her. And they LOVE us all. We are always getting hugs and cuddles. They play with us, they teach us. They love us, and we love them.
So. Hope I didn't bore you with my story.
Love.
BEN
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