Jasper - the very saddest news :-(

We have some very sad news about my little old doggie brother, Jasper :-(


Thank you to everyone who has sent him good thoughts.

Minnie & Muzzle
x

Nearly the weekend

Hello all,

We have had a worrying week as my older brother Jasper has a poorly heart and as you can imagine, Muzzle and Daddy are worried :(

Jasper is on meds and has another vet check in a couple of weeks. He's still got a good appetite and zest for life and as we always have, are counting each day with him as a blessing.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Minnie-Moo
xxx

(Muzzle thinks I had caught a whiff of tuna cake)

Flying through the clover

Not one of me as the observant amongst you will realise ;-) but one of my older brother Jasper, having fun running (or is it flying) through the clover.

For anyone new to my blog, Jasper has only been with us since New Year's Eve - his previous owner was very ill and the family took Jasper to a vet to be put down. The vet was reluctant to put him down, as although he was 12 he was in general good health, but they were closing for New Year. The vet contacted Oldies Club and Jasper came to us as an emergency foster. He loves life and is a really sweet boy. He helps Muzzle with fundraising for Oldies Club.

Oldies Club Saved My Life - Please vote for Jasper

Please click here to read my brother's story and vote for him - he's trying to get the most votes to win a donation for Oldies Club, a dog rescue charity in the UK.

Thank you!

Muzzle and Jasper, just days after Oldies Club saved his life.

Out for lunch

Yesterday Muzzle and Dad took me and Jasper, my Oldies Club brother, out to visit a garden. They had a cream tea and saved us each a little piece of the scone. Yummy!

Since Muzzle is usually behind the camera and not fond of being photographed, Dad took hold of the camera for a little while for a change and photographed us with Muzzle. We like this photo :-)


It was a beautiful garden and dogs are welcome, but we have to stay on lead. I usually want to charge around at the sight of lots of grass so it was a bit confusing for me but still fun!

Minnie Me?

Recently we met a little Labrador puppy out on a walk. She was very sweet and gentle and said hello very nicely to us.

Muzzle said the puppy reminded her a lot of me when I was little. She took this photograph of her and my oldie brother Jasper.

A word to the wise.

Happy Gotcha Day to Me!

Today it's my gotcha day, two years since Muzzle and Daddy brought me home, adopting me from Lab rescue.

I have had a fab weekend. Muzzle organised a little walk for me yesterday with some doggie friends and today I had a great walk too. I've chased my ball a lot this weekend!

A few photos from my weekend ...


Here's a photo of our little group walk - that's me in the centre with Daddy and Jasper, plus our friends little Louie and three other Oldies Club dogs who joined us for the walk and their people of course :)

Jess the collie wasn't too keen on being in the photo as you can see, but Muzzle managed to fit her in. Just LOL.

Minnie in spring-time

We've had a few lovely days of sunshine this week which Muzzle said has made all the mud from previous days more bearable.

I've been boinging around in the sunshine, so thought I would share a few photos. Of me and of Jasper, my new old brother. Muzzle and Daddy started letting him off lead for the first time a few days ago (he is 12 but he's only been with us a few months and the vets who saved him warned he didn't recall so they've been working on this).

He was a very good boy and is loving running around off lead as you can see. Pretty good for a dog that was taken to the vets to be put down just before New Year?




Love Minnie-Moo
xxx

Angels Among Us

Our thought for the weekend ...

As some of my blog friends already know, Muzzle is involved with a UK dog rescue charity called Oldies Club, which rescues and rehomes dogs aged 7+. That's how my new old brother Jasper came to live with us.


We know many of you are in the US, so Muzzle wanted me to let you know about a few similar rescue groups she has heard of.

There's Angels Among Us Animal Sanctuary - link.

There's also the Grey Muzzle Organisation - link.

Oh (and edit), knew there would be more - there's also the Old Dog Haven - link.

She's sure there are more and will link to them if she remembers/finds them. If you know of any others helping older dogs, tell us :-) Check them out for your next doggie friend/to see if you can help them :)

We love the "oldies" and wish that all dogs had lovely homes. Muzzle sometimes (often) is in tears because dogs are being put down because there aren't enough good homes. Please think about making your next dog a rescue dog. There are breeds, ages, sizes and personalities of rescue dog to suit every nice owner.

We are all rescue dogs here and we get on brilliantly, snuggle up on the sofa together and look appealingly for treats together too.

Muzzle says rescue dogs are wonderful ... have a great weekend.

Love Minnie-Moo and an emotional Muzzle
xxx

My new old brother

Hello everyone, thank you for the good wishes for my poorly eye (well the area around my eye).

I've finished my Anti-Biotics now and Muzzle is letting me have some time out of the plastic cone for good behaviour. She says I have been a very good girl at wearing it - when she went to put it back on after taking it off to clean it/give me a break etc., I poked my little head back through the collar for her, which she says helped her a lot.

Now to introduce you to our family member. He is 12 years old and has been with us four weeks now. He was due to be put down the day before New Year's Eve - you can read about that on the Oldies Club site here.

Jasper has settled in very well and Muzzle and Daddy say it feels like he has always been here. He is a very nice boy and we think he likes it here now. He was unsettled at first, but spending the night at the vets, then going in a car with strangers and then to another car and another home, must be upsetting.

This is one of the first photos Muzzle took of him, after managing to get him to settle in a dog bed for a while on his first evening.

This one was taken a week or so ago - love his white paw!


and these are from earlier this week. We think he is a very handsome boy :-)



Jasper loves to have a snuggle, likes to help Muzzle light the fire, sits nicely for his food and gets excited when it's time for a walk. When Muzzle gets his harness and lead he starts jumping a little in the air (though he sits when asked). Certainly not a boy ready for the Bridge so we're very grateful to the vets and Oldies Club for saving him. More photos etc. of Jasper here.

Birthday Walk

Thank you for my birthday wishes :) Muzzle arranged a little walk for me yesterday to celebrate my birthday with some great people and lovely dogs!

I got to play with my new ball and had a great run around. It was cold and frosty but a nice, dry, sunny winters day!



We stopped at the pub so that our people could have a coffee and then we walked back again. On the drive home we picked up some more logs and kindling so Muzzle could make us a nice warm fire. Perfect day :-)

Here are a few of the other dogs that joined us, including Jasper, who Muzzle, Daddy and I went to collect on New Year's Eve to foster for Oldies Club. I'll post about him separately soon as he deserves his own post.

This is Jess, who was adopted from Oldies Club :) She came along with her mum and dad and is as ball obsessed as me, maybe even a little more?! We think she is a very pretty girl.

This is Freddie, one of the Bassets that joined us on the walk. She was rather keen to get near the water and we're not sure how she avoided falling in at times (if you look at the link to more photos below, you'll see what I mean!).

Lots more photos can be seen HERE.

Love,

Minnie-Moo
x

I'm back!

Hello to all my friends, old and new!

Can't believe it's been so long since I last blogged. I blame Muzzle, she's been so busy I've not had much of a chance to use her computer. She's been sending out lots of packs for those people that have very kindly sponsored an oldie for Christmas.

Now she's warming herself by the fire, I thought I'd pop on for an update ...

Trying to think of what I have been up to since I last blogged. The most exciting thing would have to be the walk Muzzle and Daddy took me on last weekend. It was the Winter Walkies organised by Oldies Club, a wonderful UK dog rescue charity that Muzzle volunteers for. We met up with lots of dogs (Muzzle counted about 40!) and their people and had a fantastic walk around some trees - an arboretum is its posh name!

Muzzle took lots of photos which you can see HERE. I had a ball - literally, look:


All the dogs got on really well together and our people had a good chat too. We must have looked quite a sight for those other walkers we met along the way! There were five dogs there who were adopted from Oldies Club, who brought their lovely new families along for the walk, plus lots of dogs from other rescues, me included.


After the walk we met up at the start and shared goodies. We were very lucky that the weather was dry and sunny after all the rain we have had.

Minnie-Moo
xxx

Scrounging Minnie-Moo

Yesterday I spent the day at a charity dog show with Muzzle. She had a stall to sell her cards and it was right next to the Oldies Club stall so we had some good company.

Muzzle said I was very well behaved - such a good girl she let me stay off lead most of the day as I just hung around with her and the people nearby and said hello to lots of people and dogs. Muzzle was very proud of me and a few people told her how well behaved I was :)

This did mean I had the opportunity to check all those coming near the stalls for treats - and I did very well from this - well Muzzle said, who could resist this face ... ?

Oldies Club dogs rehomed 2008

Muzzle helps a charity called Oldies Club - click here for the website - which helps to rescue and rehome older dogs in the UK.

Another committee member called Amy has made a montage of the dogs the charity has rehomed this year. I hope you will all take a look - there are lots of beautiful dogs of all sorts of different breeds and crosses. It made Muzzle cry - although pretty much everything makes Muzzle cry.

If you would like to make a donation to Oldies Club to enable them to help dogs next year, you can do so via their website (as above) - they take PayPal, cheques, bank transfer etc.