Dec 2009
Cat of the Week: Lennon
One of the highlights of visiting the folks’ for
Christmas was meeting their two new cats, Buddy and
Lennon. Both ginger toms – they’re not brothers,
though they’ll snuggle down together and wash each
other – they have very distinct personalities. When I
got home, sadly, I found that I only had pictures of
one, the more timid Lennon, but aww, just look!
What bigs eyes you have!
What big teeth you have!
What a pink nose you have!
What fluffy paws you have!
What bigs eyes you have!
What big teeth you have!
What a pink nose you have!
What fluffy paws you have!
Dog of the Week: Spike
This sad little chap is Spike, an American Bulldog
who was rehomed from the Bath Cats and Dogs Home and later
dumped again at Weston-super-Mare to be found as
a stray and picked up by volunteers a second
time. He’s thin, timid and tired.
I’m not overly sentimental about animals, and on the scale of human cruelty, I guess that dumping a dog for whatever reason barely registers, but I’m utterly at a loss as to why someone, having taken an animal from a rescue home – and having been given the education that is insisted on there – would still think it acceptable to pull up in a car, push a dog out, and drive off. They know that the rescue home exists, and while I’m sure you’d feel like a heel returning an animal to a centre after trying to home it, that’s surely preferable to betraying its trust and dumping it to fend for itself. Bah.
He wasn’t the most demonstrative dog – though latterly he warmed especially to Jenny – but he was very gentle and sweet with his big paws and his droopy jowls and his big heid, and he was delighted to see his carer again. I suspect he now sees the Bath Cats and Dogs Home as being his safe and loving place, which, though true, is still sad.
I’m not overly sentimental about animals, and on the scale of human cruelty, I guess that dumping a dog for whatever reason barely registers, but I’m utterly at a loss as to why someone, having taken an animal from a rescue home – and having been given the education that is insisted on there – would still think it acceptable to pull up in a car, push a dog out, and drive off. They know that the rescue home exists, and while I’m sure you’d feel like a heel returning an animal to a centre after trying to home it, that’s surely preferable to betraying its trust and dumping it to fend for itself. Bah.
He wasn’t the most demonstrative dog – though latterly he warmed especially to Jenny – but he was very gentle and sweet with his big paws and his droopy jowls and his big heid, and he was delighted to see his carer again. I suspect he now sees the Bath Cats and Dogs Home as being his safe and loving place, which, though true, is still sad.
Dog of the Week: Lennie
Meet Lennie – “a Labrador’s
temperament stuck in a Staffi body”, his carer
says – who I walked today. He didn’t care
much for hoomans, though he warmed to me by the
end of the walk, but it was lovely to get back
up to the home after work had kept me away for
two months. A couple more photos – not that they
really add much – on Flickr.
