Archie and Kobi: August 2019

August 2010

July 2010

I've had a copy of this photo printed out and sitting in a frame on my desk for about a decade now.

July 2010

A chilly winter walk, snow on the back hills. Archie has never really cared about that sort of thing, though, and got in the water at Otaihanga anyway.

July 2010

July 2010

June 2010

And here's Errol with Milo. This aristocratic little kitten was born much earlier in the year, but he and litter were fosters with cat flu that I helped out with. Errol, the sickest, was touch-and-go for days. He got very thin, his eyes were gummed shut, and he had to be fed with a syringe.

He pulled through, though!

But all his fur fell out. So he stayed with the foster family a little longer than the others who went back to the SPCA to be adopted, since he was a little kitten with no fur anywhere except on his head. He looked hilarious.

Then my sister happened to be wanting a cat, and the stars aligned, and we brought Errol home with us, a second adopted foster after Jack, who was a feral kitten. Milo and Twister were strays we adopted out of the garden.

May 2010

It will become apparent soon that I have long thought it funny to put clothes one dogs...

May 2010

My birthday that year, as many years since, was German Shepherd focused.

May 2010

This was the dog run where the dog spent the day, way back when. It's been gone for a long time and the dogs live inside all the time.

March 2010

He did have muscle wasting in the muscles in his forelimbs, as is to be expected in a case of severe elbow dysplasia. But this could only ever be felt, or seen if he was sopping wet.