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The darling hellion’s film debut

7 November, 2009

in at home, dogs, we are family

Millie 2 MarchEven with the best of domestic and digital organisation, files sometimes can’t be found, and so it has been for a year or two with the video shot and edited by harvestdad in honour of the day on which Millie joined my household and made it a two-dog home.  It was not long before the summer solstice in 2003 when she and her three litter brothers — two red, one black and tan like her — were brought up from Otago by Deena their breeder, and taken away by their respective new owners.  We had so much hope of her, this black-and-tan ball o’ wonder, which proved sustaining in the subsequent months of furious feistiness.

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Itchy and Scratchy

2 October, 2004

in Diaryland, at home, dogs, in Aotearoa, the social round, we are family

Millie has an irritation on the skin around the top of her tail, to relieve which she has chewed out all the undercoat, leaving the harsh topcoat alone lying over skin of quite remarkable whiteness. She stood quite happily on the examining table this morning while the vet probed her (to rule out worms) with a digital precision to which aliens can only aspire, and I now have a bottle of medicated shampoo and a brief course of steroids to provide more targeted relief than good-old-fashioned scratching. I could try my luck with her at the shows next weekend, but I’m sure that exhibiting a dog with secret bald patches is bad competitive karma, so any attempts to start her campaign to title will have to wait a while.

Hopefully the itching will stop presently and with it her recent night time game of waking up in full-scale burglar bark and jumping off the bed in order to run up and down the hall.

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