We are completely guilty of being one of those families that consists of more animals than people, and in fact, in our thirteen years together, Keith and I have had a wide and varied assortment of pets, including at one time some wallabies in our back yard – which we had obtained by swapping some polish bantam chickens – the wallabies, in turn, were swapped for a peacock three years ago, and last autumn we managed to obtain a peahen for him…….so hopefully this spring we will have little pea chicks running around the farm! In the mean time, as part of Keith’s job as a shepherd, he needs working dogs for gathering and working the sheep, and this week we added to our working dog possie with Misty – a 7 week old bearded collie.
Enough to make the blokiest bloke go soft at the knees!
Learning the first commands.....sit and look gorgeous!
So Misty is going to live in the house as a companion for Dherric (gaelic word pronounced Gerrick) who is our mad, but absolutely gorgeous Springer. We are hoping she will have a calming effect on him! The kids are obviously delighted…..and Keith is totally dotty about her too. I think she is lovely, but will be much happier when she works out the finer points of going outside for the toilet!
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