The Canine Saga.

 Above is our dog Polly, an Australian Kelpie Labrador cross who unfortunately succumbed to cancer towards the end of March. She was nearly 12 years old and up until her final collapse was displaying no symptoms at all of the tumour on her spleen. We said a very sad farewell to Polly thinking that we couldn't bear to have another dog and say goodby again, having done it 5 times already over the past 50 years.

However we have now rescued Sophie, a Kelpie Border Collie cross who suffered horrific injuries at some stage recently and who was given up for adoption. She is very sweet and came with a set of skills already learned, unlike Polly who wasn't even house trained when we adopted her at the age of 2.

 As part of her scialising into the family we tried introducing her to Molly, a Groodle. Molly was very keen to get to know Sophie, but Sophie didn't want to meet Molly at all.

 Seeing Molly play in the mud and water on a wet afternoon in the park I don't blame Sophie!  What a little ragamuffin Molly is.