Buffy: October 2009

Sunday 25 October 2009

FAME!

I think I need an agent (anyone got Max Clifford’s number?). First there was my blog, then a video, I’m on Facebook and now I’m featured in the NAWT Christmas appeal! Wow, I’m famous! Who’d have thought it – I’m no pedigree, I have a dodgy heart and I was picked up by a dog warden! Just goes to show, everyone gets to have their fifteen minutes of fame. If it hadn’t been for my NAWT family none of this would have happened – I owe them big time! Now, can anyone recommend a good stylist?

Coming soon "How To Extract Tip-Bits Part 2".
Don't forget all the pictures here click to enlarge.

The NAWT Shop . . . . . . . . .

Friday 16 October 2009

I’m not a morning dog

Resting during an early morning walk

I’ve decided - I’m not a morning dog. The breakfast bit is worth getting out of bed for (full English would be better, but I’m not holding my breath on that one!) but it’s the morning walk I’m not too keen on. I get to the end of the drive, look around and think, no, not today thank you. I know I need to go, but I struggle with my walks so they have to be very slow, with lots of breaks for me to catch my breath and that’s not much fun now the mornings are getting darker. Sometimes I get carried home to make things easier for me because I’m having trouble breathing and my back legs have gone wobbly, but once I’m home I soon recover. I go for another walk in the afternoon and can’t go as far as I’d like, but at least I’m out in the fresh air and I can have a good old sniff around and sometimes bump into the neighbours. I’d like to be able to do the same as other dogs and go for long walks around the fields and chase balls, but can’t so I make the most of other things. I’m fine in the house and garden (as long as I don’t get over excited and end up collapsing!), enjoy quiet fun and games and get loads of fuss and attention, so all in all, life’s pretty good - even with a duff heart!

Sunday 4 October 2009

My Day Out

My day out in the Cotswolds
Well, it was more like a few hours really but I did

window shopping

people watching

and bird watching
but not much walking!

About Me

Hi I'm Buffy, it's been said that I'm a Springer Spaniel/Collie cross but no one really knows. I’m six years old and I’ve just found a new home after spending the last two and half years being looked after in the best animal rescue centre around, Trindledown Farm. I now live near Chippenham, Wiltshire England in a very small village called Draycot Cerne.

I'm a very special little girl, loving and friendly, bright and happy but I have a bit of a problem with my heart. It's called a Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) bit of a mouthful I know but it means that I mustn't over do things.

I have the less common and inoperable right to left shunting PDA. I have tried various medications for my condition but with very limited success. Google “reverse Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) dogs” for more information.

A brief History of Me

I was probably born in 2003.

Nobody knows where I lived from then until I was found as a stray by a south coast dog warden in 2007.

My stay with the dog warden was short, about seven days. Most strays are reunited with thier owners very quickly but nobody came for me. At this time my heart condition was unknown.

I left the dog warden’s care to travel to the Watford NAWT centre. It was there that my condition became apparent. The NAWT paid for me to see a veterinary cardiologist who diagnosed a reverse shunting PDA. Everyone at Watford did their best for me but I was finding life there stressful so it was decided that I should move to the tranquil setting of Trindledown Farm.

I was very happy at Trindledown. I was very well looked after. I also had quite a number of people consider re-homing me but unfortunately no one was really suitable because of my PDA. In July 2009 the people who live with me now came to Trindledown looking to re-home a dog. As luck would have it they met my requirements for new owners as they had no other pets or children that might cause me stress and they lived in a quiet country location so I left Trindledown and moved to Wiltshire in August 2009.