Category Archives: sleeping arrangements

those amazing ears!

Posted on August 21, 2015 by patinkingsheath

    Posting days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.   Friday         Isis has been busy regrowing her beautiful ear hair. Did you ever see more magnificent ears? Virtually every time she walks out someone remarks on … Continue reading →

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a very tired dog

Posted on August 14, 2015 by patinkingsheath

    Posting days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.   Friday   Well, I did ask whose bed it was. On Thursday night I get my answer. Poor Isis. Confessions are called for. On Thursday she has a good long … Continue reading →

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looking back

Posted on August 12, 2015 by patinkingsheath

    Posting days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.   Wednesday It’s hard to believe that in seventeen days Isis will have been here for a year. I’ve just re-read my first blog entry. It was August 19th 2014 and … Continue reading →

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whose bed is it?

Posted on August 10, 2015 by patinkingsheath

    Posting days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.   Monday   Hrrrmph. Isis takes the battle of the bedroom to a new level. It is Sunday night and I am upstairs hanging up clothes and hoping that I can … Continue reading →

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things that go grrrrrrrrrrarghgrrrrrrrrrrah in the night

Posted on June 24, 2015 by patinkingsheath

    Posting days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday.   First, I apologise to any poor soul who attempted to read Monday’s post during the first half hour it was put up. The paragraphs were in the wrong order and there … Continue reading →

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stick mouth and tunnels

Posted on June 10, 2015 by patinkingsheath

    Posting days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.       Wednesday   On Saturday I am about to give Jo. a lift home. We walk into the garden to bring in Hairy One. As she follows us her … Continue reading →

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Saturday review

Posted on May 30, 2015 by patinkingsheath

  Posting days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.   Saturday   Isis has been eating on her own in the kitchen for almost a week now without her protective plastic cone. I command her to sit, then I put down … Continue reading →

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is this really Isis?

Posted on April 27, 2015 by patinkingsheath

  Posting days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.   I have a very late night and am still awake at 4.00 a.m. Since she has been released from her protective but cumbersome Elizabethan collar, Isis has resumed her early morning … Continue reading →

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pass me my halo, human

Posted on April 18, 2015 by patinkingsheath

    Posting days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.   Saturday   Isis only came upstairs once while she was wearing her Elizabethan collar. It is three days since she split it and I had to remove and replace it … Continue reading →

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Polymath wags her finger

Posted on January 22, 2015 by patinkingsheath

  Thursday “Your posts are too negative”, admonishes Polymath. “You write in detail about the problems Isis has, but you skate over her progress. I think she’s done amazingly well….yak….yak….ker-yakkity…..” Yes. I have always been a glass-half-empty person. And I … Continue reading →

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