New Furry Friends Joined our Family - Sepia Saturday

Sepia Saturday's "New Arrivals" theme offers this week,  as a prompt, a basketful of puppies.  Cue for me to feature again the three pets that were part of our family over a period of twenty years. 

Our third family pet is amongst this trio of lovely puppies.

How it all  Began

 

Our daughter was 5 years old and Crufts Dog Championships Show was on television - how could we resist that combination.  The result by the summer was that Beauty a golden cocker spaniel became part of the family.  

 

 It was a sad time when we lost Beauty at the age of nine, and we said we would not go through that again. But surreptitiously we were all looking at adverts in the local papers, and within a month we had Colleen - a 2 year old gentle blue roan cocker spaniel. 

 

With my parents, taking a  break from a walk in the park.  

 

Colleen died suddenly at seven years old at a time when there were other stresses in the family. We could not imagine family life without a dog and that had to be a cocker spaniel.   So within a few months we had puppy Casmir (Cass) - an orange roan cocker - she had such a distinctive colouring, she became well known around our small town and lived to the grand age of 13.  A pet and great friend of all the family.

 

 

  Enjoying a good chew in the garden

 Pet Pleasures come in all times, whatever the weather! 

 

A wet and windy crossing to the Isle of Mull
with all other passengers sheltering below deck.  

   

Braving the elements on a windy day on the Isle of Iona. 

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I always thought of Cass as the "princess"   

if she was to star in a Disney animated film. 

 

 Our last photograph of Cass

 

Three much loved pets who are a part of our family memories.

But if you can't have the real thing, a favourite toy will do. 

 

Making do with a toy dog  for a studio photograph  -

 my brother-in-law with  a furry friend. 

 

 

Daughter with her little toddledog.

                    Granddaughter taking her little dog for a walk. 

 

 

As a child, my husband had a number of china animals,  but this this little dog  is the only one that has survived the 80 years plus  and sits on our window sill enjoying the sun. 

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