I've found my people! I've just joined and found this forum. I'm a huge animal lover so hope I will be right at home here
What pets do you all have? I've got a dog but I've had some interesting others too over the years
My husband is convinced Gracie had sensed his cancer months before he was even diagnosed because she would sit next to him with her paws on his chest just looking up into his eyes. Even now when he’s been for treatment she seems to sense he’s “different” and last weekend she was especially attentive …. lo and behold he ended up at the Clinical Diagnostic Unit on Wednesday as he was so breathless for tests/scans and he is now being treated for a chest infection and has been told some of the lymph nodules have increased in size again.
There is a group of Bernese owners locally who exhibit at shows etc with their dogs pulling the traditional decorated carts!!!! They are gorgeous to watch.
Grasan
Hugo my Begal is always close to us if we have underlying issues. He picked up on my cancer before me, my husbands Parkinson’s my daughters lose of her baby now my husbands liver diagnosis.
We have called him the death cat.
If he starts cuddling get to the doctors quick
Ann
We don’t give them nearly enough credit for their heightened senses, our first Bern was so protective when my husband had chemo, she wouldn’t touch him but she would come inside and check on him regularly and then potter outside again. We don’t teach them these things, it’s just instinctive - I wish more people were like that!
The carting groups work hard at events I’m glad you’ve seen them in all their glory.
I hope your husband is getting good care x
Oh my goodness he’s gorgeous!!!! Yes typical terrier behaviour, nothing more fun than digging a hole especially if it’s where it’s not meant to be!!!! Gracie has this strange habit of pulling up lumps of grass with roots attached and soil from the edges of paths (usually on our favourite walk) and then racing round with the result in her mouth!!! She’s not content with getting a small piece …. no she will pull and pull at the grass until she’s got a big lump and then shakes it about as she’s running… which results in me getting a head full of soil if I’m too close!!!!
Animals are such a help emotionally and physically in times of need.
Love to all
Grasan
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