Looking at my web page and seeing my two little Scottie friend's, I thought it is about time that I wrote about my other little doggie friends, that had shared my life in the past through good and sad times. I was married in my early teens and unfortunately we had lost our first baby and were sad over our great loss. I had only been out of hospital for two days when my husband and I went into the little pet shop in Spring Bridge Rd at Ealing Broadway, this was the shop, that the pop group in the 80s The Pet Shop Boys got their name as they used
to go into the shop regularly as they friend was working there at the time trimming dogs.
In the shop there was two little Pembroke Corgi puppies that had just arrived by train
from Wales. The female Corgi had a lovely black line around her big brown eyes just as if
it had been drawn with a black pencil and a black muzzle she looked beautiful and so sweet
her brother had a white muzzle but I fall in love with the female corgi straightaway and we
both went to the shop assistance to ask the price she said £10 it was a weeks wages in the 60s.
My husband spent all his weeks' wages on that little puppy so for two weeks we lived on bread
and jam, which was a very cheap meal in the 60s. I soon started to feel happy once again caring
for a cuddly little puppy and I called her Selina we took her for long walks in the park and she
soon grow past the puppy stage of chewing up everything in sight. After two years my daughter
Mercedes was born and then my second daughter Shella arrived. Selina would make sure that no
one would touch them she was a very faithful old dog that used to sit on the armchair and let
both of my little daughters play with her even the budgie used to sit on her head she was a great
dog and when she got thirteen years old we had to say goodbye to a faithful friend. A light went
out of our lives the day Selina left. She will be remembered forever Selina was missed so much
that I went to another pet shop and brought another corgi just like Selina with a black muzzle
we called her Purdy she had her own little personality and she was loved just as much as Selina
and was a great companion with the children. Purdy passed on at ten years old and again she
was sadly missed by all of us.
The last doggie of my past was dear old Scott. It was a sunny afternoon that mum myself and
my three daughters went on a bus trip to Ealing and happened to look in the pet shop where we
had brought Selina and there was two little westies that had just arrived from Scotland I choose
the male because he came up to the cage to greet me we all loved him so we brought him home he settled in to our house and brought fun and happiness to all of us his father was a well known
champion westie called Laurie's Last Legacy. I never shown him as I wanted him as a pet. My
mother made a real fuss of him and use to cover him up in his basket every night. We had to say
goodbye to him in 1997 aged fourteen years.
Scott was a westie of such charm and character that can never be replaced.
Our sorrow at the loss of all our doggies is only chased away by memories of the good times we
had and the joy they brought to our lives.
I have got a poem for all our past doggies that shared their lives with us and made us laugh so much

A dog is more then a pet. A dog is more then a friend
A dog is a reason for living on which we depend
with his head on one side and his paw held aloft
our firmest reprove grows suddenly soft,
he meets us, he greets us enslaved from the start
when he nuzzles our hand as he tugs at our heart

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