Things I want to remember about Meg
That lovely, soft, furry, black bit on the top of her head, next to her
ears...I wish I could encapsulate the memory of touching that place.
She was so beautiful!
Her coat was still, and always was, so soft. How I would make fuss of
her ears!
How she used to walk across the river at Abington Park. She loved to go
in the water, and get wet and muddy, but how she hated to have a bath!
How she would bury rawhide chews in the garden and try and come back in
with her face covered in soil! Meg, the only dog I knew who buried
things and dug with her nose!
How she would roll about on her back when she was happy!
How Ian used to throw treats down the garden and she would go and find
them. And when we first got her she never used to beg! It was Missy who
taught Meg how to beg! Before that she would sit away from the table,
in her basket!
I paid the money for Meg, so Ian said she was "my" dog. She was always
"my" dog when she was in trouble! Ian would say, "YOUR dog has done
this....or that..." (LOL)
How she was scared of hot-air balloons and tried to get up the stairs
to get away! But she loved to play with balloons of the blow-up kind,
she would chase them all around the living room, get them trapped in a
corner and gnaw until she burst them with her teeth! She would use the
same tactic on a football too, which would last about ten minutes!
How she used to drink water straight out of the pond!
How she would sit and "worship" the cupboard containing her food and
treats. We had them in a low-level cupboard at first, until she
discovered they were in there and would sit for hours waiting for the
"magic cupboard" to open! We had to move them to a high-level cupboard
so she would leave it alone!
How she would sit and wait at the bottom of the stairs with her chin on
the step waiting for me to come down!
How she would stick her nose and head into the bags of shopping, if
they were within her reach! Unfortunately, one morning just before last
Christmas 2007, she was upstairs, left to her own devices for a while
and went very quiet. She went into a room where there was a carrier bag
full of dog presents for three dogs (Meg, Pippa and Jac). She chewed
her way into the bag and took out the contents, but she didn't actually
eat any of those....no, she went behind that bag into another one,
containing three giant tubes of Smarties! When she was discovered, the
Smarties were ALL OVER THE FLOOR! Naughty Meg!
She went to Kenilworth with her friend Pippa, for a day out. She would
play-fight with Pippa! She would make growling noises and bear her
teeth but you knew she was only playing! She was the same when playing
with her rope toy!
When I let Meg out in the mornings, on some mornings I was going
swimming, and so I would get dressed in between letting her out and her
coming back in. As she came in from the garden, she would smell me, as
if to say, "You have changed since I went out a few minutes ago. You
smell different!" She did this every time!
When taking Meg for a walk, she would get to the corner up the street
from our house, and then she would choose which way she wanted to go.
Did Meg want a short walk today? Or did she want to go to the field?
They loved her at the kennels too. They said she "slept a lot!" Well,
she was an old lady by this time!
Meg in her tee-shirt! (See the photos)
How her tail would wag and she would greet me when I came home. Even
how she would look when we went out as if to say, "you're not going out
AGAIN without me?!"
She was so good-natured - we could not have found a more lovely-natured
dog.
I made a special visit to "Pets At Home" every month to get her food,
and her favourite treats were T-Bonz and Jerky!
How she perked up when there was Chinese take-away chicken, or KFC
about! She loved the smells!
Perhaps my favourite memories of Meg:
Meg the "sea-dog", climbing on and off the boat on the Norfolk Broads!
I took Meg to Scarborough, to the dog-friendly beach and the
dog-friendly B&B for a week. She walked so much, she slept all
through the night! And eventually she got over her dislike of the
moving water, and went in for a paddle! She preferred the rock pools
however!
She opened all her own Christmas presents!
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