Yup, fabulous day!
It's quite a long story...
We're having a new walk-in shower fitted, as the old one had a step which isn't easy to get over! We're using Orange Badge as the contractor, as there's some more building work to do, and they did the lot! We liked them as they fitted a stairlift for great value and style, so we got them in for more work, and I'll certainly recommend them as they are only in Lewes, but go everywhere down this way, and they got on well with us too, so that was OK!
Last Monday, we had a call to tell us that the glass screen fitter had hurt his back, and I'm not surprised as those panels are darned heavy, and he'd carted them upstairs on his own! On Tuesday, it was the same, so we had a chat and I asked them if anyone else could get here at such short notice, and they really came up trumps, and sure enough, a fitter arrived an hour or solater, to finish the job!
Now, as he had to keep darting in and out to his van, he had to ask if we had any pets, and we had to tell him, 'no - as of last year' and why, and he said he knew what it was like as they'd lost three chums in a year, so we were both standing there, wondering what to do next!
And then he asked what our situation was, as he'd heard of a friend who was talking about returning a JRT to the charity, (Help4paws), even this week! These owners already had a dog, which they they thought needed another chum, and are lovely people, doing what they could for their pets, but it didn't work out somehow, so there we were!
There were several phone calls, emails etc., later, and the next day, a few quid passed from one bank to another, and by Friday, all was settled to collect our new girl, and yesterday, I picked up Lily from Littlehampton, and she's just gorgeous!
She's mostly Jack Russell, with a few more similar bits from somewhere or other. She's a Romanian rescue dog, and had a brother and sister, and has more of the style of a big Parson's JRT, and I can only just lift her as she's a quite a puppy - ten months old!
She's a bit anxious still, and the two-hour journey can't have been fun, but we made it! We're letting her use her cage downstairs, as she feels secure in it, but we've never had to let a dog use one before so are learning what's best - even after only eighteen hours!
I'll get some pics up as soon as I can, but didn't want the flash to upset her, as anything like that makes her jump, which is understandable, after the insecurity of losing her mum, then a closed van ride across from The Balkans, then a spell in kennels here, then a new home, and now here at 'The Turrets'! I know I'd be a bit fed up having to cope with all that over such a short short time! Luckily, we're all pretty sure that she didn't have the awful conditions that so many poor dogs have suffered over there.
So I'm up this early as I heard a few soft barks, but we've had our first cuddle, several licks, a few tail-wags and 'bonding' is just starting! She took to Mrs Growster as soon as she walked in of course...!
