Yes, TD she is Alsatian cross. Our true alsatian found her abandond in a wood near the pub that we ran in Blackburn.
Took the little bundle and the big girl, Calli, to the vets to get Calli a booster and let him look over the little one. He said that she was only just weaned and was probably about six weeks old at the most. The vet said he would give her a penicillin jab and IF she was alive in two days to take her back for a Parvovirus jab. That was eighteen and a half years ago.
As we lived upstairs above the pub, Calli house trained the little one. she would carry her down the stairs to the back yard to let her do what she wanted and then when it was time to go back up stairs, Gizzy would stand on her back legs and claw the carpet on the step above. Calli would flip her up by using her nose under the little one's bum.
Except for the very rare accident, we never had any mess indoors.
After closing time we used to give Calli the lager slops from the drip trays and thelittle'un had the beer (bitter and mild) slops. One night, Calli had gone behind the bar (with permission) to help herself to a bag of crisps and the barmaid had put a full tray of Stella down for her. Gizzy got there first and in five minutes she had supped a pint and a half of Stella. Ten minutes latew she was staggering all over the place. Bear in mind she could still walk under the bar foot rail without ducking so she was small, so it didn't take much to get her smashed.
She now suffers with selective deafness, she only hears what she wants to.
The present vet says she has catteracts but she can see the ruddy cats at 100 yards.
He operated on her last year to remove a front dew claw which started growing very long and there was a lump where it surfaced. It turned out to be a tumour but whilst she was 'under' he gave her a full MOT and cleaned some of her teeth and removed seven of them.
Cost about £850 but was worth it. Someone asked why we didn't have insurance but the premiums would have cost about £1200 for 18 years at todays rate and that is the first thing we would have claimed for, as it does not cover spaying them which is the only other thing that she has had.
Our present vet, when I first phoned about her booster, was a bit doubtful that I was telling the truth about her age, but when he saw her vaccination sheets he realised she was an old girl. He said that people had told to him that they used to have a 15 or 16 year old dog but it had died and he had never come across one himself. Now he tells everyone about his oldest patient.
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