IMG_4907 - Lady Lottie The Lovely . . .

Around 12 years ago, Lady Lottie, the Lovely, came into my life. She was given to me as I was about to travel and her previous owner had nowhere to keep her.

 

I left Tasmania and journeyed to Victoria and headed up to Tin Can Bay in Queensland, and Lady Lottie came along with me. When I was a child we had dogs at home and it was probably 50 years previously when our last dog, "Snifter" finally passed on - and he was a very special part of our family.

 

So here am I - and Lady Lottie - heading off to catch the Spirit of Tasmania, beginning a wonderful journey together. She was an amazing mate. we would walk morning and night, in the cold nights she would slide down under the doona with me - on hot nights she would sleep on the top - and what a time we had.

 

If I was in the bus (I lived in a motor home for 10 years) and a visitor came to the door, she would go ballistic!!! If she was in the bus alone, SILENCE!!! Maybe she had the "please do not disturb" sign out - I am not sure!!!

 

One morning we were walking the foreshore and she came very proudly with this toy she had found on the beach. We had this game that she would place it on the ground and I would bend down very slowly, moving my hand toward this toy and she would go rigid, waiting for me to pick up the toy and throw it. My hand is just out of reach and this is her tense look - very apt I think!!

 

What a beautiful lady she is. I believe she is still alive. When I left to live in the Philippines, a friend of mine, who had lost her dog a year before, decided the time was right to take on another dog and she chose Lottie - they are now as inseparable as I was with Lady Lottie.

 

Thanks my dear friend for the many hours of enjoyment you brought into my life. I shall always remember you with incredible love - unconditional - for between us we managed to live in that wonderful environment!!

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