I had this lovely little pumpkin picked fresh from the garden, I took all the insides out and cooked them for my two potbellie pigs, then I religiously placed the pumpkin in a nice spot in the garden on a wall so that it could dry out.

Well yesterday was no difference I put the little pumpkin onto the wall in the sun, and went to town to do my shopping, on returning home, my pumpkin was gone, all I could find were a few little uneaten pieces.

It must have fallen off the wall and the pigs ate it, I reprimanded  them but they just grunted at me and asked for more.

I really thought that this year I would have a halloween pumpkin but it was  not to be, it had been eaten.

Now I will have to just be satisfied with cookie and sweets. and a candle in a candle stick holder.

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USHKA


Ushka was the first blue bitch I owned, I bought her from a breeder in Krugersdorp, she was not the perfect chow by any-means, but I wanted her, for all her faults, she had a bad over-bite, and was small for her size, but what a loving nature.
I heard about her through the Chow Club and phoned her breeder who told me that I would never be able to show her, and that breeding with her might be a problem because of her over-bite but I was prepared to take that chance, and I am so glad I did, She grew into a very beautiful chow and was the mother to the most beautiful bitch I have ever breed, My Meltari Miss Sharin Gold. I mated her with my Dr Halley and she produced two outstanding puppies exactly two months after I lost my lovely Halley to bloat, Little Sharin and Little Halley weighed in at 500grams each, Sharin was Black and Halley the splitting image of his father a lovely gold.
When the puppies were three months old we were evicted from our flat we had moved into, it was a large 4 bed roomed apartment with a large roof top balcony, and we decided to move back to Durban, It was quite some move but with the help of my brother in law we got all the chows safety to Durban without any mishaps. We moved into a small cottage behind Ralun Kennels and set up out kennels where we stayed for the next 10years. Ushka had an adventurous spirit and loved to roam around the large property, One evening when I got home from work I noticed that she was vomiting up blood, I phoned my sister in a panic, as she Ushka was 9 weeks pregnant and due to give birth to her litter of puppies from Rick’s chow Champ, We rushed her to the vet who suspected a snake bite, a lot of injections and told that we still might loose her we took her home, she settled down during the night but by morning the vomiting started again and the blood she brought up was very bright red, I carried her back to the vet and again a course of injections to try and fight the now definitely snake bite, but what kind of snake could make my girl so sick I asked the vet, possibly a boom slang or a black mamba he said, I went home knowing that things were not going well and in tears phoned the snake park and asked for help, there was very little they could do but they sent a snake serum to the vet to try and save her life. That evening when I went to the hospital to see her she was on a drip and hardly breathing. Carol said the vet I don’t think she is going to make the night out, You must try and save the puppies I cried, do a Caesar now and lets get them out, We did a Caesar but only after my lovely Ushka had passed on to the next world, All he gave her to put her to sleep was a dose of ether, The puppies were delivered but none of the little ones were alive, she would have had 4 little bitches, 2 blue and 2 red, all lovely puppies, Ushka tried so hard to save the lives of her puppies, but just could not make it, she was a very brave little chow and I will never forget her, I just don’t wish a snake bite like this on not even my worse enemy.

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DEBBIE


One Sunday morning I received an urgent telephone call, Carol I need your help, my chow is having puppies and two of them are already dead, I agreed to go and see what I could do and they came to fetch me.

On arrival at there home, there was their Tammy in a hole she had dug in the garden, giving birth to puppy no 4, Yes 2 of them were dead and I carefully took three away from her, and then helped her give birth to the forth puppy the third was o.k. And she had cleaned him up and had pushed him to one side while she delivered the next, I helped Tammy deliver 8 puppies, 3 of which were dead, they were all lovely healthy little chow puppies, and of the five alive there were 3 males and 2 females.

I kept in touch and went up to their home every day for the first week to see how the puppies were doing, They were fine and Tammy had settled down well and was having no problems feeding them, When they were into their 2nd week of life I only went up on a Sunday, and was examining the puppies when I noticed that one of the little bitches did not have a foot, I could not believe my eyes, that foot was there when she was born so what could have happened, Tammy had her bed in a small underground cellar, which had a very heavy door to it, all I could think was that the door had slammed shut on the puppies foot and had amputated it. I questioned the owners and they had not noticed anything, only going in to feed Tammy and see that the puppies were alright, I asked the maid if she had heard anything and she said the puppies cried all the time, I then decided to take Tammy home with me and her puppies and see that they were properly cared for.

The puppies and Tammy thrived with the extra care I gave to them and I decided that the little bitch with the missing foot had to have extra special attention, At six weeks old I found new homes for them and the little bitch went to a extra special home, with a friend of mine, whom I knew would love and care for her as she would if it were her own baby. This puppy was called Debbie, and yes she was cared for, and loved and went with her owner every where she went, Her missing foot did not bother her, and she was able to jump onto the beds as well as play with their seven other dogs, Debbie was spayed so as to avoid any unwanted pregnancy when she was 8 months old. And she blossomed, and grew and grew, she is a stunning dog, in all ways with a wonderful temperament and I just want to thank Nancy and Meisie for loving her.

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