Trisha my Rottweiler

TRISHA
Trish came to live with us at the age of 4 weeks old, she was a tiny but determined little black and tan Doberman cross Rottweiler, with a long tail, She had been born in Umlazi Township her parents belonging to a black family I got to hear about her from a black woman I worked with, and had heard that all the other puppies had died of Biliary before they had even had a chance to get onto their 4 feet. I asked her to bring Trisha to me and rushed her to the hospital, to get her inoculations and a check over, the Vet pronounced her well and we took this tiny puppy home to join our Chow chows, hoping that they would accept her. She grew and grew and soon was the light of my son Robin’s life, everywhere he went she went she never left his side, a guard dog supreme not only for us but for our neighbors as well. When Trish was 3 months old I got Luke a pedigree Doberman, to keep her company, I do not believe a dog of a certain breed should not have a partner of their own.
It was not long before they both took over the guarding of the neighbor hood, and would be burglars were to beware,
When they were both about a year old we had an episode one evening when we heard the Chows and the Doberman s going mad, and suspected an intruder in the garden, on going out we found that it was an intruder but of the animal kind, a huge wild pig had got into the yard and Trisha and Luke were chasing it around the yard into the bush, see my story on a pigs night out in my 1st book. One day I heard glass breaking in my neighbors house, and then the terrific barking of two dogs going absolutely mad, I ran out and saw that Trish and
Luke had got under the electric fence which was on between our yards, and had chased 2 intruders out of their house into the street, I phoned them and said they must come home as they had had a robbery, I crawled under the fence, trying not to touch the wires as to not get a shock and found that the robbers had smashed a front window to their bedroom and had removed a large amount of their belongings, which had been placed on the ground outside the window before my two very brave dogs had interfered, I stood guard with them until the owners of the house got home with the police. This was not to be the first robbery this family had and not the last that Trish and Luke chased away.
When she was 16 Months old we allowed her to mate to Luke, the first litter was not very successful and we lost 2 out of the 4 puppies, and sold the two that we had left. Then again when she was just over two we allowed her to have another litter, this time she produced a fantastic litter of 11 puppies all of which lived and all were sold at the age of 8 weeks over one weekend.
Trish went on to have a third litter, which was a problem litter, She went into premature labor and gave birth to 3 lovely puppies small but alive and then her labor stopped, I took her up to a New Vet as we had now moved to Waterfall and she was only tempting at the surgery I took her to, she said that Trish was fine and the puppies were fine and went on to give her a clean bill of health. 4 days later I walked into the bathroom at 4am on a Saturday morning to find Trisha cleaning an almost dead flaccid puppy, I counted the puppies and realized that she had just given birth to this little fellow, I took him to my room and rubbed him with a warm towel, until I heard him take a breath, I kept him warm in the bed with me until it was time to get up and took Trish straight to the Vet, with the tiny puppy, I explained to him what had happened and how she had been given a clean bill of health by his Temp Vet, He did a scan on her and found that she still had another puppy inside but it was already dead and mummified, he gave her an oxytocin injection to bring the puppy down and then examined the new born one, Saying that he was a very lucky little fellow to be alive, This one we called Miracle and survive he did growing quickly and was soon bigger then his brothers and sisters. I was very reluctant to part with him he was such a special puppy, but a gentle man phoned me and said he had heard that we had puppies for sale and when I told him we only had Miri left he insisted on coming to see him, Of course he fell in love with the little fellow immediately and offered me more than I was asking for, just to be the owner of this lovely puppy.
Trisha was a wonderful mother, and loved her little puppies.
She loved to swim in our dam and chase the Koi that lived in it, she also loved to chase the beautiful “Egyptian Geese” that also shared the dam with the fish, and if she was not near the house all you had to do was go to the dam and there she and Luke were having a good time in the dam.
Trisha sadly passed to higher grounds from Biliary when she was 8 years old. Gone was a wonderful watchdog never to be forgotten.

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