Should have gone to Specsavers!
Hi I’m Lucy
Idris has told most of my story on his page, but basically I was born in Penzance Cornwall on 9th January 2001. I am a pedigree Rottweiler bitch and my kennel name is ‘Azilian Four Seasons’.
I went to an owner but I wasn’t looked after very well and I kept escaping from the garden, getting on the furniture, making a mess in the house and chewing everything, Mum and Dad think I was obviously punished quite badly as I’m a real scaredy dog now. My old owners couldn’t (wouldn’t) cope with me and I wasn’t really wanted so they gave me back to the people from the kennels who were very nice to me and tried to find me a new home. I was very lively and excitable and lived in a kennel outside with the other dogs, it was very nice, warm and dry and I shared with my Canine Mum who is called Poppy. When I was about 8 months old my photo was put on my owner’s website asking for a home for me. About 4 weeks later some people came to look at the kennels and order a puppy from the next litter as they wanted one to keep their dog Idris company. They saw me and fell in love with me because I woofed for lots of attention and they cuddled me. I went for a walk with them and Idris and I was on my best behaviour and I got on well with Idris, they arranged to come back and fetch me a week later.
I travelled in the car back to Bude with them where I met up with Idris again and we were friends right from the start. I hadn’t had any training at all and I had a lovely bed in the conservatory of the house, I didn’t know how to ask to go out so I went to the toilet on the floor but they trained me to do it while I was out and taught me to ask by tapping the door with my paw. I was quite naughty and used to chew things when they went out so I could get attention but they used to ignore me and eventually I stopped but only after I had eaten the yellow pages and one of the cushions of my Mum’s brand new conservatory suite, I also chewed all the fluff of anything fluffy I could get hold of. Idris just used to watch me and because he was good he got more attention so I knew I was doing wrong and eventually stopped. Mum and dad didn’t want to breed from me so I had an operation to prevent me from having Puppies, this calmed me down a lot.
We went for lots of lovely walks and to a lot of places in the car, I was better in the car than Idris he gets all frothy round the mouth (yuk) and wound up and whines but I just sit there and am good.
Eventually we moved to a house called Sunnyside and we have a bigger garden and three fields we are allowed to run in. There are sheep in the field sometimes and when we first got there I thought it would be fun to chase the sheep like I do with Idris. I found a tiny hole in the fence (Grandma Shirley dobbed me in to Mum and told her where I was escaping from) I got through this by wriggling and laying flat I then jumped over another fence and into the field, I chased the lambs (they were quite big) and pulled one of them down on the floor to play but they aren’t as much fun as Idris they don’t fight back and their throats are not so tough. I killed three sheep on different days during the first spring we were there, and Mum and Dad had to pay the farmer over £200 for them. I used to get out on to the road as well as I was found by a neighbour and taken back home several times but Idris bit him when he tried to put me back so I got tied up by the gate. I was lucky that I didn’t get run over or shot by the farmer. Eventually Mum and Dad got an radio controlled fence which goes around the boundary and we have to wear a collar with metal prongs on it, if I go too near the fence it makes a noise and warns me then if I keep going I get an electric shock which hurts and makes me jump. I only got a shock once while I was being trained and now whenever I hear the noise I know I’m too close and I don’t go any further, so now Mum and Dad can go out and leave me and Idris out in the garden.
I’ve stopped trying to escape and last spring five baby lambs came to stay with us while they were being bottle fed and we played together and they slept in the spare dog’s bed with me and Idris. I don’t chase them any more, but Mum never lets me off the lead in the same field as the sheep just in case. Sometimes Mum and Dad dress me and Id up in silly stuff, he loves it but I only do it because I usually get a treat. I can give a paw and sit and lie down on command but that’s about all. I have my own page of pictures please have a look.
Love Lucy xx