PetNanny and Animal Artist

My Guys

Its only right I introduce you to my lovely guys.

Swift is my oldest Lurcher amazingly she is 12years old and despite being very slow on her worn out three legs she is not at all slow about letting us know what she wants.  Swift is partly responsible for me setting up Petnanny so thanks babes!  Swift has always been a bit special and not always for the right reasons, her main aim in life was to desimate the rabbit population and despite help from many professionals she still remains completely obsessed with runny bunnies.  Happy in her new home she lords it up in front of the fire enjoying a tootle at her own speed( not her legs they have to go as fast and faster than they can cope with) up to the settlement or to the horses fields.

Buck should be called Mr Bump!  I often joke our vets managed to fit an extra wing on their new surgery financed purely by Buck.  A lovely thoughful lurcher he is so different from Swift being very maleable and wanting to fit in with you.  He is a natural worrier with a great sense of humour he has got to be my most expensive animal by far costing me well over 6,000 pounds in vets bill alone.  Thanks to our dedicated vet we finally worked out his condition and at the grand old age of 11 he is now the picture of health despite missing two toes and a leg!

Shyboy is my last but not least lurcher, a blue eyed merle who suffered from extreme abuse and lives with the physical and mental scars.  After two years of rehabilitation he is a happy silly lad full of fun and cheek with only glimpses of the damaged dog he is.  At approximately 9years he is young at heart and very old in his body but as long as hes happy so am I.

Tumbleweed where do I start?!  As a young kitten I picked him up off the side of a road to be put down and I still have him.  Hes a hypoplastic cat( brain damaged), deaf and one eyed but I defy anyone to feel sorry for him once theyve met the dafty.  A permanent kitten locked into a sumo wrestler cat body I am very short of delicate ornaments and we have learnt to live with his turbo stlye and phenomenal voice( he cant hear himself but we and all our neighbours can).  He is one of the very few cats I know that actively enjoys a bath and enjoys a hard pat like you would a horse.

Ella is my beautiful opinionated, thoughtful filly.  A two year old Andalusian cross appaloosa.  We often go out walking and take in the sites and usually unfortunately beats me to the best wild fruits!  New to the family is Bella a Cruzado Portugues a lusitano cross, heopfully she will aclimitise well to this lovely damp country!  Shes been a trail horse so should enjoy our rides around Hadrians Wall.  She may not have model good looks but her calm, chilled way and sweet nature will win everyone over who wants to know her.

Swift lazing out in the garden with Tumble( she always covers herself over, has done since a pup)

Buck ( left) enjoying a race with Shy and visiting Weimerarner

Ella enjoying a dip last summer and below in the frost and below right Bella in stable

Bella exploring around still skinny and no muscle but plenty time for that to improve, at least she loves her grub!

 Bella is filling out and enjoying her tootles, here she is having a walk behind me after our ride.

Ella has been out and about with Bellas tack on seeing the sights looking all grown up.

Look in now and again and I will let you know how the Howlett gang are doing.