Joy and I welcomed a new member into our family yesterday. Arty is a 3 year old staffy x kelpie with an inexhaustible appetite for playing fetch. He is named in honour of Arthur C. Clarke who passed away last week. In case you are wondering, Azba has decided for us that the C stands for Cromwell.
We picked him up at the RSPCA shelter where he has been since his former owner moved house and decided not to take him with them. How anyone could abandon such a sweet dog we’ll never know!
Apart from possessing a rather disgusting case of kennel cough (suffice to say he is staying outside until he stops hacking up phlegm) he is settling into Ferndale nicely.
His favourite pastimes include playing fetch, tug-o-war, sticking his head out of the car window, leaving piles of phlegm around the patio and coughing at the neighbour’s yappie dogs.
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He is also fairly well trained already, obliging our commands to sit, stay or wait to be fed. He even craps in the garden bed and not on the lawn.