Dutchess and Apollo

Dutchess on the left was our first dog of married life. I brought her home one Friday afternoon from Battersea dogs home. I don’t particularly like dogs shelters, even though I know they are very necessary.

She was the only dog there that barked at me. I wanted a dog with a voice, but she backed down eventually and then I then knew that she was the dog for me. I would have taken them all home if i could, but for me she stood out from the crowd.

She was a good choice to. She was a Labrador cross, what exactly she was crossed with we were never sure, but she was the beginning of ownership of a lot of Labradors over the years

Eventually she had a litter of I think it was 15 pups which she needed assistance in the form of caesarean section. fortunately for us the same day her pups were born another dog also gave birth but to just one pup so the owner of this dog agreed to foster 4 of of Dutchess’s pups. So all her pups survived.

We found homes for all the pups except Apollo on the right of the picture, who we kept Around the 10 year mark we had to say goodbye to Dutchess. She suffered a stroke which left her with brain damage and i had to reluctantly let her go as i didn’t want her remaining time on the planet to be hard for us to accept let alone her son.

Apollo Dutchess’s son is on the right in the picture had his own problems but the vets bought him another 18 months. During which time another Labrador came into our lives Tanith, but that is another story which you can read about on Tanith’s page.

Unfortunately I have very few pictures of Dutchess and Apollo all of which were scanned from a physical photographs and given the nature of technology at the time. There were no smartphones at that time. but i will put the pictures i do have of them here.

Dutchess on the left was our first dog of married life. I brought her home one Friday afternoon from Battersea dogs home. I don’t particularly like dogs shelters, even though I know they are very necessary.

She was the only dog there that barked at me. I wanted a dog with a voice, but she backed down eventually and then I then knew that she was the dog for me. I would have taken them all home if i could, but for me she stood out from the crowd.

She was a good choice to. She was a Labrador cross, what exactly she was crossed with we were never sure, but she was the beginning of ownership of a lot of Labradors over the years

Eventually she had a liter of I think it was 15 pups which she needed assistance in the form of caesarean section. fortunately for us the same day her pups were born another dog also gave birth but to just one pup so the owner of this dog agreed to foster 4 of of Dutchess’s pups. So all her pups survived.

We found homes for all the pups except Apollo on the right of the picture, who we kept Around the 10 year mark we had to say goodbye to Dutchess. She suffered a stroke which left her with brain damage and i had to reluctantly let her go as i didn’t want her remaining time on the planet to be hard for us to accept let alone her son.

Apollo Dutchess’s son is on the right in the picture had his own problems but the vets bought him another 18 months. During which time another Labrador came into our lives Tanith, but that is another story which you can read about on Tanith’s page.

Unfortunately I have very few pictures of Dutchess and Apollo all of which were scanned from a physical photographs and given the nature of technology at the time. There were no smartphones at that time. but i will put the pictures I have here.

Apollos first experience of snow

Apollo absolutely loved Steam trains during the whole of his life.