Animal Friends

Funny how the world works, isn't it?

I sat here last night, clicking away, trying to get a half way near decent picture of the goldfish who lives with me! :o) I'd already had the idea that I would do a post about animals, see...

And then, today, before I posted, I went over to visit Michelle's blog, and she has a lovely picture of her Trinity posted...

Anyway... this is about as good a picture of Mr. Chips as we are ever going to get... he was given to me by my neighbour's little 4th Grader daughter, who had won him at a fair.

And he's doing well... has grown a bunch since June too.

My landlord will not allow any other animals, other than my Mr Chips, but one day I hope to have a place where dogs, cats, fish and birds will all be welcome

I know these next two pictures are pretty bad - they're pictures of pictures actually. But I wanted to try and show some of my other animal friends... this is Nikki, with my daughter ..

She was a lovely girl... she'd been rescued from an animal shelter, and then her owner died, so she came to us. Oh, she was gorgeous. Sadly she developed cancer, and passed away in 2001. But, you know, for days afterwards, I thought she was with me.. I'd "feel" her lying across my feet in the evening, which is what she'd always do.. and then I'd feel her hop up onto the sofa, and lie her head in my lap...

And this is really a pitiful picture.. but my little cat. Oh, she was a treasure too. She lived such a long life.. and again, after she passed I felt her around...

She was very spoiled... loved to have her turkey dinner at Christmas... got lots of special treatment when she and I both flew over to the USA from England .. loved to drink cooled Bovril from a saucer, but hated milk and cream.. and I'm sure that she had a "mum radar" in her head, because she'd just seem to sense when I was arriving home from work, and would just appear in the parking lot, and hop into my basket, so she could have a "ride" back up to our home..

Really, I've been pretty blessed to have such loving and lovely animals enter into my life...

I love the thought that they are waiting for me to get to the Rainbow Bridge one day...