Silver

SILVER is adorable. This stunning old boy had been a stray, no doubt dumped because of his many health issues. He receives a lot of tender loving care and healing from Pam who first fostered then adopted him and he is great friends with Kimba and another golden retriever, Casey.

  UPDATE ON SILVER BOY
 
Silver was re-homed for a short time with another couple, but it did not work out and he arrived at our home on the 19th July 2005 via Lorna and her partner from Greenfields Bunny Rescue and he is still with us (July 2007).  Initially he was only meant to be nursed back to good health and moved on but I fell in love with him pretty quickly. It took a bit longer for my husband as he felt I had been duped. 
 
When it boiled down to it Silver did not need nursing, he needed nurturing, he was taken into a rescue home whilst he lived in Ireland and they fixed him up really well. What happened in the month he was in his new home I do not know, or even want to, as he is with us now, that is the main thing, and I feel that he was Heaven sent.
 
He is sensitive to salts and phosphates and also beef, so he is on a home cooked diet recommended by Sarah, an animal nutritionist.  It is a real fag chopping meat and vegetables sometimes but all 3 of my dogs are on this diet now and doing so well.
 
We look after a friends two goldies regularly and when they were dropped off  recently the couple said IS THAT SILVER? WOW he looks fantastic, really loved and cared for.  He was a bit confused when he first arrived as there had been a lot of changes in such a short period of time but he soon got over it. Even his name was changed (to Paddy) but it did not suit him at all. Whoever named him Silver got it spot on.
 
He is a bit slow moving, likes a good sniff.  He is very, very affectionate, my friend calls him Thumper or Woodbine, Thumper because his tail is always wagging, Woodbine because he trails along behind.  She thinks the world of him.  My two bitches have accepted him and the youngest was not particularly tolerant of males as she had been used for breeding. He is fine with our cat and he loves children, in fact we are out of the window if we meet children across the field, he always starts to follow them. Broke out of the garden and followed some kids down to the swimming pool the other day.  Needless to say we are now well boarded up.
 
As his character developed he showed himself to be a cheeky boy, a bit of a wind up merchant, loves toys.  There is nothing about him that is not to like really. For a dog with half his teeth missing, he has no problems eating and he loves bones (he is also rather partial to my husbands shoes)
 
It may sound strange but I do really feel he was meant to be with us, I could not understand why I was responding to Paulines plea for help at the time as it was never my intention to have another dog and certainly not a male given Kimbas reaction to them, I broke all my own rules.  But as soon as he arrived and I looked into those eyes………
 
Pam & Roger Morris with Casey & Kimba – the golden girls and the beautiful Silver Boy

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