GIZMO (in his own words)

"I live in Somerset with my 5 brothers and one sister:-

Danny (who is Irish like me and is about 12yrs) and Ricky and Eddie (who are English brothers) are 10 yrs. They are all rescue Golden Retrievers. They are OK but they aren’t too keen on the games I want to play.

My other brothers are Georgie and Ferdie. They are just over 2yrs old and, like me, they are also Irish foster dogs who stayed forever.

I also have a sister, Rhani, who is also Irish and also started off as a foster dog too (you are probably now gathering how useless my Mom and Dad are at fostering).

I don’t know when my proper birthday is but Mummy Pauline says I was 5yrs on my last Gotcha Day (22nd August). That will a whole 4 years since I was adopted by her and Daddy Steve.

Ma & Pa were my foster parents for a couple of months before they adopted me. They took me on after I had misbehaved at a previous fosterer’s house and had to be moved quickly……………ooops!!!!  Come to that, they ended up fostering Ferdie and Georgie for pretty similar reasons.

Mummy and Daddy say I am very naughty sometimes but they are never really cross with me because they know I was found scavenging on a rubbish heap when I was only a few weeks old and so they make lots of “allowances”. One of my “funny habits” is that I love to go round and round in circles when the Jack Russell next door winds me up with her high pitched barking.

I love it when we have foster dogs to stay because I can then play and play. Three years ago, I had a very best friend called Stevie. He couldn’t see me ‘cos he was blind but he could play great games just the same. Del Boy, now Digby, was great fun too despite having one of his legs amputated not that anyone ever notices his leg is missing.

Penny and Dazzle came to stay with us too. They were great fun and pretty naughty too. Connie came to us too with her little babies Drake and Brian.

Connie, Stevie, Digby and Penny are all Sponsor Dogs just like me.  

I didn’t get to play with Lady Isabelle when she stayed with us as she was a lot older than me but I used to bark at her and she would bark back, which used to annoy mummy a bit because poor Izzy would get breathless. Mummy said she went to live with Aunty Debbie and her 2 well behaved, elderly dogs and a one-eyed cat called Nelson.

Mummy was very sad quite soon after that because Izzy went to this special place called Rainbow Bridge. Apparently, it is a lovely place where all doggies will go one day.

I have had loads of other really lovely foster brothers and sisters over the years and my brother Danny has had even more than me as he has had foster friends since 2005.

Well, that’s all about me for now so I’d better sign off. Mummy is on her way back and will be wanting to use the pooter so I had better wipe my paw marks off the keys and clean up the hairs and dog biscuit droppings."