Top Ten Resolutions By Your Dog

You know that Fido- set up his resolutions……List your dogs here!
From my dog- Patch a Shih Tzu with passion for his ball.

1. I will attempt to hide the ball in new place from Maggie ( she is annoying & smart)
2. I resolve to get to the water dish before Maggie ( she drinks all the top water)
3. I resolve to make the food goddess give Maggie’s treats to me.
4. I resolve to get the soft spot on bed before Maggie – she always gets it

From Maggie
1. I resolve to find the ball wherever Patch tries to hide it ( he isn’t that smart)
2. I resolve to let Patch think he is getting the best water (he thinks it matters)
3. I resolve to eat all his treats (the food goddess likes me best)
4. I resolve to confuse Patch by laying in the ‘real’ soft spot on the bed

New Year’s Resolutions by our friend Rex-

* I will not bark each time I see or hear a dog on TV.
* I will not steal underwear belonging to my mistress and then dance all over the back yard with it.
* I will not chew red crayons or pens, because my master will think that I am hemorrhaging.
* I will not roll my toys behind the fridge.
* I must shake the rainwater out of my coat BEFORE I enter the house.
What is your dogs resolution?

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Loyalty Is Well Rewarded…

As we look to a new year and even *gasp* a resolution or two. We here at Zoomin’Groomin’ want to open up the possibility of yet another one….
In 2010 can we possibly be as loyal as our dogs? I think we can!

Greyfriars Bobby

John Gray, a gardener, together with his wife Jess and son John, arrived in Edinburgh around 1850. Unable to find work as a gardener he avoided the workhouse by joining the Edinburgh Police Force as a night watchman. To keep him company through the long winter nights John took on a partner, a diminutive Skye Terrier, his ‘watchdog’ called Bobby. Together John and Bobby became a familiar sight, trudging through the old cobbled streets of Edinburgh. Through thick and thin, winter and summer, they were faithful friends.

The years on the streets appear to have taken their toll on John, as he was treated by the police surgeon for tuberculosis. He eventually died of the disease on the 15th of February 1858 and was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard. Bobby soon touched the hearts of the local residents when he refused to leave his master’s grave, even in the worst weather conditions. The gardener and keeper of Greyfriars tried on many occasions to evict Bobby from the Kirkyard. In the end he gave up and provided a shelter for Bobby by placing sacking beneath two tablestones at the side of John Gray’s grave.

Bobby’s fame spread throughout Edinburgh. It is reported thst almost on a daily basis the crowds would gather at the entrance of the Kirkyard., waiting for the one o’clock gun that would signal the appearance of Bobby leaving the grave for his midday meal. Bobby would follow William Dow, a local joiner and cabinet maker to the same coffee house that he had frequented with his now dead master, where he was given a meal.
In 1867 a new bye-law was passed that required all dogs to be licensed in the city or they would be destroyed. Sir William Chambers (the Lord Provost of Edinburgh) decided to pay Bobby’s licence and presented him with a collar with a brass inscription “Greyfriars Bobby from the Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1867 licenced”. This can be seen at the Museum of Edinburgh.

The kind folk of Edinburgh took good care of Bobby, but still he remained loyal to his master. For fourteen years the dead man’s faithful dog kept constant watch and guard over the grave until his own death in 1872.

Baroness Angelia Georgina Coutts, President of the Ladies Committee of the RSPCA, was so deeply moved by his story that she asked the City Council for permission to erect a granite fountain with a statue of Bobby placed on top.

William Brody sculptered the statue from life, and it was unveiled without ceremony in November 1873, opposite Greyfriars Kirkyard. And it is with that, that Scotland’s capital city will always remember its most famous and faithful dog.

Bobby’s headstone reads “Greyfriars Bobby – died 14th January 1872 – aged 16 years – Let his loyalty and devotion be a lesson to us all”.

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