To be honest,Nova is now 16 years and three days old. I should have posted about her in the last post but I wanted to include a very short video(which I hadn’t filmed)Ā as well and it’s at the bottom of this post. Just click on the bottom post and You should be able to see it even if You don’t have Instagram.
She has been through quite a lot in her life. Her first year she and her siblings were locked in a cellar, beaten and starved. After that she was with an elderly couple who spoiled her rotten š š and she really deserved that. They had her for half a year and then she moved to me. She has some allergies, a tumor 2 inch long tumor between her right eye and ear removed, she has no cruciate ligament in her right knee but a knee brace and duct tape takes care of that and she’s in no pain. Constant ear infections and one of those turned in to flesh eating bacteria attacking her. The anti-biotics she got was so strong that I had to wash my hands every time I had given them to her. The skin is still hanging loose on the place where she had it. She has also had cancer but is still going strong š
I really didn’t want another dog at that moment, my old Erna had just passed away a month earlier but then the animal rescue organisation who called me and asked if I could take her showed me a photo of her. She looked almost exactly like old Erna but only half the size. Of course I couldn’t say no š š š In the beginning she had this thing of hating hares and if she was unleashed she would run after it and out of my sight (she never caught any though, the hares were just too smart for her š š š ). I never had to worry about her running away though, she always ran back to either me or back home š
One day hares weren’t tyat fun any more and after that She has mostly walked unleashed on our walks. Wild hogs and moose have run close to her several times and she might have looked a bit surprised when it happened but she has never run after them. The only time I demand her to be leashed is when I know there are wolves in the area. She’s friendly to all animals so she would mostly likely go to it and say hi š š She has always had ear infections and one vet once said that her ear is built to get infections. Now days we’re controlling those infections with steroids and so far it has worked pretty well.
Even though she right now is healthy and strong it doesn’t take much to change that in a dog that is that old, so all I can do is hold my thumbs and cross my fingers and hope it will continue like this for a very long time more š
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
Hi Christer,
Happy Birthday to Nova and may she have many more happy years ahead.
Finally we have serious rain. It’s been raining since Sunday night. Some places are getting flash floods because the soil is dried so hard it can’t absorb all the water.
After a brief deluge on Sunday, the rain has been steady but polite. I don’t know how much rain we’ve gotten but I hope it will be a significant dent in the deficit.
Have a great evening.
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Hi Caryn!
I especially hope for many more years because she’s the only of the dogs that actually does what she’s supposed to š š š
Great to read that You finally have rain, too bad that the ground is so dry that it can’t soak it up. Our heavy rains didn’t do a thing to the ground water level, lots just ran out into the creeks and rivers and the rest got soaked up by the vegetation. Good for the vegetation but the levels in our ground water supplies are way too low.
Have a great day!
Christer.
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