This is my first dog, Snowy. I must have been about twelve when this photo was taken. He was only a mutt but I loved him dearly. Sadly my father decided we had too many dogs (we had three at the time) and suddenly one day without prior warning they had all disappeared. He said he´d given them to a friend of his who had a farm, including my Snowy and I never saw him again or even had a chance to say goodbye. I was absolutely heartbroken, needless to say.
This is such a coincidence. I had a rabbit called Snowy who disappeared, later I found out that we had eaten him. No need to say how upset I was. I guess in those days things were different, we kept rabbits for food but I loved the all white one and looked on him as a pet.
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Oh dear, that is sad. Children in those days received a lot less consideration.
DeleteLife was like that. Even before I saw Briony's response I thought of a cat that I had that disappeared while I was at school. There had been some trouble at home with the cat coming indoors (not allowed) and my mother told me when I asked where it was that it "had something wrong with it and it had gone".
ReplyDeleteYes, life was like that then, no helicopter parents acceding to our wishes. I don´t know whether it was character-building or traumatizing.
DeleteIt is such a lovely photo. What a shame that your Father decided that all 3 dogs should go. I would have thought that as Snowy was your favourite he might have been allowed to stay.
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Thank you Wendy. My father actually took the photo so it is not as if he didn´t know how I felt about Snowy.
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