My Ghost Gog - Not

[jacey]

Forla_marquise_de_. This dog would never be mistaken for a ghost despite his colour. Shamus was out first dog, a white German Shepherd bred from an Irish police dog (yes we did all the jokes about 'used to retrieve hand-grenades). We've had other dogs since, but he was the stand-out character.

No thanks, I couldn't eat a whole one


He really meant it when he brought a stick to throw.


Puppy picture - jumping off a paving slab

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Oh, he was beautiful -- and from that face quite clearly not the ghost type.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Yes he was lovely. And had a lot of character. Very gentle with the family and with anyone he knew - even with newcomers as long as they didn't act all jumpy around him. When anyone came to the door he could sound like the Hound of the Baskervilles, though. Always gave the postman and window cleaners a hard time. My theory is that a house dog assumes that anyone who comes to the door and goes away again does so because the dog has barked and refused them entrance, therefore the dog is in every way their boss.

He was with us for ten years and then his spine went - like the hips often a weak point with German Shepherds.

I just realised he's been gone for more than 25 years and I still miss him. I think finding another dog quite like that would be very hard, though BB occasionally finds ads for white Shepherds and we ooh and err over them and wonder if we might...

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

What a handsome fellow he was. Beloved pets leave such a hole when they've gone. :(

It's taken some years, but I'm finally ready to get more cats. I will look for ones that are unlike Fluffy and Catlet. They were unique and irreplacable, but I think having a couple more will be fun.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I can really understand how Charlie feels about Baggy.