Sweet young Jasmine. Retired racer through injury, she was sidelined and not much of a prospect. Now, we have her and love her to bits...
Full of life, mischief and love. She is enjoying life, being in her 'forever home', getting fussed over, very much spoilt.
She is quite different to our RosieG, she barks, especially at the telly if there are dog noises... She plays with toys and loves her ball. She also eats very well. We are so pleased she's eating well. She was so scrawny and in poor condition when we first homed her.
Unlike Rosie, she's not a fan of dentistix, she does like pigs ears though (yuck!)...
Same breed but such different, individual characters.
Jasmine is such a tale wagger, it's more like a 360° rotation at 100 mph... So cute but so dangerous.. She has a little of her tail missing, right at the tip! I am sure it must have been a traumatic amputation: we had the bloodbath the other night. It was like a scene from a thriller where the killer has knifed someone to death and there has been a struggle!! A 'massacre' at home... It wasn't but it could have been. There was blood everywhere.
The splatter was a fine bloody spray in our bedroom, the hall, stairs and landing, dinning room and upstairs bathroom. Who knows what she had hit but it was very evident.
To complicate things a bit more, we had a house viewing the next day (we are selling our place) so we had to plan something.... Julie had to work so she thought it best to clean when she was back home.
I thought I'd save us time by cleaning the blood where I could get to it : mirrors, furnishings, doors, walls...and dab the marks off.
Big mistake!
The dabbing on the walls was 'inefficient' so rubbing was required and it worked, on the white walls. The walls in the hall, stairs and landing are blue and the rubbing caused more of a problem, the paint rubbed off... Revealing the undercoat so desperate measures were needed, I'll use the spare paint left over from painting that area a couple of years ago, no problem.
I looked for a tester pot in the shed and found it, dabbed all over the areas affected and hey presto, done!
Wrong.....the walls were now like a blue leopard print!
I thought the paint was the right shade but was just taking a little longer to dry when in fact it was around 5 tones darker!
Panic ensued, I had a couple of hours to fix this, I am not driving so I hobbled with my walking stick, down to the DIY store, found the tester pots and then, more anxiety: 'which one is the correct shade? what if its not? I can't afford to waste any more time or energy running back and forth so I bought 4 shades of blue.
Problem solved? I wasn't going to get away with it as easily as that!
They were all a tad darker or lighter but not the same, the leopard print was now more interesting as the lighter shades differentiated the darker spots to make it, well, damned obvious something was wrong!!
Panic
I was broken at this point and Julie cane home.
You can imagine what she said and how she felt, well not as bad as I did.
We went of hunting for different shades of blue. A hue that was now no longer available!
Thankfully, Keiron and Aga came round. They said not to panic, took a couple of photos of the walls with the camera on the phone, went down to Homebase and half an hour later, a perfect match, good enough for the house viewing.
So what happened to the culprit, Jasmine, not me...?
Well she had foam pipe lagging and a dressing applied to her tail which was successful in protecting and healing her tail.
We now try not to get her too excited or at least, steer her from any obstructions when she is in full helicopter mode!!
