Hi Everyone, Elle here & thinking it’s about time I updated you on how we are all doing !
As you can see I’m still here in Ireland along with my brother Tomasso who Dad decided is staying, there will be mug shots of us coming soon !……….Bella is here with us for a couple more weeks & then her new mum Anita is flying over from France to take her home ~ hope they like snails over there as Bella is pretty nifty when it comes to collecting them, leaving them on the doormat to get crunched underfoot & stuck to the bottom of Mom’s new slippers which don’t look quite so new now as the pretty shade of pink has degenerated slightly into a sort of sludge brown as we three have taken them for a quick chew & several laps around the peat bog front lawn !
Coleen is happily living with Edna & Stephen Craske & her Grandma Shaneco Annalisa in Norfolk UK ~ hopefully she will be doing to some of the shows this year in the UK .
Also being shown will be Lucia pictured below, she was originally going to the UK to work but sadly her new owner couldn’t be bothered to let us know he no longer wanted her so she has gone to live in Wales with the parents our good friends Rachel & Mike Greenhough where they adore her & although she can’t go to Crufts Rachel will be showing her at shows where legally docked dogs can be exhibited .
Porzia is happily living with Liz & her BraccoUncle Hendrix
Humphrey is having a wonderful time with his new family & goes everywhere with them ~ He is seen below with best buddy Finlay practising for the Olympic two man Luge team, or to give it’s proper name ” Out of control tea trays hurtling downhill on sheet ice “
That just leaves Sonya & Max ~ a couple of weeks ago Dad, Sonya & Max boarded a large paraffin budgie & set off on a long & exciting trip………at the airport in Dublin everyone was wanting to see the pups & dad got preferential treatment at check in ! I personally think it was because he wast holding up the queue as the airport staff were unable to do their jobs properlyfor laughing at his passport photo that resembles an escaped prisoner who been on the run for some considerable time !!!
After getting settled in their seats everyone watched in anticipation & abject fear as the plane doors were slammed shut after a bit of persuasion from a nervous looking chap with not very designer stubble an adjustable spanner & a hammer ~ dad relaxed & began to ponder the question of what he would choose for dinner when the inevitable question was asked ” Chicken or Beef ????? ” before he had changed his mind for the tenth time the stewardess called out would Mr Michael Cooper make himself known ~ dad had visions of looking out of the window to see two Bracco pups had escaped from their moorings & were playing stalk the 747 down the middle of runway 13……Thankfully she only wanted to let him know that they were both safe & sound & tucked up in their flight crates in the hold ready for take off Phew !!!!!!
At Chicago it was worse, all the customs dog handlers abandoned their Springer Spaniels to coo & gaze lovingly at these two cute Bracco pups, whilst this was happening several hundred kilos of illegal substances were being nonchalantly walked through the ” Nothing To Declare ” green channel while the discarded sniffer dogs were beside themselves trying to point out the culprits !
Sonya below was picked up by Ed’s friend Tom & she went to stay with his familyfor a few days before she dons her woolie underwear & heads out for a very snowy Minnasota ~ where hopefully she will become a star at hunting.
You can see her here at Tom’s a few hours after arriving !
Last but not least is Max, Dad being dad decided that he fancied driving from Chicago over 1800 miles to Arizona, what he hadn’t bargained for was the worsed snow storms in 30 years crossing the whole of central America while he’s trying to negotiate Route 66 ( he thinks he’s Mick Jagger not Mick Cooper ) ~ after nearly being squashed by mammoth eighteen wheelers with fantastic murals painted down the sides ranging from The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512 to Hooters Steak House painted by someone with a very warped idea of the female anatomy enough in fact to give Dolly Parton a total inferiority complex, he finally made it into Texas whilst giving an ear shattering rendering of ” Show me the way to Amerillo ” which we are all very grateful that only Mom could hear as he called her especially so that he could wail it down the phone……….
Eventually the snow petered out in Arizona & Dad spent the last 300 miles checking out every giant cactii in case John Wayne or Geronimo were lurking behind them !
This is Max with his new toy box & taking in his new home with mom & dad Marilyn & John Vinson ~ What a lucky boy ~ guess where we are all going for our hols !
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Elle x
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