Our Family

This is our family a few years ago.

This is Rosie, I am the Mummy dog and I am going  to tell you about our family.  There are 3 of us fur babies and lots of humans.  There used to be 4 fur babies but our sister dog Sandy died of very old age, 2 years ago.  The other fur babies are Loulou and Alfie who were my babies and you already know them. 

We used to have a cat that lived here called Sapphire.  She belonged to our Middle Big Girl.  When she got very old and Middle Big Girl had gone to live in a place called Uni; Sapphire went to live with our Big Boy at his home.  She died a year or so back too.

We have a big human family and it seems to be growing.  Originally we had 7 humans. Now we have about 13.  Our original humans, or nuclear family, as I think the word is, consists of;  Daddy, Mummy, Big Boy, Big Girl, Middle Big Girl, Little Big Girl and Small Boy.  Their human names, respectively are: Sam, Coralie, Verity, Saskia and Joshua.

Over the last few years we have got more humans in our family.  First there was Raz who came to live with us for a long time.  He is living in the place called Uni too.  He came to see us a few weeks back when our Big Girl got married.

Next came Lisa who has also done that married thingy to our Big Boy.  Then there is Charlotte and she lived with us for a while too, but now she lives with her Grandparents. She is doing something called "going out" with our Small boy. 

Then we got 2 other human boys called Adam and John.  We don't see them often.  Adam lives in the place called Uni with our Middle Big Girl.  He talks different to us because he comes from a place that is called Ireland.  I think it is a little Island place, somewhere in the sea.  I think they all talk different there, but we like Adam.

Then last year we got ourselves a new human.  She is called Ellie but we call her Baby Girl.  She is belonging to our Big Boy and Lisa.  Mummy has told us that very soon there will be another one of these human babies.

We do like them, but we aren't sure about them.  They do smell a bit different to normal humans and they make very loud noises.  Loulou and Alfie aren't allowed to get too close to Baby Girl.  I am though, because I am an old lady dog and I know about human babies.  I'm not convinced that we need another one though!  Baby Girl seems to be plenty to me, but humans are funny.

We also have an old man called Grand Dad who is our Mums, Daddy.  We don't see him very often any more but he still remembers to send home sweets for us when Mummy visits him.  We used to have an old lady called Nanny too, but we haven't seen her for a long time.  I don't think she liked us that much really but she did fuss me and Sandy.  Mummy has said that the Nanny lady is very sick in the hospital and doesn't remember us now.  That's very sad.

Anyway that's our family.