Walk This Way

07/05/2023

❤️had to share. Too sweet.

06/03/2023

Awww🥰

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=574691531358278&id=100064523091205

One more Doggie Stick Library!

12/02/2023

I have to admit, I have a soft spot for rotties and having one myself I can afirm that they are indeed fantastic with little ones 🥰

02/02/2023

When your a mum.. have a dog and try to work out….

06/12/2022

We have bought a battered crumbling old ruin and are very slowly breathing some life back into it & Bella is of course always present and a part of all our new turns in life.

She’s so blind now, always bumping into things and can hardly find you if you don’t jump up and down waving like a lunatic, but she loves being a part of what we are up to and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

So happy we fostered and then adopted her, she’s the most wonderful pup who’s had quite the life and I’m so happy for her she ended up with us too.. she had the most amazing time on all our dog walks in Bristol and now at the wonderful age of 13 is enjoying her retirement in a more quiet and gentle way of life in Portugal, lucky pooch. She still misses all her pals though terribly, as do we ❤️

16/09/2022

When in Portugal… one needs to learn how to cook, right?
Well Bella has taken that very seriously..

12/08/2022

Had to share this as this is so beautiful ❤️

This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date. I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this. Enjoy the story...

It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.

Here's the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.

She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.

I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she's not sad about aging or dying. Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.

Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable & comforted & safe & important.

Many of us these days, we dread the death of a loved one. It is the ugly truth of Life that keeps us feeling terrified & alone. I wish we could also appreciate the time that lies right beside the end of time. I know that I will feel the most overwhelming knowledge of her, and of her life and of my love for her, in the last moments.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.

I'll be seeing you.

Love,

Fiona

22/07/2022

Yep…

19/07/2022

Aha… Bella is good at this one….

Never Waste A Fart!

29/06/2022

21/05/2022

Oh wow, I love this! I’d have made so much less of a fuss as a kid going to the dentist if I had a fury friend like this o é to help me through. What a lovely thing!

18/03/2022

This just popped up on my personal account.. one of my 1st walks, this one was with lovely wiggly bottomed Sully..
It would have been 8years now of dog walking..

I’m still missing it terribly.. and “my” dogs.. Was just saying to pedro that I don’t think I will ever NOT miss it or them..

Hope everyone is well and things in UK not taking too much of a hit with all the madness in the world and country.

Big hugs x

19/01/2022

This is Bella’s life now

08/01/2022

Bella is definitely beginning to feel the aches & pains of age creeping in now she’s 13yo but she still decided to start this new year being her good old silly self.

I think we all need a bit more silly in our lives don’t you? Especially with all the madness in the world at the moment.

(Coming in a bit late but..) wishing you all a happy new year ###

20/12/2021

✨🎄Bella having a bath so she’s nice and shiny for Christmas.
Can you tell it’s one of her least favourite activities?!

We hope you all have a lovely Christmas and give those pups of yours a good cuddle form us lot ###

27/11/2021

We are wondering what on earth to do with this page now we are no longer dog walking as we feel a bit sad to shut it down with all the lovely dog walk videos etc…. So we will carry on posting on here every now and again..!

Here’s a pic of Pedro getting head butted in the ouchie area by Rudy on one of our walks… Rudy looks very happy with himself, and although Pedro looks like he’s kind of laughing, I’m not sure how funny he actually thought it was!!

Ahhhh we do miss this!!! ❤️

30/09/2021

Bella is enjoying learning the ways of life here, one of them being relaxing under the olive trees while the middays sun is hot, which she’s getting very good at.
She’s also proving to be a 5⭐️ nanny to her new baby family member and always ever so gentle with him 🥰

She’s missing all her Bristol mates though and hopes they are all getting some amazing walks and are well x

27/07/2021

How is everyone? We are honestly missing our job and the pups we used to walk and think of them all often!
All is well this end.. Portugal is still beautifully sunny and we are slowly settling in although still not moved to our next home yet!

Bella has given us a bit of a scare when she wtarted yelping when she tried to sit down or walk… we took her to the vets thinking she had maybe eaten a chicken bone but an x-ray later and all seemed well, so we are thinking it’s her hips again.. they have always been a problem a d let’s not forget she is about 12years old so hips becoming wobbly is a thing that’s to be expected, sadly…

We have put her on some medication though and she seems to be back to her lunch self which is good!

Now Luan is enjoying exploring the world crawling around (with of course the occasional head bang as you can see..) Bella seems more interested in interacting with him and it’s heart melting to see their bond grow ❤️ here’s her acting as an obstacle course for him, such a clever dog.. 😆

30/06/2021

Bella luckily loves being in the car and is loving all her Portuguese travel, which so far has been rather recentless from one place to the next visiting family and friends!

16/06/2021

Bella living the life under her new fig tree 😴😄

04/06/2021

“Lisbon, huh?.. Ye... I guess I could get used to this...”

03/06/2021

Bella arrived well and is enjoying Portugal!

02/05/2021

So as many of you know, we now have our own tiny “pup” who’s joined the Walk This Way team, and here he is loving being out with all the dogs.. They have all been so sweet each giving his hand a little lick and keeping watch over him 🥰
Bella is still not aware of just quite how big she is… we honestly think she thinks she’s the size of a chihuahua…… It’s very cute now our little one is more robust, him and Bella have loved getting to know eachother and he loves nothing more than to pet her fur and occasionally pull an ear…

18/01/2021

“I can see you are eating and I would like some please....”

14/01/2021

The Dogs Above

24/12/2020

😂

Uh Oh!

23/12/2020

😄 This is brilliant. The cat is the best bit..
🎄✨ We hope you all manage to still have a lovely Christmas given these mad times... ✨🎄 ###

https://youtu.be/vhg7Xm4FXAY

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06/12/2020

Sunday mood depicted perfectly by Bella..... 😆