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Dana and Roxy's Petsit Roadtrip NZ A space to share all the wonderful fur friendships and sightseeing adventures on our petsit roadtrip

Today my baby girl Roxy gained her angel wings, just shy of her 14th birthday. It is the hardest decision I've ever made...
09/08/2022

Today my baby girl Roxy gained her angel wings, just shy of her 14th birthday. It is the hardest decision I've ever made, to have her put to sleep, but her health made a turn for the worse in the last week and her breathing got quite bad. The vet said her mammary tumors had made their way to her lungs. I was with her til the very end. She passed peacefully with her head in my arms.
Yesterday we made one last trip to the beach, she got to breathe the ocean air and walk on the sand one last time.
We have had so many adventures together and she has been my constant loving companion for 14years. Such a sweetheart, so loyal, the best. What will life be like without her. My heart is broken.
RiP my baby girl ❤️❤️❤️

01/07/2022

Oh donkeeee ❤️

23/06/2022

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Judy, a purebred pointer, was the mascot of several ships in the Pacific, and was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and taken to a prison camp. There she met Aircraftsman Frank Williams, who shared his small portion of rice with her.
Judy raised morale in the POW camp, and also barked when poisonous snakes, crocodiles or even tigers approached the prisoners. When the prisoners were shipped back to Singapore, she was smuggled out in a rice sack, never whimpering or betraying her presence to the guards.
The next day, that ship was torpedoed. Williams pushed Judy out of a porthole in an attempt to save her life, even though there was a 15-foot drop to the sea. He made his own escape from the ship, but was then recaptured and sent to a new POW camp.
He didn't know if Judy had survived, but soon he began hearing stories about a dog helping drowning men reach pieces of debris after the shipwreck. And when Williams arrived at the new camp, he said: "I couldn’t believe my eyes! As I walked through the gate, a scraggly dog hit me square between the shoulders and knocked me over. I’d never been so glad to see the old girl!"
They spent a year together at that camp in Sumatra. "Judy saved my life in so many ways," said Williams. "But the greatest of all was giving me a reason to live. All I had to do was look into those weary, bloodshot eyes and ask myself: 'What would happen to her if I died?' I had to keep going."
Once hostilities ceased, Judy was then smuggled aboard a troopship heading back to Liverpool. In England, she was awarded the Dickin Medal (the "Victoria Cross" for animals) in May 1946. Her citation reads: "For magnificent courage and endurance in Japanese prison camps, which helped to maintain morale among her fellow prisoners, and also for saving many lives through her intelligence and watchfulness".
At the same time, Frank Williams was awarded the PDSA's White Cross of St. Giles for his devotion to Judy. Frank and Judy spent a year after the war visiting the relatives of English POWs who had not survived, and Frank said that Judy "always provided a comforting presence to the families."
When Judy finally died at the age of 13, Frank spent two months building a granite and marble memorial in her memory, which included a plaque describing her life story.

27/04/2022
09/04/2022

The Petrek 3G lets you keep an eye on your pet's secret movements. In theory, anyway.

05/04/2022
28/03/2022

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25/03/2022

Ollie hunting crickets! 🦗

Day out with Ollie 😍
25/03/2022

Day out with Ollie 😍

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