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href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/nicky/" rel="bookmark">Nicky</a></h2> <p class="post-info"> Posted in <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/animals/" rel="category tag">animals</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/cats/" rel="category tag">cats</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/pets/" rel="category tag">pets</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/poems/" rel="category tag">poems</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/poetry/" rel="category tag">Poetry</a>, tagged <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/tag/animals/" rel="tag">animals</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/tag/brian-morse/" rel="tag">Brian Morse</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/tag/cat-in-the-window/" rel="tag">Cat in the Window</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/tag/cats/" rel="tag">cats</a>, <a 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src="https://i0.wp.com/bp1.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/Ru8ZJ6jF1YI/AAAAAAAACCM/iHPGKJY0Kfg/s320/nicky.jpg" alt="" width="199" height="214" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color:#008000;">This is what Nicky looked like. I’ve found this photo on the internet as our photos of Nicky and Lompie are packed away.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">She was a cat found at a nursery. It was a rainy day in Centurion. I wanted to get some plants for a big clay pot in my class. I walked into the nursery. While looking around in the section where they kept all sorts of pots and stands with seeds, I heard a cat mewing. It was a soft, fainted mew and I couldn’t make out where it was coming from. I kept on looking around, but saw nothing. There were tons of shelves, covered in hessian with stuff on display. I starting lifting up the hessian, near where I heard the cat. There she was! A very young kitty with a plate of milk. I couldn’t resist stroking her and picked her up immediately. There was a man serving customers – with a wheelbarrow busy doing all sorts of odd things. Stroking this beautiful little kitty, I walked to him and asked him whose cat it was.”Nobody’s,聽 I only feed her while she’s around.” I pleaded to have her and he agreed as it was nobody’s cat anyway.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">That day was my lucky day! I locked her in my car and ran back to get the plants. I couldn’t get my plants fast enough and to get back to the car. I got back to the car and there, very pleased with herself, she was waiting on the back seat, looking me very thankfully in the eyes through the window. I still remember those large green eyes, head a bit tilted sideways. When I got into the car, it was only a loud purrrr-purrrr I could hear and I knew she was happy. She looked at me as if she has been mine for years.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">Nicky loved water! It was funny. I found her on a rainy day and she loved water so much, she liked it if you poured it all over her. She聽 would then look over her shoulder and just say…”purr-mew”…as聽 if she was asking for more! I used to have a small red watering can and when I had it with me, she came to me as if she was asking to have water running down her spine. When I poured the water down her spine, she would then wriggle her body and, “purr-mew”, to show how she enjoyed it.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">She was friends, <strong>big</strong> friends, with Lompie. Lompie was the Blue Lilac-point Siamese! They were like kids – crazy kids, chasing one another up and down the flat – and later in the house [when we moved into a house] and around the garden, looking a bit silly most of the times, making us laugh when they were doing it. Lompie would start to chase and then suddenly turned around and then Nicky would chase Lompie. Completely two ‘silly’ children. We had great fun with them and could sit in the garden looking at them playing ‘hide-and-seek’ with one another, hiding behind plants, or going up a tree. It was as if they enjoyed entertaining us and knew how we enjoyed them. Their tails were swishing from side to side when they were taking position, when playing. It was funny.聽</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">The following pictures were found on the internet. I was looking for pictures that portray her personality the best. </span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;"><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_1.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="12645" data-permalink="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/nicky/cat_1/" data-orig-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_1.jpg" data-orig-size="361,325" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="cat_1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_1.jpg?w=361" data-large-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_1.jpg?w=361" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12645" title="cat_1" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_1.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="270" srcset="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_1.jpg?w=300 300w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_1.jpg 361w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">Nicky used to get into the basin quite often and loved it when you open the tap slightly to drink some water from the tap. I think she enjoyed the coolness of it too.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;"><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_2.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="12646" data-permalink="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/nicky/cat_2/" data-orig-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_2.jpg" data-orig-size="344,251" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="cat_2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_2.jpg?w=344" data-large-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_2.jpg?w=344" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12646" title="cat_2" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_2.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="218" srcset="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_2.jpg?w=300 300w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_2.jpg 344w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">She loved to wriggle on the carpet, also when they played, she was always the one on her back, defending herself from Lompie.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;"><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_3.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="12647" data-permalink="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/nicky/cat_3/" data-orig-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_3.jpg" data-orig-size="250,207" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="cat_3" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_3.jpg?w=250" data-large-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_3.jpg?w=250" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12647" title="cat_3" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_3.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="207" /></a></span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">Nicky was curious, very curious and I know we have a similar photo of her which we took in our garden, almost this very same position, looking at ‘something’.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;"><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_6.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="12648" data-permalink="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/nicky/cat_6/" data-orig-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_6.jpg" data-orig-size="336,346" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="cat_6" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_6.jpg?w=336" data-large-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_6.jpg?w=336" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12648" title="cat_6" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_6.jpg?w=291" alt="" width="291" height="300" srcset="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_6.jpg?w=291 291w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_6.jpg 336w" sizes="(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px" /></a></span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">In our flat, we also had a beam like this! [behind the front door]. She loved to walk on it, sometimes she was ‘hiding’ there when she heard us coming up the stairs [from outside] and when we opened the door, she would “purr-mew”, as if she couldn’t help herself saying, “hello, here I am!”聽 or maybe it was her way of saying, “wha! got you!”</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;"><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_4.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="12649" data-permalink="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/nicky/cat_4/" data-orig-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_4.jpg" data-orig-size="403,299" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="cat_4" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_4.jpg?w=403" data-large-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_4.jpg?w=403" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12649" title="cat_4" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_4.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="222" srcset="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_4.jpg?w=300 300w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_4.jpg 403w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></span></p> <p><strong><span style="color:#008000;">Very strange but this photo IS Nicky!! 100% Nicky!</span></strong><span style="color:#008000;"> Found on dreamstime.com, but this is SO, SO Nicky! 500%!</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;"><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_5.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="12650" data-permalink="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/nicky/cat_5/" data-orig-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_5.jpg" data-orig-size="417,247" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="cat_5" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_5.jpg?w=417" data-large-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_5.jpg?w=417" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12650" title="cat_5" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_5.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="177" srcset="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_5.jpg?w=300 300w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cat_5.jpg 417w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">This is typical what Nicky was like, at times. Lazy-looking, self-content expression on her face.聽</span></p> <p><span style="color:#008000;">Enjoy this cat-poem.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">聽<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Cat in the window</span></span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">What do you see?<br />Cloud, wind, birds,a bird in a tree.</span><br /><span style="color:#0000ff;">The daffodils shivering the February breeze,</span><br /><span style="color:#0000ff;">A puddle in the road beginning to freeze.</span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;">Snow on the wind</span><br /><span style="color:#0000ff;">Dusk in a cloud.</span><br /><span style="color:#0000ff;">Leaves in a frenzy,</span><br /><span style="color:#0000ff;">The bird’s head cowed.</span><br /><span style="color:#0000ff;">Winter – though the sun shines.</span><br /><span style="color:#0000ff;">Blizzard, and the north wind’s whine.</span></p> <p>~~~Brian Morse</p> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="18023" data-permalink="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/catlovers-companion/" data-orig-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/catlovers-companion.jpg" data-orig-size="260,296" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="catlovers-companion" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/catlovers-companion.jpg?w=260" data-large-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/catlovers-companion.jpg?w=260" loading="lazy" width="260" height="296" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/catlovers-companion.jpg?w=260" alt="" class="wp-image-18023" /><figcaption>A book I used to have!</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/nicky/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Nicky">Read Full Post »</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="post-323 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-animals category-guinea-pigs category-pets" id="post-323"> <div class="posttitle"> <h2><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/guinea-pigs-friends/" rel="bookmark">Guinea Pigs – friends</a></h2> <p class="post-info"> Posted in <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/animals/" rel="category tag">animals</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/guinea-pigs/" rel="category tag">Guinea pigs</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/pets/" rel="category tag">pets</a> on 25/08/2007| <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/guinea-pigs-friends/#comments">12 Comments »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry"> <p><strong><span style="color:#993300;">I forgot to say….that Paint kept on bullying Penny…and so we’ve decided to get another little one to “force” Paint to get along with Penny! So….here you can see them all….</span><br /> </strong><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RtARdQ0g-SI/AAAAAAAABSs/FFjL1svw_2w/s1600-h/paint.JPG"><img style="display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;" src="https://i0.wp.com/bp3.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RtARdQ0g-SI/AAAAAAAABSs/FFjL1svw_2w/s320/paint.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><strong> <span style="color:#993300;">Paint….posing for her picture…a bit curious…”..and where’s the yummy?”</span></strong></p> <p><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RtARdg0g-TI/AAAAAAAABS0/eQe6swhtGAE/s1600-h/Paint1.JPG"><img style="display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;" src="https://i0.wp.com/bp0.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RtARdg0g-TI/AAAAAAAABS0/eQe6swhtGAE/s320/Paint1.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><strong> <span style="color:#993300;">…not sure…”shall I go down or am I safe!”….then she decided that she’s still safe…</span><br /> </strong><br /> <a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RtARdg0g-UI/AAAAAAAABS8/Gir_spP3Qdo/s1600-h/guinea+pigs+peep.JPG"><img style="display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;" src="https://i0.wp.com/bp0.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RtARdg0g-UI/AAAAAAAABS8/Gir_spP3Qdo/s320/guinea%2Bpigs%2Bpeep.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><strong> <span style="color:#993300;">and…”WHO’s there! Knock a bit harder and speak up…can’t here you!”</span><br /> </strong></p> <div><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RtARHw0g-NI/AAAAAAAABSE/5duDZ0Snr7s/s1600-h/threesome.JPG"><strong><img style="display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;" src="https://i0.wp.com/bp1.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RtARHw0g-NI/AAAAAAAABSE/5duDZ0Snr7s/s320/threesome.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></strong></a><strong> <span style="color:#993300;">Threesome…better than being lonely!</span></strong></div> <p><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RtARIQ0g-PI/AAAAAAAABSU/63gv0uwuSvU/s1600-h/Penny.JPG"><img style="display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;" src="https://i0.wp.com/bp3.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RtARIQ0g-PI/AAAAAAAABSU/63gv0uwuSvU/s320/Penny.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a> <span style="color:#993300;"><strong>Penny! Your turn!</strong></span></p> <p><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RtARIg0g-QI/AAAAAAAABSc/3ZBOUftXL_o/s1600-h/paintin.JPG"><strong><img style="display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;" src="https://i0.wp.com/bp0.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RtARIg0g-QI/AAAAAAAABSc/3ZBOUftXL_o/s320/paintin.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></strong></a><strong> <span style="color:#993300;">And…the well-mannered Paint…letting Sannie out…for her to come and pose!</span><br /> </strong><br /> <a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RtARIQ0g-OI/AAAAAAAABSM/tv8xpdq-_gU/s1600-h/Sannieout.JPG"><img style="display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;" src="https://i0.wp.com/bp3.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RtARIQ0g-OI/AAAAAAAABSM/tv8xpdq-_gU/s320/Sannieout.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a> <span style="color:#993300;">“<strong>Wow! I think I should run for my life! What are these people up to!”</strong></span></p> <p><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RtARIw0g-RI/AAAAAAAABSk/LNuPmU-JM4E/s1600-h/guinea+pigs+peep.JPG"><img style="display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;" src="https://i0.wp.com/bp1.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RtARIw0g-RI/AAAAAAAABSk/LNuPmU-JM4E/s320/guinea%2Bpigs%2Bpeep.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><strong> <span style="color:#993300;">“Still can’t hear you!”</span></strong></p> <p><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p7120013.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="5302" data-permalink="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/guinea-pigs-friends/p7120013/" data-orig-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p7120013.jpg" data-orig-size="1224,918" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"3.1","credit":"","camera":"FE170,X760","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1215888583","copyright":"","focal_length":"6.3","iso":"64","shutter_speed":"0.025","title":""}" data-image-title="p7120013" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p7120013.jpg?w=500" data-large-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p7120013.jpg?w=500" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5302" title="p7120013" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p7120013.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p7120013.jpg?w=300 300w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p7120013.jpg?w=600 600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></p> <p><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p7120016.jpg"><img data-attachment-id="5303" data-permalink="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/guinea-pigs-friends/p7120016/" data-orig-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p7120016.jpg" data-orig-size="1224,918" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"3.1","credit":"","camera":"FE170,X760","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1215888625","copyright":"","focal_length":"6.3","iso":"64","shutter_speed":"0.05","title":""}" data-image-title="p7120016" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p7120016.jpg?w=500" data-large-file="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p7120016.jpg?w=500" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5303" title="p7120016" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p7120016.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p7120016.jpg?w=300 300w, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p7120016.jpg?w=600 600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></p> <p>聽</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping" rel="nofollow">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping</a></div> <p><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/08/25/guinea-pigs-friends/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Guinea Pigs – friends">Read Full Post »</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="post-66 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-books category-dogs category-jock category-jock-of-the-bushveld category-lowveld category-mpumalanga category-pets category-south-africa category-stories" id="post-66"> <div class="posttitle"> <h2><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/06/23/jock-of-the-bushveld/" rel="bookmark">Jock of the Bushveld</a></h2> <p class="post-info"> Posted in <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/books/" rel="category tag">books</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/dogs/" rel="category tag">dogs</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/jock/" rel="category tag">Jock</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/jock-of-the-bushveld/" rel="category tag">Jock of the Bushveld</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/lowveld/" rel="category tag">Lowveld</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/mpumalanga/" rel="category tag">Mpumalanga</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/pets/" rel="category tag">pets</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/south-africa/" rel="category tag">South Africa</a>, <a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/stories/" rel="category tag">stories</a> on 23/06/2007| </p> </div> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RnzO9lOx_CI/AAAAAAAAAIM/dKSLbqrPbtA/s1600-h/blogjock1.bmp"><img style="float:left;cursor:hand;margin:0 10px 10px 0;" alt="" src="https://i0.wp.com/bp1.blogger.com/_2EjV_03OsW8/RnzO9lOx_CI/AAAAAAAAAIM/dKSLbqrPbtA/s320/blogjock1.bmp" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-size:130%;color:#6600cc;"><strong>Jock – a bull-terrier – was born in the present day Kruger National Park near the Pretorius Kop Camp. He was the runt of the litter and the young Fitzpatrick saved him from certain death by adopting him as a pup.<br /><span style="color:#006600;"><em>Percy Fitzpatrick became a transport rider – carting supplies for the goldfields at Pilgrim’s Rest and Barberton from Delagoa Bay (now Maputo) in Lourenco Marques (now Mozambique).<br /></em></span>Jock grew up to be a faithful and obedient companion, as well as a champion fighter and hunter. Jock accompanied Fitzpatrick on his journeys through the KNP, as well as through the towns of Sabie, Graskop, Pilgrim’s Rest, Barberton and <em>Lydenburg.</em> <span style="color:#cc9933;"><em>(Lydenburg is the town where I grew up..well, on the farm about 20km outside the town…)</em></span></strong></span></p> <div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#6600cc;"><em></em></span></strong></div> <p></p> <div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;">Read more here….<a href="http://www.graskop.co.za/jock/">http://www.graskop.co.za/jock/</a></span></strong></div> <p></p> <div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong></div> <p></p> <div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"></span></strong></div> <p></p> <div></div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping" rel="nofollow">http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping</a></div> <p><a href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2007/06/23/jock-of-the-bushveld/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Jock of the Bushveld">Read Full Post »</a></p> </div> </div> <p align="center"></p> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <ul> <li class="sidebox"> <a class="wordpress-follow-button" href="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com" data-blog="2198811" data-lang="en" data-show-blog-name="false">Follow Chessalee on WordPress.com</a> <script type="text/javascript">(function(d){ window.wpcomPlatform = {"titles":{"timelines":"Embeddable Timelines","followButton":"Follow Button","wpEmbeds":"WordPress Embeds"}}; var f = d.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0], p = d.createElement('SCRIPT');p.type = 'text/javascript';p.async = true;p.src = '//widgets.wp.com/platform.js';f.parentNode.insertBefore(p,f);}(document));</script> </li><li class="sidebox"><form role="search" method="get" action="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/" class="wp-block-search__button-outside wp-block-search__text-button wp-block-search" ><label class="wp-block-search__label" for="wp-block-search__input-1" >Search this site</label><div class="wp-block-search__inside-wrapper " ><input class="wp-block-search__input" id="wp-block-search__input-1" placeholder="" value="" type="search" name="s" required /><button aria-label="Search" class="wp-block-search__button wp-element-button" type="submit" >Search</button></div></form></li><li class="sidebox"><h2><label for="subscribe-field">Subscribe to Blog via Email</label></h2> <div class="wp-block-jetpack-subscriptions__container"> <form action="https://subscribe.wordpress.com" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" data-blog="2198811" data-post_access_level="everybody" id="subscribe-blog" > <p>Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.</p> <p id="subscribe-email"> <label id="subscribe-field-label" for="subscribe-field" class="screen-reader-text" > Email Address: </label> <input type="email" name="email" style="width: 95%; padding: 1px 10px" placeholder="Email Address" value="" id="subscribe-field" required /> </p> <p id="subscribe-submit" > <input type="hidden" name="action" value="subscribe"/> <input type="hidden" name="blog_id" value="2198811"/> <input type="hidden" name="source" value="https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/category/pets/"/> <input type="hidden" name="sub-type" value="widget"/> <input type="hidden" name="redirect_fragment" value="subscribe-blog"/> <input type="hidden" id="_wpnonce" name="_wpnonce" value="241786cb63" /> <button type="submit" class="wp-block-button__link" > Subscribe </button> </p> </form> <div class="wp-block-jetpack-subscriptions__subscount"> Join 292 other subscribers </div> </div> </li><li class="sidebox"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" width="440" height="417" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/welcome_0.gif" alt="" class="wp-image-10373" /></figure> </li><li class="sidebox"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img loading="lazy" width="68" height="50" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/south_africa-flag.gif" alt="" class="wp-image-19336" /></figure> </li><li class="sidebox"> <p></p> </li><li class="sidebox"> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img loading="lazy" width="329" height="107" src="https://chessaleeinlondon.files.wordpress.com/2021/08/divider-7-.jpg?w=329" alt="" class="wp-image-19337" /></figure> </li><li class="sidebox"> <p>"The Americans fight for a free world, the English mostly for honour, glory and medals, the French and Canadians decide too late that they have to participate. 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