{"id":6639,"date":"2013-03-01T20:58:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T20:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2013-03-01T21:01:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T21:01:14","slug":"so-my-wee-hairy-haggis-flora-might-be-a-crufts-winner-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2013\/03\/so-my-wee-hairy-haggis-flora-might-be-a-crufts-winner-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"So my wee hairy haggis Flora might be a Crufts winner after all!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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She has no legs, just feet and they are frozen in snowballs.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I am in a state of excitement. If you are not a dog lover then this will bore you senseless but if you are try this\u2026..<\/p>\n

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Flora modelling a facial leaf. Fashion forward<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In 2001 I headed into the Edinburgh Cat and Dog home<\/a> and found the love of my doggy life. A wee hairy haggis called Flora. She had been found wandering the streets heavily pregnant and nearly bald. They operated on her to get the pups out \u2013 they looked like Collies much larger than Flo \u2013 and she was a great Mum despite the fact she was on a drip for 3 months. She didn\u2019t complain once. So that day she came home with me and from the day to this we have been the best of friends.<\/p>\n

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Not Flora!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I call her my terrorist because she has more character in one of her hairy wee toes than most have in their entire canine bods. She is feisty, gentle, loving, cheeky and now at the age of 14 a hairy smelly sausage of love \u2013 well that\u2019s what I call her.<\/p>\n

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\nSo I take photos of her. Talk to her. Walk with her. Lie on the floor and adore her. Her teeth are few, her hair is a tangle and her determination to do her own thing legendary.<\/p>\n

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Flora pretending to be Greyfriars Bobby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She runs our house and as I see her age \u2013 she has had a couple of wee strokes \u2013 I get teary even thinking about life without my hairy haggis\u00a0 so it was with nothing less than deep joy \u2013 if not a modicum of scepticism when a guy called Jim left a note on the blog and here it is….<\/p>\n

“I believe that Flora is a Glen of Imaal Terrier<\/strong><\/a> – or at least partially so. She looks just like my Glennie “Tigger”, found in a trash dumpster some 8 years ago.<\/p>\n

Cheers!
\nJim”<\/p>\n

Jim I can’t thank you enough. Really. Well of course I have been trawling the internet and agog as there is now no doubt in my mind. My hairy wee half haggis half womble is in point of fact a Glen Of Imaal Terrier. Well I think so \u2026\u2026what do you think?<\/p>\n

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