Our story's, Lilly and Ben

 These are our two pet dogs called Lilly (top) and Ben. We got Lilly ( a labrador ) from a rescue center just out of Palmerston north about nine years ago. The person who bred her and her 11 brothers and sisters was going away soon so she had no choice but to drop them of at the SPCA. But when we  came looking for a puppy, there was one problem, Lilly and her siblings looked exactly the same. So in the end Mum and Dad ( I was only about two or three at the time ) decided to have the one that came up to them when they opened the cage. So the door was opened and out came Lilly to meet them. And as you will have guessed, we chose her ( well Mum and Dad did, I was to busy making sure that ginormous pig didn't get me! ). So after that, one of the staff put some spray paint on her back so we could tell them apart  when we came again the next day to collect her. In her puppy days she did every thing and more you would expect, like chasing us up and down the couches, snuggling up to us during sleepy time, and also destroying a great  many things, such as when we came home one day only to find that it had been snowing in our yard with her bean bag bed torn open.
 So while Lilly was a rescue doggy, Ben's story is completely different....
 After giving away our other dog, Jack last year, we had all been begging for a puppy to replace him. One day me and Abbi were looking on Trade Me at dogs when I saw an advertisment for two free German short haired pionter x Border collie x Labrador puppy's, a little black boy with huge floppy ears, and a golden coloured girl. We showed Mum and Dad and eventually, they agreed. That sunday we went and 'just have a look' at them and came back with the black boy. When we got home, and went inside, everyone wanted to see him. And with all of the excitement of traveling in the car, leaving his mum and his sister, and finally being surrounded by people, dad was the unfortunate person who was holding him and got piddled on.
 His first outing in our yard was very exciting for him, and  chasing cabbage tree leaves was soon found to be great fun! Ben and Lilly got on really well to, if you left him alone in the lounge or something then he would whine until someone came to cuddle him or put Lilly in the lounge or where ever he was with him.
 Ben has just turned one this year but we still call him puppy ( not to mention all the other names he has, Benji, Benjaman, Benji boo boo....)!



Our dogs are both very special to us and I highly recommend you go to a shelter if you are ever looking  for a dog. : )