Trickie – Border Collie cross
This is a photo of our Trickie taken on 31/10/99, as you can see she was quite young. Trickie passed away on 5/1/07 at 13 ½ years old, after a few operations. Trickie was rescued from a farm up North and was probably going to be destroyed. Our ten year old border collie “Skip†had just passed away and we were devastated. My husband Ron phoned me from our property up North about a week after Skip had died of a heart attack and said this little thing wanted a home. I could hear her barking, she was tied up as Ron thought she might run away, she was just six months old and had been kept chained up all the time by one of those drum kennels the farmers use for their sheep dogs. Trickie’s mother was a pedigreed golden cocker spaniel and the father was the short hair border collie cross (a very good sheep dog by the way). When Ron brought her home I said the only thing she had going for her was her sweet little face, she had long legs, long tail, small head and the most beautiful soft long ears. It didn’t take Trickie long to grow into her body and make herself at home. Her place was in Ron’s space cab ute and always travelled in the front seat. She would be quite put out when I went with him and she had to sit in the back seat. We feel she had a very good life and was loved dearly. We now have to think about another dog after a holiday. We have made an azalea garden for her and it has a nice wooden plaque on the fence with her details right next to Skip.
We miss her very much.
Gay and Ron Window
