I haven’t had time to post about her until now but on 16 November we got little Cloe (yes, for some reason she is Cloe, and not Chloe, but still pronounced “Clo-ee’).

She was advertised on the local notice board as free to give away to a good home, as her previous owner was moving to the city and couldn’t keep her any longer.  Well, we had been thinking for a while of getting a second dog as a companion for Smokey, and in keeping with the tradition we have of taking on dogs that their owners can no longer keep, we just had to go and see Cloe. The n0tice said that she was approximately 2½ years old, a small kelpie blue-heeler cross. When we got there, we didn’t realise just how small she was.  She is a tiny little thing, probably not much bigger than a cat, and we think that she may have been the runt of the litter because kelpies/blue heelers are generally not small dogs.

We took her home to meet Smokey and he seemed to tolerate her, but only just (as you can see from his expression in the photo).  We’ve had her for about 3 weeks now and we can see day-by-day the two of them are getting closer.  Smokey allows Cloe to hang around him more and more and yesterday we even saw them both sleeping on Smokey’s bed together.