A couple of months before she was born I’d created my first vision board, and on there put the perfect German Shepherd puppy. I knew I’d be leaving my job in December, so decided that I’d get Christmas out of the way first and then set the intention of my perfect puppy being ready for me in January.
Fast forward to mid-January and on the day I decided to start looking for my dog, I opened the local paper to find an advertisement for two German Shepherd puppies… I called the guy and arranged to visit the next night and it was completely and utterly love at first sight.
Ten days later, just before my birthday, I headed over to Washington in North East England to collect my beautiful puppy and spent that night wide awake and listening intently like a new mother just to make sure she was breathing.
Kali was – obviously – gorgeous, but she also had more personality than some of the people I know. She was very definite about the things she did (walks at the beach, our trips to the woods, fish, scrambled eggs and cuddles) and didn’t (celery, luminous clothes, fireworks, delivery people and window cleaners) like, and had a whole range of sounds to communicate to you exactly what she was thinking at any given moment.
She was also more than a little spoiled… with stacks of toys and a whole chair at my house with her name on it. I’d pretend I’m sorry about that but actually this self-confessed crazy dog lady is totally cool with anything that made my partner in crime smile!
