We have two wonderful female Westies, Brandy and Paisley.   Brandy was purchased from a very reputable breeder at the age of 10 months.  She only has 5 front bottom teeth, eliminating her from being a show  dog, which is why the breeder was looking for a good family for her.  We were lucky to get her!   We adopted Paisley from the same breeder 3 years later on Valentines Day.  She was 6 years old at the time, had been a very successful show dog, but was not as successful at breeding.  Again, this was a bit of luck for us.

They have been the love of our lives ever since.  We take them everywhere when possible.  There was a bit of adjustment after Paisley joined our family, but with lots of love and a bit of patience, everyone has settled in nicely.		Malibu House	This is a picture of Brandy and Paisley enjoying the deck overlooking the sound on one of our spring trips to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

This is Brandy at her second birthday.  She loves English Tea Biscuits, so as a special treat, we gave her one instead of a gooey  cupcake.

This is Brandy at Halloween.  The neighbors love to see her dressed up and they put doggy treats in her goodie bag!

This is Miss Paisley, several days after she adopted us on Valentine's Day 1997.		We were overrun with gophers one year and bought a live trap since we didn't want to kill them.  We just wanted to stop them from digging under our shed. My husband made the big mistake of baiting the trap with baby carrots.  Of course, they were also the favorite snack of Miss Paisley!  She was only in there for several minutes.  She ate the carrots and then just laid down to await her release.  By the way, we caught 8 gophers that year!

 We also have a cat and a half  - one (Scraps) is 'on loan' from my son who recently moved to Florida, and the other (Tux) is an abandoned cat who adopted us and the family across the street.  Their little boy named her "Niki".  The cat, knowing a good thing when sees it, answers to both names!   This picture shows Tux in her usual position our front porch.  She loves to nap after a good meal.  All four critters get along extremely well and sometimes it sounds like we have 4 kids in the house again.  We have also recently adopted one of two strays that appeared on our doorstep as well.  I guess she heard the chow was good.    We really were not looking for another cat, but after she presented us with her second litter, we decided to have her spayed.  In order to let her recover from her surgery, we set up a area for her in our basement.  She recovered very nicely and hasn't gone out since!  Nothing like the pitter-patter of little feet!  Her name is Gypsy and she is our upstairs cat.  She can usually be found sleeping at the foot of our bed unless I am trying to work on a quilt layout on the bed.  She has grown very fond of this quilt and always pounced on it whenever I had it near the bed.  If she could find an inch of it to lay on, she did.  Consequently, I named the quilt "Gypsy's Choice".  Of course, she told the other cats and now they want a quilt of their own!

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