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Welcome to Holly's home page.


Sadly the day finally arrived on Monday 11th July when poor Holly passed over Rainbow's Bridge to await us on the other side. Thankfully she was allowed to pass away at home with all the girls saying goodbye to her, she is now buried in her favourite patch of garden between the two standard roses in the best bit of shade, where the girls have now taken to lying when we are in the garden.

It will be a while before we update the remainder of this page so that everybody can remember her how she was.

The Dowager Duchess of the family. Although not a CKCS, she is in fact a Collie/Spaniel cross, she has been a super friend and companion for the last sixteen and a half years and will be sadly missed when that day comes for her to make the journey over the Rainbow Bridge.

Way back in 1993 before our son-in-law was our son-in-law he wrote the following poem about Holly.


From out of the shadow, four legs appear,
A squeak and a woof, Holly is here!

No I'm not kicking that B-A-L-L,
You can forget that squeaky as well.

Kisses-a-plenty, come out and play,
Coming in soggy on a rainy day.

She knows when another dog has been near,
'Cause she sniffs you and sniffs you again I fear!

Bundle of black-and-white four legged fun,
A not-yet-grown-up-puppy - Holly in one!

Robert Standley
8 May 1993


And to bring tears to our eyes when we read it, our Grand-daughter Samantha penned the following
after Holly crossed over the Rainbow Bridge.


Out from nowhere came a dog called Holly,
Wagging her tail, licking her lips.
Oh Holly -
She lived life to the full!

The little ones only think they know all the naughty tricks, but we have seen Holly do them all ~ eating the heads off flowers, chewing books and stones, digging the garden, etc, etc, etc....... When Heidi first came to live with us they used to have a ball playing with each other, sadly she has had at least two strokes, she is almost blind and deaf and just a tad unsteady on her pins but she still can't stay still for long of an evening and constantly gets up, patrols, comes back and lies down. Amber and Lucy try to encourage her to play, and she will sometimes repond and try to chase them ~ much to Sasha's dismay, but that same Sasha, together with Lucy, will escort Holly down the ramp to the garden whilst she performs her toilet and then escort her back up again and see her safely into the house ~ whilst Heidi and Amber look on!

Here are some pictures of the old rascal

And with some friends

Amber, Heidi, Sasha and Holly

Holly, Amber, Max and Heidi