Just to introduce myself I am a 57 year old lady living in Watford. I have recently lost my partner and in an effort to try and cheer myself up thought I would join a new forum. As my name implies I love animals and especially dogs and have 2 rescue dogs, pointer cross sisters called Becky and Jess. They are my babies as I have no children from choice.
Hoping to make some friends on here as I am a bit down at the moment so looking forward to talking to you all.
Welcome to the forum Val, sorry to hear of your sad time and that you are understandably a bit low.
Have a look round and post when you feel able to, it is a very friendly place and we will do what we can to cheer you up.
Best Wishes
George.
Hi and welcome from a cat person! Sorry to hear of your loss; I hope you’ll enjoy this forum; we’re friendly and chat about anything and everything. You might want to take a look at one of our sister forums, Dogsey. You can link from here.
Hello, welcome to the forum 
Sorry for your loss… I hope you enjoy it here and make some new friends. We’re all a little barking on here so as a ‘dog person’ you’ll fit in well
Hello Val welcome, I look forward to chatting with you.
Hola and welcome from a hot and sunny Southern Spain.
My wife has no children either (I have 3 from previous marriages) and much prefers dogs.
We have 3 rescue dogsl, one day I’ll get around to posting some pics.
Anyway, stay awhile and have some fun…
Hello & welcome Dog Lover, from a cat person who likes dogs too.
Hi and welcome Dog Lover—I am also a doggie person with a boxer girlie called Ruby. Make yourself at home and meet the friendly folks on here.
Hello Val, a very warm welcome to you.
So sorry to hear of your recent loss, I hope we can bring a little happiness into your life and help you through this difficult time.
I’ve already seen your photo of your dogs and think they are gorgeous, how on earth do you get their coats so shiny?! 
Looking forward to chatting with you, I hope you’ll enjoy the forum…
Val darlin’ Hi and welcome
Hi I have a house in Spain too near Albunol and usually fly to Malaga and drive along the coast. I will be out in October for some late sunshine hopefully. 
Thanks to everyone for making me feel welcome 
Wow! I had to Google that place, I had not heard of it. That is way of the main tourist route. that has to be a couple of hours from the airport.
The furthest we have ventured in that direction is a couple of overnight stays in Almunecar. We have driven back from Granada via Motril a couple of times. The countryside is really quite spectacular in that part of Andalucia.
We find that generally October is a very good month for weather, not too hot. Although there seems to be no pattern to the weather these days. The amount of rain we have seen over the past 2 winters has been unbelievable.
Yes it takes about 2 hours as the motorway finishes just beyond Almunecar. It is real Spain off the tourist trail. At one time we were going to retire there but now I am trying to sell the house which is not easy given the Spanish economy. Still I have it as a holiday home for the time being. It is up in the hills but 5 mins from Albunol and about 7-8 mins from la Rabita on the coast. The many greenhouses have had a big impact on the area but it is still very pretty and unspoilt by tourism. There is a small ex pat Brit community but my nearerst neighbour is Danish !
Ever thought of renting as a rural holiday retreat, that is now the up and coming thing in Spain.
I would have to do a fair bit to it if I was to rent it out. It is with 2 estate agents though who would let me know if there was any interest for renting. The garden is in a bit of a state as it is not lived in. Just want to sell really but may be slow to move. Its quite hard with me on my own to get stuff done really. 
A belated but warm welcome Dog Lover.
Trying to sell anything over her at the present time is a joke, places are selling but for ridiculously low figures. 
Pity it isn’t closer, I could probably have helped you out.
Anyway, best of luck, and hope you enjoy the forum, I’ve not been on here very long and they seem a friendly enough crowd. 
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Well, we have two dogs as well, one is a rescue in so far as she was rejected by her first owners and there was talk that she may have been PTS (Put to sleep) the breeder just happened to phone them and found out that they didn’t have a clue and immediately agreed to take her back, she then came to us, that was eight years ago, both of them have given us so much.
I wish I had more time to log in here, if you want to talk to more Dog lovers you could do worse than register on Dogsey as well a forum also run by the same person, usually refered to here as “MoTU” (Loosely meaning Master of the Universe:lol:) 'cos he’s pretty good with 'puters and things.
Hello, sorry to hear about your loss. Nice to meet you - hope you enjoy the forum.
