Celebrating 13 years of Dozer – that’s 79 human years! Be part of me for a bit journey down reminiscence lane to see what my large, dopey, loveable fur ball has been as much as this previous yr. If I’m nonetheless this energetic, adored and obsessive about snacks at his age, I’ll take into account myself fortunate!
Ahhh Dozer! What a yr you’ve had. I need to say it was in contrast to another – however truthfully, I really feel like yearly is extraordinary! Not precisely heroic-dog extraordinary (eg. sniffing out survivors or monitoring lacking individuals in forests), however your abilities lie in……let’s assume, different areas we’ve come to worth?😂
Let’s check out Dozer’s Finest Of from the previous 12 months!
Lifetime of Dozer
Dozer’s comeback!
I didn’t do a birthday submit for Dozer’s twelfth birthday as a result of he was recovering from surgical procedure after being identified with bi-lateral laryngeal paralysis which was inhibiting his capacity to breath. He had a tough restoration, and I can’t lie, there was a time once I wasn’t certain he’d pull by means of. However he did!! Again on the seaside along with his buddies, with a smile and even a number of leaps and bounds! ☺️
I’ll all the time treasure that picture above, the primary day I took him again to the seaside 3 months after his operation, bundled up in a heavy obligation life jacket for security. He was so pleased!
plAYSCHOOL!
This one’s going straight to the highest of the highlights checklist as a result of – PLAYSCHOOL!!! Really, no larger honour.
His transient?
✅ Waddle on set and look cute – nailed it.
❌ Take a look at digicam. Fail! His eyes had been laser-locked on the meals all the time. 😂
PHOTOSHOOTS, PHOTOSHOOTS!
With Dozer featured so closely in my second cookbook Tonight, there have been so many picture shoots, and so many places! On the workplace, house, images studio, on the canine seaside. I wished to seize him in any respect the locations he frequents in his life. What a pure he’s in entrance of the digicam today!
And naturally, the frequent theme – a lot meals. So, a lot meals! What torture it have to be for him, as we take shot after shot after shot. 😂
And my favorite picture:
Which ended up on the quilt of my favorite journal……
COVER BOY!
The Large Concern is a social enterprise journal that’s offered by deprived individuals in CBD areas of Australia, offering them with a method to earn an revenue and rebuild their lives. Of all of the interviews that we did within the 12 months (and by “we”, I confer with my complete staff in addition to Dozer and I!), that is the one which gained our hearts. (OK FINE! Dozer splashed on the quilt could have helped 😂).
BOOK LAUNCH AND TOUR!
Launching a ebook is enjoyable. Launching it with Dozer by my aspect is even MORE enjoyable!!
Who desires to speak to me after they can pat Dozer??🥰
And when the ebook tour went interstate so I couldn’t take the actual factor with me, we took the 2D model as a substitute!
READER EVENTS
Some of the fantastic elements of creating a cookbook is that you just get to fulfill in actual life. One thing I by no means imagined having the chance to do 4 years in the past earlier than I made my first ebook.
Today, assembly readers is one thing that we attempt to make a daily factor – as a result of each my staff and I take pleasure in it a lot!! And naturally, for Sydney occasions, Dozer is the largest drawcard. Right here he’s, stealing all the eye at two of the reader occasions we held final yr – a dinner at Boronia Kitchen (my native!):
And extra lately at a surprising lengthy lunch on the Roundhouse Restaurant within the Crystalbrook Kingsley Lodge as a part of the annual Newcastle Good Meals Month celebrations.
fundraiser for sophie’s legacy
Of all of the occasions we did although, probably the most particular must be a fundraiser we did for Sophie’s Legacy. This can be a charity arrange by the dad and mom of a younger vet who took her personal life, which has a aim of lowering the suicide charges within the career. A horrifying statistic: suicide charges amongst veterinarians is 4x the nationwide common.
Dozer and I hosted a fundraiser at our native Small Animal Particular Hospital (in Ryde) the place we raised cash for Sophie’s Legacy. It was a small gesture to provide again to the individuals who saved Dozer’s life a yr in the past.
It additionally made me conscious that each time I am going to the vet, it’s often as a result of Dozer isn’t effectively. So I’m apprehensive and upset, and do I actually bear in mind to thank the vets and workers correctly? Take a second to drop a notice of due to your veterinarian – drop an electronic mail, letter or card – for taking care of our pets so effectively. You may’t start to think about how a lot it can imply to them. ❤️
plastered throughout rtm!
And an enormous second for Dozer up to now yr – after we plastered a life dimension sticker of him on the window of RecipeTin Meals!! A pleasant reminder in case there was any uncertainty of who’s REALLY the boss round right here…..😂
Dozer can be our poster boy for RTM, all the time. Ceaselessly. So long as RTM is related to me, I’ll by no means let that change.
Style testing duties
From the second I began my web site 11 years in the past, Dozer proudly appointed himself Chief Style Tester – and what a stellar job he’s carried out in that vital position! Topped Worker of the Month almost each month, he’s praised for his unwavering dedication, enthusiasm with which he undertakes his duties and lightning-fast response time each time something edible emerges from the fridge, oven, or pantry (the backyard, nevertheless, stays suspiciously beneath him 🤔).
Today, because of his medical situation, he’s unable to eat flaky and crumbly issues like croissants, biscuits and desserts (as a result of danger of inhaling into his lungs). However, ever the devoted skilled, he nonetheless insists on doing his half. If he can’t style the cake, he’ll fortunately pattern the custard. Simply dip cabanossi in it! Mmmm, meat and custard….
DOZER’S 13TH BIRTHDAY!
And right here he’s, on his thirteenth birthday at his second favorite place on earth – Bayview canine seaside!
Trying by means of Dozer’s birthday pictures, I realised it’s much less a celebration for him and extra for me – as a result of let’s be trustworthy, does he look thrilled in his social gathering get-up this yr? Completely not. 😂 He spent a lot of the time howling in protest!
Everyone is aware of I did it for myself, not him – a little bit of celebration, however principally for amusement. Watching him swim round Bayview with shiny foil trailing behind him and his little social gathering hat bobbing round on this again… priceless! 🤣
Although really, once I took his lifejacket off and noticed how a lot water the foil was holding, I felt a bit dangerous, pondering of the drag it should’ve created as he was swimming!
In a nutshell…
Life for Dozer is as nice as I may hope for it to be. I really feel lucky that he’s nonetheless with me and most significantly, pleased, comfy and an urge for food as ferocious as ever.
Actually, probably the most traumatic a part of his life remains to be toy laundry day. I reckon that’s a fairly nice place to be!
Blissful birthday Dozer!
HAPPY thirteenth BIRTHDAY DOZER! Thanks for all of the happiness and laughter you deliver into my life. I really feel so lucky that you’re nonetheless with me, and nonetheless in good type regardless of some bumps alongside the best way and a few creaky hinges.
I like you with all my coronary heart, and I’ll treasure each day I’ve left with you, and take care of you as greatest I can to make you as pleased as you make me. ~ Nagi x
