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Tinkerbell AKA Amuaray Tinkerbell DOB 16th April 1996 Favourite past time - sleeping/eating Dreams - to sleep and eat all day long Best Friend - my dad Best day ever - 13th Birthday party with cake! Claim to fame - and international traveller and the reason Natalie became a Massage Therapist By the way, this photo was only taken a few weeks ago. She looks pretty good for an old girl.
Tinkerbell was from the first litter we ever breed at Amuaray along with her sister Gemima. Soon to be called Rinky, she won the heart of Geoff who purchased her for the small amount of $2.20 (long story). She was a lovely house dog and enjoyed her lovely life on the bed and lounge mainly sleeping for most of the day. Until Natalie's Agility dog broke his leg and had to retire and she was selected and the future agility dog in the house. Back in those days, there were very few cavaliers in the sport in Australia so it was a hard for for both of us as we had a lot of learning to do together. Over the years Rinky became a role model to many people who still to this day enjoy the sport and changed the way many Australians thought about Cavalier in agility. Then to make matters worse, her mum and dad decided to really make her work and entered her in an endurance test. Her ET story is here.
When Geoff got transferred to the US for 4 years Rinky embarked on her international adventure flying over to live with us in San Diego. 3 year on after life in sunny California we were all transferred to Connecticut so she became a snow bunny as well. The day she arrived and saw the snow was something I will always remember. She jumped out of the car and felt so good in the cold that she took off running, straight over an ice patch and ended up at the vets within an hour with some major bruising. After that day she decided that the snow was for the young ones and the lounge in front of the fire was the much better option.
She turned 13 just the other day and celebrated with a pink cake picked out by Charlie. I am writing this the day after Molly died who was aged 9 and now I can really appreciate how lucky we are that Rinky has been in our life for 13 years. I cant image life with out her as she really is part of the furniture now and hopefully I wont have to for some time. But when I have to cross that bridge, I will have so many wonderful memories of such a remarkable little dog and how fortunate I have been that she allowed me to walk by her side.
Here is a video compilation I have done for Rinky which includes soem great photos as well as a her very last agility run as a Veteran at age 13. I hope you enjoy it as much as i enjoyed making it.
Hug your dogs everyday so you never have any regrets. Natalie
Tinkerbell enjoying her cake on her 13th birthday with all of us. We love you Tink
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