This weekend's feature at Coffee with Canine: Dave Freer & Roly and family.Dave Freer is an Ichthyologist turned author "because he'd heard the spelling requirements were simpler. They lied about that." He currently lives in a remote part of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa with active plans to re-locate to Australia...with all of his family's pets.
It's no small (or cheap) task, as Roly, Freer's Old English Sheepdog explains:
Mom and dad and the boys have got visas to emigrate to Australia. They planned to take us too, because we’re family and they believe in responsibility for their animals. Then they found out about the costs of our quarantine, and they wereFreer's new book, Dragon's Ring, is due out in October 2009. Read the story early and find out how to get a signed copy.in a flat despair. Dad even said well then they should not go, which even an Old English Sheepdog thinks is not a good idea. But dad can be very determined. He says we’re his responsibility and he doesn’t think it would be easy or even possible to re-home us after living as we do. So he’s decided to do this anyway somehow, even if we end up in a shed in the outback, or have to do it in stages (We’re going to go and live in the middle of nowhere anyway. It’s where we live now. We’ll be Okay as long as we have dad). So he and a couple of his fans started http://savethedragons.nu/ to sell off one his books and raise some money for moving us. He’s just over half way to the minimum-somehow-it-might-be-possible, and is starting to sleep more at night. He knows that times are tough, but asks dog-and-cat people to at least repost about it.
And I need to stay with dad. Australia is far away, and I...[read on].
Visit Dave Freer's website and blog, and the Save the Dragons site.
Read--Coffee with Canine: Dave Freer & Roly and family.
--Marshal Zeringue
Posts
