{"id":2247,"date":"2018-10-10T15:46:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T05:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/?page_id=2247"},"modified":"2018-10-10T16:25:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T05:55:02","slug":"melodie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/about-us\/melodie\/","title":{"rendered":"Melodie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melodie Amber &#8211; 23\/5\/2004 &#8211; 27\/8\/2018<\/p>\n<p>Part of my heart &#8211; always &#8211; Baby Dog<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"vp1NMIiv\" title=\"Video Player\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/embed.animoto.com\/play.html?w=swf\/production\/vp1&amp;e=1539148883&amp;f=NMIivC84whPDaE5I7GDfJA&amp;d=0&amp;m=p&amp;r=360p+720p&amp;volume=100&amp;start_res=720p&amp;i=m&amp;asset_domain=s3-p.animoto.com&amp;animoto_domain=animoto.com&amp;options=\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"js_4qx\" class=\"_5pbx userContent _3576\" data-ad-preview=\"message\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p>The Kombi Van that has been double parked out the front of our house for a while now \u2013 has tooted its horn and let Mellie know that its time to go. She\u2019ll be off over the Rainbow \u2013 where the grass is green and sweet smelling, the sun is warm, the breeze blows gently, birds sing, butterflies dance and the living is easy.<\/p>\n<p>Mellie was my heart, my baby dog, my special girl \u2013 my best girl. Over and over my mind refuses to contemplate a world where Mel doesn\u2019t exist. I just can\u2019t imagine my life without Mel in it.<\/p>\n<p>Mel is the last of our original four dogs that we had from puppies. We got Mel as a playmate for Bailey to stop him driving the older two dogs crazy with his puppy exuberance, energy and enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mel has been with us through our move from Chapel Hill to Cherry Blossom Grove to the hills at Hope Springs. She\u2019s been a city chick, a beach babe and a country hippy chick. She was there through the boys growing up and through the grand-daughters growing up from babies. She shared biscuits with Shantal and remained sweet and loving through all of the noise and annoyance that children can sometimes contribute to life.<\/p>\n<p>I love all my dogs \u2013 very much. But Mellie and I shared a very special connection. She was always Mummy\u2019s girl. She wouldn\u2019t countenance a circumstance where I was home and she wasn\u2019t with me for every second of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She jumped the fence each evening when we got home \u2013 just to be sure to be with me as soon as possible. Whenever one of the other dogs had to go to the vet, Nurse Mel would greet them when they returned and check what was wrong with them and what sort of nursing ministrations they might need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She loved certain squeaky toys and would play us a tune each evening before dinner. She had an obsession with me putting on my pants and would always be under my feet while I did so. Right from day one at home, she insisted on sleeping on the couch and would not be contained \u2013 she climbed over more boundaries and jumped more fences than I care to remember. She explored areas that our other dogs had not even thought about. She chased rabbits and cats. She hated having her photo taken and would sulk when I tried to do so. She accepted all of the other dogs who have come after her \u2013 but sometimes she would get a little jealous and would insist on having her spot right next to Mummy \u2013 even if she had to lay on top of another dog to get it. She never did get to be an only dog. But, she did have a great and happy life \u2013 she adored us and we adored her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It feels like a very special part of our lives has finished. Life is always evolving \u2013 taking us in different directions, with different people and in different places. Mel has for so long been an integral part of our lives as we encountered these changes \u2013 but this time \u2013 her loss is the change \u2013 and she is not here to help us through it.<\/p>\n<p>With great love \u2013 comes great loss \u2013 but I wouldn\u2019t have missed a minute of it. Thank you Mellie for being such a wonderful part of our lives for so long.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 85.0508%; height: 15px;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2250\" src=\"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/D182C6BF-2CDA-49BC-B6A3-C832F82340A2-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/D182C6BF-2CDA-49BC-B6A3-C832F82340A2-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/D182C6BF-2CDA-49BC-B6A3-C832F82340A2-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/D182C6BF-2CDA-49BC-B6A3-C832F82340A2-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/D182C6BF-2CDA-49BC-B6A3-C832F82340A2-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, 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She\u2019ll be off over the Rainbow \u2013 where the grass is green and sweet smelling, the sun is warm, the breeze blows gently, birds sing, butterflies dance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2247\/revisions\/2261"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}