Yesterday our Labrador was one. I remember blogging about her arrival last year. Doesn't time fly when you are picking up poo and constantly hovering?!!
I do find it very interesting that she is so much part of the family though. It has almost been like when you are waiting for a baby to arrive. You can't imagine what it will be like when they arrive. Then they do arrive and you can't imagine how you had a life without them, how you didn't know what they looked like.
When I blogged last year about the puppy, I was thinking about pedigree dog family trees. It is so controlled, you know so much about the generations.
Today I was wondering about a human family tree which also named pets. Can you imagine how many extra branches? Well, twigs! You could have dogs and cats with their dates and then extra twigs for hamsters, rabbits and so on.
This would provide quite an insight into some members of the family. An unmarried sister might prove to be that cat lady cliché but you could at least recognise the beings that had enhanced her life experience.
Our dog has certainly enhanced our family's experience. But it is funny to think that generations to come will more than likely not know of her existence let alone her importance to us.
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On a completely different matter, if you are interested in Irish family history, a number of new resources have become available in the last couple of weeks. Land records, Catholic baptisms and various others. I have not had chance to explore them properly yet but by all accounts, they are an exciting addition. As I have blogged before, Ireland has presented me and numerous others with very particular research difficulties so far. Not so much brickwalls as brick buildings, three feet thick!
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