Bye bye Fred!
posted on 7th of june, 2011
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We all have a favourite model, Fred was mine.
I am going to miss him terribly. All the more so because I am responsible for his demise. It took only a couple of weeks to train him to pose wherever we put a worm or two. In fact he was often posing before I got the worms out of their box.
Soon he progressed to hand feeding:
Before we knew it he was coming into the kitchen for a chat with his tea-time treat. Having 3 cats we strongly discouraged this behaviour by keeping the garden door shut. (You know what's coming don't you?) His habit was to follow me round the garden whilst I worked, sweetly singing his encouragement.Then a couple of weeks ago I didn't notice that he was no longer singing until I went indoors and found devastation. I had forgotten to close the door behind me and he had presumably gone looking for the box of worms. My overfed, spoiled cats were in the dog house for a week but whichever one was responsible was just being a cat. I can only hope that his wife, (Ginger), was able to support her chicks without him. I think the moral of this sad tale must be to take very good care of your models.
Bye bye Fred
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Tags: demise favourite model regrets robin
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Comments (15)
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Hi,Sandra
Nice shots!Nice bird!
It's a very touching story.
- posted by
Linqong
on July 27, 2011 |
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Beautiful story with beautiful images. :)
- posted by
Henrymm
on June 10, 2011 |
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Sorry to hear about the say story of Fred.
- posted by
Hotmidhun
on June 09, 2011 |
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Very sad story.
- posted by
smartview27
on June 08, 2011 |
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Thank you everyone for your kind comments. Watch out this winter for Fred's calendar. Who knows maybe it will include an offspring or two!
- posted by
Heathse
on June 08, 2011 |
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Sad story, but cats will be cats and there's nothing you can do against their predator nature. My cat regularly brings me unwanted presents such as lizards, and she's also killed a couple of birds. Not pleasant.
- posted by
Rosedarc
on June 08, 2011 |
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God speed Fred, at least you have the pics to keep his spirit alive!
- posted by
Karenfoleyphotography
on June 08, 2011 |
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That was touching.
Like some one said below, maybe his chick babies will his footsteps....
- posted by
Joezachs
on June 08, 2011 |
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Beautiful story!!!
- posted by
Nero67
on June 08, 2011 |
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nice bird
- posted by
Uptall
on June 07, 2011 |
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Say it ain't so !!!!!! How sad. Maybe his chick babies will follow his footsteps in persuing a modeling career.
- posted by
Cafebeanzphoto
on June 07, 2011 |
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So sorry.... : (
- posted by
Egomezta
on June 07, 2011 |
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Lovely story............. I must start digging worms. David.
- posted by
Davidwatmough
on June 07, 2011 |
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Sorry for fred!
- posted by
Malajscy
on June 07, 2011 |
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Sorry to hear that you lost your good looking model, but another will appear shortly after (hopefully).
Till he (or she) arrives and start posing in front of your camera ... BY BYE FRED !
Archangel72
- posted by
Archangel72
on June 07, 2011 |
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