Karen Phillips

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Category Archives: Animals in Turkey

My pets and my animals and the hideous and cute things they do and are!

National Pet Month – An update on our International Animals

As it is National Pet Month I thought I would give an update on our animals. We have been back in Pembrokeshire for just over two years and our Turkish dogs are now Welsh dogs, thicker of coat and used to the doggy free for…

National Pet Month – An update on our International Animals

Mr Evils – the killer in a fur coat

First there was Shadow, then there was Vinnie and then Evils arrived. Evils was my Christmas Kitten, he arrived on Boxing Day all big eyes and baby fluff with the sweetest, cutest, most adorable long lashed expression on his little face. He looked like the…

Mr Evils – the killer in a fur coat

Vinnie – An accidental adoption

When guests come to stay we have to explain about our adopted dog Vinnie, otherwise they’d be straight on the phone to the nearest animal welfare group who would be compelled to launch affronted Facebook pages against me for the state of this wretched animal.…

Vinnie – An accidental adoption

The sea turtles return to Kusadasi

We used to have a home on an island in the Caribbean and here, between May and October, the great sea turtles would come ashore to nest. Both loggerhead and green turtles, many over 5 foot long, would haul themselves ashore, painfully slowly make their…

The sea turtles return to Kusadasi

In which Mr Evils suffers a decline

A couple of weeks ago Evil’s wandered into the house announcing his royal arrival by yelling his head off as usual, suddenly he stopped, went cross eyed trying to look at his own nose, yowled mournfully, coughed a couple of times and then threw up…

In which Mr Evils suffers a decline

Remembering to open my eyes to what is around me

Every day I notice the beautiful things about life here, the sunflower sunrises, the pomegranate sunsets, the quick changing light on the pine trees in the morning and I forget to notice the people things because they are now so familiar. The stuff that the…

Remembering to open my eyes to what is around me

The Well Behaved Pets of Turkey

I have loved all of my animals but some have been a bit of a trial – Oscar the Great Dane ate a sofa, a whole one. Jazz the golden retriever was so thick he regularly ran straight into road signs and was often to…

The Well Behaved Pets of Turkey

Shadow versus The Border

Shadow is a sweet natured and normally well behaved dog. Apart from the usual Labrador trait of “if I can’t see you I can’t hear you” where she sometimes allows herself to ignore instructions by turning her head away. She does however have a…

Shadow versus The Border