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ABOUT ME
Hi! I'm Eileen Gibb, of Pets' Place Boarding Kennels in Salem, near Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Besides dogs, my other interests are the internet and reading. When I'm not on the internet, I'm reading the phone bill.
My Dog Story:
When I was a child, I always wanted a dog to love. But we stayed in a Scottish tenement flat up two flights of stairs and my Dad said, "No!"
I begged and pleaded with my Dad to let me have a dog. I promised to take the dog out for walks every day and to feed it and take care of it. I sulked. I cried. But Dad refused.
After I got married and moved to South Africa, my late husband bought a puppy for the kids. It was an endearing little floppy-eared Basset Hound called Charles. A year later a friend gave us another Basset Hound puppy. We called her Diana. Nature took its course, and Charles and Diana had puppies of their own. Now I was suddenly a dog breeder! When folk came to look at the puppies, they asked me questions about dogs that I couldn't answer. That motivated me to go to the library and devour piles of dog books. The more I read, the more interested in dogs I became.
Over the years I bought another two Basset Hounds. We stayed in Springs, in a street where the gardens were small and the houses close together. It was impossible to keep the dogs quiet all the time, so for the sake of the neighbours, and the dogs, I started to think about moving to a plot or a small farm.
GALLERY
      
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