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My first pet was bought for me when I was still a baby, so I think,I think I was, I think I was less than six weeks old when my granddadbought me a little terrier pup. So as far, as long as I can rememberfrom being very, very young, I could always remember this little dogwho grew up with me really. Her name was Lulu. I think my granddad namedher. I don't really know why he called her Lulu but maybe after an Englishpop star, or maybe he liked the name, I'm not really sure, but he usedto always call her "Lula" rather than Lulu, so I'm not toosure how the name came about,
but anyway Lulu and I were about the sameage really, so there wouldn't have been more than six weeks betweenus, and she was really cute, a very small dog, as most terriers are,I suppose, so yeah, quite small, and very small face, so she had reallycute features and big brown eyes, from what I remember, so she was reallysweet looking, and she was very friendly as well, and would be veryhappy and we would come and take her for walks or just play with her,and so yeah, we grew up together for the most part. I tried to spendas much time with her as I could cause she didn't actually live withme. She lived with her granddad still. He looked after her for me.
But yeah it was reallysad. As she got older, obviously a dog doesn't live as long as we do,so about the time I was maybe, I don't know, twelve or thirteen I suppose,you could really see that poor Lulu was getting, getting much olderand you know she had more difficulty in walking and she just lookedlike she had aged a lot really, so she finally passed away I think whenI was about 16. So she lived to be quite old for a little dog like that,but it was really, really sad because we'd spent all that time togetherand the last few years, we'd been living in the same place and everything,yeah, so I was really, really sad when she passed away. Often timesI think, with a pet, you know, when you've had a pet for so long, maybeyou don't realize how really attached you are to that person, or tothat pet, that animal, and so it really was a wrench when she died.It was very sad.