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Lucy Watkins

It is with great sadness that Skip and Robin send this to inform you that Lucy our beautiful girl (cocker spaniel) passed away early Sunday morning, August the 7th, one month short of her 10th birthday. What a great friend and travelling partner. Lucy loved everybody and food, liked her apples and mandarins but not bananas. Born in Melbourne and back and forth between Perth, 3 trips across the Nullabor she loved the car as did her pal Hobbes, our other cocker. Lucy started to swim at about 7 years, she saw a Pelican swimming in the river at South Yanderup, must have thought it was the biggest turkey dinner yet. What a surprise because she did not like getting wet at all. One time we were visiting some friends, Martha & Uwe Stengel and Uwe was giving us a tour around the front yard and we looked around for Lucy, heard a big splash and ran to the back yard and there she was swimming around the pool, thought she must had been leaning over trying to get a drink and in she went, the surprised look on her face, but that girl was a good swimmer. As a puppy she would chase swallows for hours in our local park in Clifton Hill, Victoria but if the sprinklers came on that was it and back to the sidewalk. She had to have a purpose to get wet, ducks, and pelicans. I even bought a couple of plastic hunting decoy ducks to tow behind me while swimming, she loved those.

Lots of stories with Lucy and her pal Hobbes.

To all her friends who helped her when she had needed an operation on her back leg, a very special thanks to Steve Filmer, Toby Baldwin, Jeremy Segall, Gavin Friedlieb and all the staff at St.Francis Veterinary Hospital for their kindness and support in looking after Lucy. Thanks to Ann Macbeth (annimac) for looking after Lucy and Hobbes during this time also. And to her friends in Victoria, Michael and Susanne Silver for all their support and help, Lucy liked looking for their cat Stella, not to chase but to be friends with, loved cats.

Lucy was a big part of our lives and will be always loved and sadly missed.

Skip and Robin