Mika's Page

This page written 28/05/2002

Mika and me in the garden spring 2002 14k

Mika is my dog, born August 2000 to a full-bread Red Setter. She was from a litter of thirteen puppies who all look very similar, although some are chocolate brown rather than the sandy red of the others. We don't really know what breed (if any!) her father was, but there are a lot of dobermans and greyhounds around the estate where she was born.

I know of several of her brothers and sisters around where I live and sometimes people have stopped me and asked me if I've got their dog as they all look very similar! It would be lovely to get them all together, she always greeets her long-lost siblings with a great amount of excitement when she meets them. There's Forest, Scooby and Dooby, Blue and Tika (named separately to Mika). Anyone who knows of a dog in South Wales that looks like her and is the same age - please email me!

Some people say she looks like me on account of the red hair and I'm not sure how to take this. But let me just say that I was dying my hair long before I contemplated getting a red-headed dog. In fact I never really thought I'd have a dog of any description, always having been a cat person (see 'cats' on my Recent Art Page). But Mika came into my life unexpectedly and now she's a prominent feature.

This is Mika quite soon after she first came to live with us.

Isn't she adorable? Perhaps you can see why she appealed to me. She's still gorgeous now, of course, and people are always saying how beautiful she looks when she's off running around on our long walks.

I have always held that if she didn't have a habit of dragging herself through muddy puddles, then she would definitely make it as a doggie-star.

Mika as a puppy autumn 2000 14k

See how small and cute she is? She used to fit on my lap and still tries to get on there sometimes. Though my lap has significantly diminished over the last two years and her body has significantly increased!

Mika as a puppy autumn 2000 14k

 Here she is chewing a bone on her blanket. We did have a dog-bed for her but she would never stay in it and preferred a blanket that she would drag around and put wherever she wanted to go. She also used to treat my shirts as blankets and was forever pulling them out of the washing basket to add to her bedding.


She still chews stuff when she can get away with it. Here she is munching on my shoe while I'm still wearing it.

Mika with a shoe 15k


Alys' sister Carole has Mika's brother, who she named Forest after Forest Gump. She also has another dog and five cats. We visited when we heard she had a new puppy and fell madly for him. Even before going home we were driving up to Penywaun to get a puppy for ourselves. Previously we had been contemplating a hamster or goldfish as a pet! Mika is what I named her after Alys said that she always names pets after Gods and Goddesses - I chose the name from her 'Goddesses' teeshirt. Although she's a family dog, she has attached herself mainly to me and I walk her every day. I used to take her to work with me because she has a habit of attacking the post when it arrives through the door.

Mika on chain in garden 15k

 She also is a Houdini dog and can open the front door if it isn't double-locked, she gets out of the garden no matter how much chicken-wire surrounds the house making it look like a concentration camp. So when she's in the garden she has to stay on a chain. Fortunately for Mika, this isn't very often. Doesn't she look sorry for herself? She could easily make it on an RSPCA advert.


Mostly Mika stays inside the house or with me. She has to have a sniff at everything I do. Here she is inspecting my Cybot (see my Cybot Page).

Mika with my Cybot 10k

Mika with my Cybot 10k


I include Mika in almost every part of my life, but she doesn't sleep with me, she has her own lovely warm bed by the hall radiator. She guards the front door and makes sure that she registers her bark with any callers.

Mika on her blanket 15k




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