Julia’s Hat Trick
I caught up with German photographer Julia Fritz when I was over there recently. We had time to kill before an evening photoshoot so grabbed a few fun shots.
I caught up with German photographer Julia Fritz when I was over there recently. We had time to kill before an evening photoshoot so grabbed a few fun shots.
They said he was going to die. Two vets agreed that the reason old Oscar’s legs had stopped working was that his little heart could no longer pump enough blood to them.
It seemed odd then that his feet were still warm so a trip to another vet and it was suggested that he might have coonhound paralysis. A condition where dogs become paralyzed but only for a couple of months.
That was Late October 2014 and sure enough, after two months of treating him as a baby, walking him in a pram and exercising his legs for him on a daily basis he began walking just before Christmas.
The vet then suggested that having come through the paralysis that it had taken a toll on his body and that he would likely not last more than a week or two.
But as of July 2015 he is now 13 and still with us and as active (well almost for an old boy) as ever and twice as bossy.
I think Oscar’s plan is to live forever. So far so good.
It is hard to imagine a time when stuffed toys did not exist in any popular way. It was in Germany 1879 when Margarete Steiff made an elephant pin cushion and the demand for it to be made as childrens toys was born.
Margarete’s nephew Richard created the toy bear in 1902 and shortly after an American gentleman ordered 3000 of them. They were soon known as Teddy Bears named after the U.S president Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt.
The above image people are enjoying a ride at this years Steiff Museum Summer Fest.
