Goodbye to Obie Kinobe

Yesterday my beautiful 'furry baby' passed away after 13 years on this planet. He could be such a pain in the ass spreading garbage from the bin throughout the house etc but I could never be angry at him for long with his sad droopy eyes and long ears.

I remember it was no more than 6 months after Zac and I had moved out together and were living in our house in Geelong that I saw the newspaper classified ad giving away a four year old basset hound to good home. I had always loved basset hounds with their funny faces and silly ears and was already missing our family dog that I had left behind at my mums 700 kms away. I called the advertiser and was surprised to find they hadn't yet found a home so my husband and I went to meet 'Obie' and I fell in love with him immediately! He was so playful and looked hilarious when he would run and his ears would flap in the wind and his belly would sway from side to side almost touching the ground. The first night Obie spent in our house he pee-ed all over the walls and seemed to think he was king from that moment on. He fitted in perfectly with our transient lives moving from state to state as work required, the 3500 km move from Victoria to Western Australia Obie just snored his head off in the back-seat.

We planned to do a few house/pet-sitting jobs while in Europe and now I am only looking forward to them even more as I so love animals and hope hanging out with them and meeting them might ease my sadness for poor Obie. We will miss you :-(


RIP Obie Kinobe