#vizir

THE VIZIR 

So I’ve been absent and here’s why...

As some of you know who follow this blog for awhile, you’ve heard me talk about my dachshund Vizir from time to time. She passed away unexpectedly and suddenly approx. two weeks ago. She was just 9 years old, not too old for a dachshund. She had been having bouts of sickness that would come and go and then one night I had to rush her to the emergency vet because things got bad quickly. It turned out that she had a mass on her spleen and was bleeding internally and the vet felt there was a very good chance for it being HSA (a type of cancer that symptoms come on very suddenly and fatal). I was told she had a 50% chance of making it through surgery and that if it did turn out to be cancer, she’d have maybe a month left. With this knowledge, I made the difficult decision to lay her to rest. This was so unexpected that it was hard and I just sort of let everything back up.

2020 has been a sucky year for me personally and for the globe.

I apologize for letting your mail go unanswered and not updating. I am going to slowly be getting back to that now. 

Here’s my girl:

Napoleon had a few favorites in his horses. I’ve read Desiree among the more obvious two, Marengo and Vizir (which also happens to be my dachshund’s name). He did prefer Arabian horses, mostly I think for their sureness in battle and the like. The conditioning Napoleon’s horses went through in order to be his horse was intensive. It took months of shooting loud noises near them and throwing things at them to train them. 

Napoleon relics from the La Musee  de L’Armee in Paris France.

Napoleon’s dog from Elba.

Napoleon’s campaign cot that he died on from St. Helena.

Campaign equipment

Жеребец Визирь 

Дата съемки: 1870-е