Snuggles on Sunday: Looking back at Hotesse Snuggles

 #1 here. I would like to start with a special thank you to Ingrid at Meezer's Mews and Terriristical Woofs for the beautiful graphic she made in memory of my treasured Hotesse:

Although I first started photographing her in the early 2000s, I did not develop a close bond with Hotesse until 2015, and my first snuggle photos with her date from that period.

This girl was not used to snuggles but she took to them like a duck to water. Here are a few from 2017:

And once little Heloise was born, then the two became my best friends!

I took this one in ate 2019, the day I told her she was now mine (and I hers). She and Heloise stayed in the same field until the spring of 2020, when they moved to Ms. C's.

Here she is shortly after moving to Ms. C's place:

The next couple of years were filled with snuggles!

There have been so many snuggle pics. The last few were taken just a few days before she galloped off, and I love them almost more than all the others:

Hotesse was my neighbour for almost all of her life. I would see her from afar in the late 1990s and early 2000s, without any idea of who she was and what a huge place she would come to hold in my heart. I am so glad that I was able to fill her last few years with love and comfort, and that I still have her two beautiful daughters to snuggle with.