Phoenix rising

According to our friends at Wikipedia, a phoenix is a mythical bird with a colorful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet (or purple, blue, and green according to some legends).

It has a 500 to 1000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of twigs that then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix or phoenix egg arises, reborn anew to live again.

The new phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self. In some stories, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis (sun city in Greek).

It is said that the bird's cry is that of a beautiful song.

In very few stories they are able to change into humans.

Whatever!
This is my mum's new puppy, and her name is Phoenix. She is warm, her fur is like velvet and she has a lot of spare wrinkly skin to grow into...

Have you ever seen a forehead as delightful as this?

She wees on the floor sometimes, otherwise I might have to steal her.

Jen x