Jack was our baby, our best friend - and we adored every moment of his life. He made us laugh, every day. He was fun and very active. But he got frightened of traffic and noise, so we avoided taking him to bustling Ponsonby Road. Thinking of noise, he loved thunder and would go crazy and bark at the sky. He loved going out and we chose to take him to Western Springs Lakeside Park - he went there more than 5,000 times - daily, sometimes twice in a day, if he wanted walkies. We felt safe there, as all dogs are on leads, so he was never confronted by other dogs. For a big chunk of his life he was very healthy but developed a cancer on his back toe, which got sorted - then he started to limp and we thought he was developing arthritis, instead it was a tumor and about one year ago, he has his front leg amputated. We and he got on with life. He hopped about, rather than walked. About 2 or 3 months ago, we noticed he was drinking more and on a routine check, our vets noticed he was in chronic renal failure. Sadly, too common in senior dogs. It was his failing kidneys, which slowed him down and finally, his quality of life started to suffer. He loved standing, or lying on our front veranda, watching the cars crawling along the motorway, beneath us. We had to carry him up and down steps as he couldnt get up into our garden, on his own. In the last month, he woke us sometimes 4 times a night as he needed to wee. We got up at all hours and are glad we did. Goodbye to our beautiful Jack, our handsome boy, we dont know what well do without you. Life wont be half as much fun! xxxxxx
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 05:55:06 +0000
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