25/07/2025
*** We just wanted to say a HUGE thank you for all your love and support. It means the world to us and really does help. Whilst we feel very numb we are also so grateful she went naturally . We know how rare this is. She spared us making an impossible decision. ***
I hope you will forgive a very personal post! This month has been the hardest month I have had in my 19 years of business.
We lost 2 very important and special dogs three old age and I must admit I couldn’t quite bring myself to post a tribute . Then we lost a very special cat we used to look after.
I stupidly thought gosh that has to be it. How wrong I was!!
I can’t quite believe I am writing this.
Today we woke up to a very poorly Frieda our baby of the family. Her chest was like a rattle snake and her breathing so laboured. The vets were amazing. I took her into Tetbury and she had no temperature which indicated not infection. However it was clear she was very poorly. I drove her into the hospital at Malmesbury. I dropped her off at 11 am and at 1.45 pm she took her last breath naturally.
Life is very difficult to understand she was only 18 months old. It became apparent on the chest X-ray she was born with a congenital heart condition that no one could have foreseen. We were warned the next 24 hours were critical and she took her last breath surrounded by love at the vets.
She may have only been with us a short time but she mended our family so much. When we lost Panda in such a traumatic way she was the glue that held us together.
So my darling sleep tight. You were loved more than I can put into words and your short life was never in vain. You were incredible. I owe you everything.
