It's been an age since I updated this blog and a lot has changed since then. So, here begins the update!
Looking back, I've not been on here since I posted about the drawing to a close of the Era of Tia. That was in February 2012; I did indeed lose Tia soon after, although she barged her way through another 5 months in her usual way. In the end, she died on July 5th, after a lovely final day doing her favourite walk.
By that point the old girl could not walk far; she was trotting along for all of 5 minutes before exhaustion took her and a week before that horrible day, she gave me that look we all dread that told me she'd had enough. Tia lived for her walks above anything and everything else in her life and although she was still mobile, although her wobbly old legs hadn't given out yet, losing those walks was it for her - she'd had enough. So I gave her one more week, took her to lots of different,new and interesting places for little potters and made the time count. When the end came she slipped away very quickly with a mouthful of ham and no fight at all - she was ready.
We didn't have long to recover, though; for three months I'd been working with a very troubled collie girl by the name of Meg, with serious noise phobias, in her new home. I can never give her owners there enough credit - they worked their backsides off to try and help her overcome her problems but ultimately, they were just too severe and the environment there too noisy (country lane but an extremely busy one, and traffic is high on the phobia list) so a week after Tia departed, Meg came to live with us! I will write her her own blog post in the dog section; since her there have been another two dogs as well (they will get their own posts too) so this one will get rather long otherwise!
Since her arrival I have gained and lost a small dog; and this year, which still breaks me utterly, I have lost both Opi and Remy, my first two dogs, only 3 months apart and both to cancer. River, too, was diagnosed inbetween them, although hers was only a small lump and removed immediately; however tomorrow she is in surgery again as there is either regrowth of the cancer or reactive tissue of the wound from the last removal and as the cancer itself was of a particularly aggressive form, time must not be wasted. I cannot lose three dogs in just over three months, I just can't, so my poor girl will go through the mill again.
I'll update again soon; there is so much more that's happened, and more still to happen, that I won't get it all in one post without boring you all to death so I will try and do it in chunks!
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