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JANUARY 2014
DOGGIERESCUE.COM MAGAZINE
“ When Monika asked us to foster a blind senior Cocker Spaniel who had been dumped at the pound in terrible condition, we didn’t think twice. We had rescued, loved & said goodbye to 3 previous Cockers & our 4th rescued senior Cocker, Sam, was at home with Poppy, our since departed DR Terrier. And so our love affair with Evie began…” Brenda
Made with love by Brenda Harris, Evie’s Mum
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love and never want to lose....
We found that Evie’s hearing was very limited, which made things even more challenging for her, and that she had fairly bad arthritis. After some months fostering Evie a lady became interested in her. Although we were only wanting 2 dogs, we decided that it would not be fair to Evie to shove her off to yet another confusing place just as she was getting used to negotiating her way around our place. Not to mention the fact that we couldn’t bear to lose her!
And so Evie became ours…. x
She loved her ‘sniff’ along the nearby waterfront, or even just across the road. It didn’t matter to her. A thirty minute walk took us only several hundred metres, but she had sniffed every blade of grass. She would bumble her way around the yard, but give the dogs a bone, and she would drop hers and find her way straight to Sam, where she would stop right next to his ear and bark loudly (the only time she ever made any noise). He would drop his bone and run.
Blind or not, she had his number! x
Recently, she had been resisting going for a sniff, her back legs were growing weak, and she was fussy with her food. Then over a 3 day period she ate once, slept for 17 hours without moving a muscle, ate once again but could not keep it down, and on her last day was still sleeping after 10 hours. It was time. She did not wake up when I carried her down the stairs to the car, and she did not wake up when the vet saw her. Evie did not wake up again.
R.I.P. our gentle lady... x
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