We have this week had to say Goodbye to Charlie and let him run over the rainbow bridge. He was 13 ½ years old and apart from getting a bit slow on his walks people were always surprised and thought he was younger.
You let us adopt Charlie (was Bradley) in August 2011. He has been such a good dog taking everything in his stride apart from travelling, he never did like the car but we are lucky as we were a short walk from fields and the woods which he loved, especially the rabbits! He wasn’t a dog that barked he preferred to make a lot of noise when he was asleep, probably actually catching the rabbits.
He started to slow down around 2019 with arthritis in his back legs which was managed with medication, he then had two lumps removed which were cancerous and then during lockdown the vet diagnosed vestibular disease. He was doing well and only had the occasional episode but then he had trouble with his back legs so he had hydrotherapy which helped. This week he didn’t want to go out for his walk which was very unusual and in the evening he had a seizure, took him to the vet who stabilised him but he wasn’t getting any better in the morning so we had to make the decision to let him go.
It is still raw at the moment but we have our memories and some lovely photos of him and we still have Alfie (who we also adopted from you in 2014) to help us heal.
Thank you all at CAESSR for all the work you do and for letting us have this wonderful dog for nearly eleven years.
Sharon and David
