In Angel’s Memory
On July 1st we said goodbye to our beautiful Angel Star. As her tumour literally grew in front of us, it left us in no doubt that we had to prevent her suffering a nasty crisis at the end. She was herself right up to the end, remarkably so considering the tumour was golf-ball sized.
One overriding feeling that Michel and I both have is that Angel would demand that we talk about her often, with happiness and that we celebrate her life. Everyone who met Angel loved her. She was a force of nature. And that is how I will always remember her.
She brought enormous love, endless smiles and a huge amount of joy into our home. For 6 years 8 months we had the privilege of being Angel’s family and she knew what it meant to be truly loved, we made sure of that every moment of every day.
Today our home is not the same but through the past month we have been adjusting, doing our best to keep things as stable as possible for the sake of our other dogs.
Her death discombobulated me badly, but it also crystalised my thoughts in a few areas. There are things which go on in the puppy trade and in rescue which I have wanted to write about for a long time. It is never easy to speak uncomfortable truths. It is far easier to keep your head down and I’ve done that on a few things for too long. But, Angel’s death shook me out of this thinking and there is no real reason that I should not put into the public domain, factual things that I know about the industry, even if it does ruffle feathers.
So for Angel, I am going to do it, I am going to write more with the single aim of speaking up for the dogs. My only priority is to be of some help to the dogs who are caught up in a nasty, lucrative industry. Angel never stayed quiet over anything, she was the noisiest of all our dogs. So for Angel, I’ll follow her lead.
