Some very sad news.....

I'm sorry but this is a very sad entry into our blog (i apologise in advance),

On Saturday the 31st of May, i lost my best friend of 17-3/4 years...my dog, Prince. He was a white pure bred Maltese who i selected from a litter at the breeders. He was the most inteligent and "knowing" dog i've ever had, and probably ever will.....he would communicate with sounds and you would just know, what he was after. He was so docile and not once, growled or snapped at the kids, who were at times, quite unrelenting with him.

He'd been a bit off in the past few months, drinking lots of water, urinating frequently and his tummy was very swollen. When we took him to the vet a few months ago, his advice was take good care of him, make him comfortable and "you don't want to know the diagnosis".....so i didn't ask and hoped he would be with us forever no matter what..... but i had a suspicion that he would not get to enjoy our new home.


The last few days though, he had trouble walking, being a bit stiff and just standing or lying down, and the past 24hrs, he was howling in pain and not eating. Now this dog had never howled in pain, even after been clipped by a car and even when some idiot once kicking him and breaking his hip at the socket.... I had never heard sounds like what i heard from him, in the past 24 hours... Yesterday after being in pain and howling throughout the night and morning, he lost strength to walk on his hind legs soon after lunch....

Ian and i took him to the local vet who highly suspected the late stages of cancer. She said that she felt a tumor the size of a small orange in his stomach!!! The lovely vet gave him Morphine to ease the pain but we were told that keeping him on morphine would only prolong it by a few hours or at best another day or two. She left us alone, but eventually, the gut renching desicion was made to put him out of his misery, he slipped away peacefully while i held him and listened to him breathe. We brought him home afterwards, to be buried at mum & dad's and to say goodbye to his family.

Here is his family, Prince is the father (white maltese) and Tiga (our other dog) is his son (white with black ears), my Mum has Pepi (the mum - black) and Cindy (the daughter - white with tan ears)...The other dogs are really down at the moment and Tiga now won't leave us alone....he is by our side always... they are so knowing....

These pics were taken in march last year.

Moving into our home won't be the same now...i quite frankly can't be bothered to even get excited over it any more.... Tiga will be howling, as he always does when he and his dad are separated....i'm really not looking forward to it at all....

Sorry again...