Lost my best mate today

[Rory4 267]

sorry to hear it mate, she was great looking dog! like look of her daughter to! R.I.P Atol

[shell 42]

Thank you! The big lump did mean a lot to us Marko... certainly was one of a kind!

 

Thanks again guys,

shell

[Guest Taffybull]

RIP Atol

[blackpack 70]

sorry to hear your bad news

[greg64 2,837]

gutted for you mate lost my bitch 8weeks ago,cryed like a baby in the vets. at least it had a good life r.i.p atol

[cymruguy69 5]

She clearly had one of the best lives a working dog can ask for. Keep your chin up!!

 

RIP Atol!!

[PAUL73 0]

soz about your loss

[killa-combo 142]

sorry to hear of your loss i had a beddi whipet that hit a concreate post at full sprint and same hapend to her .. what breeds the other lurcher in the pic with clear eyes looks propa stunnen..

[shamus 36]

Lost my old one a few weeks ago and a friend sent me this- There is one best place to bury a good dog.If you bury him in this spot,he will come to you when you call-come to you over the grim,dim frontiers of death,and down the well remembered path,and to your side again.

And though you call a dozen living dogs to heel,they shall not growl at him or resent his coming,for he belongs there. People may scoff at you,who see no lightest blade of grass bent by his footfall,who hear no whimper,people who never really have had a dog. Smile at them,for you shall know something that is hidden from them, and which is well worth the knowing. T he one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master. (B,H,Campman)

[JPTfellterrier 65]

RIP pup

[jembo 0]

In tears reading that RIP xx

[reynardhunter 3]

I don't know what to say, don't know how to feel...

 

We've just had to have Atol put to sleep... She'd have been 9 in the New Year. She'd given us 9 fantastic years... pain and pleasure...

 

Malc was out ferreting with her and the others this morning... don't know the ins and outs of what happened, Malcs told me, but I couldn't tell you. She came back holding her back leg up, thought her broken toe was bothering her. He went back to the car, came home. Gave her some anti-inflammatorys, but she was right in herself, ate her tea etc, but not bearing any weight on her back leg, just dangling. Had a proper feel over her and could feel she'd done something to her knee joint, felt dislocated.

 

Malc took her straight to the vets, I paced up and down the house. Atol didn't come home.

 

Saw the best vet at our surgery. She said she could feel she'd shattered her knee cap, smashed the bone in 2 places. They could have sent her to a specialist vets to try and sort her out, or do the decent thing for Atol and have her put to sleep.

 

In the years we've had Atol we've had our ups and downs with her. At 11 weeks she got suspected parvo, spent 7 days in the vets on a drip, amazingly she pulled through. Then at about 1 year old she had bladder problems, we thought then that if the problem couldn't have been sorted that would have been the end of her working life. Once again, she got through that. She banged her leg badly a few years ago and was laid up for months... she came through that. Had various limps and sprains and bangs and tumbles over the years... built like a brick shit house... nothing stopped her. There was many a time she did our head in that much with her daft behaviour... chewing things, theiving cakes off the worktop, failing to catch rabbits...

 

But, she put her heart and soul into everything we ever asked of her. Never said no, tried her best all the time. 100% loyal, a pleasure to have around. Even though in her younger years she was hardwork, She matured into the most pleasant and loyal dog I've ever known.

 

My first lurcher.

 

Star ratter... we always said she was Collie x Crocodile... Lamping... never did manage how to do that, totally useless. Top class waller... top class moocher... top class at working with the terriers and predicting where the rabbit was gonna bolt...

 

I feel numb... hoped for a few more years from her yet. Don't know what to say or think. Glad we've got her daughter, Reeba, to carry on the line.

 

RIP Aty-Lou... I'll never forget you. You taught me a lot, I hope you had a good life with us.

Sleep tight angel

xxx

 

Atol (red merle) and Reeba

 

 

 

sorry to hear that mate, sounds like you had some good years with her

[IanB 0]

Keep your chin up shell, its hard losing a loyal dog, they become part of your life and family... RIP Atol gone but not forgotten..

[hily 379]

have comfort in the fact that your dog had a proper life lived to the full and that like a true friend you didn't let her suffer .every time i've lost a dog i vow never to get another but i do.

[dannys lad 0]

it was choking me up mate reading that R.I.P ATOL