It’s is with much sadness that I have to tell you that our beautiful boy Basil passed away on the 31st of January, he was 16.

We collected Baz and Amber from you on the 9th December 2010, he very quickly settled into his new home and although he was 7/8years old when we had him he still was a very energetic and lively boy ( we always said he didn’t do tired).

He loved to do what we called freestyling, chasing peasants and rabbits if he got the chance, we would do the most of our walks with him just checking in with us when called before he getting back to his important chase business. He was also one of life’s charmers, everybody who met him fell in love with him, he had a very laid back confidence and was very bright.

We were once waiting for a delivery in the front garden so shut the dogs and our friends dog in the house while the lorry was arriving, the other two sat starring at the shut door but Baz remembered that back door was open so simply took himself around the back of the house and came a stood by us in the garden ! He was also known to hide Ambers squeaky toys if they were annoying him, several times we have watched him wait until she has put them down and then he has picked them up and dropped them in between the sofa and the wall.

The last 18 months he couldn’t get around as much but we had got him a trailer that you can pull behind a bike or use the handle to push around so he didn’t have to miss out on walks, days out and holidays. He sadly also suffered from canine dementia which has been progressing over the last two years, the poor boys world in which he was comfortable started to get smaller and I had been sleeping next to him on the floor for the last 8 months to reassure him.

He was on medication but the last few weeks he was upset more and more of the time and we couldn’t see him unhappy so with the advice of our vet decided that it was time to let him go to sleep in my arms.

We are missing him terribly and reading this back I know that no words will ever be enough to sum up our beautiful, bright, intelligent, funny boy but wanted to thank you for letting us have 8 lovely years with such a wonderful little dog.

Rachel, Kieran and Amber

 Dear all,

It is with great sadness we are letting you know about the sad passing of our second rescue dog Max, brother of our beloved Jazz, who we lost to cancer last May.

Max and Jazz came to us in 2010 at the age of seven they had a rough start in life Jazz was a very protective big sister, more like a mum, feeling that she had to help him eat his food, play with all the toys and get into everything first so Max was always her shadow.

 Max loved going for journeys in the car and swimming he would disappear into our local lake until he was a dot on the horizon and we would have to call and call him he was also one for disappearing in the undergrowth and you would have to go and hunt him out and he loved playing ball.

He was a daddy’s boy and he would get very excited when he knew it was getting near time for his Dad to get home from work he would bark madly. He was devastated by the loss of his sister we bought him a cuddle monkey it was the first toy he ever bonded with and he slowly came back to us.

Max had just enjoyed a lovely Christmas away and was in his element visiting friends but lately he had been tired and his back legs had started to go akimbo which is what we can only conclude happened Friday his back legs went and he could no longer stand despite a trip to the vet and him trying to rally we knew it was time to say goodbye so on Tuesday we had to take him to the vet for his final journey to Rainbow Bridge to be reunited with Jazz xxx

Max 10^th June 2003 – 23^rd January 2018