Heidi, my tough little fighter, gone but never forgotten. I love you and i miss you so much.
I can remember the day i rescued you from that awful place with owners that were clueless how to look after you properly. You came in such a dirty cage that i couldn't wait to get you home and put you in a lovely large clean cage. You seemed to settle it so well my brave little girl. Yes we had a couple of moments in the beginning when you nipped my fingers and hid away from me, but very soon you became the most sweet, contented and tame little girl i could have ever hoped for.
For a few months i gave you free range of my bedroom and what an adventure that turned out to be. You loved getting into the smallest tightest little corners and hidey holes but you always came back to me when i called your name ( well most of the time )
After chewing a 5th hole in my carpet i was running out of ideas how to cover them up and then you decided to chew through the wire on my digital radio and the t.v. -shakes head- mummy should have been so much more careful but Heidi my tough little girl you survived both those incidences, you just carried on like nothing had happened and wondered why mummy was making so much fuss. In the end i built you a large playpen out of wood. At first you wasn't really impressed and wanted to get out and ruin a bit more of my carpet, but after i made you a large cardboard maze which you adored and bought you lot's of toys and treats you soon started to enjoy your time out the cage once again.
Then 6 months ago we received some bad news. You was diagnosed with Pyometra. I had to make the difficult choice to either keep you on a long course of Baytrill or go ahead with surgery. You were 18 months old and i was so worried you wouldn't pull through if i opted for surgery but i shouldn't have worried because you came through it with flying colours and after four or five days you were back to your naughty but playful self. Last month i was giving you a big cuddle and a little check over when i discovered a mucky lump under your back leg, i took you back to the vet and you was put on another course of antibiotics. I could have had the lump removed but by this stage in your little life you were starting to age so quickly and i knew you wouldn't survive the procedure. I brought you home and tried to make you as comfortable as possible. You were such a good girl, taking your medicine with out an ounce of fuss. You seemed to perk back up slightly but i knew you weren't right and could see how tough life was becoming for you.
You seemed to go down hill so quickly baby girl. Sleeping all day, hardly eating or drinking, you couldn't even make it to your toilet because you kept falling over on your side. I knew the time had come to make the difficult decision to help you along your way to the bridge, but i kept putting it off because i was desperately hoping you would gently fall into a peaceful sleep, but Heidi you were a fighter right till the end and you seemed to refuse to give in, but i could see how uncomfortable and frail you were so the decision to help you cross over the bridge was made.
Now you have left me and i miss you so much already. I love you Heidi, and i will never forget you, you were an amazing little girl who fought right till the end, but go and play and have fun now sweetheart and look out for Charlie, my sweet beautiful girl, your fight is now over.
Heidi enjoying the garden
My beautiful girl
The little coffin i made her
Goodbye Heidi, Sleep Well
Play well at the Bridge little Honey 17/5/13 and Peanuts 16/9/13, Play well at the Bridge too little Orchid 12/12/13
Linear Mode
