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Feeling a bit Meh!

 Not my normal computer related post, but hey 😐

As some of you may know, together with my wife Michelle, we had a rescue German Shepherd called Cela - her name was in honour of Michelle's Dad Alec who passed away 14 years ago, and when we were on the way to go and collect Cela (or Fanta as she was named then) it was on an anniversary of his passing, and the name just came to Michelle as it's Alec backwards.

Well, just short of 9 years later, and I'm sad to say that Cela has passed over Rainbow Bridge. She was just short of her 12th birthday.

She had a quite large episode (it was a 'brain fart' to be honest) over the weekend and unusually for Cela this meant that she didn't want her tea and it took quite a while for her to come back to normal. She was a little bit under the weather on the Sunday, but ate breakfast and tea as normal. She ran around chasing 'nothing' while barking in the garden and generally wasn't too bad.

Monday, she came to work with me as normal, and was fine. On the way back from work to the car, she didn't pull as she has done in the past. I didn't think anything of it to be honest. Got home, out she whizzed with our other woof (Maddison) into the garden and then just came back in, again, as normal.

When Michelle was about to get home, Cela decided that she wanted a drink, so up she got, plodded (she never really ran to the water bowl) and seemed to stumble a bit as she had a drink. She then decided to lay down and when Michelle came through the door, she didn't do her normal greeting.

Well, to cut a long story short, she decided it was time. There is no way that either Michelle or myself will ever let one of our animals be in pain and if they tell us the time is now, then we will always do the right thing. However hard it hurts!

It was a horrible drive over to the vets, knowing that we would be coming back without her. I can't fault the vets, they got us in within 30 minutes couldn't be more caring. It's been a hard year for us animal wise. We started 2023 with 5 pets, have recently added 2 more, yet today, we only have 4!

Cela had 9 wonderful years with us, came to work with me every day for all that time, and even though she was a GSD, she was scared of her own shadow, and if a worm farted in Worlingham, she would hide. 

She passed over Rainbow Bridge just after 18.30 on Monday 20th August and will be missed by all who loved her.






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