2019 Deaths

[petercooman]

Condolences Phil!

[Techno]

Many thanks for your thoughts, All.

Still really stunned.

She'd been a tad 'out of sorts' over last weekend, and seemed to have gone off her food, so we took her to the vets on Monday.
Vet gave her a good check, and was fairly certain that the problem was with her was her teeth......Which were the teeth of a very old dog, when she turned up, here....It was impossible to tell with any certainty how old she actually was.

We booked her into the vets to have the offending teeth removed yesterday.

She apparently 'died' for five minutes while she was being 'operated on', and while she was 'still under' they did some blood tests on her, which showed her liver and kidneys were failing .....So sadly the kindest thing to do was have her put to sleep...Although she was awake when we arrived...she wasn't 'really there', at all.

Tried to dig a grave for her last night, and had to give up......the light was fading badly and we were really struggling to get the spades into the ground.
Young friend, up the road will come round with his tractor and dig a hole for us later.

Hey Ho...At least we gave her happy home for a while.....We'll both really miss her.

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Just seen this, condolences Phil 

[O Dinas Powys]

Hi Phil,

Really sorry to hear your bad news matey 

Love and hugs to Von.

All the best,

Meirion

[Orcs]

sorry to hear your sad news Phil.  still you gave her a nice place to end her days at

[Techno]

Many thanks to you guys, as well.

Stroll on....It wasn't half raining when our friend Richard came round with his mini digger yesterday morning....We all got a tad wet.

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Why were you digging minis?
https://youtu.be/a50JeC8igR8

[FierceKitty]

Obviously a relic of 60s fashion who'd gone manual labourer.

[paulr]

Many Maori tribes interpret rain or a storm as an expression of grief at a funeral

[Techno]

 

Seems appropriate, Paul.

I can remember having to bury one of the cats, on one of those rarer occasions, when it was chucking it down with snow, while there was a thunderstorm raging....It was really spectacular !

(The lightning was far enough  away not to have been a real worry.....But the thunderclaps.....WOW !!)

I thought that was a fitting farewell to Dimly..... the daft old git.

Cheers - Phil

[FierceKitty]

Four hours to bury a cat?!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Well you don't want to come back from Sorrento to a dead cat - apologies Mister Palin !

ianS

[Techno]

Four hours to bury a cat?!

Well...it wouldn't keep still.

Dimly.....Was the only one of our smaller animals, that I felt had his 'full innings'.

By that, I mean, we didn't have to take the decision to put him down.....and he didn't get killed on the road. (One of the reasons that I don't really want any more cats.)
He was in the kitchen, asleep on a work surface.... had a 'spasm', and suddenly dropped to the floor.

I assume it was a heart attack.....Lights out.....Game over.....A nice way to go, I reckon.

For some reason that didn't hurt anything like as much as many of the other animals we've had, since we've been married.

Cheers - Phil

[steve_holmes_11]

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - former leader of IS

This seems like a good time to roll out the vaudeville eulogies.

* His demise might be described as an unfortunate accident, but in fact it was neither.
* His condition is described as satisfactory.
* May his successor enjoy similar success.

[Techno]

Another Major !!

Congrats on your 500th post, Steve.

Cheers - Phil