Sally :). She’s an old girl now, she’s been living with a bladder tumour the last three years, so feel lucky still to have her. She’s on a few drugs, but they are largely covered by her insurance, and she seems happy. The drugs haven’t quite put her in complete remission but the tumour is very slow growing now, and she seems symptom free, no longer anaemic and no haematuria, and we hope it’s the drugs. Some days she wants to walk miles, other days she just sleeps and we let her take the lead, but we don’t really know if it’s a natural age related slowing down, or if she’s not feeling well. She loves to eat still, so I hope the former. I took her to bamburgh during the week and she went crazy running around for hours on the beach like a young thing, and then slept almost nonstop for the next 48 hours. Since I started working from home she’s my shadow though. She just drops down to sleep wherever I am. I shall miss her terribly. We always have poodles as we need a low allergy dog, but at the minute, I feel like I’d never have another. DH has been dropping (not so) subtle hints that we should get a second one now but I don’t want to feel I’m just breaking her replacement in. I sort of hope that one day she’ll just sleep away but vet says no reason to consider having her pts at the moment. I guess every time you take a animal on though, you accept that one day they will break your heart, it’s the nature of different lifespans. She’s only the second dog I’ve had that I’ve felt quite this degree of attachment for though. I loved the others, and missed them, but felt more pragmatic about them than I do about her, or my very first dog.