HffifiS, xM&s f,ffiftvoHfl {:r. nt .* Fl{AIfi }ir:HL+:} S3'/ ilt A ltltltdtiTtJd }ir.l"t[r. {.irlzr:$l tY \t'A.:t sr-* f Fj.: 0t Ws J{'?t$$ rAJt: U[tE5 ?&?i]t{i E*A tL: ftAvr-itSltEltxr[g't-r l]!rI *:|itHF" r.{{.F-!d I obir |,17.A 17"' October 1998 was nr1, rr.,,."rr* tlirl'. oltviously one of the happiest days ol'rnl lilL' (cxccpt lirr Frank disappearing at the receptiott rvltctt "our sol.tg" was being played!). Aparl fi'onr all thc usuitl cxcitetnents and delights of the day the lirllurvirrq Inorning was even better. I got to open and cxartrine all the presents that people had been so kind to give Lrs. l-ittle did I know that Blaize Harris, had given us the very best gift of all. On our wedding day lovely Liza was born and a few weeks later Blaize asked Ine to visit hinl to pick up his wedding gift. I suppose it had crossed rny mind but I didn't dare expect what Blaize's gift was to be, a beautiful little <strong>Deerhound</strong> puppy, born on the day of our wedding. So it was that Liza came into or,rr lives, for six months she filled us with the usual pleasure and rapture that these little babies give so naturally, but then we discovered the problem that was to blight her life - a serious heart condition. <strong>The</strong>reafter. life with Liza seerned to be an endless ordeal of visits to Angela Bodey, firstly in Ripon and then Leeds and the daily doling out of tablets. However, despite her corrdition she enjoyed nearly five years of a full life with us. Whilst she joined the "bed potato squad" irr the back of the house, in the last year or two she was always pleased to see you, very affectionate and. given Frank's weekday absences in London, my constant bedfellow. She was, above all else, a very gentle, beautiful, elegant and r.rnconrplaining lady. Maybe it was due to the heat of the sumnter but from the beginning of August she seenred to deteriorate. Visits to Angela confirmed that her heart was worsening and changes to her tnedication only seemed to make matters worse. In the early of hours of a Sunday morning, returning from Frank's brother's fiftieth, we found heron ourbed with her hearl racing - you could feel it like a stearn train pounding through her ribs. I administered rnorc bcta blockers which seemed to relieve the problem but I admitted to Frank on Mondirv rrronrirrs. rvhilc taking hirn to the station, that I had a bad feeling about her. l.jrrsl hoperl tlrrrt Angcla could wolk the rniracle when I took Liza back to her orr the'l'lrrrrstl:rr ( )rr I rrt'stlrr) nrorrrirrg at 2.30 amLiza wanted to go out for a pee. I let her back irr rrrrtl trrt' lrorrrs lltr.'r I r'irrrrl lilank, at his hotel in London. in floods of tears to tell hirrr llrirr nr\ l,rrr'lr I rzrr lrrrtl r'.orrc. Ilc tried to reassure nte that it couldn't have been a [)cllr.t r.rrrl l,rr lr, r ',lr, lr:rrltlit'rl irl ltonte. ilr her sleep and in peace. Lizahasno\\'telurrrrrltrrrr lr,,rrr tlr, l!{trr(nrill()r irrrrrto.joinwhatFrankcallsour animal catac()nll)', llr' r' 1,, lr' rrtlr lrr.tttr \l;;1q111;1. l{lria. Oscar, Charlie, Ellie, BrOdie, Marr llre lo.rt I r,,, | ,,, I ll rrrrr lr tlr, lrrrt.,t,,, t.l :rl l'hcy are all waiting fOr US up on Rainbtlrt llrr,l", t 1tt' I Drifsnig I rrrr ,rt l(;rlrrrrrhrthgr I i'drrlubrr lOOS l0'r'SPptember 2003
"Wilf our first <strong>Deerhound</strong> What enormous pleasure he brings Barbara a Jeff ?oote o1782 71s32s em a i I : bar b j effOv i rEii n.n et Specialising in Animal ?hotoqraphy on Cocation Our Besr wishes to all for ZOO4 Thillnetpr Breagh enjoying the view at Killoeter Nellwishes evervone a Hanpv Christmas and aMewNewYear Nell Caine Killoeter Cottage, <strong>The</strong> Red Road, Cardross, Argyll and Bute G82 sHH Tel:01389 841337 e- ma il : cai ne@ki lloeter.freese rve.co. u k
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