Goodbye Portia

On 28th August we made the heart wrenching decision to take our darling little Portia to the vet. After a particularly harrowing night where she endured more episodes which increased in duration and frequency we made our final trip to our vet. Unbeknownst to us our family vet had recently sold his practice due to serious health issues. We wish him all the very best in his retirement and thank him for his kindness, honesty and diligent care of our family pets for the last couple of decades.

Our new vet was very sympathic and treated our little old lady with the utmost kindness and compassion. He knew the difficult decision we were making was unavoidable and he reassured us we were doing the right thing by our little darling.

I was a mess, I kept my promise to stay with her until the end and we said our very sad goodbyes and took our baby home to look over her beloved river for eternity. My heart was absolutely shattered, I had spent her whole life protecting her, loving her and keeping her safe and in the end it was me that made the decision to get end her suffereing