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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a>Although in the morning Shadow had seemed to rally, when Mum went in to see if she was well enough to come home, it was immediately obvious to Mum that she was still very ill. The vet arranged to do a chest x ray and a scan of her abdomen. Sadly she had a large tumour on her liver which had started to bleed and another on her spleen. The panting was because she was in pain. There were no treatment options so Mum and Shadow agreed that the best thing was for her to pass quietly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shadow leaves behind her a gaping hole. She was a very big character, although a little dog. She was a trailblazer for the breed in the UK and was the last of the Club\u2019s founding dogs. Our Shadow was mother of twenty-two of the UK\u2019s puppies, still the largest number that any one dog has had here in our breed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Along the way, Mum and Shadow had so many adventures with everything from Shadow\u2019s chip failing and her being stuck in Switzerland after her first mating, to Mum\u2019s car breaking down at minus seventeen centigrade. She\u2019s eaten books, post and settee cushions, caught birds and would have played fetch until she dropped if Mum had let her. Mum says she was the happiest dog she\u2019s ever met and whether it was displeasure or delight she would show her emotions for all to see. When she was happy she would twist her whole body in mid-air in her delight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our whole lives had been shaped around her needs for the last year or so and she always made sure that she kept Mum in her sight. Mum has said that she will keep our routines fairly similar for a while so that we don\u2019t find things too confusing, but the exception to that is that we won\u2019t be going out in the middle of the night for a toilet break every night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There have been three or more dogs in the house for over twelve years, so I think Mum is going to find it all quite strange and quiet. We\u2019re all going to have to adjust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you all for your kind words and thoughts. She was one of the most loved dogs there has ever been. She gave so much and asked so little in return. We hope she knew just how many people cared about her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Somewhere over the rainbow Shadow will have been greeted by Alfie waiting for his puppy. Rest in peace our dearest girl.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[50,27],"class_list":["post-27048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entlebucher","tag-entlebucher","tag-shadow","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nGaping hole<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nChange of routine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n