Yesterday morning we had to say a final goodbye to Spice at the vet. We knew since last Summer this day would come after some diagnostic tests then, but the initial symptoms abated and she maintained her lively disposition over the Winter. But some symptoms recently returned and her ever-present vitality began to ebb away.
Spice spent all of her eleven plus years almost entirely on the smallholding and the surrounding fields - an idyllic life for her. A gentle soul who rarely barked and who adored, and was adored by, visitors.
Her close comapnion of the last two years has been little Zelda who, for the moment, appears mystified by Spice's absence and has searched everywhere for her and has been looking out for her.
It was a sombre start to Ash Wednesday.
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