Bitter Sweet

August is always a bitter sweet month for us as it's the month we lost the original star of this blog

Who'd have imagined all those years ago that people would be remotely interested in what Badger got up too when I started writing an online diary for myself on Blogger

Being new to social media I had no idea how it all worked, I didn't even have a facebook account, I just started writing and people started to find my original blog

Image Description - A Blue Roan Cocker Spaniel laying on his back on the floor with his mouth open, clasped between his front paws is a mans hand caressing the side of his face

It wasn't long before I realised Badger needed his own blog as people wanted to know more and more about him and Badger Boo's Daft Adventures was born in March 2012 telling of all Badgers adventures in our camper van 

Boris joined our little family in 2014 and life was complete for a while until Badger started having some health concerns which we were finding difficult to manage plus with his advanced age I was starting to worry we may not have Badger for too much longer

 I decided I wanted to get some nice photos of them together, any I tried to take were either really poor quality, too dark or only one of them was looking at the camera so a professional photoshoot was booked with The Artful Dog Company for a couple of weeks time to capture some beautiful memories 

Unfortunately fate had other ideas and a few days before the photoshoot Badger misjudged stepping off a kerb and tripped so badly that he was non weight bearing on one front leg

I rushed Badger straight to the vets and was told he'd most likely shattered his front leg as she could fell the bones crunching

 We discussed Badgers current health problems and his previous extreme reactions to sedation, I then made the awful decision that it was kinder to let Badger cross the Rainbow Bridge peacefully aged 13.5 than to put him through a risky procedure when he wasn't in the best of health and with such a poor prognosis

It was one of the hardest decisions of my life

The photoshoot went ahead with just Boris and we got some fantastic photos, but each time I look at them it just reminds me so much of Badger that I've done nothing with them, most are still on the memory stick and have never seen the light of day

Image Description - A studio shot of a young Boris the Black Cocker Spaniel laying across a brown sofa in front of a brown background and regally turning his head towards the camera with his tongue hanging out the side of his mouth

Apologies for such a depressing post, nowadays we can remember Badger with laughter and joy at the things he used to get up too, there are still tears occasionally but for the most part it's all the happy memories we're able focus on now and not his traumatic last day

Dawn, Boris & Eko xxx

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