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Tarot Jenwisp Special Charm

Date Of Birth: 13 April 1991

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Hips 7:5 = 12. Eyes Normal

Tarot. My very laid back horizontal dog. Got up in the morning to go back to sleep.

A very easy girl to live with. Nothing bothered her. All she ever asked for was her food and her bed. She would actually have made a very good therapy dog. She qualified for Crufts twice once at North West Border Collie Club Championship Show as a minor puppy and later as a junior.

Life was always pretty uneventful for Tarot, prefering to lay back and let somebody else do the work. While her mum, Jess, was racing around the park after a ball, Tarot would wait until Jess had gone out, picked it up and on her way back. She'd then canter (she never ran, well, rarely)out to her mum, take the ball out of her mouth and canter back to me and throw it on the grass in front of me and then wander off to do her own thing again. She would only run once a day and that was it, enough, finito. She'd had enough heavy exercise for one day. The only thing that got her moving was me saying "where's ready steady?".

During the summer of 2002 Tarot developed an intermittent lameness in her left foreleg, which gradually got worse and more or less overnight she became paralysed on her back end. Straight to the Vet (and I must say I did not think that I would bring her back again and was prepared to let her go) who gave her a thorough examination and was non-plussed as to what could be causing it. She had a very high temperature and he begged me to give him (and her) a chance. He wasn't prepared to let her go. So she had injections to try to bring the temperature down and we were to go back the following day (Saturday). She was a lot better the next day and could almost walk. She had another full examination and Pat still could not find what was troubling her. So we came home with antibiotics and anti-inflammatories for a week, which worked. She seemed fine again.

However, a few weeks later, the lameness in the foreleg returned. So, back to the Vets. Pat was on holiday and it was an Australian Vet who saw us. He was brilliant. He was down on the floor with her, manipulating her neck, head, legs, etc. He commented on how good her teeth were (she was BARF fed). He felt some resistance in her neck which he suspected came from the spine and he thought it could be a tumour but without further tests couldn't be certain. I said "no more, I don't want any more x-rays or blood tests (I didn't think she would come through an anaesthetic anyway because of her age). So, at the age of 11 years, she was given sleep. Miss you Ready Steady.

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