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Plum' : star of
the shampoo labelles "comptoir
du toilettage"
of the company GIRAULT
Plum', "our
cock'
saved
of waters"
Plum'
17-05-1999
(
retreated)
Plum',
the little blond American Cocker, arrived suddenly
in our life I 2001. It was just two years old...
One of my capricious "friends" bought the little
dog during a dog fair as we could have bought a toy
or somethng else! Very fast, she realized that this
so attractive little bitch with her hind eyes,
besides its doll face, represented a lot of
constraints. By rainy weather, it made "steps"
in the house, it made spots of dirt, it barked a lot and
it didn't know the property at all . Its first
surrender, Plum ' lived it while it was not six months.
She has been given back to her "breeder",
if we can call like that ! It had been advisable that he
would refund the price paid for this bitch to its owner later
but nothing has been done. The money " nerve of the
war " was stronger than everything, that after
few months, as he wasn't able to refund the
cost price for the bitch, the previous "owner-en-titre"
took it back without other advertising. But
the breeder was quiet relieved of this because
even if he bred the little bitch , he didn't
like her, too noisy, too dirty, too ... Plum' barked
ceaselessly, quibbled the others, in brief it had become,
there also, " persona non grata ". The small bitch
returned during few weeks with her "owner-en-titre",
until this spring day when I saw the little bitch thrown
in my garden. Without anyelse explanations, Mrs xxx let me
the small bitch with all her papers and she told
me that I could indeed make what I wanted, she didn't want
it anymore... I was stunned by so much indifference. Anyway,
I kept the little bitch but as I didn't chose
to breed another breed, especially a so complicate breed
like this, I try to find a super home which
would honor it as it needed to be. My friend Blandine, herself,
an American Cocker breeder, proposed to take it. She would
come to pick up the bitch one week later. No problem I shall
assume... But I didn't planed my children's react
who loved very fast to the little bitch. How could
it be different, it was so cute! With so attractive
tender eyes, a doll head and a very attractive
color... They begged me to keep Plum' with us.
I accepted without a lot of hesitates. I called Blandine
who had had a presentiment and who says to me that she regretted
having allowed us, by not coming to pick up immediately,
to fall in love for it...
Plum
' spent an happy life among my Skyes. It ran twice
as fast that skyes do and it was a game for my dogs
to run after Plum', everybody liked this little
bitch fallen in our garden accidentally by luck...
5
years later, its previous owner came back to visit
me , to ask us for the prize of the bitch. My son had
just had an accident. I was collapsed. It is certainly what
what allowed me, me generally, so sensitive, to say to her
" four truths ". She would have no centime, the
bitch would stay at home and I adviced her not to come back
at home to take back my bitch when I won't be there, as
she threatened me to make it when I shall be absent. I
was very afraid that she takes back my little the
bitch. Our dogs use to live in freedom in the garden. Then,
I put Plum ' in security sometime and then finally the life
followed its way.
Two
years ago, Plum' was sterilized and had a tumor breast surgery.
Plum ' is now 10 years old. It is still very
happy to be with us but it's condemned... On January 10th,
2009, the day before the death of our Roy, we learnt
that Plum's life will stop at the end of this
year, certainly. Perhaps, the little bitch will be lucky
enough to see some few weeks of the 2010 year but ... Plum
' suffers from cardiac insufficiency with a slow deterioration
of its liver. A lot of water stays in her body because
the heart does not make any more its work and does
not any more allow its body to be correctly irrigated. I
will be onbliged to see the vet each time Plum' will have
to much water inside, to allow my dog to have a correct
breathing, to allow my dog to be lighter and to have a more
comfortablke life ... The last draining allowed to remove
1,7 liters of liquid... Plum ' hasz a very heavy
medical treatment but it is happy. You can imagine ! drugs
each morning in a piece of cheese or meat, it's so greedy,
it is the happiness! It runs, it plays, it eats
and never forget to ask for its "morning cake
" with the others dogs of my home ...
Plum'
barks all the time, is always in activity, is very
nervous full of joyce but it does not matter, it's
here, it's alive. My dog does not suffer and since
the beginning of January, the water is not coming back to
fill up her little body. Drugs are full of efficacy.
And if 5 durgs each morning are the price to pay to keep
her alive, I accept the deal ! Now, Plum' has another sign
of her ill heart : an eye open angle glucoma. We add a nother
treatment. 5 Drops of drug in each eye (in the second to
help it to stay in good health), three times per day. It's
a little bit painfull but it's courageous and after I take
it in my arms and I cover her of cuddles. It's sometimes
difficult to accept but I don't have anyelse choice. Plum'm
lost the usage of its ill eye but the second eye allows
it to see eactely what does she want to see !!! Thank
you Laëticia (veterinarian), our friend of always, who set
up the medicinal protocol. Plum ' is a monument of our life,
we love it so much. Plum' is very important for me,
especially for me. I love her very much and Plum' is always
with me, very attached to me . She sleeps in
my arms and often comes to me and put it head on my shoulders
when the pain is sometimes too hard. She learnt
me a lot about life. Learnt that we can be sick
and happy at the same time. A beautiful lesson of humility.
It loves us, for her the family, it is the most precious
thing inb this life. We know that we'll keep it one day,
one month, or one year but we try to forget this horrible
idea : one day it leave our life to find back Roy on the
raimbow bridge. We live every days as if it was the last
one togethere, to regret nothing, we drink it with our eyes,
we cover it with all our tenderness. A bulimia of love
and tenderness. To give to Plum' in a minimum of time all
the love we would have been able to give it in
several years if the life promised us to leave us the time.
Its days are counted but we do not know on which way.... When
it will leave, we want to have no regret exept
the one to have lost an extarordinary bitch and always
to reminbd us that it life could have been so different
if it didn't met us... But, who knows ? Plum' is so
clever that perhaps it will give a great lesson to these
vets who declared it lost in Junuary 2009 ??? They
are only humans and I suppose, they can also make some
mistakes?!!!
It's
very difficult to imagine the life after her.
An sad and curious life without barkings, without
its joyce movements, its runs in the gardenb full of speed
with one or tw Skyes running behind ... Has there
not to say, Plum ' gives tk or life a smelt of peace and
happiness and everybody loves it so much. "Bébé"
is its) most fervent admirer. He takes care of her, as he
would take care of an old partner. Bébé cleans it
big ears, kiss her all the time, and is always there when
another dog wants to be naughty with its Plum'. Always together
...
Thanks
to you, Plum ', for the happiness you give us, we
shall be there with you until the last day...
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