sako751sg
Well-Known Member
Mentioned old Jake's time was getting close just at the turn of the year and although still coming a walk the lights were on but getting dimmer.
Had told the missus i'll leave her to book him in a wee while ago as she sees him all day and this morning she phoned in tears and said she had him booked for late this afternoon,apparently her trying to take the washing out of the machine whilst Jake was trying to climb in made her mind up.
Left work straight away and i'm sure all with dogs know the emotions and it's the shittiest feeling imaginable knowing you are calling time on a very dear and loyal friend who has spent some of the best times imaginable.
Decided to spend a couple of hours down the river where he has been at my side for hundreds of salmon getting landed which he loved.
Walked to the bridge and was just standing with him when he started walking into the water,which wasn't unusual,so thought i would take a pic for the missus.Took the first one,and and then tried changing to video thinking he would go up to his kness and stop,and all of a sudden where is he?The utter rocket had walked right out over a ledge and was in the very fast current head 10 miles down to the estuary.
His swimming at this age is very low in effort and i absolutely keeched myself as i had maybe 100m of that bank i could get down to before he was a goner so legged it that 100m to where an overhanging tree was,so jumped in and held on with one hand and waited for him.
Luckily he had seen me as he got closer and what effort he could give he came close enough to the side where i could grab his lug and get us both out.So so lucky as the river is well up and very fast.
Absolutely drenched but carried on the walk so he made sure our last day together was very memorable.Missus and Mac took him for his eternal sleep and once again an absolute huge void is left.
Had told the missus i'll leave her to book him in a wee while ago as she sees him all day and this morning she phoned in tears and said she had him booked for late this afternoon,apparently her trying to take the washing out of the machine whilst Jake was trying to climb in made her mind up.
Left work straight away and i'm sure all with dogs know the emotions and it's the shittiest feeling imaginable knowing you are calling time on a very dear and loyal friend who has spent some of the best times imaginable.
Decided to spend a couple of hours down the river where he has been at my side for hundreds of salmon getting landed which he loved.
Walked to the bridge and was just standing with him when he started walking into the water,which wasn't unusual,so thought i would take a pic for the missus.Took the first one,and and then tried changing to video thinking he would go up to his kness and stop,and all of a sudden where is he?The utter rocket had walked right out over a ledge and was in the very fast current head 10 miles down to the estuary.
His swimming at this age is very low in effort and i absolutely keeched myself as i had maybe 100m of that bank i could get down to before he was a goner so legged it that 100m to where an overhanging tree was,so jumped in and held on with one hand and waited for him.
Luckily he had seen me as he got closer and what effort he could give he came close enough to the side where i could grab his lug and get us both out.So so lucky as the river is well up and very fast.
Absolutely drenched but carried on the walk so he made sure our last day together was very memorable.Missus and Mac took him for his eternal sleep and once again an absolute huge void is left.
