Tinx

Tinx was a god send in so many ways.And o of them ways being she was sent to be rehomed with us after i had had a real bad separation. She had to be rehomed due to the fact that she lived with three other dogs and they had begun to fight, Tinx always coming off worse. I had took in many dogs over the years to build up, teach and some times just give general rest to the animals them selves. When Tinx came to us we were told that she may be pregnant, due to the other dogs she lived with. This wasn't so much a problem as hard work as we haad three kids, my new partner and I, but as we all loved her so dearly we decided that no matter what we would deal with it. Tinx quickly set in to home life and loved the kids. She even became toilet trained again and loved wrestling with my middle child charlie who has bags of energy.She was the sort of dog who would want to curl up on your lap for hugs endlessly and would follow you round all day. And if you went out she would howl to have you back with her. She was perfect for us and we were perfect for her. On the 7th November Tinx started behaving strangely and pacing, breathing deeply and wantin to be closer than usual to us, which was difficult as Tinx always wanted to be near. Thats when we noticed like a ball shape protroding from her back end and relised that the pups were coming. The first one seemed to be stuck and neither me or my partner knew anything about helping her through this after a few phonecalls we decided to cut the bag on the first pup as Tinx was becoming quite aggetatied. I couldn't bear to look as my now fiancee managed to help Tinx bring her first in to the world. It was amazing how once the bag was cut on the first pup how Tinx relised exactly what she was meant to do and there in our bedroom she had four beautifull little pups. We all went to bed with Tinx in a box at the end of my bed excited about the new arrivals and a feeling of emense pride that she had done it. We woke early the next mornig and the first thing i did was to check the pups. I called out to my fiancee to come as i had noticed something not quite right. Thee was not four pups but nine!!! she had gone on to have another five at the end of our bed and she had done it all by herself and so quitely she hadn't disturbed any of us. The next few weeks were chaos! with all the cleaning and the noise but it was worth it. And the best bit was spoiling Tinx with lots of new gifts like a collar and matching lead toys treats and a new bed. She started to toilet everywhere again and so we had to retrain her but she was such a good mum and even let my kids stroke her babies. We was all so proud of her and things were going really well. The THing was we all lived in a two bedroom flat that waas runnig live with mice and wasnt ideal. We had had no choice but to move here because of my separation and the council would not help. Thats when in April I spotted a house up for rent just around the corner. It was perfect withmore room for everyone including my Tinxy. On the day i went to sign the tennancy for the new property I found ot that it was NO ANIMALS. I was devestated and broke down in the estate agents but no one would budge. It was the house or my dog and i needeed to decide there and then. Selfishly I choose the house, it was so hard i loved Tinxy with all my heart in such a short time we had all gone through so much. But due to my middle child having severe learning difficulties and behavioural problems I thought the house was what he needed as well as the extra room for the others. Reluctenly we decided that as long as Tinx went to a good home it would be ok. Eventually we found a single mum with kids who vowed to give Tinx a good life and we let her go. Walking her to the car was devastating abnd she wouldnt get in the car. My fiancee had to lift her in as she kept pulling back towards me. She drove off with my tinxy looking out of the back window and ill never forget that look on her face. I felt so guilty and knew she would think that sh had done something wrong, which she hadn't. So we moved in in May and things were fine although we always missed her. A week later we had a phone call saying that there was a fire in Tinxys home and she had passed away. It was horribl especially as we had lost my little brother to fire the year before. He was 21 and was called Ricky Long. The lady who had Tinx offered her back to us as she had only had her a week and she still felt like our dog. We jumped at the chance and Tinx was delivered back to us later that day. We took the chance to stroke her one last time, just briefly as although she wasn't buned she had started to get rigormortise and the smell of ire was so strong. We buried her in our back garden, not the way i thought it would be, I thought Tinx would of been there playin one day and basking in the sun but it wasn't meant to be. I dug half the hole myself and my brother Steve dug the rest. We layed her out in the earth and lit candles all around her plot. It made my guilt that little bit worse as we loved her so much we never wanted her to go in the first place nor did we want anything bad to happen ..... but hey thats life and crap happens. only crap had seemed to hit us twice in a year.

All i can say is im so sorry Tinx. You were perfect, a great girl one in a million who we will all miss greatly you will never be forgotten and even Demi whos two now says Tinx died in the fire like uncle Ricky. Maybe your with him I hope you are but where ever you are I hope you know how much we loved you and that if we could take time back we would keep you and leave the house.

Loving you always mummy Claire daddy Radek and Scott Charlie and Demi-may. (The kids)
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