25/11/2022
💕💕🌈🌈This is a very hard post for me to write.
This is Chip and he was one of the original dogs who walked and boarded with us. Chip lived with us for several months when his owners’ house was flooded two years in a row due to the awful storms. Chip was a huge part of us, and we were lucky to be his second family. Unfortunately, Chip passed away last week, and it has left a big hole in our hearts. 🌈
🌈When our dog Mel was alive, she didn’t like sharing her bed, but she didn’t mind Chip sharing it. As girlfriend and boyfriend they flirted and played with each other often taking over the settee while I sat on the floor. I had to keep my eye on them like naughty children! Chip would always give Tony, Ryan and Nathan a lovely cuddle when he saw them🌈
🌈One of my fondest memories of Chip was when we had a very hard winter. Chip came to me for day care but there was black ice and snow everywhere so I couldn’t get my van off the drive nor walk down the street l and the metros had been taken off service. I had a lot of other dogs to walk around the area and I didn’t want to let anyone down so with the permission of Chip’s owner Jenny the two of us set off on an adventure. Lynn another dog walker with a 4x4 dropped us off at Shiremoor to walk our first lot of dogs. We then set off on foot in knee deep snow to walk the other dogs near the big Tescos (Norham Road), Tynemouth (and area), Cullercoats, and back to Monkseaton where we met with Andrew who had been walking our dogs in the Whitley Bay and Monkseaton areas. As Chip walked, he gathered icicles on his fur, but he never gave in. When home Jenny said he was too tired to eat, he slept all night and was tired the next day. He wasn’t the only one! He was a great companion that day, he never moaned and had the energy to play with every dog we walked. Another funny memory was his refusal to walk over the bridge in the Briar Dene so I used to tuck him under my arm and carry him across it! 🌈
🌈Our family were lucky to be able to see Chip a few weeks before he passed away where we were able to spend some time with him and had a cuppa with his family. Our boys Ryan and Nathan were at the same first school with Chip’s owners’ children Ewan and Kai where we first met Chip and we have seen them all grow up to be lovely young men. It was lovely catching up with them too. 🌈
We will miss Chip dearly and we send our love, hugs and thoughts to his family Jenny, Tony, Ewan and Kai. 🌈 Mel would have been waiting for Chip last week and they will now be back together creating mischief 🌈💕💕
🌈💕To all the dogs who have gone over the Rainbow Bridge -
🌈RAINBROW BRIDGE 🌈💕💕
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. Her bright eyes are intent. Her eager body quivers. Suddenly she begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, her legs carrying her faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....💕
