Maddie - Raycris Falcons Gift to Blitzan
2003 - 2011
A sad goodbye to a fun loving girl who was dearly loved and is terribly missed.
Two weeks ago we had to say a heartbreaking goodbye to our gorgeous Maddie. In the space of two days she went from showing signs of being off colour to collapsing and never getting up again. It turned out she had cancer which had ruptured and she was bleeding internally, we had no choice but to say a heartbreaking goodbye to our live wire Maddie.
Maddie was a special gift from Christine and the Raycris family, she came to us as a tiny black bundle and right from day one she fitted into our family perfectly. Known as 'Bumble Bee' because she was always buzzing around life was never dull with our Maddie. Like the rest of her siblings she managed to have an awful accident at 9 months old when she got impaled on a poachers trap. Maddie was the perfect patient and made a full recovery and for the rest of her life she was a happy, healthy girl who was the most loving member of our family.
We had Maddie because we fell in love with her, she was also meant to be mated to Logi to produce a new line for the Blitzans, it wasn't meant to be but it never changed our love for our beautiful black beauty. Actually Maddie wasn't really black as she spent most of her life covered in Mud so she looked brown! Although she held her own in the show ring winning many a class as well as a RCC, she was the happiest out in the fields, she was best known for her rolling and wallowing antics, one of the most watched videos we have ever had, (it is still on our web site!).
We all miss our Bumble Bee so much, it's taken me some time to be able to write this tribute to my beautiful girl, such a shock to lose Maddie in just two days, one moment she was the fittest of girls and within two days she was gone, she was only 8 years old and I feel so cheated, she should still be here curled up next to me, Maddie slept next to me and as yet no one has moved into the empty space, all the dogs miss her but Diva and Zeta more than the others, in fact Diva refused to gout for three days after, she just wouldn't leave the house to go for a walk and Zeta just curled up in Maddie's bed and whined, so sad and so unfair.
Sleep well my beautiful girl, and I hope you, Tarka, Leah and Solo are all reunited and chasing birds, you are so missed Maddie B you've left me with an empty feeling inside, you were such a wonderful girl and taken far too soon.
Thank you Christine, Raymond and Michael for giving us such a wonderful and perfect dog.
