Dubhbruja Flatcoats

Ladyrig Sainte Foy - Lincoln

 

Lincoln

In a cruel twist 4 days after loosing our lovely Breigha we lost our handsome Linc.

Our irrepressible boy started to look a little down on the evening we said goodbye to Breigha and stayed a bit down, nothing you would have worried about with one of the others but he had so much bounce that it was noticeable. We dashed off to the vet as he was very, very flat, blood tests done there and then told us things were not normal and he was fighting something, his spleen was enlarged. My vet gave him a couple of jabs to help with pain and see if we could lift him and scheduled him for an exploratory the next day in case it was a tumour on his spleen. It wasn't, he had a good look round and eveything was normal but the enlarged spleen meant he was fighting something. Linc was hooked up to a drip and given everything that they thought would help and my vet was calling me to ask to keep him overnight when my poor boy took matters into his own hands and slipped away. Linc was the 6th dog my vet had treated with the same symptoms and not the first one lost, he thinks it was a massive viral infection.      

It was a massive shock, things moved so fast. Lincoln was so bouncy and energetic, so full of life and crazy affection, the life and soul of every day. Everyone just got out of his way when he was in full bounce because the boy was built like a tank, a large tank moving at speed mostly, why walk when you could crash about! Dinner times are certainly quieter, it was his favourite time of day and he would bounce about like a spring lamb, quite a sight to see. He was a keen worker and the reason every pen had to have carabiners on both doors as he would let girls in season out of their pens, he was quite single minded about some things but I wouldn't have called him a great thinker or maybe he was only bothered about the things that mattered to him! 

He had so much flatty inside it was just impossible to contain and his daughters Evie, Charlie and Twiglett have inherited that particular trait, heaven help us. 

Not sure there could ever be a personality large enough to fill the hole Lincoln has left, I miss his big head being stuffed in my face and while I sometimes don't miss his barking (strangely high pitched for such a big dog!) I miss the boy himself more than words can say, another piece of my heart carried away with a handsome, brilliant, adorable flatty. I hope you're waiting for us with our other gang buddy, we will love and miss you always.  


Born 17/07/2013 - 14/06/2022
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