We left Calais in the early hours of the morning and headed to the Channel tunnel check-in. We had to check the animals in first. I was hoping that they would come to the van to check them but no, we had we had to take them to see them. I really didn't want the other people in the office to see the state of Geoffrey with the tumour on his eye looking rather horrendous. As I thought they all were rather shocked at his appearance.
Animals sorted we went through UK Border Control in France!
There was not much tunnel traffic about ...
It's a pretty ugly train ...
You drive onto the train through a gap between the carriages ...
It is huge inside ...
I wasn't that keen on going through such a long tunnel, but it was great. Us and all the animals crashed out on the bed in the back of the van, 35 mins later we were off and driving on the wrong correct side of the road again.
Just over an hour or so later we were at Elaine's sisters house in Maidstone.
Sad Bit ...
We knew that Geoffrey wasn't going to get any better with his tumour all though he still seemed his normal self noticed that the last couple of days he had started to shake his head. Was the tumour starting to irritate him or give him an headache?
Elaine's sister and hubby came to the van to give us their thoughts; they said that their vet was lovely and sympathetic and asked if we would we like to go and see her and have a quality of life consultation. We decided we would and that we would also take William with us as he was really struggling to walk with his arthritis and spindle cell tumour on his front leg. He was also missing Geoffrey terribly as Geoffrey had started sleeping at the front of the van, and William would wander around crying looking for him. Geoffrey was 23 and William was 20 and were inseparable for as long as we have had them.
The vet and head nurse were fantastic and suggested that their quality of life was extremely low, so we asked if they could be put to sleep at the same time.
It was an incredibly sad but peaceful way for them to go, Geoffrey even reached out and touched William with his paw as the sedative was starting to send them to sleep, as if to say 'it's OK mate don't worry'.
And that was it. A few minutes later it was all over.
Although it was incredibly sad it was such a lovely peaceful way to see them go.
I took this pic of William this morning.
RIP Boys ...
