This is the memorial I wrote for Herbert: I tragically lost him while he was in the care of Sydney Animal Hospital Erskinville, he went into the vet on Sunday 10th October 2010 @ 1pm for constipation and came home dead.
He was given a pre-med sedation before going under general anaesthetic and put in an observation cage where he vomited and choked on his own vomit before his general anaesthetic for an enema. I had only just left him for 35 minutes at the vet before I got a call saying Herbert had died.
I have also attached a photo of my baby boy.
To Herbert - 18.04.2007 - 10.10.2010: Your little bite -kisses on my nose made me smile and it was your way of making me tickle your tummy and bum. Your little patch on the end of the sofa is empty and can never be replaced. My little ninny poop has left me alone at night and I will miss your scratching and jumping over the pillows in bed before you went to sleep. I have you favourite blanket in bed with me now and cuddle it and smell you before I go to sleep. I have kept your bowl of water by the bed just in case you need a drink before bedtime as you get thirsty sometimes.
Rubbing your belly and scratching your bum was a regular event which was as routine as clockwork, every morning, every day and every night. You loved to twist around and look at me asking me for a bum rub, or roll on your back and put your paws in the air.
After snoring and snoring all night you would always wiggle on the end of the bed in the morning on your back to get ready for a big day ahead. Waking up is hard as you got everyone up at 6am...shaking your big ears making lots of noise jumping off the bed, pushing Dixie with your nose and demanding we all get up! I stop at all your favourite spots in the park in the morning and remember your little wee spots which there were many! Your number two spots were always in private as you never liked anyone watching you do your little poops.
Going to work and coming home is going to be so hard as you made sure that you gave me your look it the morning after I said "See you in a minute". You knew it was work time.
Your face would light up as soon as I got home from work and you would run almost sideways to the back of the house and come storming back for a cuddle.
I will make sure I order Bananna Bread on the weekend at the cafe!
Breakfast and Dinner are not the same without greedy Herbert eating all of Dixie's food before she made it outside, and chocolate buttons after both meals doesn't seem the same.
We sat out the back last night the moment your little body was cremated (9pm 12th October) and lit some sparkles, had some roast chicken, maltesers, chocolate buttons and a glass of Baileys. These are the things you loved most...
You came home on the 13th October and I will never stop loving you or let your memory go. Dixie is sitting out the back wondering where her best friend is.
My heart is broken in pieces and will never be the same. Never forget that I will always love you my little cuddle-bug, ninny poop, dilly lilly, dilly billy, booby, diddle bomp and ninnle bob.
I love you little man and you wait for me so we can cuddle in bed again.
Mark, David and Dixie xxx.