Lovely stories Maggie - you’ve clearly made a buddy for life there. Thanks for your post.

We’re obviously hoping that everything will turn out well for our BT (and us too!) but, should it come to the worst, our plan is to adopt a rescue. There are a couple of good rescue centres in our area, and I’m sure we could find a dog that needs a good, loving home and that we could find that special bond with.

But for now the fight goes on for our boy - he’s beginning to eat, so the need to shoot liquid food in through his O-tube is becoming less and less, his dressing is off and he’s leaving his many stitches alone, and yesterday he actually wanted to play a little, albeit only gently! Our hearts are lifted and we’re encouraged by his progress. Things seem to be on the up and up. Just those damned biopsy results to face in a week or so’s time…