All Dogs Go To Heaven

Hamish

22.09.2008 - 21.10.2025

Our beautiful boy grew his angel wings and passed over the rainbow bridge.

🐶🐕🌈🌈🌈

As it's said in Beetlejuice (a musical Jodie dearly loves): "That's the thing with life, no one makes it out alive." ( Beetle was Hamish's kennel name at the dogs home)

21st October 2025, Scott and I woke this morning at 6.30am to Hamish whining and whimpering, we got up and found him trying to get out his dog door but unable to, he had messed all over the floor and had walked through it, it was all over the kitchen floor, he had also peed over the floor. He was in distress and his tail was tucked right under, that was when we knew the time had come to let him go. Scott looked out of the window and would you believe, there was a rainbow in the sky 🌈

We had hoped that he would still be here until Darren came home from Japan, but that was still 2 weeks away and we didn't want to hold onto him suffering.

Scott went down to the vet for opening time at 8.30am, he came back with a time of 4.50pm, they offered him a late morning appointment but as the girls were working he went for a later appointment. We both had a good old cry knowing this was our last day with our boy.

Taken between 9.35am and 9.50am, 21st October.

These are some of the last photo's I got of him able to get up and walk around by himself. Theses were taken at 11.18am on the morning of the 21st October.

Scott went to work so I stayed here all day with him to make sure he could get up and go to the toilet. He slept most of the morning but was still walking about and eating and drinking, but come afternoon, once Scott came home, ( Scott and I were talking about it the day after, I said it was just after he came home that Hamish went on the decline, and Scott casually said that Hamish was maybe waiting until he came home so that I wasn't on my own, and you know, that made perfect sense, my boy didn't want his mumma coping alone, he knew I needed support when it was time for him to basically start giving up), he was really struggling to get comfortable, I had to hold him up most of the time, he was desperately trying to walk but his back legs kept giving up on him, I managed to get him through for a drink, which he took a long drink, but he just kept trying to wander around, we think he was looking for somewhere to curl up and go by himself but his little fragile body wouldn't let him. I eventually managed to get him to lie down for a little bit, I stayed with him the whole time, reassuring him that I was there with him, he did get some sleep for a little bit before Jodie came home, she sat with him for a while as the time was ticking by, she fed him some of the treats Darren had bought him, which he lapped up.

4.23pm

I also took a paw print on a decoration I had bought from Kmart last year.

Carrying him downstairs and out to the car for the very last time.

We had to try and get a hold of Cerys, which we eventually did, she said she would meet us at the vet. When the time came to take him to his last vet appointment, Scott carried him out to the car in his bed and placed him on my lap for the journey down, that was the hardest drive to the vet ever!, we all sobbed in the car, Hamish was very calm and comfortable in his bed.

We arrived at the vet and met Cerys, Scott carried him in still on his own bed, I was a wreck!

At the vet, 4.51pm.

Almost immediately we were taken into a room. We placed him on the table, still in his bed, and he didn't even try to get up or move. Usually he despises the vet, and always tries to get off the table, but he just didn't have the energy left.

They gave us a few minutes alone with him, before the vet and a vet assistant came in, Scott filled out the paperwork while the girls and I stood with Hamish, giving him lots of pets and kisses. We opted to get him cremated and his ashes returned to us.

4.55pm

The vet then took Hamish's paw, shaved what little hair he had so he could get at a vein, which started to distress him, he was getting agitated and kept trying to pull his leg free, the vet tried a couple of times to insert the needle, when he finally got it into Hamish's vein, he let out this almighty howl and started struggling, the vet assistant held his head down until he passed.

We expected him to go peacefully, but as he wasn't given a sedative beforehand, there was a moment where he was stressed out at strangers handling him, and as the euthanasia took hold he let out a final howl. Apparently as the nervous system shuts down, some dogs do that.

I was standing next to the vet when he administered the needle, I saw blood going into the liquid in the injection then blood started pouring down his little leg, the assistant quickly wrapped a bandage around his leg, and we all were given a few minutes alone with him again, we were all extremely distressed after that ordeal.

5.03pm, our beautiful boy was gone 😭

Cerys and I walked outside, while Scott and Jodie stayed back to pay the bill. Jodie noticed on the front desk, they had lit a candle for him, as they do with all dogs being put down, and managed to snap a photo before we all left.

Before Darren went on holiday to Japan, he told us that if anything happened to Hamish, he didn't want to know until he came home, so we have honored that, he will not find out until he comes home, we haven't put anything on social media and we have asked the people we have told not to post anything that could possibly get back to him.

Good bye our sweet brave boy, until we meet again. You are at peace and pain free now, go enjoy running and chasing your toys again.