Yesterday afternoon a terrible turn of events took place. Roger was walking Indigo & Tarka up at the woods when they both suddenly shot off in full chase after something, possibly a deer but Roger could not see.
Roger whistled them back but they were in full chase mode and had at this point got to a bed in the road near the woods.
Roger heard a yelp and ran up to find Indigo had been knocked down by a car. The driver did not stop and within seconds another car had run over Indigo. This car did not stop either. She died on impact.
Roger ran to her and lifted her from the road to hear another yelp and looked around to see Tarka being knocked down by another car. He put Indigo in some heather as she was very obviously dead and ran over to Tarka who had managed to pick himself up. The driver of this car did stop.
A very kind lady stopped to help Roger. She offered to take him and Tarka to the vets not realising another dog had been involved. Roger said he couldn’t just leave Indigo there and would have to carry her to his van. The lady said she would drive Tarka to me as I was closer than the vets which she did.
Tarka has been at the vets and was today transferred to another clinic. His Hip is badly damaged. The socket has been shattered and the pelvic bone has been damaged.
The vet has said this is a salvage job rather than a repair job and it is unlikely Tarka will enjoy his running anymore. He also has a small air sac on his lungs and severe bruising, has many tears and is in a terrible state of shock as you can imagine.
We are all finding the events terribly hard to accept. Indigo was only 17 months old and an absolute ray of sunshine. She was a very happy girl who was active non-stop and not a day would go by where she didn’t make you laugh with her antics. She also was like a sheep following everyone around the house inquisitively. We will miss her so much.
We are very lucky to still have Tarka, who is 5 years old and equally as precious. He will really miss his lively girlfriend.
It doesn’t seem real at the moment and the house is so empty.
I hope soon it will be easier to bear but I wanted to post a picture of Tarka and Indigo and acknowledge what has happened in some way.
Roger whistled them back but they were in full chase mode and had at this point got to a bed in the road near the woods.
Roger heard a yelp and ran up to find Indigo had been knocked down by a car. The driver did not stop and within seconds another car had run over Indigo. This car did not stop either. She died on impact.
Roger ran to her and lifted her from the road to hear another yelp and looked around to see Tarka being knocked down by another car. He put Indigo in some heather as she was very obviously dead and ran over to Tarka who had managed to pick himself up. The driver of this car did stop.
A very kind lady stopped to help Roger. She offered to take him and Tarka to the vets not realising another dog had been involved. Roger said he couldn’t just leave Indigo there and would have to carry her to his van. The lady said she would drive Tarka to me as I was closer than the vets which she did.
Tarka has been at the vets and was today transferred to another clinic. His Hip is badly damaged. The socket has been shattered and the pelvic bone has been damaged.
The vet has said this is a salvage job rather than a repair job and it is unlikely Tarka will enjoy his running anymore. He also has a small air sac on his lungs and severe bruising, has many tears and is in a terrible state of shock as you can imagine.
We are all finding the events terribly hard to accept. Indigo was only 17 months old and an absolute ray of sunshine. She was a very happy girl who was active non-stop and not a day would go by where she didn’t make you laugh with her antics. She also was like a sheep following everyone around the house inquisitively. We will miss her so much.
We are very lucky to still have Tarka, who is 5 years old and equally as precious. He will really miss his lively girlfriend.
It doesn’t seem real at the moment and the house is so empty.
I hope soon it will be easier to bear but I wanted to post a picture of Tarka and Indigo and acknowledge what has happened in some way.
