We lost our Charlie 25 January 2016 - 0600, he was 12 ½ and died in our hands at home.

"...But to let oneself precisely into the dog's center, the point from which it becomes a dog, the place where God, as it were, would have sat down for a moment when the dog was finished, in order to watch it under the influence of its first embarrassment and inspirations, and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been better made..."
Rainer Maria Rilke

He could not have been better made.

Needless to say I am devastated. This is the last photo of him, the extra is one of the first taken 29 January 2003.