My Bobby Bébé Tchou in paradise

You were 8 months old when you came home with Bijou, who was only 8 weeks old, but she was to be your sister for life. Sadly, she left us 1 year and 4 months before your departure.

When you came home, you immediately found cuddly toys that you loved and that accompanied you and many others during your all-too-short life with us.

You were neutered shortly after your arrival and life took its course - 12 years and 2 months of happiness followed, until February 27, 2023.

You've now become our little golden Tchou Baby, a real darling of a little dog.

While you ran around the garden with Bijou, Julia preferred to stretch out on the lawn. The cumulets you paid yourself playing the little fool with your sister were a real joy to behold.

Every 4 months, you made a trip to Sonia, your favorite groomer, and never without Bijou. You loved being groomed and appreciated the compliments in return.

It was thanks to you that little Julia was saved because her operation scar was difficult to heal. You undertook the long task of kissing her tummy, and in the end we could see that the scar was healing properly. You kept up the habit of kissing her every day, and she appreciated it. We can thank you for this long-term effort.

Apart from the occasional boo-boo and play accident, you were always in very good health, and what's more, you loved good things like your dog treats, but also nic-nacs and boudoirs before going to bed. You were also a great lover of fruit and vegetables, and would eat them cooked or raw, everything made flour at the mill.

You also got into the habit of washing my head in the evening before going to bed, making yourself comfortable on the pillows and doing it wholeheartedly. I have to admit that at times this irritated me and I tried to get you to stop, but it didn't work every time.

Every morning, you'd come and get me in bed, and you were funny because you'd start to give me a few licks before finally lying down against me with your hands on my shoulder, and we'd go off for a little kissing session.

I think, seeing all the love I received from you, I managed to make you happy.

During a vet check-up, he noticed that you had a little heart murmur that needed to be countered with medication. And then, after almost 2 years of treatment, you started coughing regularly, and then it was a stab wound: you had pulmonary edema. X-rays were taken and treatment was started in addition to heart treatment. For a few weeks, there was virtually no coughing, but it soon started up again.

The vet took a blood sample and the results only confirmed the serious health problems, along with a disturbance of the gall bladder.

From that point on, things went downhill very quickly. You drank a lot and ate less and less, and even the things you used to enjoy didn't agree with you anymore. You still didn't want to eat anything other than a few sausages, so we tried everything: chicken breast, steak, gel to restore your appetite, but nothing helped. In the end, you wouldn't even drink.

So I phoned the vet and asked him to come over as soon as possible. He examined you at length and finally, by mutual agreement, we decided to let you go with dignity, as the cancer was busy eating away at you a little more every day, and the string of lymph nodes in your neck was beginning to form. We had already discussed it at length with Albine, but we didn't want to go through the pain and suffering of relentless treatment.

You were so beautiful and relaxed that I still believed with all my heart.

So you closed your beautiful eyes forever, what a bad moment to go through, and that last look, what sadness in our eyes but what a relief that you didn't suffer from this cancer.

Like all the other loulous, you were cremated and now rest in my secret garden, where you'll have the pretty flowers you loved so much. I see you every day with a tear in the corner of my eye, and then with time...

The sadness will go... but you'll stay in my heart forever.

You'll always be my little Bobby Bébé Tchou doré, my loulou d'amour who gave me so much friendship, so much love with a sincerity I've never known in a human being.

I still have the love of Clochette, our last rescue, but no other loulou will replace you, you were unique with your true Fox character, I'll never forget you, you left too, taking a corner of my heart with you, you were an adorable son.

I know, in a few months, a few years... but I loved you so much despite the short time you spent with me, you also have a photo in front of my computer and it seems to me, like all the other loulous, you say to me :

It's not your fault Francis, I'm crying too, where I am, to be separated from you, but our hearts remain united for life (the one you have left without me).

I beg you my dad, never forget me, you were my breath of life and if I could have a second life, it's with you that I would spend it, I really had a happy life with you, alas much too short.

Farewell my lifelong friend, please don't cry, I'm no longer here to console you, so do me this favor, when you look at my photo, give me a smile... If you can...

Don't forget that I really loved you, keep hoping that one day, in heaven, we'll meet again and nothing will ever separate us again.