Aztec came into care when her owners marraige failed and she was an absolute joy. She settled immediately with the other dogs that live here permanmently at the Sanctuary and it became her home. She loved everyone and everything and so she would come with me on collecting days outside the superstores or on the street collections with our tins. She was absolutely brilliant and helped to raise an awful lot of money for the benefit of the abused and abandoned and neglected dogs that came into the Charitys care. She had no faults at all. I used to tell her often that she was just "PERFICK"!

She had such a generous loving nature, a tail that never stopped waving and a lovely smiley face. She was also a canine blood donor. She had done so much to help her canine friends since she had come to us that in the latter part of 2008 I decided to retire her and find a loving Twilight home for her where she could enjoy what time was left to her as part of a smaller family than that which she had had at the Sanctuary. As always when I need them along came a lovely couple, Barbara and Roy King, who fell in love with her (as you do) and took her into their home and their hearts.

I saw her often and she was very happy with them and spent her first Christmas away from the Sanctuary with her new family. She had a wonderful time with Roy and Barbara and their children and grandchildren and it was good. Then on Monday 16th February came the dreaded phone call from Roy. Aztec had collapsed and was having fits. I rushed over and got her to our vets who did everything they possibly could but on the Wednesday 18th I had to let her go while she still had some dignity. She had cancer of the pancreas and there was no way I could let my Golden Girl suffer. She wagged that beautiful tail right up to the end and she has left a hole in our hearts that cannot be filled. God Bless Aztec we shall never forget you or your happy happy smiley face my PERFICK girl.

Lyn Williams