My last journal started that I was getting back into art, and that was true, it just wasn't the art I expected. I've been doing a lot of freelance photo editing, illustration and logo design. I've only had the time to do small amounts of personal work. Most of it is unfinished but at some stage i'll work on it.

For the moment though I need to take a step back from everything. My 14 year old dog, who I've had for the past 11 years passed away last Thursday. He had cancer somewhere in his back region, possibly his bladder. He had developed a horrible cough, was breathing rapidly and seemed in constant pain. He had stopped eating and became utterly lethargic. We don't believe it was bordatella as my other dog did not develop any symptoms and the cough was rather different. We could have opted for exploratory surgery but it only had a slim chance of doing anything, plus even if the tumor in his back end was removable he'd still possibly be in pain from other unseen problems, at most he might have seen Christmas and he would have had to spend a huge amount of time recovering from major surgery in addition to the other problems, if it wasn't operable he would have had to be euthanized on the table. He had gone downhill so fast over the last week. He had had 3 chest x-rays but nothing showed up on his lungs, that doesn't mean that nothing was there however, it may have been to small to detect. It was possibly the hardest decision I've ever had to make. We all decided that prolonging his suffering would have been selfish. I was so proud of my daughter, she held him with myself and my husband as he passed away.