Sad farewells to a very special boy

We’ve received some very sad news from Monty’s mum. 😢💔

To all Monty’s fans.

On Thursday 30th January 2024 we sadly said our last goodbye to Monty Moo (Smart Flyer) as his time had come to walk the rainbow bridge. Monty would have been 15 in March. For those that don’t know about him, Monty was born in Australia in March 2010 to an awful dog breeder who sold most of their dogs to China. He was shipped, along with his mum and all his siblings, to China and a place called the Macau Canidrome where he lived in a concrete cell for 8 years. In 2018 the Canidrome was shut down on welfare grounds and the hundreds of dogs kept there were sent around the world to greyhound rescues to rehome them. Monty came to Forever Hounds Trust in March 2019. He became very poorly and spent many months in and out of the vets as they couldn’t find the problem, but then finally, 6 months later, he was ready to rehome and he came to live with us in Wiltshire on the farm.

Considering he had never been in a home environment before, at the age of 9 ½, he was a superstar. We didn’t have any accidents in the house and he took to everything like water off a ducks back. He loved to meet people and other dogs and animals, he ran and played ball, and zoomied whenever he could, he just loved life and wanted to have company be it human or dog. He adored travelling in the car and we went on many holidays around the country with him. He fought through a number of life threatening issues where we thought we might lose him but he decided it wasn’t his time yet and there was still more to do. If his body hadn’t been failing him he would still be here now wanting to go for walks with his girls.

At the end of January his eyesight went completely and it distressed him so much because he just did not know where he was that his breathing issue became too much for him to bear and his legs went. He went to sleep for the last time on his bed at home with me holding his paw and he is buried near to our wildlife pond with my other rainbow bridge dogs and a tree will be planted in his memory. We shall miss him terribly as he was the best boy ever.

Go chase those bunnies Mr Ears xxx