It’s only been one day such you left me, it’s unbearable. Today would have been three today 30 January 2023, your birthday presents are still in the bag, your bed on the sofa freshly made today with your favourite toys on it, your dried food still in your bowl, toys around the room, I can't yet put them away, I can't move them, I think it will be a while. I remember the first day I saw you and your two brothers, 5 weeks old you were, your brothers came to me but you didn't, you just sat there looking at me, I knew instantly you were the one, I wasn't supposed to get you until you were 9 weeks old, but the first covid lockdown was about to happen, so they asked me if I wanted you earlier, well of course I did. You were prefect. Right from the off I knew you was going to be a handful and you were the cleverest, cheeky, playful dog I'd ever had. Everyone you ever met fell in love with you. There aren’t many dogs you like, in fact only one, you hated any other dog been near you, odd that the cat hates other cats, you hated other dogs, and well I just hate everyone. They say that dogs take after their owners and you certainly did my little Popo. You were so clever you knew all the names of your toys; you knew which one to get if I said to go get it. When no one played with you, you'd rolled the ball down the hill in the garden and ran after it, such a clever boy, one day I was chatting to a neighbour when you came trotting over with something in your mouth, it was a tomato, I said where did you get that, I have a greenhouse you see, he had opened the door with his paw and took one that was ripe off the tomato plant, I couldn't believe it the cheeky rascal, from then on, I had to buy you cherry tomato's every week god he love tomato's. The following year he cased the greenhouse smelling each lower tomato to see which was going to be ripe first, oh he knew. Clever boy. He was number one in the house and I knew it. He was and always will be my baby boy. All I can say is Thank you Pip for the time you gave me, it was truly special, there will never be another dog like you and I don't want them to be. I love you so much, yes, you're a good boy. Now rest in peace until my time comes and your ashes are mixed with and Lili's all together as one again forever reunited, you truly were my best friend and always will be.