Bentley Midgeley-Lovell

SLEEP PEACEFULLY LOVELY BOY

It was the news we always dread to hear. Keren’s beautiful Bentley had crossed Rainbow Bridge. He went peacefully and with dignity, surrounded by love and in the arms of his beloved Mum with his Dad close by.

IN THE BEGINNING

On 10.04.2015 we got Bentley from ‘Many Tears Rescue’ in Wales. They thought he was about 5yrs old. In the pic above, he had been on 4 meals a day for 5 or 6 weeks. He came to us literally skin and bone.

We think he was used as a stud dog on a puppy farm. He had obviously had a terrible, terrible life before he was rescued and came to us.

It was love at first sight from the moment we met in that kennel. Bentley wouldn’t leave my side even to lie down and the feeling was mutual. We adored each other, He was my soul mate. No one was going to harm my boy ever again!

His eyes never left me when we were out and about as you can see from the photos where he’s always looking at me

He was showered with love and kindness for the rest of his short life and his passing has left me broken hearted.

FEELING HEARTBROKEN (25-3-2019)

Every time I tried to write about Bentley, I’m afraid, I just cried.  I’m devastated, totally broken hearted after losing my darling, gentle, kind loving soul mate Bentley.

I can’t bear to be apart from him so I’ve been taking him with me everywhere I go. He comes in the car with me, I have his collar and lead in my handbag and I also have a small amount of his ashes on my person at all times. 

What can I say, it was love at 1st sight. When I went to meet/pick him up, he clung to me and, from that very moment, I was his and he was mine. I adored him from that moment on and now I’m heartbroken.

A VERY POORLY BENTLEY

On Wednesday 27th February, a very worried Keren had appealed on Facebook “We have a poorly Bentley, struggling to walk and he definitely can’t do the stairs so he is being carried upstairs to go to bed and downstairs again in the mornings. He is on pain killers from the vet and he has to go back on Friday. Please keep him in your thoughts.”

BENTLEY HAD MANY FRIENDS, HUMAN and DOGGY

We were all so sorry to hear the very sad news about Bentley. He was a really lovely boy and everyone who met him thought the same.

He was always welcoming to the foster dogs who shared his home and he was a very good brother to Chester and Maizie and to the family’s cats.

When Chester (then Buster) first arrived as a foster dog, having been an only dog, he didn’t know how to play and he didn’t interact very well with the other dogs but he soon started to learn about good behaviour from the others and, of course, in Bentley, he had a wonderful role model to copy. He went to exciting places and did wonderful things. He loved to go “on holibob” with Keren David, Maizie and then Chester (mostly in Cornwall). He had the best life possible and he was always an extremely happy boy.

At Gizzie’s Get Togethers, he was easy to spot as he was the one with the neckerchief to warn people not to feed him. It was just as well he wore it as people would have felt it very hard to resist that lovely face of his. His whole family loved to join in the fun with all the other many dogs who were present there too.

So many of us have been bereaved too and some quite recently so, for sure, Bentley would have recognised many friendly faces all lined up to welcome him to Rainbow Bridge. We know how devastated Keren and David are and everyone realises words are useless really but, for sure, we all share their pain and we all send them healing hugs instead.

Now go fly with all the other Golden Angels, Bentley.