Good Evening all you wonderful people. I have been unable to post as have not had access to my facebook . First of all,may I thank you all,most humbly and sincerely for the time, the sharing, the love and care you have shown to ourselves and Max.The fund has overwhelmed us and will help with Max'slegal fees which may be substantial. You all know the history of how we came to rescue Max but not very much of what happened after that, so I will tell you more about his short life with us. So we rescued him at aged 6 weeks and slowly his health improved and he became the little prince of his own castle and developed his relationship with our 3 elderly cats. As we were fortunate in our Spanish house to have a good plot of land with a 6 foot fence and large gate around it he was free to roam and play. Very serious bad health placed me in hospital and we,hubby and I, decided that if I should have a review with remission then we would return to the UK. I was ill and my husband was also diagnosed with angina. In November 2014 I was given a 3 months revision so we quickly, and I mean overnight quickly, arranged a house to rent back in the UK, arranged pet transport and we moved into this rental 5th December 2014. Since then I have received another remission but then at my last review had some pre-cancerous changes and was also advised I need ahip replacement. So Max came to the UK with people, vehicles, other dogs and noise. He struggled but coped very well and loved his daily walks on the beach and the woods. He made many doggy friends on the beach and loved to gallop and play. In March on one of his beach walks he was attacked by 3 greyhounds and laid on his back screaming murder most foul, and though there wasn't a mark other than dog slaver seaweed and wet sand he was unscathed. However from that day he became very wary of other dogs regardless of size and we were frightened to let him loose again in case he was set upon so we had to always keep him on his lead and his energy was not been expended. He is a big dog and very boisterous and we knew he wasn't having the life he should with active,younger, stronger owners. I struggled to hold him as I walk now with a stick,hubby also struggled and was terrified of bringing an angina attack on so we decided to try to rehome him. I contacted many places, small and large but they were all full.Then the Blue cross at Thirsk said they would like to do a pre-assessment with Max. We took him and we were met by the manager, a very friendly lady and Max took a real shine to her.We were taken into a building by a paddock where another young woman entered, again a very pleasant young woman who was the behaviourist.Again Max was delighted and spent the next 10minutes or so whilst hubby and I chatted with the two young women playing with the many toys around the room and taking squeaky toys for them to play with him. The next part of the assessment we were asked to stand outside of this building at the edge of a large fenced paddock. The manager took him on his lead and had said to us that the behaviourist would enter thepaddock with a decoy dog, which looked just like a young German Shepherd and was like a puppet, the handler could make it move like a real dog. The behaviourist talked to this decoy as though it was a real dog she was handling and then the two ladies, with their walkie talkies arranged that Max would be released. He ran towards the decoy, sniffed at it bounced around then lost interest, went for a runaround, found a toy and went back to the manager when she called him and was put back onto his lead. The two young ladies had a conversation and then approached us to say they would be able to accept Max on what they had observed and as soon as a place became available he would be able to go there for rehoming. We took Max for rehoming on 22nd November. We received an update ate the end of the first week from the manager and though Max wasn't really enjoying the kennel life he was progressing well.We were very pleased and it helped with our feelings of inadequacy. The review telephone call came from the behaviourist was also very good and we discussed the use of ahalti face collar which he had been used to and also a couple of words I used when he was on his lead to slow his pace, the words steady and gentle.She said she would be trying these.She also commented that he was a spotless boy and never toileted in his pen so he was always first out in the morning and last at night as he wouldn't soil his space. Once more we were optimistic about his progress. The final report we had last Friday,again from the behaviourist was to be something we have never experienced before and the affect upon us both was something Inever want to experience ever again. we were told about a dog we just didn't recognise. Weeing under himself, growling trying to climb the fences and making staff nervous and that he would be put to sleep either Monday or Tuesday. I was distraught, could barely speak, pleaded for Max not to be put to sleep. was told though that he would. No sleep at all on Friday night and the first thing on Saturday morning when they opened their telephone lines I called them and this time spoke with the deputy manager. Again a quietly spoken lady who reiterated that Max would be put to sleep.She said there was a management meeting on the Monday morning and I would be contacted. Saturday were a blur of pain and tears and trying desperately to find some help. Through a facebook friend I was told about WheldonLaw so on Sunday I put an email together to them and sent it for opening on the Monday morning and after yet another sleepless night I telephoned Wheldon at 9am on this Monday morning and told them about what had happened.They agreed to represent us and Max and I sent the first payment. Shortly after my call to WheldonLaw my telephone rang and it was the manager from the Blue Cross at Thirsk, from their manager. She was very apologetic that she hadn't been there for me over the weekend as she called it our weekend from hell but that she had been on leave. She said they had had the management meeting and decided that yes Max would be put to sleep and that they had discussed the decision with their head office and that they had agreed. I then told her that I had approached WheldonLaw and that they would be representing us andMax.Her tone changed somewhat but she was still very calm and professional. About an hour later the manager called again and told me that they Wouldnt allow the independent assessor onto the site to re assess Max as it would upset him a stranger visiting but that their own assessor, an experienced man would be doing it within the next few days and that she has emailed WheldonLaw to notify them. I commented that this assessor would also be a stranger and the answer to that was that he was very skilled. I called WheldonLaw to tell them this and they had not received any such notification. Many telephone calls were made from Wheldon toThirsk and the manager wasn't available. Eventually, WheldonLaw were contacted by BlueCross Head office and informed they mustn't make anymore contact with the site but all contact withHead Office. I have read many, well all I can call them lies. Very emotional at the moment but just want to say once more how very grateful we are for all you are doing to help us to save Max so that he can go to his new home. God bless you all. The words of Heather Hopper. Max's Mummy