Roxy

Roxy (2005 - September 2 2017) was a twelve-year-old female Japanese Spitz Cross from Bristol. She was adopted and owned by the Williams-Weston family.

History
Elizabeth Williams received a call in 2005, from her father Tony, informing her that her brother Peter had left a dog down their parents house in Little Stoke. Elizabeth used her daughter Kelly's car and drove down to her parents house, accompanied by her three other children. When arriving at the house, a small brown dog was sniffing the sofa in the living room. However, at the moment of being picked up by Elizabeth, the dog urinated on her due to nerves. Her father told her that Peter had been given the dog by one of his friends, who found it wondering the streets and decided to find her a home. Elizabeth chose to bring the dog back on a trial basis, and on the way back to their house in Lockleaze, Anthony decided to call the dog Roxy (after hearing a similar name in a film). The family became attached to the dog and decided to keep her. Upon meeting Elizabeth's partner Paul Weston, Roxy became aggressive with both him and his son Gary, until she grew close to Paul.

Throughout her life, she lived with the Williams family in their many houses and came across many other dogs owned by the family, including Bailey and Chip, both of which she never got along with. However, Bailey once broke a hole into the kitchen door in Lockleaze, which allowed Roxy to escape. Besides not getting along with dogs, she also never liked cats owned by the family or children, and would bite anyone she never knew or feared. One cat in particular named Gizmo, used to steal her food. Another cat named Suki, she never got along with initially. It wasn't until Roxy became ill in 2017, that Roxy and Suki connected and became friends. On September 1st 2017, Roxy shown she was well and decided to bark constantly in the back garden in Bradley Stoke, despite the fact that she was told to be quiet by her owner Elizabeth, who at the time was hanging clothes on the line. The next morning, Roxy was rushed to the local vet at Rowe Veterinary Group, due to showing signs of sickness. She was put to sleep surrounded by her family and was buried in Elizabeth's parents garden in Little Stoke.