00:00Okay then Gavin, if you just tell me what happened to Jasper after you'd taken him walking around this area here please.
00:06Came around 8 o'clock on the Tuesday morning, let him off on the field, running about as he normally does
00:15and he disappeared through the bushes, I could hear him splashing about in the stream as he normally did
00:26and then he'd come out like his ears of spades and quite usually I'd have to take him home and hold him down in the garden.
00:36This particular day, he wasn't too bad, he wasn't too dirty by the time we got home, he'd dry it off so I just brushed him down.
00:48He seemed fine and then about 6, 7 o'clock at night he started being sick.
00:58Later on that night it turned into severe diarrhoea.
01:05By the Wednesday morning it was really bad so we had to take him to Roper Park Vets.
01:13From then on, well he spent the rest, the next few days in the vets overnight and finally he ended up in an animal hospital up in Cramlington
01:32where sadly he had to be put to sleep, he was so poorly.
01:39And how much do you miss Jasper, you and your family?
01:42I miss him tremendously, he was part of the family, he was his old baby, he can't print into words how much he's missed.
01:54Obviously the Northumbrian Water and the Environment Agency said they've conducted an investigation down here since it happened.
02:01Northumbrian Water also said they've fixed the issue.
02:05What more do you want from both the Environment Agency and Northumbrian Water?
02:09It would be nice if there were some results published exactly what they did find here.
02:18I can't categorically say that that was the cause of Jasper's death but this was the only place where he got walked.
02:28And on his last walk he ventured into the Dain.
02:35So it's my hunch that he's picked some infection up from a bacterial infection that must have been Waterborne.
02:46That's my opinion. It would be nice to have some results published to see whether that was the case or not.
02:54Do you want answers, yeah?
02:55Yes, we'd like answers.
