HE HAD NO FAMILY AND WAS DYING of cancer. His only sister, afflicted with Down Syndrome, had died several years earlier. For years, nothing and no-one had been as important to Jonathan Edwards as his two beloved Bull Terriers, Hector and Maggie-May.
But to Sanlam trustees, the executors of his estate, the dogs need to be got rid of: they’re a nuisance, holding up finalisation of an estate and payment of their fees.
Edwards, who ran a business marketing medical disposables, lived in 1st Avenue East, Park town North in Johannesburg. Zoologist Rob Morley and his wife Sophie who lived nearby became close friends. “We met while walking our dogs in Delta Park. At the time Jonathan had a Bull Terrier called Matthew and we, too, had a Bull Terrier,” Sophie Morley told Nose week.
“He had grown up in Swaziland. A charming outdoorsy type, he was apparently not very good with women; he’d had a number of failed marriages. But he adored that dog [Matthew]. The day after his beloved Matthew died, we found a notice tied to his gate inviting his friends to join him for a service in the park to strew Matthew’s ashes. A crowd arrived for the service.”
Then came Hector and Maggie-May, who “brought sunshine back into his life”.
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