My beloved Boozer dog passed away this afternoon, unassisted and alone. I had left for the afternoon and came home expecting her wagging tail, her perky ears and instead found a "sleeping" dog, that will never awake.
I tried hard to let her know I loved her and maybe in my selfishness never saw her "signs" that she was ready to go. Maybe she hung for me until she knew she no longer could.
I will always remember the day she was born. I was there helping her mom push her out. I will always remember the time I came home from work and found my underthings strewn about her room... how she got them is unbeknownst to me. She was coined "Boozer the wonder mutt" that day. I will never forget nursing her back to health after she was hit in an accident... pulling tubes, washing them, and putting them back in. Nor will I forget her chasing balls, frisbees, sticks, tubes, etc into the water for hours = oh and digging up rocks from lake bottoms.
She used to sit by my desk while I wrote papers in grad school. She'd sit on my bed while I cried my eyes out wondering where my son's father was that night (where is she now, I ask, I'm crying and she's not here with me)... She slept in my son's room from day one, looking over him always steady with her eye. She was moved, shuttled, moved again and finally, she is at peace.
Wherever you are my beloved friend, please know I will never forget you. You were faithful to me until the end, you were always my beloved Boozer dog, and you will never be replaced.
God Speed my friend, till we meet again.
Mom
I tried hard to let her know I loved her and maybe in my selfishness never saw her "signs" that she was ready to go. Maybe she hung for me until she knew she no longer could.
I will always remember the day she was born. I was there helping her mom push her out. I will always remember the time I came home from work and found my underthings strewn about her room... how she got them is unbeknownst to me. She was coined "Boozer the wonder mutt" that day. I will never forget nursing her back to health after she was hit in an accident... pulling tubes, washing them, and putting them back in. Nor will I forget her chasing balls, frisbees, sticks, tubes, etc into the water for hours = oh and digging up rocks from lake bottoms.
She used to sit by my desk while I wrote papers in grad school. She'd sit on my bed while I cried my eyes out wondering where my son's father was that night (where is she now, I ask, I'm crying and she's not here with me)... She slept in my son's room from day one, looking over him always steady with her eye. She was moved, shuttled, moved again and finally, she is at peace.
Wherever you are my beloved friend, please know I will never forget you. You were faithful to me until the end, you were always my beloved Boozer dog, and you will never be replaced.
God Speed my friend, till we meet again.
Mom
