For the love of a dog

For the love of dogs

Arlene — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:20:42 +0000

I unfortunately lost very unexpectedly one of my collies, you can read about him in my website www.colliepaintings.com/etc. He was a lovely handsome gentle dog, and he suddenly got very tired on a walk, I dosed him with medication and he picked up after a couple of days, and he rallied, but then he just got bad again. I called the vet and had to carry him to the car, by the time I got there he was comatose, the vet guessed he could have internal bleeding and he was right, he died that evening before they could stabilize him to be X-rayed. I thought my heart would neve recover, and to be honest it never really has, it’s been over two years and not a day goes by without I think of him, asking myself, what did I miss’ why did I nt read any signs, I’m with my dogs 24/7 and surely I should have noticed something, We were so happy the three of us, and I went through a period of telling myself just how much so, but the bubble bursts as all bubbles do when they are highly inflated.

However that is only the start of this blog.

I was almost paranoid that I would lose my remaining dog and be left with none, as I’d never lost a dog through illness, they all just got old and died.This is Whisper at 17.

I was browsing the net not long after Jet’s death and came a cross a website called ‘Many tears’ about a lady who goes round the pound and takes all the dogs who are on their last day back to her animal welfare home, I saw this beautiful little face looking at me and immediatley called Many Tears and asked if he was taken.

For the love of dogs

Arlene — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:35:32 +0000

JET

So this is where we part, My Friend,
and you’ll run on, around the bend,
gone from sight, but not from mind,
new pleasures there you’ll surely find.
I will go on, I’ll find the strength,
life measures quality, not its length.
One long embrace before you leave,
share one last look, before I grieve.
There are others, that much is true,
but they be they, and they aren’t you.
And I, fair, impartial, or so I thought,
will remember well all you’ve taught.
Your place I’ll hold, you will be missed,
the fur I stroked, the nose I kissed.
And as you journey to your final rest,
take with you this…I loved you best

www.colliepaintings.com/etc

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Arlene — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:02:46 +0000

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