This is the first morning I woke up and didn't hear the happy thump of a dogs tail on the floor. I didn't hear the happy snorts or have a warm, furry body rub up against me. I am very sad. Being that the other night was my very first experience with watching an animal be put to sleep, one moment seeing my dog alive, breathing, and the next as still as can be was a little disturbing.
I have never seen that dog so still.
Her energy was amazing. She endured the attentions of two, then 4 and finally five kids in her short life. She endured the jumping, the hitting, the pulling and the biting of 4 toddlers. She just took it. If babies wanted to lay on her she would just lay down. Never did she growl, or snap, of get up if a child was near her.
She was always at my feet, or as close as she could get to me. She understood sentences, and my frowns, but most of all she delighted in my smile. If I just grinned in her direction she was up and at me, leaning lovingly against my leg and gazing up at me with her tongue hanging out of her mouth sideways.
Such adoration I have never experienced before from a single dog.
May Bell, born December 3rd, 2005, passed September 12 2011.
We will never forget you.
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