I dont really have many pictures of my first dalmatian Sooner who started me along the path of having dalmatians in my life. So I am posting this today instead of for the contest. She was only 6.5 years old, so not a senior, when I lost her. She wasnt an AKC pup like you hear about in this group but she was my heartdog and I dont think I will ever get over losing her. I wrote this on the first anniversary of her death. RIP Sooner, you will be loved forever. I woke up this morning and looked for you, somehow expecting to find you laying next to me, spooning, the way you always loved to sleep. How I cried when you weren’t there. Has it really been a year since I last held you, since you last licked my tears away, since you last gave me your Dalmatian grin? My beautiful velcro dog, I miss you so badly… Will this pain in my heart ever leave me? How could I only of had you for 5 short years? Life is so unfair sometimes. As I sit here my mind flashes back to all of our time spent together. Our long walks at the park, sharing peanut butter toast in the morning, riding in the jeep with the top off. It was so much fun to have a pup who loved car rides. Our morning stops at Mcdonalds for a cup of coffee and a sausage biscuit on the way to work. You loved to go there, the smells that came out when they opened the window made you grin! They always gave you a treat and that made you very happy. But your favorite thing to do was to just go riding in the jeep, top off, your seatbelt on, to greet people next to us while stopped at a redlight, or for a train. You were always up for a ride, all I had to do was pick up my keys and you were at the door. I never took the top off the jeep again after you died, and got rid of it shortly after…too many memories of you. I close my eyes and see you so vividly the day we found each other. You had been dumped at the SPCA by an uncaring family. Scared and confused at the back of the cage, shaking and looking miserable. When they brought you to me in the greeting room, you got up in my lap and rested your head on my shoulder. At that moment, we became one. I adopted you that very day and you became our Sooner. It was amazing how perfectly obedience trained you were. You became my demo dog from day one at work. We would teach at least 4 classes a day together, both obedience and agility. We spent 2 years going to work together, every day. What a joy you were to work with. I was always so proud of you. Football season was you and your other mom’s turn. You watched all the Saturday OU football games with her, gave high fives after touchdowns and barked your response to Boomer Sooner!!! You proudly wore your red OU collar and kissed away tears when they would lose. We lost you during football season and your other mom could not watch another game that year… Sooner, you were my heart dog, no other pup could ever take your place. You made me such a better person, you taught me how to live, how to love, how to take joy in simple things like a nap out in the sun or a popsicle on a hot day. To me, you were the perfect dog. I still look for you when I come in the door. To the place that you would lay to wait for me. How I miss you… I hate to think about the illness that took you from me. Cancer is such a horrible thing. If money could of fixed you, you would still be with me. To watch you go from a vibrant, energetic happy pup to losing massive amounts of weight and just wanting to sleep all the time broke my heart over and over again. Everything you ate made you so very sick but you were always so hungry. We tried so many things to make you well, surgeries, meds, everything….nothing worked. And then one day I saw it in your eyes as you looked at me, so sadly, it was time. We called the vet and on the way to the office we stopped and got you your favorite treat at McDonalds, you could only eat a couple of bites…how I cried as I fed them to you, and once more, you found the strength to lick away my tears. On Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 we had you gently put to sleep. I was holding you in my arms when the light went out of your eyes. I kissed you one last time and had you cremated. I promised you that you would never be left again. Your ashes sit on our mantle where they will remain until I die. Our ashes will be spread together. You were my heart, my heart dog, my beautiful velcro baby and I will miss you horribly until the day we meet again at the bridge. I love you my Soonie baby…
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 01:45:18 +0000
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