Suzy's age was undetermined, but we'd had her since 2007 when my sister-in-law's friend was moving and couldn't take her. (Little did we know, she was already pregnant with a chow chow's puppies.) So she was at least 13 when she passed away a week ago. She'd started having seizures last November, and even with medication, they improved only slightly, so I knew even then she was not long for this world.
I wanted to publish Luminesce before she was lost to us, but last Saturday, I realized something was terribly wrong when she couldn't eat her favorite canned food. She then grew disorientated, lost her balance, and eventually couldn't walk or raise her head. On Sunday evening, she passed away, but not before we were all able to say our goodbyes.
We took her down to my parents' the following morning, and when we arrived, I was surprised to see my dad digging her grave with a backhoe (he collects such things). My son helped me lower her into the hole and we said goodbye to her with yellow roses.
RIP my sweet little doggie. We miss you. I don't believe in "heaven" but I do believe there's some kind of existence after this life. Whatever it is, I hope you're happy and at peace and bossing all the other dogs around as you did here at home.
J. L. Dodd
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
― Milan Kundera
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
― Will Rogers
Links:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/dogs
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