Beloved dog will be forever missed, always remembered
He entered my life as “Squirt,” the last in a litter of puppies to narrowly escape death. Weighing in at a mere 4 pounds and just over 3 months old, the tan and white terrier-pug mix, long-legged with jutting hip bones, was rescued from drowning along with his...
All dogs go to heaven: ‘I miss her every day. I sniff her bed and her collar and cry most days’
In her memoir I Found My Tribe, Ruth Fitzmaurice writes: “When a pet dies, there is an empty space left where they used to be. You no longer feel or hear them moving through your world. They are just gone.” The singular incident to provoke an outburst from...
Losing a pet is a heartbreaking experience
Though pets enrich our lives greatly, their time that they share with us is much too short. The life span of most dogs and cats range from 10-14 years. Some live much longer and others are taken from our lives much too soon. The past few weeks have been sad for close...
Goodbye, Lucy. You were never less than loved
I went to the park Friday to visit a just-departed friend. The sun shone high in the brittle winter sky. A few inches of snow lay underfoot. It was her kind of day. I called her Big Dog and Monkey and mostly, Monk. The Monk. Her given name was Lucy. Lucy was kind and...