Maxie was a good doggie. She loved to swim, chase down balls, and eat! She would take a running leap into mom and dad's pool and then try to "chomp" the splashes she'd create as she paddled around the pool. She put up with all the kids trying to ride her like a horse and 2 very imperfect, impatient parents. She was a people loving doggie who followed you around like a shadow and so she will be missed.
I must say, despite how I spoke about needing to put her to sleep for a while now when it came right down to it I didn't really want to do it. My head told me one thing while my heart said another. Today I followed my head and left the Animal hospital without my doggie and with a broken heart. I told the girls after I picked them up from school. Mary cried all the way home. That started me again...She and Morgan both grew up with her more than the other obviously and therefore they're taking it hard. Harder than I had thought they would...especially Mary Grace - she's been sitting on the stairs to the basement sobbing since we got home...I NEVER NEVER want to have to go through this again!!!!
Maxie - you were a good girl!!! Have fun swimming in eternity!!!! - Love your very imperfect mom - Kris
4 comments:
Kris,
This is so incredibly sad. I hope the children are getting over this.
Kris,
This is so incredibly sad. I hope the children are getting over this.
Thanks shelray - the kids are better now...but I'm still not over it. The hardest part of it was that Maxie was not terminal or suffering. She had developed fecal and urinary incontinence and had been making "messes" for about a year now. We dealt with the messes and then had to isolate her to the basement...it was not a good life for her to live and with the arrival of Christopher it only got worse. We could not keep her upstairs for obvious sanitary reasons and she could not continue on like that...I had a horrible time at the vet's because she was so lively and happy as usual. She didn't know why she was there of course and I felt an enormous amount of guilt and still do!!
Kris,
Oh, I am so sorry to hear this. It sounds like she was such a good doggie.
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