Today is May 24th and I am a wreck. It was just yesterday at 7pm that we made the decision to put her to sleep. She had been sick for a while and within the past day she seemed to be getting worse-not eating, leaking urine/diarrhea while sleeping. On the trip to the vets it broke my heart she seemed to perk up, sticking her head
out the car window like she used to.
This is supposed to be a tribute though so I will tell you all about my precious 16y old collie mix I had since I was 7 yrs old. She was the dog I always wanted, I begged my parents for a dog ever since I could remember, I used to stand out front and just cry some days because I wanted one so badly and I would see other people in town walking theirs by. She was a good jumper, chewer, and listener. Although she grew out of the chewing once she got older, but when she was about a year old we had her locked in the kitchen when we went away on vacation and the dog sitter came over and said she chewed a big arch in the door so she could go upstairs and sleep on my bed. She was very smart.
She didn’t act like a dog at all, she had reasoning like a person and had some kind of special sense about things. I’ll never forget the one christmas when we were putting the tree up and we said “Princess you better move it looks like the tree is going to fall” because it looked like it was leaning a little. About 2 mins later she got out of her chair and not more than a minute later the tree actually did fall over on the chair. She had been with me throughout everything,
I’ve had her my whole life.
This is so hard for me to let her go. And everyone says “So you have 3 other dogs at home, what about them?!” They are right I do have 3 other dogs but they are not my first dog I every had, and they were not the dog I grew up with as a child, through my teenage years,
to now my early adulthood years.
I hope Princess is up in heaven running around in a large field full of squirrels for her to chase and will receive endless amounts of cheese, hotdogs, and ice cream sandwiches(all of her favorite things), and then I hope that there is a blue recliner up in heaven just like the one
we have here for her to sleep in.
I’ll never forget Princess, she was the dog I always dreamed of, then received as a child, and now the dog I can only dream about once again. I love you Princess!!
I love you with all my heart and soul forever,
| Princess |
| 23, May 2006 |
| Amy Hornick |