Hello. My name is Crislee Souza. About seven years to the day my dog Ebony died from poisoning. She was the light of my life. We did everything together, my mom found her when she was just a puppy. Some girls had found her running loose in the neighborhood where I used to live and said she almost got hit. My mother was a sucker for dogs back then seeing as her cocker spaniel PJ had died about a year before, well for my mom she was like a dream come true.
She named her Ebony which translates as “Black or Dark one in Gaelic so it fit. Ebony never really liked my mother much instead she took to me. She went everywhere with me and we had lots of fun times. Then sometime several months later we found a terrier mix that I named Yoshi after Mario’s pet dinosaur. The two were inseparable. Wherever Ebony was Yoshi was there too.
We had them for about five years before they were poisoned. Someone I don’t know who threw a poisoned Hotdog over into our yard and Ebony loving food as she did could not resist it. She ate it and about 3 hours later when my grandma went to give them their breakfast she found her dead on the porch, her tongue black as coal. Yoshi was still alive so she was fed and left to mourn the loss of her sister.
I went out to say goodbye and sit with them for a while and I found Yoshi dead lying next to Ebony her head on her chest. I believe to this day that she died of a broken heart because they were very close. I still wish I had caught the person who did it because they ruined my life that day. They were not only my pets and loyal companions
but my best friends and sisters too.
I never grew up having a sister so Ebony and Yoshi kind of fulfilled that role for me. And if it weren’t for them I would not have my dog Rose. She has filled the void in my heart. I got her about a week after they died. I really was not wanting another dog but for some reason I decided to see some lab puppies that were down the street from my house and that very day the people who had them were gonna
take them to the pound.
So even though it was against my better judgment I chose and took home the runt of the litter and low and behold five years later she is the best dog in my life. So I am glad for Ebony’s time with me. And I think it was she that led me to Rose because I see alot of her in Rose mainly the things she does so this is my reflection of my life with Ebony and
it was a happy time for me.
Thanks for your time.
Crislee Souza
a fellow animal lover.
Ebony's
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