Garret, I miss you SOOOO MUCH!! I love you, baby bro, and always will. You were loving, funny, full of energy, cute, and always made me laugh, and when you didn’t, you were making me say, “AWWW!” You tore up everything you could get your paws on. You were always getting into stuff and knocking stuff over. You were so spunky until you got cancer and started doing nothing but sleeping and lying at the bottom of your cage.
I will never forget the day Mom and Dad took you to the vet and gave me a call when I was sleeping over at my friend’s house and said you had an extremely bad cancer blob in your chest and they HAD to “put you down” so you wouldn’t suffer. It is IMPOSSIBLE to forget how cute you used to be and the day we had the funeral. I picked up your limp, cold body, looking at your tiny, little mouth and your head smaller than a tennis ball. I was thinking to myself: He looks just like he did a year ago when I got him. Small, cute, and SLEEPING. But there was one difference. You didn’t seem to be sad like you were in that small cage in PETCO with all of those meaner, older ferrets. This time, you looked… like you weren’t in pain anymore, but you were just taking one of your normal, everyday naps.
At that point, I wanted to wake up. I wanted to scream from the top of my lungs,”Wake up KATE!! You are having a terrible nightmare!!!” I wanted to run down the stairs, scoop you up in my arms and tell you all about my nightmare, crying of both tears of joy AND sadness. But now that you are gone to the wonderland in the sky, I hope you are happy!
Love,
Big Sis, Kate
| Sarah Kate 11years |