Megan Good by Viola

MEGAN”

OUR GOOD GIRL
WHO NEVER DID ANYTHING BAD
IN HER ENTIRE LIFE
8/29/87 TO 6/16/02

WHEN OUR DAUGHTRS GAVE US MEGAN AS A GIFT LITTLE DID WE KNOW THE LIFE COMPANIONSHIP AND ABIDING JOY SHE WOULD LEND US THROUGH HER LIFE TIME.

AS A PUPPY MEGAN SUCKED HER OWN TONGUE CHEWED ON A TOOTH BRUSH AND CAME RUNNING TO THE SOUND OF A SQUWEEKIE TOY. SHE HAD A PINK HOODED SWEAT-SHIRT TO KEEP HER WARM ON COLD WINTER DAYS. HER FAVORITE THINGS WERE SHE LOVED TO CHEW JUICY FRUIT GUM. PLAY ALL DAY FETCH WITH TENNIS BALLS AND SHE WAS A WONDERFUL “RIDE IN THE CAR” COMPANION.

I WILL NEVER FOGET MEGANS FIRST THANKSGIVING. SHE HAD BEEN ILL WITH PARVO HER DADDY GIVEN HER SHOTS FOR DAYS AND STILL SHE WAS NOT GETTING BETTER. AS THANKSGIVING CAME UPON US AND WE LAID OUR HANDS UPON HER IN PRAYER. WE ASKED OUR HEAVENLY FATHER TO LET US KEEP HER. THAT WE WULD BE SO THANKFUL IF SHE WOULD GET WELL. WITHIN A FEW DAYS OF OUR PRAYER WERE BLSSED AS OUR PRAYERS WERE ANSWERED IN OUR FAVOR. MEGAN LIVED ON FOR 14 MORE YEARS TO SHOW US WHAT SIMPLE PLEASURES COULD MEAN. SHE LOVED TO CHEW JUCY FRUIT GUM. WHEN SHE WAS TIRED OF CHEWING SHE WOULD HIDE THE GUM IN CORNERS OF THE HOUSE. I NEVER REALIZED THIS UNTIL WHILE I VACCUMED SHE WOULD GO TO EACH CORNER OF HER HIDING PLACE TO SECURE THE AREA OR RETRIEVE HER STASH UNTIL I WOULD GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. O MEGAN WHAT SWEET TOOTH YOU HAD.

SHE ESPECIALLY LOVED COOKIES.I WILL NEVER THE TIME THE VET TOLD US SHE NEEDED TO BE ON A DIET to loose weight. It was a few days into the new diet and the EVERYONE IN THE house was ON YOUR DIET WITH YOU BECAUSE WE DID NOT WANT YOU TO DIET ALONE. HOWEVER we decided WE HERE would have MILK AND COOKIES WELL MEGAN WANTED HERS TOO.

When we told her NO she sat there begging WHILE we just ignored her until she acted as if she were having some kind of spaz attack. Megan trimmered and shook we were in fear of something terrible to come. When daddy FINALLY REALIZED IT WAS A COOKIE SHE WANTED said “ah just give her a cookie” WHEN SHE GOT THE COOKIE MEGAN FORGOT ALL ABOUT THE SECURE ATTACK SHE WAS PUTTING ON AND ALL WAS RIGHT AGAIN.
MY- BUT YOU HAD US LAUGHING.
WE NEVER KNEW A DOG TO BE SO WANTING OR TO ACT OUT WITH A FULL ON BODY TRIMMER. WE NEVER DIETED AGAIN. LIFE IS TO SHORT TO BE SO WANTING OF THE SMALL PLEASURES IN LIFE ESPECIALLY IF IT’S JUST A COOKIE

OVER THE YEARS MEGAN HAS PROVED HER FAITHFULLNESS. OUR OTHER DOGS WOULD MISBEHAVE OR THEY WOULD STRAY FROM HOME OR MAKE MESSES DIG HOLES OR DO OTHER RUDE THINGS. MEGAN NEVER MISBEHAVED SHE WAS ALWAYS OUR GOOD GIRL

“MEGAN”
YOU FILLED OUR LIFE
WITH JOY AND LOVE.
YOU TOUCHED OUR LIFE DEEPLY.
WE ARE BETTER PEOPLE
BECAUSE OF WHAT WE LEARNED AND
EXPERIENCED WITH YOU AT OUR SIDE.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR
FAITHFUL FRIENDSHIP
WE HOPE YOUR HEAVEN IS WONDEFUL
BECAUSE YOU ARE DESERVING
OF A WONDERFUL AFTER LIFE.
WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
WITH ALL OUR HEARTS.
“ALL OUR LOVE TO YOU OUR GOOD GIRL”

WE ARE MISSING YOU.

Viola

 

Megan Good
16, June 2002
Viola