OTIS WAS RESCUED FROM THE STREETS IN 1991. HE WAS ABOUT 2 MONTHS OLD. WE HAD A VERY SPECIAL BOND WITH HIM ANDOUR OTHER RESCUES. HE WAS CASTOUT TO LIVE (on the street) AND WE GAVE HIM A WARM AND LOVING HOME. HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS(ALL RESCUES), HE BECAME A SPECIAL NEEDS BOY. HE DEVELOPED SEIZURES DUE TO A NEIGHBOR’S OVER XELUS CHEMICALLY TREATED YARD. HE WAS SPECIAL BOY. HE WAS DADDY’S ”LITTLE MAN”. HE DID NOT CARE WHEN THE OTHERS CAME HOME BECAUSE HE KNEW HOW LUCKY HE AND THEY WERE.
ON MORE THAN 8 OCCASSIONS HE AND THE OTHERS WOULD STEAL THE TOMATOES OUT OF THE GARDEN. THEN ONE DAY I FELT A LUMP AND GOT HIM TO THE VET. BESIDES THE SEIZURES HE HAD A MASS CELL 2. BUT HE LIVED TO BE AROUND 15. HE LOOKED INTO MY EYES AND TOLD ME HE WAS VERY TIRED, BUT HIS DAD THOUGHT HE WOULD BE HERE FOREVER. ON FEB. 10, 2006, I CALLED THE VET, THEN CALLED MY HUSBAND AT THE DENTIST AND ASKED HIM TO MEET ME AT THE VET. OTIS HAD CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE SO SEVERE THAT THE VET SAID, HE IS AND WAS SUFFERING FOR A FEW WEEKS. BOB ASKED AND THE VET SAID THE TIME WAS TODAY. WE COULD NOT HOLD HIM AS HIS VEINS COLLAPSED. THE VET WAS ABLE TO GET SOME MEDS IN HIS BACK LEG, BUT WE HAD TO GO INTO HIS HEART. MY HUSBAND CARRIED HIM TO MY CAR (IN TEARS AS HIS FIRST TIMS) AND OTIS AND I WENT AND GOT HIM A RED ROSE TO PLACE INSIDE HIS INDIAN BLANKET WITH THE SAGE AND SWEET GRASS. SO WHEN HE WAS CREMATED, HE WAS ALREADY IN THE SPIRIT WORLD WITH MY MOM AND ALL MY OTHER “KIDS”.
OTIS WE STILL YOUR BARK, YOUR PIGING OUT, AND YOUR SLEEPING IN BED. YOU HAVE SEEN ALOT OF YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS PASS ON. WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU AND YOU ARE HOME IN THE CEMETARY WITH THE OTHERS AND YOU ARE SHARING A HEADSTONE WITH YOUR OTHE SISTER. WE WILL MET AGAIN AND WATCH OVER ALL YOUR OTHER BROTHER AND SISTERS. YOUR OTHER BROTHERS AND SISTERS SEND THEIR LOVE. REMBEMER MOM HAS BEEN WITH ALL OF YOU. YOU ARE MISSED BY US AND THE OTHER RESCUES: BAMBI, BUDDY, BIG BOY, MISS PRISS, MILO, BEVO, LIZZIE AND KNOW BUFFY.