Hello, my name is Carol and my sister sent this link to me so that I could see the tribute to her babies. I was at work, you know how it is… a few minutes to mile away… a quick breather from all the hectic work stuff….. and I spent alot more time there than I probably should have…… I read and looked at everything more than once….alot more!! You see, it was only a month ago, Aug 24th, that my little “Snicker” girl passed beyond to wait for me at the Bridge. I miss her so very much, but all the poems and pictures and beautiful things that I read today made me feel a little better.
Snickers was small enough to fit in a closed fist
when she was born at my sister’s house.
Her mother was mostly Schnauzer, a small little stray picked up by my nephew on a very rainy afternoon, only one of her pups was born alive….Snickers…part schnauzer and part your guess is as good as mine. From the first moment we were together, something clicked, she was definitely mine!…..for fourteen wonderful years! She taught me how to laugh again! Not “a little snicker” at some silly joke or the polite “twitter” I had cultivated since my divorce. No, I’m talking about the grab your belly, roll on the floor, laugh so hard my sides ached, like when I was a kid ..
kinda laugh! – that was her legacy to me and
for that I will be forever grateful.
Her antics were always keeping me in “stitches”. When she was feeling good and happy she would stick her back legs way out behind her and she “crowed” a kind of gurgele-y sound. When she saw someone she knew, she would “rabbit-tize”(we didn’t know what else to call what she did) at them … all balled up running, in place, in circles, and “crowing” over-whelmingly happy to see them. Not to ever see that again, the thought just about breaks my heart.
But, she had been having health problems these last two years… an enlarged heart and kidney problems that eventually led to failure…….. I held her in my arms and she gave me big wet kisses and then was gone.
Fourteen years seems like a lot but I would of liked more…. but she was getting too sick to have fun anymore. For something so small {less than ten pounds) she sure left a big hole in my heart. But, I do have two other babies and I know I will always have more because there are so many out there that need a home. I know this is kinda long…. it just all came pouring out….I do miss her so much ….
I will come looking for you,
my little girl, at the foot
of the Rainbow Bridge, until then……