"Summer Brook" November 11 1995 ----- March 11 2000
Pug Dog
Summer became "my" dog on January 1 1996.
She was a New Year's present to our family and our
male pug Sebastian.
Summer was the sweetest dog
I have ever known.
She was always there to greet me
when I got home;
she would run from where ever
she was in the house if I started blowing my horn
when I pulled into the driveway and
she would be just hollering at the door for me.
She loved me no matter how bad
my day was or how mean I had been to her.
She loved me so unconditionally.
She gave us five beautiful litters of puppies
but that is finally what ended her life.
She loved having us with her when
she had her puppies and would actually wait to bear
them until we could be with her.
On Friday March 10 2000 in the middle of the night
she began bearing her pups a week early.
She had four before I left for work that morning
and had one more shortly after.
On Saturday my husband and I loaded her and
the pups up for a visit to the vet.
He gave her a shot to contract her uterus down
to get all of the afterbirth etc. out
so that no infection would come.
All was fine.
On our way home she began acting strange
so my husband said "check the floor for a puppy".
Well there was one there.
We rushed it back to the vet;
this time he decided to do an x - ray to see
if there were any other pups.
One was on the x - ray.
He tried his hardest to get the pup out
without doing surgery but surgery was inevitable.
She came through the surgery well
although the pup did not make it.
She was waking well from the anesthesia
and we began our journey home.
She stopped breathing on the way home.
We tried to resuscitate her for about thirty minutes
but we were unsuccessful.
We were deeply saddened as she graced
our pillows each night with her bellowing snores
and her protective fierceness.
We still had her six pups but they no longer had a mother.
To conclude all of the pups except
for the one born in the car died within 72 hours.
Well the one born in my van
which I had named "Scrappy" because of her willingness to fight
died today at only four days of age.
This was going to be my last living tribute to Summer
but now Scrappy is gone too.
Summer will be deeply missed but never ever forgotten.
We miss you very much Mama Pug.
You will always be my only sunshine
that can make me happy when skies are grey;
you will never know baby how much
I loved you even though
my sunshine has now gone away.
I love You Summy.
Love Mommy
| Summer Brook |
| Michelle |