Thank you all so very much for your kind words. This has been the hardest week for me. Imagine sleeping with your beloved pet for 3 years, where she just crawls and burrows herself under your covers and finally falls asleep behind your knees, and then that just stopping. It has been incredibly difficult for me to even sleep at night because when I lay down and close my eyes, all I see in my baby Lacey laying on the floor after the incident. A lot of people have been telling me that it's too soon to be looking for another dog, but I think that this will be the best healing for me. I put a deposit down on a 5 week old male Yorkie last night. I will be getting him on December 23. Anybody that knows me personally knows how I felt about Lacey, she was with me 95% of the time, and in no way, shape of form am I trying to replace her...she was a 1 of a kind, irreplaceable dog that will live on in my heart for the rest of my life.
I speak with Lacey every night before I attempt to go to bed, and I think that she would want her Mama to be happy & share my love with another dog, like I did with her. So that is just what I'm going to do. I did decide on a male though, because I didn't want to fall into the trap of calling a female all of the nicknames I called Lacey, because that wouldn't be fair to her. I would have rather had my Lacey around for many more years, but I can't go back and change what happened last weekend, I just need to remember all of the fun times I had with her in her 3 1/2 short years.
Thank you all again for all your support and kind messages, I really do appreciate them...here are a couple of the last pictures I have of Lacey...the one with the 2 of us was taken on Thanksgiving Day, my sweet sweet baby & the other was Halloween, my mother always called her "Lil Devil Dog". Thanks again, and I will update with my new baby boy in a few weeks! |