Losing someone you love is always hard, but because their love is so genuine and their hearts are so innocent and pure it's even harder on the little ones! It breaks my heart every time I hear about a child losing their pets. From experience I know that they are often their only friend, playmate and confidant with whom they can speak freely about their feelings - their whole world in a nutshell...
A few months ago, I stumbled onto this site by accident. We had just moved into our new house and our Spikie took to it immediately! He loved it more than we did I think! We started working with our YorkiePoos right away to teach them how to get out of the pool in case they fell in... After a couple of months of careful supervision and testing their reactions in the pool, we felt confident that they would be fine and once again, Spikie and his side kick, Gypsy, had full run of our house - inside and out! He was a regular Officer Ommaley! He loved his title of Senior Grounds Patrol Officer and did his little job with pride...
One morning I woke up and looked out our bedroom doors to see him floating in the pool and Gypsy racing around in circles around the pool... (My original post after finding this awesome site is: My Dear Spike - Daddy is so sorry...) I know how much the loss of your favorite pet hurts! Summer is almost over and I can finally use our pool without creating one of my own...
One thing that helped all three of us so much (Gypsy, my wife and I) was going and getting another puppy within a few days! Some people say no to that - I say YES! I was boarderline suicidal from the overwhelming guilt of him drowning less than 10 feet away from where I had been just lying in bed awake for better than an hour that morning! Our little Spike, "Junior", was a genuine Godsend!! And ironicly, he is living up to his namesake as he has much of Spike's personality but yet they and Gypsy are night and day!
Good luck and God bless... And maybe... Just maybe... Jesus has been hunting for just the right puppy that would be "Perfect" for her all this time... |