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I debated whether to share this story but my heart says YES!
My husband and I had gone Monday for our last minute Thanksgiving shopping. We also needed doggy food and cat food for our pet family. We were in Petsmart finishing our list and I happened to go around a corner just wandering. As I moved ahead a gentleman was at the vet reception and all of a sudden I hear this heart wrenching cry and my heart hurt so bad for the gentleman I saw from the back. I backed my buggy up and tried to find my husband who is usually near and he was just around the corner. I felt my husband might be needed to help this man as I shared what I heard and saw. We decided that the man did need someone. By now he had been led to a room and was most distraught. My husband went back and stepped in the little room no one was with this dear man who obviously was grieving beyond words.
I could still hear the man so broken and I know my husband he by now was praying and comforting this dear soul.
The man shared his story with my husband that his 10 yr old Chihuahua Rocky had just collapsed on the parking lot as he was ready to enter Petsmart. He began telling about himself and his wife being seniors not having children and this little dog was their baby. They both sat in the little room for close to an hour although poor little Rocky had officially passed in the parking lot. During this time my husband wept with this gentleman and shared about our little darlings that we still grieve over and had lost not that very long ago. The man had gotten so upset my husband was concerned about him driving home because little Rocky was going to be taken back with him to be buried in the back yard. So my husband offered to drive him and the man was so relieved by the offer he said to my husband you would do that for me? When my husband came out from the little room he for sure had been crying just as hard and feeling all the greif this man had expressed. I too had felt and heard his continuous break downs.
But we all walked out of Petsmart they put little Rocky in the car and as it turned out the man lived in the same area we lived in. We left and met again at the mans house and he was still very broken but he yet had to go into the house and share the heartache with his ill wife. He wanted our phone no and my husband got the mans no. After hugs with the man sharing how thankful he was when he needed someone so badly at that very moment in time and there my husband was he was just beyond words. My husband was so thankful to God that he could be used to show compassion to a broken man who had lost his very best little friend. We had prayed that morning and ask God to use us this day in some way.
We really had know idea he would have it be at Petsmart with the passing of a beloved little friend Rocky!