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Originally Posted by smelcerk  My heart truly hurts for you and I want you to know I do understand. I also lost my 6 year old yorkie baby last September and the heartbreak was truly devastating. I was unprepared for how bad it would be. Each person grieves differently and nobody can tell you how to do it the "right" way. All I can say is that I also have felt your pain. I can tell you how I responded but it does not mean it will be right for you. I have transferred all that pain into a full-blown obsession with the Yorkshire terrier breed. I spend hours and hours every day researching the breed. I have joined my local kennel club. I have got a new puppy and started researching showing her. I have started going to every dog show and event that I can. I have kept myself so busy with yorkie activities. It doesn't take away the pain of my loss but gives me something productive to throw my heart into. I almost feel that it is a legacy to my girl. I am going to do something someday with all this newfound knowledge. Just not sure yet which direction my heart will take me in. Please keep in touch and let us know how you are doing. |
Thank you so much for sharing your story with me. If you don't mind me asking, what took your Yorkie at 6 years old? My sweet boy was 10 1/2 and even then I felt "so cheated and unfair" that he didn't live to what I "thought more or less" he would like to - maybe 13 - 15! That is part of the devestation. That is happened so quickly and untimely. For now I do have a 6 yr old female Yorkie to take care of and that definitely helps keep a "routine" going that we had anyway. But she is very quiet and my boy was the barker, town crier, neighborhood watch dog in the living room window alerting us to every neighbor coming and go, or the DREADED U.P.S. man he just went nuts over. So the house is so quiet and hard to get used to. I work so I do have to keep my head on straight about. For now, throwing myself on this site has been my savior at times. When I want to completely break down, I get on the site and read other posts.
I am glad that you found a new passion in the Yorkie dog world! I love this breed more than any (obviously most of us on this site do). I hope you have lots of success if you get to show her. Thank you for the words of hope and encouragement! each of you are TRULY special to me to have taken time out of your day and some of you your own pain to reach out to comfort someone else. Thank you...
Chrissy