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Originally Posted by capt_noonie  Oh man you guys all have me tearing up!
Yes I do feel that their presence is with us. The funny thing is that Toto and Scrappy's personalities are almost identical, and we always say Toto is Scrappy reincarnated, although they are nearly the same age and it would be impossible. Not only their personality, but the sound of their barks are the same. When we had to put Scrappy down we closed up our shop for a week. We could not deal with it, and of course could not run a business after that either. Scrappy and Uni and whatever dogs we were fostering were a big part of our shop with them being there everyday, so our customers were very understanding with us being closed for a while. My biggest regret still is not holding Scrappy as he passed. I just could not get myself to do it. Whenever I am scared to do something, I force myself to do it, but for some reason I could not do it and I still don't know why I didn't. |
I'm so sorry about Scrappy (love the name), no doubt he knew you loved him, and he knew you were struggling to let him go. Don't carry that burden with you, you were getting through it the best you could, I know he understood.
We run our own business to, I run the holiday end of it so thankfully my busy season was over, my husband runs the landscape management part and for him it was the kickoff to the start of his busy time, bids etc. For me at that point it would not have mattered if it was busy or not, my whole world stopped, like you there is no way I could have dealt with any of it, I was doing good to get a shower the first few days. My husband was wonderful though, he put his grief aside the best he could, and turned everything business wise over to one of our managers and took care of me and Holly for the first week.
Presley is a lot darker than Jingle was and his bark is deeper, but some of the things he does is just like Jingle, Presley is every bit the alpha Jig was, but he is shy with new people and I think it's sweet, he clings to me when new folks are around, Jig was a social butterfly.