Author: candy [ Edit | View ]
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Date Posted: 19:02:02 09/02/05 Fri
Dear Rooby,
No one can quite understand exactly what you are feeling. All of the sudden your bedmate,foodmate,couchmate,growlmate, fartmate,is gone.
No longer is there a race to the door to get the first kiss when mom/dad walks in the door. You are numero UNO.
Why am I so sad?
Because Its fun to be first at the door, first to get the fresh bowl of water and leave your slime(DNA) in it, first to have mom/dad accuse the other of that SBD(silent,but lethal)fart, and,omg,the first one to cuddle againt mom/dad in the bed, knowing the prime real estate was between them, farting all night, and they never threw you off the bed.
But it's no fun now, Rooby may get all the sweet spots but she hurts and misses her special friend, to a degree that we can never understand.
Give her special attention, grieve with her as she grieves.
When we lost a dog that our cocker had been with only a year, she cried and howled every night for 2 weeks, the most mournful howl I have ever heard.
We gave her time, about 4 months, and brought her home an 8 week old puppy.
Today, they sleep together, growl over the best place on the couch, growl over the spot between mon/dad, but kiss eyes/ears, nose, and butts when they think we are not looking.As much as they love us, they truly need each other.
God Bless you Both Rich & Mary, & Rooby,
In time you will bring another into your family and live to speak of Bella, without tears, but with joy, and Rooby will teach her the ways and rules of the family.
Its funny, but if you have dog that is great, no matter , related or not, that they will teach the new guys the ways of the house, bad and good, so you think they have been cloned from the other dog.I think its their way of keeping us suckered, but, hey, it works.
We are into our 4th generation cockers.Its not the genetics, but how the other dog trained them.See yall at the bridge,Love,
Candy's Cockers
PS. I am not a nutt!!
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