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Date Posted: 09:38:18 05/14/09 Thu
Author: Lou (devastated)
Subject: I Lost my best friend yesterday

I was given a rescue golden retriever 10 years ago next week. He was 9 months old and the most beautiful dog I had ever seen. It was love at first sight. He had separation anxiety issues when we first got him but they disappeared as soon as he realized he had found a loving home and he was here to stay. The previous owners had named him "Fluffy" which he never acknowledged. He had a habit of leaning on you so we named him "Parker" and we had 10 absolutely wonderful years with him. He was the perfect pet, always loving, almost psychic in knowing our moods and his was that wonderful little face between the curtains at our front window when we came home. I estimate I walked about 3500 miles with him and he had a very happy life with us. We live at the edge of a small town with a huge gravel pit and bush just past our house and he knew every stone and every path out there (as did I)
The past few months he started to become less energetic and started breathing faster. I just assumed he was getting older. Then he stopped eating. Our wonderful vet was thorough and caring and felt he may have a chest infection. Antibiotics didn't help so she asked to put a drain in his chest. It was very hard to take him for this procedure because I think by then, I knew it was more serious. Our vet called shortly after to say she couldn't get anything out of the chest tube and wanted to operate hoping it was a benign tumour. I said "please do everything possible" She called back in about 10 minutes and said there was a large malignent tumor all round his heart. She sais she could close him up and give us a brief few days to say good-bye before this tumor stopped his wonderful heart. I said "no, please put him down now" I couldn't bear to see him in pain. Now it's me that's in pain. Every where I look and everywhere I go I see a void. Parker was such a huge part of our lives and taught us so much about love, understanding, forgiveness and just plain enjoyment of living. I have to believe that all God's creatures have souls and that he is now up there playing in the fields with his friends. In his lifetime he made friends with a skunk, a groundhog, a baby crow, countless dogs and cats and every human he ever met. He also tried to make friends with a large snapping turtle but that didn't work out too well and the experience left him with a small scar on his nose and a healthy respect for turtles. His loss is harder on me than I could have ever imagined but I thank God for His grace in giving me this loving creature as my constant companion and best friend. I shall always love and miss my Parker boy. Rest easy old friend and I'll be looking forward to being with you when my time comes.

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