Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-35319541-20180710051432/@comment-35319541-20180714085151

Puppy was a female and was fixed young, never having been a mama herself, but she was the most loving gentle dog mama to those kittens, as well as the cats. It was comical to see the whole lot of them curled up together sleeping!! Gosh, I miss them. Poor Thor got to make the trip from CA to IL, and got to see snow up close and real! The first time, he tippy toed over it, and then turned, and high tailed it back inside. We laughed at him so hard, and he just looking at us like, oh, yeah the first time you let me out of the house and it is to walk across this stuff, well no thanks! He lived a long happy life and passed on the cool basement floor. I was doing laundry that day, talking to him each time I passed him. Then it hit me, he was not lifting his head to look at me. I grabbed up the phone after realiing he was gone, and called my son, who had stayed behind in CA. and was crying so hard, Thor died, he's gone. I couldn't believe it.... Next I called my brother and his kids, they had lived with us for 8 years and moved 10 minutes away, so in the dead of winter with the ground frozen, they came rushing over to help me bury him. My daughter, then under 12, insisted I wrap him in a blanket and a rain coat to keep him warm and dry, and we bid our ados....

Puppy had gotten cancer and we had to say good bye to her before leaving CA. Thor was there to say his goodbyes as well. I was fortunate enough to have a vet who came to the house to help ease Puppy's suffering, so kind and gentle the vet was, and the little kids, just 3 and 4 at the time, got to say goodbye and pet Puppy into a better place, carrying their love for her well within their hearts, she had been the keeper of their door all their lives.