2001-2002

I only met you once. But I feel in love with you from the start.

You were an abdonded pet at the local shelter.

Your owner brought you in and said they had to move and you couldn't go.

You were a mix. Partly Aussie and partly something else.

Beautiful yellow eyes and a sweet personality.

I wanted so badly to bring you home. But I have an old

Baby who is blind, deaf and dieing of cancer.

My girls I think would have liked you.

But I was afraid if Mischif growled when you came

to the food dish you may have not taken it to well.

I didn't feel it was fair to him who has been my lifeline

for 18 years. And I was afraid he wouldn't adjust.

So I kept watching the website to see if you were still there and thought

maybe one day I would bring Mischif over to see what he would do.

Well time ran out, (it's only been a few weeks since I played with you)

Today I went over to check on you and they told me they had to put you down.

Apparently you had bite someone and they had no choice.

I am sure you didn't mean to, you were probably frightened or something

but it happened.

So now at only one year old you have gone on to the Bridge

never to know what a loving home was. Never to know the love

and companionship of someone who would love you.

I cried when I got home as I looked at your picture I have here

that I copied and printed from the newspaper.

But someday when I come to see all my babies at the bridge

Maybe you will remember the lady that gave you the bones

and come on over to greet me too.

Goodbye to a beautiful furbaby that never had a chance.

 

 

I thought I would put this poem here for you.