Waiting at the Rainbow Bridge
sue.t wrote: I'm wondering if we should also have a sticky that lets us post obituaries & pics of our dearly departed pets? Maybe a "Rainbow Bridge" sticky? It would be sad and happy. It is very sad...
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Lucky- May 1995 to October 8, 2006
I found Lucky, or I should say, she found me. Someone had dumped a litter of puppies near a busy road. 5 puppies ran out in to the road, 1 stopped at the center line and ran back in front of my car. I slammed the brakes on, sure I had hit the puppy. Here was a skinny, muddy black lab pup quivering underneath the front of my car. The other puppies weren't so lucky, they were hit and killed.
I kept this little pup and named her Lucky.
By the time she was 2, our vet told us she had severe hip dyplasia and wouldn't live a long life. He gave her about a 8 year life span.
On October 8, 2006, Lucky's back end gave out. She could no longer get up. I got in her pen with her and she somehow crawled into my lap. She looked at me when those big brown eyes and said "Help me mom, I'm in pain, it's time."
We took her to the vet and she passed away in my arms. She was 11 1/2 years old, she proved the vet wrong!
She's free now of her crippled body. I know she's at the Bridge with her buddy Cocoa, our chocolate lab who passed away 4 years ago. I can see them running and playing again! Lucky loved to chew up anything plastic, she even ripped the bumper cap off the camper this summer and chewed it up. She especially loved my daughters' Barbie dolls hands and feet. My poor girls always had handless/feetless Barbie dolls because of Lucky!
Lucky was always MY dog, she was always there for me. And I showed her how much I loved her by letting her go.
I found Lucky, or I should say, she found me. Someone had dumped a litter of puppies near a busy road. 5 puppies ran out in to the road, 1 stopped at the center line and ran back in front of my car. I slammed the brakes on, sure I had hit the puppy. Here was a skinny, muddy black lab pup quivering underneath the front of my car. The other puppies weren't so lucky, they were hit and killed.
I kept this little pup and named her Lucky.
By the time she was 2, our vet told us she had severe hip dyplasia and wouldn't live a long life. He gave her about a 8 year life span.
On October 8, 2006, Lucky's back end gave out. She could no longer get up. I got in her pen with her and she somehow crawled into my lap. She looked at me when those big brown eyes and said "Help me mom, I'm in pain, it's time."
We took her to the vet and she passed away in my arms. She was 11 1/2 years old, she proved the vet wrong!
She's free now of her crippled body. I know she's at the Bridge with her buddy Cocoa, our chocolate lab who passed away 4 years ago. I can see them running and playing again! Lucky loved to chew up anything plastic, she even ripped the bumper cap off the camper this summer and chewed it up. She especially loved my daughters' Barbie dolls hands and feet. My poor girls always had handless/feetless Barbie dolls because of Lucky!
Lucky was always MY dog, she was always there for me. And I showed her how much I loved her by letting her go.
