Okla-homey
1/23/2006, 07:52 PM
We had to put our oldest dog down today.
She was two weeks beyond her sixteenth birthday. She had been in pretty good health, got around okay, still got fired-up occasionally and loved to eat her supper. She started downhill on Saturday, and this morning, we kinda knew it was time. The vet did a couple tests and determined her kidneys had failed and it was irreversible.
Mrs Homey and I met at the vets at 4pm and there, as Mrs held her, her suffering was ended.
She had a great run. 16 years for a canine is pretty darn good.
Even though when they get that old, you figure it could happen anytime, it still rips your heart out when that day comes.
So here's to "Bieke," a female schipperke who went along with us without complaint and helped make the houses we lived in during most of our Air Force odyssey into homes; texass, Kansas, Ohio, back to Kansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and finally here in Oklahoma.
We'll miss her, and our daughter doesn't really remember a time she didn't have this little black, tailless dog who, when they were both very young, allowed her to dress it in baby clothes and roll her around in a baby stroller. That dog had the most patience with little kids of any dog I've ever known.:D
RIP puppy. 1990 - 2006.
We'll never forget you.
She was two weeks beyond her sixteenth birthday. She had been in pretty good health, got around okay, still got fired-up occasionally and loved to eat her supper. She started downhill on Saturday, and this morning, we kinda knew it was time. The vet did a couple tests and determined her kidneys had failed and it was irreversible.
Mrs Homey and I met at the vets at 4pm and there, as Mrs held her, her suffering was ended.
She had a great run. 16 years for a canine is pretty darn good.
Even though when they get that old, you figure it could happen anytime, it still rips your heart out when that day comes.
So here's to "Bieke," a female schipperke who went along with us without complaint and helped make the houses we lived in during most of our Air Force odyssey into homes; texass, Kansas, Ohio, back to Kansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and finally here in Oklahoma.
We'll miss her, and our daughter doesn't really remember a time she didn't have this little black, tailless dog who, when they were both very young, allowed her to dress it in baby clothes and roll her around in a baby stroller. That dog had the most patience with little kids of any dog I've ever known.:D
RIP puppy. 1990 - 2006.
We'll never forget you.