Goodbye Suzie (A tearjerker)

www.countypressonline.com ^ | 6-11-03 | Maureen Krepol

[Tribune7]

Today, I said goodbye to a dear friend. She had been so ill that she and I both knew it was time. Her name was Suzie and she was a special member of our family for over 14 years.

She was happy with us in the happy times and comforted us in the sad.

When my mother came to stay with us, Suzie gave her the gentle attention that made her feel so welcome. Later, she sat by me when I mourned the loss of my dear mother. She was with me when my children went off to school to make their way as young adults in the world.

When my daughter left for her new life so far away, Suzie came with me on long walks while I prayed the rosary for this young bride's happiness. My youngest daughter coped with her brothers and sister leaving home because Suzie was always there when she called her name. So many times I saw gentleness in my husband's tender way with aging friend that it reminded me of his kindness and patience.

She was by my side when cancer crept into my life

[Howlin]

She has a soul.

[Hildy]

We're so lucky with Lilly in that she doesn't have much staining at all.

[chindog]

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.
There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together.
There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....

Author unknown...

[sinkspur]

I can tell you, if one is good, two are better.

Three is heaven. We are in heaven.

[jonsie]

She looks like a Maltese. When my mother passed away 3 years ago and soon after my father lost a leg due to diabetes, I inherited their little Maltese, Misty as dad couldn't watch her anymore. She is my joy and reminds me of my mother quite often when she plays. By the way I have had many dogs in my life, and Misty, although small is the top dog in the family along side a collie and a cocker-spaniel/jack russell mix. She is the oldest and has read the riot act to the two larger dogs.

[Hildy]

I do have another cutie-pie..she's actually out little love muffin...She a Shi-tzu named Daisy and she's 6 months old. Here she is!

[sinkspur]

Well, you've got two precious babies, for sure.

My wife and I have gotten to the point where we don't want to be gone more than two or three days without our dogs.

Hell, we used to go on vacation for ten days without our kids and never thought a thing about it!

There were times when I was ready to get away from two smart-mouthed teenaged boys. I miss my dogs BEFORE I leave on a trip!

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[Temple Owl]

I can tell just by looking that Lilly would bring joy into anybody's life. She is a beauty.

[Terriergal]

I'm crying now.

that, I find amazingly ironic. But not surprising.

(And yes, I cry over the deaths of pets too.)

[cgk]

But I do know that whenever I looked into that sweet dog's face, I felt a peace and love that I had never felt before. Whenever I felt really depressed, that dog would do something that would bring a smile to my face. I truly believe that God sent that little dog into my life when He did.

I don't have a dog (no space), but I feel the exact same way about my baby girl. If I replaced the word "dog" in what you wrote with "baby" - wow I feel exactly the same. :) It's an incredible feeling.

[FryingPan101]

Thanks for sharing. Reminds me of how we felt losing our sixteen year old Beagle who had been with us since the age of six weeks. RIP, Dandy. RIP, Suzie.

[cgk]

Here's another one for dog lovers:

Joe: Born a Dog. Died a Friend.

[Fiddlstix]

I have a miniature Dachshund/Scotty Mix. He is a little character. You have to see him to believe it. Face is scotty, body is dachshund. He became very attached to my parents, especially my Mom. They passed a while back. He still goes over to their house looking for them from time to time.

[ought-six]

"There is no creature on earth that reflects the loyalty, the devotion, the unconditional love that a dog pours out on us humans."

No doubt about it. If there were any real justice in life, the dogs would inherit the earth, for there is no other creature on God's green earth that deserves it more.

[nfldgirl]

Love that picture of your dog! So cute!

We have JACK...a three year-old Sheltie! Oh, what an absolute joy! Actually we have three sons: Chris, Dave....and JACK! I can't imagine him not ever being a part of our family.

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog.
You are his life, his love, his leader.
He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
-- Anonymous

[Hildy]

That's just assumed, don't you think?

[RedWhiteBlue]

Do Dogs Go To Heaven?

The question, it seems to me, suggests more the arrogance of Man than the worthiness of these virtuous animals.

Consider for a moment, these personal observations of the dogs I have known and loved:

Without exception, they savored life for all it could offer. They faced every one of their days with a sense of adventure and joy and good-natured spirit, a spirit tempered only by an overriding eagerness to please and love their masters, for nothing gave them more pleasure.

Not to the smallest degree were they capable of recrimination, sarcasm, pettiness or treachery. They were, however, eminently capable of qualities to which Man can only aspire.

"Unconditional love", for example, is a very modern term Man has coined to describe a paragon of loving...an all-forgiving love, a love without reward, expectation, or promise of reciprocity.

Yet dogs, from time immemorial, have exemplified this ideal of love.

What other friend, I wonder, would have not a flicker of care whether you were successful or an abject failure, whether you were homely or comely, clean or smelly-dirty, foolish or clever, beggar or king?

Who else would judge you--not by your appearance, power, or money--but solely by the kindness of your hand and heart? 

Yet who else, I ask, would forgive a blow with a kiss to the offending hand? 

Come what may, he loves--no, adores--you, be you sinner or saint. And he will softly lick the sores and wounds the world gives you, and never ask (or worse, tell you) what you did to deserve them.

And if Man is a dog's "God", what man serves God with such a thoroughly cheerful, immediate and unquestioning obedience as a dog serves his master? 

Show me a man who so delights in all the great bounties God has  given him. 

Show me a man as gleefully grateful for his wonderous blessings as a dog is for a scrap of would-be garbage from his master's hand.

Show me a man as trustful, as humbly devoted, as appreciative and joyfully submissive to God, as my brainless, souless dog is to me.

Yes, show me this man, this saint, who so embodies all these abiding virtures. 

Then I will show you, my friend, a man with a soul as deserving of Heaven as the most meager of dogs.

Roy Alan Wilson / Millburn, New Jersey / February 29, 1996

[tet68]

In the words of Senator Vest," he guards the sleep of his pauper master, at though he were a prince.......loyal unto death."

I'll post it all a little later.
This was from a court case (dog) that he won.