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Good bye Eva
10 years ago
Ican't post this in a normal public space, my sister would see it and it would crush her.
I'm very bad with dates, I want to say my dad passed away March 22nd, but I always forget the year, 2005, 2006? After he was gone we finally got our 2nd dog Eva to keep the house a bit more lively and give my mom some peace of mind. She was a floppy german shepard my sister could carry around like a baby. Low and behold she was just coming off a cold hence why she was so calm and docile.
It's been about 10 years since that.
When I woke up this morning I did my usual routine of stepping over her walking out my bedroom door as she often fell asleep at the foot of whomevers room she chose that night. Sometimes mine, sometimes my sisters / parents as their doors face each other. I remember, I think I bent down and scratched her ear causing her to look up but she didn't jump up to follow me downstairs and beg to go outside. Maybe because she was sleepy?
I didn't think anything of it when I came home and she wasn't jumping at the window, I figured both cars where gone, maybe mom took her to the vet to get her teeth looked at since she hadn't been eating as much lately. Well it was worse. As the day dragged on I started to worry. Why where both mom and Dave's car gone if they where both possibly working? I saw a note about getting the dog in for blood work, call the psych doc, some thing about a movie night. I figugred the dog was staying at the vets. But even that couldn't convince me. So I started poking arou the house fearing I would find her in some corner. alas I did not. This didn't put my mind at much more ease.
About 30 minutes ago my family got home, they called me down to the garage where Dave was having a smoke, mom was in tears and I got the news.
We lost our 2nd German shepard to cancer. This time it wasn't a slow process but a sudden out burts of symptoms and sickeness over the past two weeks. Mom had to make a choic and it wasn't much of a choice, they had to put her down. Fluid had built arou her hearts. She couldn't breath, didn't eat, her gums where going white. There was nothing they could do and the doctor themselves where in tears after having come back from a 6 month hiatus after loosing one of her own animals.
My sister has a tryout for marching band tomorrow at ECU, we aven't told her. But she was fussing over Eva every day before she left. I'm not as big a dog person as she was but I liked our stupid over sized puppy that was so happy to see people barking with joy that you thought she was trying to attack. Well if by attack you mean jump on your once before flopping over for belly rubs then sure, yeah, she was a killer queen of evil then. Really she was just a giant puppy who helped my mom and sister cope thorugh a really bad time where I spent most of my days playing lacrosse and running myself into the the dirt to get by.
The worst part of it all is the regret of not spending just a few more minutes with her this morning.
I'm very bad with dates, I want to say my dad passed away March 22nd, but I always forget the year, 2005, 2006? After he was gone we finally got our 2nd dog Eva to keep the house a bit more lively and give my mom some peace of mind. She was a floppy german shepard my sister could carry around like a baby. Low and behold she was just coming off a cold hence why she was so calm and docile.
It's been about 10 years since that.
When I woke up this morning I did my usual routine of stepping over her walking out my bedroom door as she often fell asleep at the foot of whomevers room she chose that night. Sometimes mine, sometimes my sisters / parents as their doors face each other. I remember, I think I bent down and scratched her ear causing her to look up but she didn't jump up to follow me downstairs and beg to go outside. Maybe because she was sleepy?
I didn't think anything of it when I came home and she wasn't jumping at the window, I figured both cars where gone, maybe mom took her to the vet to get her teeth looked at since she hadn't been eating as much lately. Well it was worse. As the day dragged on I started to worry. Why where both mom and Dave's car gone if they where both possibly working? I saw a note about getting the dog in for blood work, call the psych doc, some thing about a movie night. I figugred the dog was staying at the vets. But even that couldn't convince me. So I started poking arou the house fearing I would find her in some corner. alas I did not. This didn't put my mind at much more ease.
About 30 minutes ago my family got home, they called me down to the garage where Dave was having a smoke, mom was in tears and I got the news.
We lost our 2nd German shepard to cancer. This time it wasn't a slow process but a sudden out burts of symptoms and sickeness over the past two weeks. Mom had to make a choic and it wasn't much of a choice, they had to put her down. Fluid had built arou her hearts. She couldn't breath, didn't eat, her gums where going white. There was nothing they could do and the doctor themselves where in tears after having come back from a 6 month hiatus after loosing one of her own animals.
My sister has a tryout for marching band tomorrow at ECU, we aven't told her. But she was fussing over Eva every day before she left. I'm not as big a dog person as she was but I liked our stupid over sized puppy that was so happy to see people barking with joy that you thought she was trying to attack. Well if by attack you mean jump on your once before flopping over for belly rubs then sure, yeah, she was a killer queen of evil then. Really she was just a giant puppy who helped my mom and sister cope thorugh a really bad time where I spent most of my days playing lacrosse and running myself into the the dirt to get by.
The worst part of it all is the regret of not spending just a few more minutes with her this morning.
We loves our critters!