We just put her to sleep yesterday, here's a 10 minute video memorial I made for her:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=217124025219
And here is a goodbye letter that I wrote last night:
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Dr Miss Tippy,
You haven’t even been away from us for 12 hours yet, but it feels like an eternity since I’ve seen you. I hope you are enjoying your new life up in the clouds, without having to worry about the pain you had been in for the past three days. You can finally rest on the perfect white clouds that we saw driving back from the vet after we put you in a better place.
Just know that we always loved you as much as we possibly could, and did everything we could to ensure you had the best life that you could have had. Even up till the end, I put your comfort above mine, as hard as it was. I am truly grateful that I had the chance to spend hours and hours with you at night when you couldn’t sleep.
You did nothing but bring us joy for an amazing 8 years of my life. Every day when I came back from being out, you were always sitting on your little couch wagging your tail and going crazy because I got home. You lit up with joy whenever anybody returned from being away, and we made sure to adore you when we returned.
You were a reason to get up in the morning, because you were the only one who would be glad to see me every single day. I remember coming back from a vacation and you went totally crazy, your tail was going as fast as ever as we walked in the door.
You were always there for me to anytime just stop what I was doing and go over to you and comfort you, hug you, pet you, tell you how good of a girl you were. Always. You always had time for us.
I feel like you are still here, that my life couldn’t be the same without you.
I just wish that I could go into the kitchen, get a treat, and bring so much joy to you by giving it to you, you were always hungry, and I always made sure I gave you SOMETHING, because your joy was more important than anything to me.
From the day that we went to the pet shop to buy you, you were laying in your cage with your long ear hanging out, and were the only beagle puppy that was resting and not playing with each other. That was when I knew you would be an amazing dog.
I wish I could just go back in time to a day when we both had nothing to do and I would just spend hours sitting next to you and petting you.
You were in pain for the last three days, but we couldn’t do anything to help you. But the final night that you had with us, I went upstairs to find you on your back, sleeping sound, not in any pain, just as if you were a year old and had a full lifetime ahead of you.
But that is what you have now. And eternity of peace in Heaven, never having to beg from us again, never having to be home alone again, and never to be in an ounce of pain ever again.
I will say my final goodbye to you now Tippy. I couldn’t even speak as they were giving you the euthanasia, but I knew that you had to have it and that I had to stay with you for as much time as I could. Which is why I buried my face in your neck as I had done countless times before, as you breathed your final breathe of this earth, that you were surrounded by three people who loved you with all of their hearts, and you just peacefully went over into the other world to an eternity of peace.
I made sure that you heard me say “Good Girl Misses Tippy” as those words had brought you joy so many times before. Even as we walked into the vets office, you still managed to wag your tail one last time in excitement one last time, which is something that I will never forget for the rest of my life.
So Goodbye Misses Tippy. You were all I could ever ask for in a dog. No, not a dog. A friend. You were the best friend I’ve ever had. Never doing anything wrong, always knowing how to cheer me up. But now you are running around in an endless yard, chasing squirrels with all of our other past dogs. You are looking down at me watching me write this final goodbye, just wishing that you could come down and wag your tail some more and let me pet you for an eternity.
Goodbye Tippy, I will never forget how it felt to pet you, and the look in your eyes when I just stared at you wishing you ultimate happiness.
Goodbye Tippy. I hope that you remember all of the good times that we had. From when we bought you home, and you were resting in the back windshield of our car, I could never forget that. Or when you used to rest on top of your cage without a worry or pain in the world. Or that one time when you came up in my bed and slept with me the entire night. Or when that one time you managed to get yourself on the kitchen table, wagging your tail, and we had to help you down. I will never forget that.
But one thing I will never forget, is after I had been informed that you had cancer, and I knew that I had to spend every second that I possibly could with you. I remember being on my Xbox, and you came in the room and sat by me. And I knew right then, that I just had to get off and sit with your for the next hour…because it wasn’t going to last forever. Because it didn’t. But I am extremely grateful that I had two months to spend time with you as much as I could, and let you know that I loved you with all of my heart, and that you meant everything to me.
Goodbye, Mrs. Tippy Maria Luisa…you were the best thing that ever happened to me…and I will never forget you. I cannot wait until the day I get to see you again, in those big beautiful clouds that I saw on the way to the vet to see you one last time. Run up to you as fast as I can, and your tail going crazy, and us finally meeting and me petting you as you are as excited as you can be to see me, forever.
Goodbye Tippy, I Love you with all of my heart, and always will.
Bye Mrs. Tippy!
You haven’t even been away from us for 12 hours yet, but it feels like an eternity since I’ve seen you. I hope you are enjoying your new life up in the clouds, without having to worry about the pain you had been in for the past three days. You can finally rest on the perfect white clouds that we saw driving back from the vet after we put you in a better place.
Just know that we always loved you as much as we possibly could, and did everything we could to ensure you had the best life that you could have had. Even up till the end, I put your comfort above mine, as hard as it was. I am truly grateful that I had the chance to spend hours and hours with you at night when you couldn’t sleep.
You did nothing but bring us joy for an amazing 8 years of my life. Every day when I came back from being out, you were always sitting on your little couch wagging your tail and going crazy because I got home. You lit up with joy whenever anybody returned from being away, and we made sure to adore you when we returned.
You were a reason to get up in the morning, because you were the only one who would be glad to see me every single day. I remember coming back from a vacation and you went totally crazy, your tail was going as fast as ever as we walked in the door.
You were always there for me to anytime just stop what I was doing and go over to you and comfort you, hug you, pet you, tell you how good of a girl you were. Always. You always had time for us.
I feel like you are still here, that my life couldn’t be the same without you.
I just wish that I could go into the kitchen, get a treat, and bring so much joy to you by giving it to you, you were always hungry, and I always made sure I gave you SOMETHING, because your joy was more important than anything to me.
From the day that we went to the pet shop to buy you, you were laying in your cage with your long ear hanging out, and were the only beagle puppy that was resting and not playing with each other. That was when I knew you would be an amazing dog.
I wish I could just go back in time to a day when we both had nothing to do and I would just spend hours sitting next to you and petting you.
You were in pain for the last three days, but we couldn’t do anything to help you. But the final night that you had with us, I went upstairs to find you on your back, sleeping sound, not in any pain, just as if you were a year old and had a full lifetime ahead of you.
But that is what you have now. And eternity of peace in Heaven, never having to beg from us again, never having to be home alone again, and never to be in an ounce of pain ever again.
I will say my final goodbye to you now Tippy. I couldn’t even speak as they were giving you the euthanasia, but I knew that you had to have it and that I had to stay with you for as much time as I could. Which is why I buried my face in your neck as I had done countless times before, as you breathed your final breathe of this earth, that you were surrounded by three people who loved you with all of their hearts, and you just peacefully went over into the other world to an eternity of peace.
I made sure that you heard me say “Good Girl Misses Tippy” as those words had brought you joy so many times before. Even as we walked into the vets office, you still managed to wag your tail one last time in excitement one last time, which is something that I will never forget for the rest of my life.
So Goodbye Misses Tippy. You were all I could ever ask for in a dog. No, not a dog. A friend. You were the best friend I’ve ever had. Never doing anything wrong, always knowing how to cheer me up. But now you are running around in an endless yard, chasing squirrels with all of our other past dogs. You are looking down at me watching me write this final goodbye, just wishing that you could come down and wag your tail some more and let me pet you for an eternity.
Goodbye Tippy, I will never forget how it felt to pet you, and the look in your eyes when I just stared at you wishing you ultimate happiness.
Goodbye Tippy. I hope that you remember all of the good times that we had. From when we bought you home, and you were resting in the back windshield of our car, I could never forget that. Or when you used to rest on top of your cage without a worry or pain in the world. Or that one time when you came up in my bed and slept with me the entire night. Or when that one time you managed to get yourself on the kitchen table, wagging your tail, and we had to help you down. I will never forget that.
But one thing I will never forget, is after I had been informed that you had cancer, and I knew that I had to spend every second that I possibly could with you. I remember being on my Xbox, and you came in the room and sat by me. And I knew right then, that I just had to get off and sit with your for the next hour…because it wasn’t going to last forever. Because it didn’t. But I am extremely grateful that I had two months to spend time with you as much as I could, and let you know that I loved you with all of my heart, and that you meant everything to me.
Goodbye, Mrs. Tippy Maria Luisa…you were the best thing that ever happened to me…and I will never forget you. I cannot wait until the day I get to see you again, in those big beautiful clouds that I saw on the way to the vet to see you one last time. Run up to you as fast as I can, and your tail going crazy, and us finally meeting and me petting you as you are as excited as you can be to see me, forever.
Goodbye Tippy, I Love you with all of my heart, and always will.
Bye Mrs. Tippy!
