A year has gone by since I had to let you go, little one, and even though the pain is no longer so sharp it is and ever will be still with me. I have thought about you every single day. You were so tiny, yet such a huge part of my life. I only wish that human beings could match the amoount of unconditional love and devotion that you showed me. I could post so many pics oof you to share with others, but that wouldn't be fair to the ones who are also sharing their losses and grief. Instead, I will just remember the pic of you coming in the smallest pet door we could find, but still being a small brown spot in one corner of it! I will remember the one of you sitting in the palm of my hand, all spindly legs and large ears and eyes! Also the photo of you running out from under the Christmas tree with your new "baby" in your little mouth. (And you never did wait until the boys got up!). I laugh with tears in my eyes at the one of you with your little nose and huge eyes poking out from under the blanket in your bed, sulking after a bath. I cry when I look at your last pic, when I was about to cry in that pic, knowing that the decision time had come, and that I knew that I had to let you go, yet wishing so desperately that you would get better. There are so many images in my mind that were never captured by any camera, but captured forever in my memory. You, prancing gaily down the driveway when we went to the mailbox. Fierce little three and one half pound you chasing the neighbor's pet wolf all the way home! You, with your little head between your front legs, looking at me upside down, with your little tail and rump stuck up in the air and wagging furiously every time I came home. But also the image of you, looking up at me from my lap on your final trip to the vet, not able even to lift your little head, but instead gazing upwards at me. You seemed to know that Daddy was going to let you go peacefully, that your pain was going to end, that soon you would be in a place where you could run, dance, and play freely once again! And, little girl, someday you will be able to do your "wiggle dance" when you greet me again as I come through the door where we will meet again!
Bitsy Bug, Three and One Half pounds of my soul! 8-23-95 to 6-29-09.
Daddy