5/12/Solo/A ~Our final picture together...I said goodbye :-(

I wanted to let you all know that yesterday was one of the hardest days of my life. I had to make the decison to say goodbye to my best friend Solo... sniff.

 

I really wanted one last picture of us together before he left us for the rainbow bridge. Solo had a wonderful day outside in the sunshine and passed in the green grass rather then in a vet clinic. I'm not one for posting shots of myself, but I held the camera out while I hugged my boy yesterday afternoon cuddling together and captured this shot. I will miss my old man dearly... I loved him SO MUCH! My heart aches, my eyes swollen...

 

He was a great dog in every way. He loved everyone and was such a people dog. He lived to the ripe old age of 14 years, 2 months a week and a bit but in the end his heart was struggling to work too much. A friend said that he was in congestive heart failure and likely it was that he had Mitral Valve Disease. I didn't want him to suffer.

 

A piece of me is gone with him. He will be missed dearly by Dave, myself and Cruise. We loved him dearly and I know he touched many of you in one way or another.

 

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. ~ Unknown

 

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or disontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring -- it was peace. ~ Milan Kundera

 

This has been a sad decision for all of us... :-(

Pam, Dave & Cruise

 

 

 

Done