Lena, Teacup Poodle w/ adrenal tumor - Lena is now an angel

One year and two months today, Lee...and guess what comes on the radio this morning? Steve Winwood's Higher Love. One of our favorite songs to dance to...I used to turn it up loud and I'd pick you up and we would dance around the family room, lost in the music with you in my arms, your head under my chin. Even when you lost your hearing, you would still come running when I started dancing to the music...then Dust in the Wind came on and I cried the whole way to work.

Some days it is still too unbearable, unbelievable and unfair...you were such a good girl, always...

Mommy loves you now and forever, my precious little angel child.

((((((Hugs))))))

Thinking of you Joan, and sending love and comfort your way.

Sending you great big HUGS!

Those moments are so precious and the memories you made will last a lifetime.

Thanks for the hugs, all! Funny how a memory sets the tone for the day...so many of them come flooding back.

Oh Joan, the memories of our babies are so very precious. Always and forever in our heart and mind. You are so right. A sudden memory can really set the tone for the day or a night. The songs Through The Years and If Tomorrow Never Comes can start a flood of tears with me. . But the memories keep our babies alive. Most bring joy and smiles to our face. They represent a time of love and happiness. Sending you a big hug.

You're so right, Dawn....

I still have two meals I cooked for Squirt in the freezer, her last two. The package gets buried with all the other things in there but from time to time I see it or take it out thinking it's something else and fall to pieces when I realize what it is. I don't think I will ever be able to toss them out. So much of my time the last 7 years of her life was cooking for her and she would sit and stare, licking her lips, most of the time. She knew what all that activity meant. So many memories tied up in two freezer-burned baggies of dog food.

Yeah, I know what you felt, as do so many of us here. It is one of the things that binds us so closely. :)

I still have all her meds...I can't throw them away, they have her name on them. All the dog beds that she used are still where she liked them. If the rest of them want to lay on them, they can, but they are not to be moved (or chewed by Sibbie!).

We're a sentimental bunch, aren't we?

I still have all of Buddy's meds too, along with his all of his files and tests. It's been almost 4 years. I may never be ready to part with them.