Kathleen's Blog

I miss Wally. It hasn’t even been 24 hours but there is a big emptiness now that he is gone.  An emptiness that goes beyond the empty dog bed and the empty food bowl.

We have no regrets, Wally took care of us even at the end and let us know he was ready to go.  We weren’t ready, but I am not sure we ever would have been.  So he spent his last day curled up on the couch with us and his last night snuggled in our bed between the two of us.  And then our last, loving gift to him was to give him peace.

I need to believe in the Rainbow Bridge.  I have to know yesterday wasn’t “goodbye” but instead “see you later.”  I want to imagine him running around fields of green grass with lots of sunny spots for him to roll in.

I once heard a story of a little boy answering the question: “why don’t dogs live as long as people?”  And he wisely answered that if the purpose of life was to love completely then dogs figure that out a lot sooner than people so they don’t need to stay as long…

Wally certainly had that figured out.

Love, me