Walking around our neighborhood these days is pretty darned scary!
Take a look and see if you don't agree!
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| At first I was pretty shocked, and barked at these folks, but they haven't moved in days so I guess they are not a threat! |
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| Both mom and I love these decorations! So creative! (and not really scary at all!) |
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| All the decorations are pretty crazy, but these days we gotta do what we gotta do to make us smile! |
Hello! This week mom and I did some visiting, some walking and some good hanging out...and look who I am hanging out with! Scary Kitty! I never did much with her before, since she was Kiki's friend but I think now we can be buddies too!
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| I like her a lot, especially when she doesn't finish the cat food in her bowl! Yummy! |
We want to thank everyone for their kind words about Kiki. Rosie and I are trying to readjust to our new circumstances without our good friend Kiki here. We have been pretty mopey and sad, but are trying to cheer ourselves up the best we can.
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| Rosie is doing a lot of this, which breaks my heart. |
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| So we are doing more of this— walking in the pretty fall weather. |
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| Spending time outdoors, and with each other, is the best medicine. |
This is a very hard post to write, as I have to tell my blogging friends that Kiki passed away very quickly and unexpectedly on Saturday night. I am in shock and still trying to process this. She was totally fine through the week, but on Friday, started to show signs of what appeared to be kennel cough, no other symptoms, still playing and eating. I made an appointment with my regular vet for the next day. On Saturday morning, she took her walk normally but did not eat breakfast and seemed to be a little labored in her breathing. My vet told me to take her to the pet ER in the area for what we assumed would be a visit for some antibiotics. Her X rays showed some patchy shadows in her lungs, and her ultrasound showed no obvious tumor to suggest cancer. But she was on oxygen and struggling to breathe through the day. Thankfully, even with the COVID restrictions, they let me inside in the afternoon to be with her. I sat with her and held her for a few hours...she got worse and worse and I knew in my heart she was not coming home. The vets and the radiologist agreed that there was no hope for recovery, she was not responding to treatment, so I let her go.
I still really don’t know what was wrong with her, and my regular vet is going to get the records and try to make sense of it for me. Rosie and I will be fine in time. Though our 9 years together was too short, those years were filled with walks and adventures, good food (though Kiki would argue that it was never enough food) and great friends, pups and people. She loved to play with toys, make friends with cats, and beg for even more belly rubs and cuddles. She was the inspiration for this blog—because I was so enamored of her, I wanted to share her with you.
But, I guess the lesson of this is to hug and love your pets everyday, because you never know when it will be the last day. Dogs live in the moment, and so should we. I tell myself that Kiki only had one bad day in a lifetime of good days. I was so blessed to have her share her life with me.
My Kiki. She was my extraordinary girl, my heart, and I will miss her terribly.
