It’s tough losing a pet you’ve had for years. I recently lost my Chinese Pug to old age.
This dog was left to me in a will back in the late 1990s by a loyal customer and friend when my wife and I owned a small ‘50s style cafe in Joshua Tree, California. She knew she only had little time left as cancer spread throughout her body and became fearful of what may become of her dog Keaton when she passed away.
When she and my wife talked about it she learned of my love of bulldogs and that I have raised various breeds of them since my teenage years and left Keaton to me. I had no knowledge of this until my birthday when my wife gets out of the car with this Chinese Pug, leads him to me and says “Happy Birthday”. After explaining the situation I was very happy to have yet another bulldog in my life.
Keaton has given me twelve years of joy and happiness in his short time here and if I could do it all over again I most certainly would jump at the chance.
Throughout the years I have had many bulldogs and each one unique in their own way was simply my best friends and dearly missed when they passed on.
Losing Keaton was like losing a part of my life and the empty void left behind would have been great and lasted for quite a while if it were not for my grandson who only three and a half has kept me so busy my grief has been short.
My other dogs and cats have also centered their attention and affection to me as they instinctively know what’s going on. An occasional nudge or rub from the cats and play from the dogs tell me they are trying to make me feel better.
Friends are hard to lose after years of devotion and it doesn’t get any easier with age. Suffice to say we have many chapters in life and with gaining new friends or losing old ones we begin anew with the end of each one of them.
The life of every human being is similar to a book with the life and times of the individual from birth to death. Life is a novel in the making with each one of us.
Life really is too short and we all need to realize what we have when we have it because life itself is a constantly changing form of events that will eventually bring grief your way many times during its cycle.
Thus allow love, humor, and happiness to fill each day of your life.
