It's never easy to lose a loved companion... human or animal...
Later...
Tom "Slick" North
96 Dodge Dakota 5.2L RC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Bleazard" <jason.dml@bleazard.net>
To: <dml@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 8:45 PM
Subject: DML: Back home, minus one family member
>
> Note: I'll warn you now that if you aren't an animal lover, don't think
> that pets are part of the family, and don't understand why anyone gets
> upset over losing "just a dog", then you'll probably want to delete this
> thread now. Sorry if this is off topic or really sappy, but I really need
> to get it out right now.
>
> I just wanted to post that Norah and I made it home from the BBQ yesterday
> afternoon without any problems. Unfortunately, as others have already
> mentioned, our dog Bobby couldn't come home with us... he won't be with us
> ever again.
>
> If you didn't catch some of the other messages that have been posted, he
> was killed at the DML BBQ on Friday when he ran right in front of Ed's
> Dakota. Ed never even saw him, and there wasn't anything he could have
> done. I don't think Bobby ever even saw the truck. He was pretty much an
> indoor apartment dog, and not very "streetwise" around vehicles. We saw
> it happen. I wish I knew how to get rid of the images that have been
> haunting me. I just hope we didn't bring down the mood too much for
> everyone else. If we seemed to disappear a lot, well, we knew everyone
> was laughing and having a good time, and it didn't feel right to remind
> you of the dark cloud over our heads. It kind of hit me in waves. Some
> times I'd be feeling okay, then I'd forget and look around to see where he
> was. Of course, he wasn't there... and I'd start missing him all over
> again.
>
> I really want to express my appreciation to everyone who expressed their
> condolences and helped us through this ordeal. Particularly to Jon and
> his family. They offered to provide a final resting place on their
> property, and took care of everything for us. He's in a very beautiful
> place in the woods. Everyone who has been there knows what a beautiful
> place it is. We're both eternally grateful to know that he's in such a
> nice place.
>
> We're having a pretty rough time adjusting to life without the little guy
> around. Everywhere I look in the apartment, I see him there... sleeping
> on the couch, sitting in the kitchen waiting for food, or even sitting in
> the hallway patroling for cats to walk around the corner. I can still
> feel the weight of his head in my lap and the softness of his fur under my
> hands. I can hear the clinking of his tags, and every time I walk in the
> door I halfway expect to hear him barking at me at first, only to see that
> it's me and come running to the door with a shoe or some other damned
> thing in his mouth, wagging his entire body in excitement. I keep hoping
> that what I saw was just a bad dream, only I know it wasn't.
>
> I guess you have to understand that we're bona-fide animal lovers. We
> donate money to the Humane Society, and collect silly trinkets with animal
> pictures on them. As we apparently will never be able to have any
> children of our own, our pets are really the closest thing we'll ever have
> to a family. If you doubt it, all you have to do is look at our web site
> at http://home.primus.ca/~janor2/animals/zoo.htm We haven't found time to
> set up pages for our trucks or ourselves, but we managed to get something
> together for the animals.
>
> I know that we'll be okay, that the pain will ease and that life will go
> on. It always does. We've both lost pets before. Any time you let a
> dog, cat or other animal in to your life and your heart, you know in the
> back of your mind that they aren't going to live very long, and one day
> you'll have to say goodbye. But that never makes it any easier when that
> day comes along.
>
> Damn... this is one tough message to write. Thanks for letting me get it
> out of my system. And thanks again to everyone who has been so supportive
> to both of us. It really made a world of difference, not that you'd know
> it by looking at the basket case that I've been lately.
>
> Rest in peace, buddy. I'm gonna miss ya.
> Love always, Jason the "take me for a walk" guy
>
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