We met up at the dog park with Wendy & Coulee, & Dave, Sarah & Tsuga.
The dogs ran around , barked, chewed sticks & played with mitts. Wendy & Dave took lots of awesome pictures of our kids playing. We finished off our walk with hot chocolate , Bailey's & Dave's awesome shortbread cookies:)
It was perfect, all except for the knowledge that it may be one of Tsuga's last walks. Tsuga has cancer, they found out about 2 weeks ago. It is a good thing dogs don't know these things, but oh so hard on the owners & friends who have known the dogs for years, we love them as well.
It is even harder in this particular case because Dave & Sarah lost their flatcoated retriever to cancer maybe just six months ago. How could this happen to 2 wonderful people & to both of their dogs all within a year? It's just not fair.
However I now have wonderful memories stored away of a happy Tsuga zooming through the snow, with Kort hot on his tail, & not a care in the world.
Give your dogs extra hugs & kisses today, I know I am :)
Tsuga......
Jasper......
6 comments:
That is so sad. Glad you have the memories to treasure of your morning walk with Tsuga and your friends both four legged and two legged.
Very sad :(
That quality that dogs have. Live in the moment. We should all be like dogs. Simple, non-judgemental and always loving and not worrying about the next moment. Thanks for sharing Tsuga's story.
You're making me cry...nice post Jolene and a huge hug & thanks for coming out to meet us.
Tsuga had such a great morning with his wonderful friends from daycare AND their dogs!. He was so amped when he got out of the car!
It really meant a lot to us to see him so happy, you guys don't know just how much that day means to us.
Thanks again,
Dave, Sarah & Tsuga
Dave , I am so glad that you, Sarah & Tsuga had a great day :) It was alot of fun!
Sorry if I uset you, I didn't even realize you read my blog.
Hope you don't mind that I "stole" a couple pictures for the post :)
All the best...
Not a problem, you didn't upset me, you came out and shared a very nice day for us and Tsuga.
You made a sick dog VERY happy, that was something special to us.
Yup, I follow a number of blogs, except that I'm a closet blog reader...
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I'm a closet blog reader :)
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