I remembered my dog who died months ago his name is "bill" and i called him that name because I named him after Bill Gates and he's very obedient and sometimes i think he's far more obedient but can understand and communicate with me.
Unlike other dogs in neighborhood, he will not eat before seeing me eat first and he'll just sit down right beside me under the table waiting for me to finish, at night when I'm all done with the work on the internet and all that, I have him watch tv with us and until we all go to bed, I'll just call him up and he will stay under the bed, under my feet most of the times, when at 3am, at time of my wake up, he'll lick my foot waking me up, i never needed an alarm clock when he's around.
I remembered he preferred staying on the floors and I wanted him to stay on the carpet and I would just call him but he won't listen and I will stand up and acted as if Im gonna carry him but he will stand right up and go immediately to the carpet.
I remembered my other dog "David" when he was still alive (since we're in the middle of a farm) there are lots of rats around even inside our terrace he would help us out and kill rats all around the house and will let us see it because he will cover it with rags, but one time he was out witted by the rats and bite him and I have to go out of the house carrying him bleeding and rush him to a veterinarian clinic he stayed there 24 hours just to remove the rat's rabies from him and on dextrose all night and all day, the veterinarian told me that he can go home since he will be alright so I took him home but after a day he died.
What I learned if someone passes away in the family I will have to get used to it, face the fact that everyone of us dies at any time and need to divert my attention to another, so I have like 7 dogs on our house to take care since neighbors already know that they can trust me with dogs, our house is like a "day-care" center for dogs but sooner or later the neighbor will forget their dogs and just give it away to us.
Life goes on.. Memories are there for you to keep.. he's in better lands now.
midnight251 said:
Thanks for all the kind words. It's comforting that know that people I've never met can be so kind. Usually, when I'm on the computer this late, Charlie is laying right beside me every once in a while looking up basically saying "are we going to bed yet".
The house seems so empty tonight, but I guess that will pass in time. In Canada (Ontario), we have a new holiday on Monday called Family day. My daughter came to me tonight crying, just before she went to bed, saying that it would not be family day, because Charlie was not here. She is currently sleeping with Charlie's favorite stuffed toy.
Again, thanks for all the kind words, and here's one last picture of Charlie.
Thanks again.
Mike
I have felt that pain and have it again yet to come.
