My GSD Rocky, my best boy 2/98 - 4/08

[GSD10]

Your post and pictures of Rocky are very moving. What a wonderful pal he must have been to you

[Laura H.]

Since we lost Dakota 1/07 before our move to Michigan & my husband works so much & I'm at home, I was more attached than ever to Rocky. I used to tell people he & I were like an old married couple because we were always together.

We'd get in our little spats, he usually won (I let him )

Yesterday was eleven months, I know I have that one year anniversary coming up, that will be hard. Dakota died on my SIL's birthday That's a tough one.

[Laura H.]

About a week or so after he was gone, my BIL & I were going to meet up with my DH.

As we were going out the front door I happened to glance at the wall to the right, that was one of Rocky's favorite resting spots, on the hard wood, right outside our office.

For the first time I noticed how dirty the wall was from him constantly laying against it. I burst into tears.

To this day I still haven't wiped that wall off. I'll know I'm really on the road to healing when I can do that.

The night he went, he had gone in & outside a dozen times. When I knew there was something seriously wrong I let him out, he seemed to be more comfortable outside, while I jumped in a cold shower to wake up & get dressed to take him to Emergency vet.

We didn't have a fence then & while I was getting ready he must have come around to the front door. Right outside one of the windows on either side of the door, he had vomited again, that thick foamy stuff.

Well when I got back home, I was just exhausted, but I noticed that foam & I kept going & looking at it. I know this probably sounds weird, but it's like that's one of the last places he was standing.

I kept going to look at it until the elements eventually washed it away.

[Laura H.]

that is beautiful & so true.