| Current mood: |  melancholy |
R.I.P. Sassy February 5, 2005
Our dog "Sassy" (I didn't name her, my sisters did when they were about 8 years old) had to be put to sleep today. Her health was declining because of old age and within the past year she had not only gone deaf, but started to go blind as well. She also developed arthritis which had started to get progressively worse recently. Well, this morning while I was at work she was whimpering and having a hard time walking. My dad picked her up to take her outside to go to the bathroom and she couldn't stand up very well and kept falling on her side. In quick memory of Sassy, I'll give a brief history of how she came to be...
We got Sassy about 10 years ago from a pet adoption at Petsmart. She was on her last day and if no one adopted her that day, she was going to be put to sleep. Our last dog (Snooze) had died a few years earlier and my sisters had been wanting to get a dog for awhile. Eventually my sisters talked my parents into adopting her, the adoption lady cried as they took her because she said she was one of the sweetest dog's she's ever taken care of. We got Sassy home and it was immediately apparent that she had been pretty seriously abused by her previous owners. She was so afraid of me and my dad that she tried to run away sliding all around on our hardwood floors until she finally gave up and just stood there with her head between her legs, shaking. Eventually though she warmed up too us and within a month or so, it was as if nothing had ever happened too her.
Sassy was one of the sweetest dogs ever, but there was one person she truly despised, and that was the mailman. Once she jumped out of our giant picture window as the mailman came onto our porch to deliver the mail. A giant shard of glass cut the mailmans wrist and severed a couple of his tendons that control hand and finger movement. At first he was cool about it and my parents offered to pay all of his medical bills and expenses but then he got a lawyer and found out how much money he could make suing us. He filed a huge lawsuit and I don't really remember what happened after that. I know the home-owners insurance took care of everything. Whether he won the case and they had to pay him a huge sum of money or whether he lost, I don't know. What I do know though is that we had to permanently re-locate our mailbox to below the porch in case Sassy ever decided to jump out the window at our new mailman again.
Anyway, Sassy was one of the sweetest dog's I've ever met. I hope she's happy in little doggy heaven...
(Read comments)
|
