2:32pm
Missing Ginger
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In a few days it has almost been one month since the loss of our 16 year companion Ginger Head. I had been medicating her for about a year now and knew it was time to have her put down due to the amount of pain she was having. Some how I think she knew and I think she wanted to go on her own terms in her own yard. She would sit on the hillside where the wild rose bushes grew, and watch the neighbor kids and grand kids playing. This is where she fell asleep peacefully and this is where she was put to rest, because I feel she chose her own spot. Hubby said it was a heck of a dig! Shortly after we moved to our new place 16 years ago, a puppy was crying outside our bedroom window in the middle of the night. I went out and brought this fluffy ball of injured pup, into our home. We put her in a box, not knowing how badly she was injured, and as soon as the vet open the next morning we took her in. It looked to him like she had been THROWN from a moving vehicle and her front legs were broken outward. The care set in from day one, and she took to the entire family like she was ment to be with us all along. Head was loyal to us over the years, not letting anyone she did not know into our yard, unless of course it was a child. Any kid could pet, hug, sit with her and she loved to play with them. Ginger Head never met a stranger in the form of a child but the Trash men and the meter men were a different story. She certainly gave them a run for their money over the 16 years we were graced to have her. INCLUDING the Monday before she passed away. She would lay in wait for this big truck to come out our driveway and this day was no exception. So though she was old and slow from her sickness, she was still taking care of us right up until the very end. I never realized how much I would miss this old girl until she was gone, and it seems odd that she is not laying on my door step every morning that I go out. :(
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