3 posts tagged “pets”
My sister rescued Mason a couple of years ago. A Dalmatian of indeterminate age, he was an abandoned stray, living on the street and eating garbage. A rescue group took him in and passed hm on to her.
Dalmatians have a fairly well-deserved reputation for being high-strung, squirelly messes, but Mason was different. He was the most mellow, sweet-tempered, friendly dog I've ever met in my life. Everyone who met Mason took to him immediately. He's the guy who inspired me to adopt Franny, whom I had seen on Petfinder but never really considered until spending time with Mason. I loved him so much.
This March, he developed a weird swelling in his leg. His general vet, and later some specialists at Purdue's vet school, have labored to figure out what the problem was for the last few months. After a surgery yesterday afternoon they discovered that he had a very rare and aggressive form of cancer.
There was nothing that they could do, and he was in pain that stood no chance of abating, so last night Mason was euthanized.
My sister is absolutely crushed. She was a fantastic pet guardian, and her family and she gave Mason a wonderful life. But I know, from losing a pet myself, that none of that matters right now. I'm racking my brain, trying to think of something i can say or do to make her feel better, but I know that there's nothing. It's so horrible.
Pets will always break our hearts.
I have a lady named Mai come clean my apartment every other Wednesday (should I keep this up while I'm not working? What do you think?).
On days that Mai comes, I bring the pets over to Tim's. Otherwise, Monkey would be beeping all around, begging to be fed and snotting on everything, Sniffy would be slutting it up and getting in the way, and Franny would probably go insane with fear when confronted with this vacuum-wielding stranger.
They seem to like to go over to Tim's -- it's a new place to explore and search for snacks. I don't know if that's what Monkey is doing in the picture below (which Tim sent to me in an email with the subject line "Sometimes, you just gotta sit on some napkins"). I just know that it's pretty freakin' cute.
