I know Sally doesn’t do her own blog posts but today is a day I won’t forget. Today 4 years ago sweet Happy Hannah gained her Angel Wings. I know I was totally devastated to hear that news. She had beat the odds by a Year and 2 months. We all wonder how our dogs will do on 3 legs. I won’t forget the first time Sally posted and was panicked and worried she did the wrong thing. We helped her through the recover and Sally has been our biggest cheerleader on the site ever since she joined. Even going through grief she has helped many many others.
Here is to Sally & Happy Hannah. She will never be forgotten Sally
Happy Hannah’s Snacks
I found this that Martha from the Oak Town Pack posted on the original post Sally did. I wanted to re-share this
Things to do after your dog has died
Sweep the floor
Look out the window
Pant
Make a cup of tea and some toast
But then not eat them
Change the sheets on the bed
Try to sing
Start to cry
Forget what day it is
Stumble into a corner of the floor and hold your knees tightly
Keen
Pull yourself together
Make another cup of tea and this time drink it
Look out a different window
Stare at that spot on the floor where your dog used to stretch out, languid and happy, his paws twitching as he raced across sleep meadows and into dream ravines filled with moss and ferns and the scent of foxes
Look for the Kleenex
Use toilet paper instead
Wander around the house, your heart like a damned anvil in your chest
Heat up leftovers
Push them around the plate before leaving the entire thing in the sink
Look for what is not there
Hear things
Feel the forgotten fur beneath your fingertips
Feel the forgetting begin
Hold a memory, any memory, bright and shining, soft and sad, smelling of wet fur and leaves, with a whisker there and muddy paw prints left on the stairs, of a walk of a hike of a trip to the park with a treat and a bone and a belly rub snacks stolen off the counter and tug of war and the squeaky toy a glance of complicity in play with your hand on head with tail wagging and breath misting in the morning light or the moon over the trees while an owl croons ears are pricked and nose to the ground sniffing, sniffing, sniffing following the invisible trail to its joyful finding
Put on your pajamas
Turn around three times before you curl up by the rope toy and find yourself chasing the echo of a bark into a night that will never end
Grow a tail
Catherine Young 11.27.12
Sally we love you. It is a great pleasure to honor your girl for you
xoxoxox
Michelle & Angel Sassy
PS Here is the link to Happy Hannah’s story. If you are new please make sure to take time to check it out. It is long but it is a very true picture of feelings and recovery
tripawds.com/forums/treatment-and-recovery/six-days-after-rear-leg-amp-and-getting-worse-very-scared-made-horrible-decision/
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