catnapper
07-02-2006, 08:25 AM
I know I don't typically post here, mostly because Nicki doesn't do anything exciting anymore (her days are sleep, eat, steal tissues, sleep, chew bones, sleep, sit outside and watch the world, sleep, eat, sleep)
Anyhow we were out for a walk last night and all of the sudden, we hear fireworks. Not the cheapy ones people buy and set off themselves, but BIG, expensive fireworks. I had forgotten the next town over was celebrating their 100th anniversary with a HUGE fireworks display! Nicki heard the first booms and looked at me. I told her how exciting it was and how lucky we were, so we RAN (neither of us run :p ) up the hill to the open feild and it was amazing....... a perfect view of all the fireworks. Not one person was there. Not one! It was as if we had our own personal fireworks display. Everyone was on the other side of the woods, crammed together watching them and we had a front row view all to ourselves. Of course, a few minutes later, a ton of people poured out of theit homes and joined us, but for 5 minutes, it was just the two of us.
I sat on the grass and massaged Nicki the whole time. Then when it was all over she RAN (with me stumbling behind her) home. She hasn't pulled me onleash in YEARS.
I am so happy to have been able to share this experience with her. I worry constantly that her time with me is short. I see her soreness. I see her hurt. She's been vomiting with a certain regularity now. She'll always be my little baby who was 9 pounds on her first vet visit. I was told she'd havea lifespan of 10-12 years. It sounded like forever. Now its been 11.5 years and its gone by all too quickly. Can we roll back the clock?
For 20 minutes last night, she acted like that puppy. She jumped, she pulled the leash, she eagerly approached strangers for pets, she barked at the fireworks. She was young again. And once we returned home her old age returned; she sorely stepped up onto her pillow and slept the night through. She got up and puked this morning before she even ate anything. She's old.... and I want her to be young!
Still, I do think magic happened last night in that feild. I got to see my baby for the last time. I don't think I'll ever see her act like that ever again.
Anyhow we were out for a walk last night and all of the sudden, we hear fireworks. Not the cheapy ones people buy and set off themselves, but BIG, expensive fireworks. I had forgotten the next town over was celebrating their 100th anniversary with a HUGE fireworks display! Nicki heard the first booms and looked at me. I told her how exciting it was and how lucky we were, so we RAN (neither of us run :p ) up the hill to the open feild and it was amazing....... a perfect view of all the fireworks. Not one person was there. Not one! It was as if we had our own personal fireworks display. Everyone was on the other side of the woods, crammed together watching them and we had a front row view all to ourselves. Of course, a few minutes later, a ton of people poured out of theit homes and joined us, but for 5 minutes, it was just the two of us.
I sat on the grass and massaged Nicki the whole time. Then when it was all over she RAN (with me stumbling behind her) home. She hasn't pulled me onleash in YEARS.
I am so happy to have been able to share this experience with her. I worry constantly that her time with me is short. I see her soreness. I see her hurt. She's been vomiting with a certain regularity now. She'll always be my little baby who was 9 pounds on her first vet visit. I was told she'd havea lifespan of 10-12 years. It sounded like forever. Now its been 11.5 years and its gone by all too quickly. Can we roll back the clock?
For 20 minutes last night, she acted like that puppy. She jumped, she pulled the leash, she eagerly approached strangers for pets, she barked at the fireworks. She was young again. And once we returned home her old age returned; she sorely stepped up onto her pillow and slept the night through. She got up and puked this morning before she even ate anything. She's old.... and I want her to be young!
Still, I do think magic happened last night in that feild. I got to see my baby for the last time. I don't think I'll ever see her act like that ever again.