7? has it been THAT long?
Wow... I am getting old!
So much has gone on..but I guess the end is all that matters.
I'm happily married to a great guy and his Harley ( Yeah...it's like me and Cara!!! ) we have a home in Columbus, Ohio, and I'm working as a tech at a local surgical center. ( I finished college recently too )
I lost Cara last month, the 19th, to , well, old age. She had a bad heart with a tumor in the aorta, eventually went into liver failure and I had to put her down when she stopped eating. She was almost perky as ever till that last day. Must say, my heart is broken and there is a void I will never fill. She would have been 14 years old last weekend, on the day I got her ashes back.
Today I am picking up the little guy you see as my icon. I SWORE I would never get a dog from a backyard breeder, but I got tired of the arrogance of the rescue groups around here. I have an easy 20k invested in Cara over her life, 15 of that in the last 5 years, and I hear so much crap because I choose not to vaccinate her the last 5 years. Cara had severe allergies, and after a vet almost killed her giving her lepto after I asked them not to, I decided her life was more threatened by them then her chances of diseases. Her allergies got worse and more severe as she got older, and it seemed like every trip to the vet they gave her something else that cost me $1000 to repair. They gave her an antibiotic that almost killed her also, and it took 4 trips and a dermatoilogist to figure that out. I never saw my dog so miserable and swollen as then, and it could have been easily thwarted if the vets ever listened to me when I said " severe allergies". But oh well... rescue groups know best, right? I couldn't possibly give a good home if I don't vaccinate!!!
For those of you who don't know me... I also worked for vet hospitals in the past, and nothing in the world was more important to me then my dog...just ask my son!!
So..I will get this little goober today whom I have no name for. ( and he has a vet appt. tomorrow! LOL ) I have sat out in my garage every day for weeks now not wanting to come in the house because all the happy-happy wasn't there anymore. It's been unbearable. I'm hoping the little guy will make it a little easier to stand the everyday things that made Cara such a part of my life.
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