Farewell, Old Friend

Snotts

1995-2010

Our family dog, (ie. my parents dog) was put to sleep this morning after old age and illness made it too painful for her to carry on. We will miss her dearly. Snotts came into the family via my sister Sunny, but I'm not exactly sure what the circumstances were because I had moved out more than a year before she came into the family. However, all my siblings grew up with her around.

She was a good dog, who loved to run and play in the water by Deer Creek where we used to live. In fact, when my parents moved Snotts somehow got in the car and wouldn't get out again. I know she missed home.

Natalee will miss her too. Snotts has been a very tolerant dog where the grandchildren have been concerned and Natalee loved playing with her. I tried to explain it all this afternoon and she asked if she could wear her "Snotts Shirt" for the rest of the day to remember her.

My favorite story about Snotts, and something to illustrate what a good dog she is happened in 1998. I was staying with my parents because I'd had an accident that nearly killed me physically and did an equal number on my emotional state. Nathan was out of town with work and I wasn't quite well enough to be by myself. So there I was at their house, in lots of pain and feeling quite sorry for myself. Snotts would lay on the couch by me and it felt good to have a living thing around that wasn't asking questions but just being close. After I'd been there a day or two, Snotts was whining to go outside. Since it was summer and I didn't want to get off the couch again, I left the door open a crack so she could come back in when she was finished. When she came in, she had a present. She'd killed a bird and had brought it to me. I know that she wanted to make me feel better, and the only way for her to do that was to kill me something. Dogs have a 6th sense about such things, I know it.

Sweet girl, I hope she's running and chasing birds and free of all her ailments. We'll miss you.