I woke this morning to thinking you would greet me as I came downstairs, but you were nowhere to be found; you are in heaven now and it is so hard to comprehend that you are not here with me right now.
If only I would have been more patience with you the last week of your life, if only I would have taking you outside more as you always were on my heels waiting to go out whenever I did. If only I didn’t spend an extra week in Arizona, I would have had another week with you. If only I wasn’t so worried about you being in our Christmas card photo, and I didn’t scoot you so hard I never would have hurt your liver. If only I didn’t let you drink from the puddles, you may not have gotten sick. If only I didn’t buy you a cheap plastic bowl from the dollar tree you wouldn’t have gotten so sick, if only I didn’t buy a different bowl from Amazon you wouldn’t have gotten so sick. If only I took you into the vet sooner you might be here right now…¬¬¬ if only you hadn’t gone through so much in one year you might still be here. You moved 5 different times in your life and that may have been too much. If only I paid the money to have your larger tumor removed you never would have gotten sick. For all the times I got impatience with you I am so sorry, I wish I would have been holding you when you passed, I wish I would have found my camera to take with us to the vet, so I could have at least one photo of me holding you just before you left..If only I would have taking you to the beach you would have found out how much you loved the water, I will never know now and I am sorry you will never know either
I remember.. when I went to pick you out, I thought, “how and I ever going to choose which puppy I wanted.” So I sat down crossed legged and you flopped your way to me and buried your head in my lap~ I knew you were the one, for you chose me! I put your red collar on you and left waiting for the day I would pick you up, on Christmas eve 1997. I brought a warm blanket to bring you home in, you sat on my lap all the way there, you got sick and threw up, you didn’t much like being in the car your 1st year of your life. We brought you home on Christmas Eve, and you were so cute!! We left for Christmas Eve services and I was so worried to leave you; when we came back home you were sound asleep with your back right up against the couch which is how you loved to sleep. We had to hide you from Hannah so you spent the rest of the night in the office, waiting for Christmas morning to come. Hannah opened all of her gifts on Christmas morning while you whined in the office; and she heard you several times, I kept telling her it was the dog from next door; Boomer was to be Hannah’s last gift to open, and we placed the box in front of the video camera; and Hannah opened the box and said, “ I have never had a puppy before!!” You followed her around all morning and loved her so very much! You loved her every day. On video tape we have Hannah playing with her new Barbie dream house and you kept coming up to her wanting to play; she would carry you away so she could play and you kept coming back time and time again. I only found this out a few years ago as I haven’t seen the entire video of that morning. I cherish the videos I have of you and hope to watch them again.
Hannah was 5 years old when she got you for Christmas, she has begged all year for a doggie and now she had you; her best friend through everything.
You loved to sleep on the bed with me and I was amazed you could jump so high to get up on the bed. You and Hannah had a very special bond, you would jump up on to her back and hold on with your two back paws on the ground and you and Hannah would walk around the house for hours like that. I have pictures of this.
You were a unique and very special dog, when we moved across town you loved the new place~ people would walk by and pet you and everyone on the street knew who Boomer was. You had that way with people.
When we had you neutered you were not a happy camper, and we had to put the cone on you and you didn’t like that either! So soon healed and began to play again.
One day I was having a really bad day and you of course were in bed with me snuggling with me, I was crying very hard and you didn’t like that, I was shocked when you took your paw on my wet check and left it there until I stopped crying ~ You amazed me everyday with your love and support and unconditional love. There will never be another Boomer is this whole world!
When bought our 1st house in April of 2001, you were happy to finally have a large backyard to play in again. You watched Hannah grow and grow and I wonder what you must have been thinking. I always wondered how long we were going to have you in our lives, and little did I know it would be 2010 you would leave us forever.
I spent a lot of time in the hospital and whenever I came home you were so very happy and had to smell me all over to try and figure out where I had been. You always welcomed me home as if I had been gone forever. I loved that about you, and I miss that so much right now, I would give anything to have you here with me right now.
As Hannah grew older so did you, but you never acted like an old dog you were always a puppy and always will be.
One October I was getting the Halloween decorations out of the garage and you slipped out the back gate, and we drove around looking for you ~ Hannah was crying and we drove around the entire neighborhood and I was so worried, we turned the corner and there you were, at Conaway motors with several people all around you holding your collar. I was so relieved to find you and those people who kept you out of the street. Once again you were home.
When Hannah brought her 1st boyfriend home, you didn’t know what to think. She took Justin into her room and you looked concerned, I told you to go to Hannah’s room and see if she was okay, you looked at me and walked right to her room and pushed the door open with your nose. You were there to find out who this guy was and why he was in Hannah’s room. You would come out and see me and I would send you right back in there and away you would go! It amazed me that you understood what I wanted you to do, and perhaps you wanted to find out too, you loved Hannah and didn’t want her to ever be hurt especially by a new guy in her life.
Hannah started to get annoyed so I told you not to go back in, and you kept going in until they let you stay in there, As it turns out Justin loved you and you loved him. And we were all relieved.
You loved your birthday so much, every year you would get a cupcake and a one candle on it; we would sing you Happy Birthday to you, and you would get so excited, and you knew it was your birthday every time, You also loved Christmas so much and could pick out your presents under the tree. And you loved to open you presents just like a little kid~ I will miss those days so much!! Now at Christmas time it will be very hard to have one without you, I can’t imagine life without you, it hurts so much and I hope you are happy and pain free and can still see me from time to time, I miss you so very much!!
Whenever I was making something with the mixer you were right by my side, cuz I always let you lick the beaters ?. You would hear the sound of the mixer and I would look down and you would be there, every time, even last week!
You also loved the snow, you would plow it with your nose, it was so fun to see you romp and play in the snow. I will miss that each time it snows.
When I left the Wetmore house I left you with someone who didn’t care about you at all, and I am sorry about that, perhaps you would be a live today if I never left you there. You became very ill, and Hannah and I took you to the vet, you had pancreatitis, and the vet said that you must have been left at home for hours on end and was being fed the wrong kind of food. Come to find out you had been left home for 15 hours a day and you were holding your pee etc. You were given IV fluids and shots and I thought I was going to lose you, but I nursed you back to health. When I rescued you, you weighed 110 pounds, and within a year I got you down to 70 pounds and very healthy. When I moved to Oregon you loved the trip and stayed in your 1st hotel room ever, and you were so well behaved as always. You loved the field just outside the door and the week before you passed we were out in the field and some teenagers were getting high and swinging on a swing in the distance, and you kept looking at them, I finally told you to go ahead and go see them, you looked at me and I said go on baby go meet your new friends, and off you ran. They loved on you and you looked so happy, it was a pleasure to see you give so much love to all who met you. You made everyone smile all the time.
I never heard you ever bark, you were such a gentlemen all the time, the only time I ever heard you bark was if someone was walking down the alley. But it would scare you so much you would stop and run back inside. So cute you were, and such a good boy. I have been around and had a lot of dogs but you were like none other, you were like a human being stuck in a dog body and I wish you would have talked so many times, I wanted to know everything you were thinking, who says dogs aren’t smart you were the smartest one I knew! There will never be another Boomer ever!
I wish I would have done more with you the last week of your life, I don’t know how you got so sick so fast, and why? I question everything we did and I cannot figure out why you got so sick, what did I do?? Did you get into something you shouldn’t have, or did I hurt you in some way???