In Loving Memory

 of our beloved Annie (BooBoo) whom we have had to send to eternal rest.

Annie 2001 - 2016

        with her best and only doggie friend Isabel who is now watching over her

the last photo I took of her a few days ago sleeping peacefully in her favorite bed which used to belong to Isabel, our friends'  lab.

 I will leave you with this poem Bill (dh) had come upon very recently in an autobiography he is reading about Jackie Stewart. Jackie was so devastated by the loss of his beloved pet that a friend wrote this for him.

If it should be that I grow weak

And pain should keep me from my sleep

Then you must do what must be done

For this last battle cannot be won.

You will be sad, I understand

Don't let your grief then stay your hand

For this day more than all the rest

Your love for me must stand the test.

We've had so many happy years

What is to come can hold no fears 

You'd not want me to suffer so

The time has come, please let me go.

Take me where my need they'll tend

And please stay with me till the end.

Hold me firm and speak to me

Until my eyes no longer see.

I know in time that you will see

The kindness that you did for me.

Although my tail its last has waved

From pain and suffering, I've been saved.

Please do not grieve, it must be you

Who has the painful thing to do.

We've been so close, we these years,

Don't let your heart hold back its tears.