08/30/2021
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In reference to my lack of interaction this past week, if you are waiting for a text, dm, or email response thank you for being patient. I am working so hard to get back to everyone today and tomorrow 🤍
Repost from my personal page:
My camera roll has been a heartbreaking place this week. So here’s our first and our last.
I still can’t find the words. What can you possibly say about a pup as wonderful as her? We always joked that Etta was my anxiety dog with worse anxiety than me… which was completely true. She was cautious and timid, but the exact opposite with how she loved. She noticed the smallest things like fireworks 10 miles away, or a storm 30 miles away, and promptly took cover. She also noticed the tears before they filled my eyes, the stress before the meltdown, and was promptly by my side.
The past week was a nightmare that I knew would come eventually, but never in my wildest nightmares did I think it would be so soon. 1 year and 10 months since I brought her home. We were just getting started. I’m fighting myself on that reality because in that 1 year and 10 months this girl gave me love for a lifetime.
My heart is broken over the things we had planned like going to the beach for the first time this October (this girl LOVED the water), moving next month into a bigger house with a perfect porch so she could always feel the sunshine, one day (FAR in the future) loving on my own little ones like she loved on our kitties. But I have to stop myself from thinking that far. She spent so many afternoons splashing in the river, enjoying our tiny porch and all of the evening sunshine, and spent so much time loving on every one of my nieces and nephews and even meeting the new little man, Tripp.
Words can’t describe the impact she made on my life and if you’ve read this far, probably yours too. There will never be a morning that I don’t roll over and wish she was still sound asleep, her head on the pillow next to me. My little fur family will never feel the same. She was unlike any other. Not just a dog. Through and through she was my Etta June.