Our Jacy
left this world Friday morning at 10:45, asleep half way under my husband's desk
in his study. It was her favorite place, that is if she couldn't be in his lap.
Our Golden, Bob and our Shepard, Sam lay nearby to watch over her as her spirit took flight and I was nearby to witness her passing. It was as her life was, quiet and soft and with grace.
We miss her terribly but take heart in that she was, right up until late Thursday evening, her same contented self. She did not suffer in her final moments and I am glad I was there to attend her. I am also grateful that our dogs, Bob & Sam, were with her and seem to understand that it was her time to go.
It
is a strange thing to wake up one morning with four dogs in your household and
by afternoon be left with two. One gone to his forever home, the other gone
forever, both dearly loved.I want to thank all of you for your kind words and support when you heard of Jacy's illness, it sustained me during a rather trying Friday with Ricky's meet already scheduled but it worked out so he could say good bye as well before his new family arrived. I could wish that Jacy's timing had been a little different but that was Jacy, she always did things her own way and in her own time. It was one of the things about her that charmed us so.
Tim will add her to the friends of Gold Ribbon Rescue memorial page this week. She was a true friend to all the foster dogs we've had in our home and enjoyed being their "auntie dog" as she was to both our own guys when each first came to us.
Kathy
"We who choose to surround ourselves with lives more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan"
-Irving Townsend "The Once Again Prince"