And So, We Let Him Go

That's our Dion, Memorial Day 1999.

He was 10 weeks old, asleep on a desk,

tuckered out from the parade festivities.

(Thank you, Suzanne, for finding this puppy picture and sending it; I'd lost it!)

Dion, December 2010, at 11-and-3/4 years old

Yesterday, August 1st, Howard, Anne, and I

fulfilled the promise we made to not let him suffer,

and said goodbye to our beloved boy.

A snuggle with Daddy, yesterday morning

My friend Karen posted a quote on Dion's Facebook page:

"Godspeed!  Be thou comforted little dog.

Thou, too, in the Resurrection shall have a golden tail."

-- Martin Luther

A good dog.

There is no better epitaph.

Thank you all for your kind and understanding comments

the past couple of days.  I know so many of you

have traveled this same path. -- Cass