A LOVING TRIBUTE TO...


"Auggie"
 

I've lost Auggie, my sweet baby due to old age and kidney failure. He was my sunshine on rainy days, He was always there to make my feel good when I felt bad.
I believe he understood that he was "rescued" and not "bought". He sure seemed grateful to me for 10 wonderful years for taking him in. He understood on some level that there is a huge difference between being "rescued' and being "bought." I knew the very moment I laid eyes on him he was mine. No doubt about it.

He laid his sweet and tired head in my lap Saturday morning as he passed on from this life, My tears rained down on him soaking into his fur and my heart broke into billions of pieces. I cried so hard I couldn't breath - and didn't want to breath ever again. Losing Auggie hurt that bad.

Auggie, at that very point in time when you slipped gracefully away from me and I knew you were gone forever, I only wanted and needed to follow you, I needed to go where you were going, and yet all I could do was to lay beside you one last time on the floor of the vet's office lost alone in great sorrow in puddles of my tears that flowed non stop it would be the last time I'd be with you, to hold, to you kiss you & see you, I didn't want to let go of you. I still don't want to let go. I guess I never will completely let you go. As the Daddy & Nikki took me away from you for the last time I couldn't bear to look back at you because it hurt so bad. I couldn't bear to see your empty shell where you once lived. My heart couldn't take it.

I miss your strong hugs with your head heavily planted on my shoulder & sweet wet kisses all over my face. I will forever love you with all my heart & miss you deeply.

I love you so much Auggie. Thank you for being my heart & soul. Thank you for all the unconditional love you always gave me so freely. Thank you for telling me you loved me by staying by my side for so long. Ten years flew by us both so fast. 

Every time I think of how some show people condemn your coat color with harsh words, (the merlequin), I always will think of one thing. They are only ignorant and didn't know or understand what they were missing out on and they will never deserve a Great Dane like you. They were blind to your beauty and others like you. You were smarter than any of their show dogs or Champions who has ever entered any show ring. 

It wasn't until I found you that I came to realized how stupid and cruel breeders are who cull/kill merles & whites at birth. It IS so wrong, and it always will be wrong. It is animal cruelty at it's finest and those breeders should have had the same done to them and their offspring at their birth so they couldn't breed or have a life and be loved.

I'm glad I found you and your littermates. I wish every day I was able to turn back clocks or move heaven and earth. I'd go back in time to the day you walked your soft, beautiful white & pink puppy paws into my life and start all over again.

I will love you always,
The Mommy