I'll always remember the 1st day I met you my dearest Cam. You were in the front passenger seat of your boy, Casey's car, sitting just like a person, tall and straight, looking straight ahead. I remember thinking and telling my son, "oh no, not another dog!" It took only a moment to fall in love with you. You sere such a gentleman. You came right over to me, sat down on my feet as to say, "It's ok, I belong to you now." You stole my heart that very moment.
Cam had a way to enter everyone's heart, be a child or the elderly. Cam was a selfless dog and was heroically patient. He was a deaf, white boxer with one blue eye. He knew hand signals, he only barked twice the whole time he was with us.
Cam watched over and protected us and was the guardian of the household. He stayed in the background though like a giant sentinel. The other dogs we had respected him.
Cam was/is a 'Thinker'. If he came upon something he'd never seen before or didn't understand he would look or stare at it until he understood. It was mostly new things or things that didn't belong. He never had to do it twice, once he figured it out, that was it.
Cam was and always will be my best friend. After my son joined the National Guard, we were inseparable, he was MY dog.
The years rolled by ever too quickly, now it's like a blur. He accompanied me everywhere possible that I could take him, car rides, to nursing homes, grandma's house, etc. He loved everyone and everyone loved him, yet he was a protector also. He would even accompany me to a hospital in the inner city at 3:30 or 4:00 in the morning to pray the rosary for the end to abortion. Oh, how many miles did we put on in front of that hospital, dearest Cam?
Cam was a 'survivor' of Hurricane Katrina. Come all the way to Minnesota. He was/is my God sent angel. He is the angel who was there for me when no one else was there. When my life spiraled downward in depression and hopelessness, he never left me. He was unconditional LOVE, unconditional understanding.
He wasn't like other dogs, he waited patiently in line for his turn for a walk, he never jumped up and never got too excited when the treats or toys were taken out. Cam was perfect. He would sit until called.
Our walks were mostly in the very early hours of the morning. He'd always be there waiting for me no matter what. If his collar somehow slipped off, he'd stop, turn around and look at me and wait for me to put it back on him.
He was the only one of our fur babies who was allowed to sit in the big recliner in the living room. He'd love to sit in it and look out the window. It was Cam who was able to open the baby gate we put up in the doorway to the living room to keep the dogs out. But instead he showed the others how to open it.
Cam accompanied us on a long trip to Kentucky to pick up 'his boy' from basic training. A perfect passenger both ways.
Suddenly, exactly on this day, seventeen months ago, my Cam Man left us. We didn't even know he was that sick. He had only turned 8 years old. They thought it was a brain tumor. We'll never know for sure. He suffered so much! He had to stay at the vet over the weekend. I brought him in at noon on Saturday the 27th of April, 2013, I last visited him there from around 7 - 8:30 pm. that night . . .
I got a phone call at 3:00 in the morning Sunday, that he had gone. I didn't get to say goodby to my best friend and companion. He left this world with no one by his side. My one true friend.
I brought his sweet lifeless body home. I just couldn't leave it there at the vet. I wanted to bury him in our backyard, but I didn't want his body to become food of the parasites which live in the ground.
I finally, after two days of mourning his sweet little self, brought him in to be cremated. His ashes sit on a beautiful wooden buffet stand my dad refinished in my kitchen, where I spend most of my awaken hours.
I made a flower garden in his memory in the middle of my vegetable garden.
One day,when I was out walking one of Cam's fur brothers, a most beautiful rainbow appeared in the sky. Then a couple minutes later another one appeared above that one just as big and just as beautiful! I knew it was my Cam man.
My little Cam man, may you rest in peace. I will remember you forever! I pray that the time will be soon when our hearts will be together. I want to see you, hold you and love you again forever and ever. You are a gift from heaven, my little man. You are an angel, a messenger of love and hope to all you came in contact with. Everyone loved you! I can't wait to see once more your sweet little boxer tail stub. You are in my heart and soul forever. I miss you so, so Much!!!
From Your Mom.
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