You had to leave us behind today,
and with you took our hearts.
I wish that you could have stayed,
and we hadn't had to part.

You were the joy in both our lives,
the light at rainbows end.
But today we had to say goodbye,
our hearts have long to mend.

The day we brought you home with us
it was our sheer delight.
But now you're taken from our lives,
we're left in endless night.

Our pretty girl, with quirky ears,
sweet face and loving soul.
Now that you're no longer here,
our hearts are no longer whole.

We did everything within our power
to try and make you stay.
But God decided your final hour,
and He's taken you away...

We adopted Gidget about a month ago,if not a little over, from the wonderful people at Freeman-Fitts animal shelter in Kerrville, Texas. She was a year and a half old Chi-weenie. That a Daschound-Chihuahua mix for those that don't know. Shortly after we took her home, she seemed to get very lethargic, so my husband and I took her in to their veterinary clinic. They looked her over, gave us medicine and sent her home. All at no charge to us. She seemed to get better quickly and everything was fine.... For about a week. We noticed she seemed to start getting lethargic again, so I took her back once more. Though at the time I brought her in she was fine. She'd gained weight and was actiung better than she had the other day. The vet gave her her distemper booster, and sent her home asking me to bring her in next week. I did, and she was worse off again, she'd dropped weight once more and had developed some form of discharg from her nose and eyes. Once more, they treated her, gave her medicine, and didn't charge us for the services. The vet had warned me it could have been distemper, even though she'd had her shots and he told me of a patient he had which had had the virus living inside their body before they'd recieved the vaccine. I took her home, gave her her medicine and she seemed to liven up once more. Unfortunately, I began noticing that she began stumbling as she walked and was very unsteady on her feet. When I brought her in today for her check up appointment, she had the shakes something terrible. My husband and I discussed with the vet what we should do, and he informed us it would be in her best interest to let her go. Whatever was going on with her was neurological, and he strongly suspected it was distemper after all. Not wanting our little girl to suffer, we gave him the go ahead to give her the peace she deserved. He gave us some time with her before giving her the shot, and we stayed with her until she passed and even after. My husband and I will miss her terribly, she was more than a dog to us, she was our baby. But, at least we know she is in a better place, and she is no longer suffering. She is waiting for us at the Rainbows Bridge, with every other beloved pet we have had in our lives that has left this world and someday in the far off future we will all be together once more. At least we know that we gave her as much happiness as she gave us in the time that we had her and we made the last month of her life as comfortable and loving as possible. I would like to thank everyone at the Freeman-Fritt's Animal Shelter for everything they have done for us. They are all wonderful caring people, a rarity in todays world it seems sometimes. I thank God he brought them into our lives. If it weren't for them we would never have known our Gidget, and we wouldn't have had the happiness we shared with her, however short it may have been. I also want to thank them for doing everything within their power to try and make our little girl better. Unfortunately, their is nothing you can do when God calls one of his own home. Be they human or animal, and apparently it was our Gidget's time to find the Rainbows Bridge. She brought my husband and I even closer together than we were before with her love, perhaps that was her purpose in our lives, once that purpose was served it was her time to leave. I suppose we'll never really know. I do know we will miss her terribly, we already do, but she will always remember us, and we will always love her. Goodbye Gidget, our baby girl, untill we find each other once more and cross the Rainbows Bridge as a family. Mommy and Daddy love you, we always have and we always will.