PONCH WAS A BLESSING TO ME AND MY FAMILY..I GOT HIM ON AUGUST 18 1995 FROM MY BROTHER...ON SEPTEMBER 18 1995 MY BROTHER PAST AWAY...DURING THIS DIFFICULT TIME PONCH WAS MY BEST FRIEND..WHEN I WOULD CRY HE WOULD JUMP UP ON MY LAP AND NHDGE ME WITH HIS LETTLE NOSE AND I WOULD JUST HOLD HIM AN CRY AND THAT HELPED ME TO FEEL BETTER...HE WAS MY BEST FRIEND HE WENT EVERY WHERE WITH ME AND WE ALWAYS HAD TO STOP AND GET HIM A HAMBURGER FROM MCDONALDS...ANYWHERE IN THE HOUSE I WENT HE WAS RITE BEHIND ME....IF I WENT OUTR SIDE HE DID TO WE SPEND MANY NIGHTS OUT IN THE SWING IN THE YARD...HE LOVED TO SWING....THIS WENT ON FOR 9 YEARS...THE LAST YEAR HE WAS WITH ME HE LOST ALL OF HIS TEETH WE WOULD FIND THEM AROUND THE HOUSE...HE WENT BLIND..HAD ARTHRITIS...THE LAST WEEK I HAD HIM I STAYED UP WITH HIM DAY AND NIGHT...I FED HIM BY HAND...GAVE HIM HIS MEDICINE WITH AN EYE DROPPERI TRIED EVERYTHING I COULD TO BRING HIM OUT OF THIS SICKNESS...I COULDNT BARE THE THOUGHT OF LOSING HIM....BUT WHEN HE COULD NO LONGER EAT OR DRINK I KNEW I COULDNT LET HIM SUFFER...I COULDNT BE THAT SELFISH...HE DIDNT DESERVE TO SUFFER...SO ON AUGUST 4TH 2004...I GOT UP AND TRIED TO FEED HIM...THEN I GAVE HIM A BATH...AND HELD HIM FOR AWHILE...THEN MY HUSBAND TOOK HIM TO OUT VET..I WENT AND BOUGHT A WATERPROOF SEALED RUBBERMAID TOTE AND MADE A LITTLE CASKET OUT OF IT...I LAYED HIS LITTLE BODY ON A SOFT PILLOW AND PUT HIS LITTLE PILLOW FROM HIS BED UNDER HIS HEAD AND I COVERED HIM WITH HIS FAVORITE BLANKET..LAYED A ROSE NEXT TO HIS BODY...KISSED HIM AND SAID GOOD BYE ....WE BURIED HIM IN THE BACK YARD UNDER THE FLOWER BED HE LOVED TO LAY UNDER...THERE IS A LITTLE WHITE FENCE AROUND HIS RESTING PLACE WITH AND ANGEL FOR HIS HEADSTONE...MY LOVE FOR HIM WILL NEVER END...HE WAS TRUELY A GIFT FROM GOD!!