this is my story of my beloved pet dog Sandy i got her as a present for my 11th birthday i know pets aren't presents but i loved her and cared for her. The way i came to have was, there was a picture of some puppies free to good homes in my local paper my parents said i cld have one for my birthday. Being a child i didn't understand that just coz i wanted a certain one didn't mean i could have that one but my mum explained and i listened. When the time came to visit the puppies my dad took me to the house, we spoke to the owner of the puppies and then went outside into her back garden. She gently let the puppies out of their box and all except one wandered off up the garden. The one that didn't came straight to my feet and looked up at me as if to say please take me home, the strangest part to the story is that the puppy was the same one i had picked out in the paper. It was fate we were meant to be together.
So the years past and Sandy had a litter of puppies i cared for her i walked her and she would sleep with me at night, if i was away on camp the day i was due back she would sit at the front window waiting for my return.
We had another dog who was called Candy, her and Sandy were like best mates they were always together. we sadly lost Candy when Sandy was 8 years old, and Sandy liveed for a little while longer but then suddenly in February 1998 Sandy became ill we took her to the vets and they told us she was diabetic, we left her at the vets for her to have her insulin sorted and she never came home, her kidneys failed, my dad said it was for the best that she was put to sleep, but the worse thing for me was the fact i never said goodbye to her properly i had kissed her and told her i would she her the day after but she never came home. My dad said it was best for me to remember her the way she was coz when she was in the vets she wasn't her.
the reason for my story was to let people know that although my story happened so many years ago now the memories never ever fade i think about MY SANDY almost daily, but i can honestly say that the pain eases with time and i know that MY SANDY is waiting for me to join her one day on the other side of the rainbow bridge.