by angela padovani
i had a sweet golder retriever we called "ginger", who evreyday greeted me when i came home @ the door,& everynight she would sleep with me under her very own sheet and her head on a pillow.i loved her alot,she was my first dog i had ever had.but 1 day she just wasn't her normal self & it took me forever to get her in my room to go to sleep, i kinda had an idea she was going to be put assleep,i just had that feeling.i wanted one more night with her,i wanted to feel her for the rest of my life,i went into the kitchen & got a pair of sissors and cut a BUNCH of her fur off,i wanted a memory of her not just all the pitures i had of her,or her leash or coller.i stayed up with her all night crying & holding her.the next morning she could not walk but just a tiny bit, we took her to the vet , he looked @ her & told us that she had liver failure,& needed to be put assleep.i cried to til my head ached & my eyes burned,the vet shaved her little paw & i kept that fur,& got her coller wich was still warm from being on her neck,i hugged her & kissed her & told her i loved her & i held her while they injected the needle in her arm.she looked @ me & closed her eyes,that was it she was gone forever,id never get to see her greet me anymore,or sleep with me all i had was a memory.we took her home & burried her in my back yard,i watched my dad burry the hole & he put her in it , & i could hear the dirt hit the big she was in I cried & cried.everyday after that i looked @ all her pictures, & held her coller & fur in my hand,i wrote poems & storys about her , i miss her alot,i go outside everynow & then where we burried her & just sit there & think about how much i miss her.i love you ginger & i miss you & i cant waite to see you again.