I know many of you care about animals the way I do so I thought I would post this here.
I lost my best pal Shadow Saturday. We adopted Shadow 13 years ago from the Humane Society when he was just 6 months old. He was brought to the Society as a new pup and was adopted after a couple of months and brought back after just a few days because he was not perfect,and he remained there until we adopted him. He was an independent soul just like I am. One year ago he was diagnosed with cancer,but the treatment was keeping him in pretty good shape. In January he took a turn for the worse and I made an appointment to put him out of his misery. My wife was not ready yet so the vet changed the treatment and he was better in a couple of days and within a few more days he was in really great shape for a 12 year old dog. He had a really good summer,but 6 days ago things changed and we were going to take him Saturday morning to put an end to his troubles. Friday night we prayed that he would go peacefully in his sleep. At 6:00 am Saturday I got up to check on him and while I was petting him he just quietly went to sleep. I will miss him greatly.