February 2nd 2006 11:50 am
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Hi, At 8 pm Sunday evening my dear friend Dieter (aka "the german") and I had to rush Lucky to Angell Memorial to be euthanized as she quickly began to deteriorate. We had hoped to have a home euthanasia but her condition was not stable enough for the time needed to do such. She was surrounded by Dieter, Lindsey and myself. She looked at Dieter lovingly until the very end... as she had always done. I was her mom...he was her best friend. We had an amazing three months and a particularly great weekend in which we were blessed to have the chance to get what I am sure will be some amazing photographic memorials to the great love we both shared with her. I am forever grateful to Mark Ostow for this. He did not need to take time out of his schedule like he did and I will never be able to thank him enough. Dieter's 10 month old daughter Anouk, who will not remember her on her own, fed her salmon by hand hours before we knew it was time. We were able to videotape it and are thankful for that. I want to thank everyone who showed patience with me and compassion during the last several months. Lucky was a better person than most of the humans I have ever known and she was my teacher for the last 10 years. While I have lost pets in the past nothing was ever like this. She was beyond special. I am now trying to figure out who I am after ten years of defining myself as Lucky's mom and companion. I hope that everyone who reads this has the opportunity to experience the bond with an animal like that which I have experienced with Lucky. For those of you that have supported her through the dog treats... an endowment is being created in her name at Angell inorder to help other pets facing cardiac cancers and their owners, who due to financial difficulties would otherwise euthanize... this fund will allow them the gift of time... the ability to afford procedures like Lucky had undergone in order to help secure more quality time. Lucky did not suffer. She was happy and loved and wagged (or "fwapped" as some of you know it by) her tail until the moment she looked at us and told us that she was ready to move on to whatever her next chapter was to be. I hope that we shall meet again. If we do not perhaps she will bless one of you. Keep an eye out for chocolate and gold flecked eyes and a soul so gentle your heart melts when you are within it's radar.

Thank you all.